Task 5 Writing literary pieces through Tar Heel Reader

Tar Heel Reader is a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. You have to write your own book using pictures from the huge collection at Ficklr, or pictures you upload.

The steps are the following ones:

• Click on https://tarheelreader.org/ and then on "Write a book". You will be asked to Sign in, so click on it and then in "Register" (since you do not have an account yet).

• Fill in all the information, and make sure that in "Registration Code" you write "Literacy!" (without the quotation marks).

• Once you are in, the webpage shows you all the steps that you have to follow in order to create a book, so look for your pictures, order them as you want to, and write a short sentence in all of them.

• When you finish, give it a title, choose "English" language and click on "Publish".

• Once you have it, copy the URL and paste it in this task, in a comment.

Here you have my own Tar Heel Reader:

 

Task 6 Man your electronic devices!

A Kahoot is a learning game which consists of multiple choice questions in any topic. It is projected at the front of the classroom and played with the whole class together in real-time (answering on your mobile phones, tablets or laptops).

The steps in order to create a Kahoot! are the following ones:

• Click on https://kahoot.com/ and then on "Sign up".

• Now register "As a student". You can sign up with Google, Microsoft or with your personal email.

• Once you are logged in, you have to click on "Create", and then on "Quiz" (we need multiple choice questions that will be used in the final exam).

• You have to fill in all the required information, and then click on "Ok, go".

• Now you have to add 10 questions related to all what we have been dealing with in class. These questions can be based on grammar, vocabulary, ... You can add images if you want, too.

• Once you finish, click on "Save" and "Share it".

• Copy the link and paste it in this task, in a comment below.

Let's practice with my own Kahoot!