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Dude you've become quite the artist. i used your x-men game with my grade 6's and I shall be using this with them too! Cheers!
What are the answers?
Hi Maximm,This looks great, i loved your x-men game. however, it doesn't work for me. I'm on the map, and I click a country, no problem. However, then there's no links in the icons. Whenever I click them, it just goes to the nxt country. Any ideas? Thanks
Im having trouble since the video doesnt go away after i play it so i cant see the answers or click the other videos... am i hitting something wrong? or is there an easy fix? Im on korean ppt of course, otherwise id probably be able to play around with it
I tried to download the updated version but it says there is a network error. Any ideas what's going on?
Quote from: damocha on April 19, 2017, 11:38:57 AMI tried to download the updated version but it says there is a network error. Any ideas what's going on?Just tried it and it worked for me. Thanks for the great idea maximmm! I'm coming up on the last few months of my time at my schools and am growing tired of trying to convince my Japanese co-teachers to use communicative activities in class that they then proceed to ruin by translating or removing anything remotely fun/challenging. I'm gonna try to convince them to allow some "cultural" lessons such as these instead. If they won't allow me to teach English effectively, then at the very least I want my students to gain an interest in the wider world and enjoy themselves while doing so dammit.
Side note: I've taught English in Korea before and am now teaching in Japan. I had thought that English teaching methodology was Korea was outdated and mostly ineffective, but that was before I came to Japan. If English teaching in Korea is in the bronze age, Japan is in the stone age. The Japanese English teachers' ideas of a good English lesson involve silently reading weird English sentences with occasional errors from an English textbook (the textbook having been thrown together haphazardly by Japanese people who don't speak English well), having students listen to poor pronunciation of those sentences, then having students complete worksheets where they translate words from English to Japanese and vice versa. Class over, rinse and repeat. Often the students speak zero words of English in an entire lesson. The lessons themselves are conducted 95% in Japanese. In addition to not speaking the language or doing anything task-based, these students aren't used to playing games or doing group activities at all. What I'm getting at is that games like this that involve students working in groups and having fun while learning is radical thinking here in Japan. Bomb games, with all their flaws, are still way better than the kind of teaching that happens here. Keep in mind that Japanese classrooms have almost zero technology available (I have to reserve a special AV room to use my computer). It's no wonder that the students develop a disregard for English; their English classes are terrible. I currently teach high school and have students who started learning English in 5th grade elementary who, by the time they come to my class, have a hard time understanding and writing "How are you today?". That means they have been studying English for at least five years before they came to my class. What a waste!I am fortunate enough to have TEFL experience outside of Korea and Japan so I have a fairly strong grasp of what effective English teaching is as well as some of the current pedagogical trends and wow, sometimes it is disheartening to see what goes on here in the far East.Got a bit sidetracked there so anyways, thanks again maximmm and I'll be looking for ways to find more time to play this again in the future. Cheers
Yeah - I heard that in Japan they use NETs as human tape recorders. Curiously enough, my new co-teacher at my main school (with whom I have argued on many occasions and have now officially given up, since the upper management support her position 100%) has turned me into a human tape recorder as well - meanwhile, she can barely string two English words together. I'm not sure if this is a new trend - but for now, my other two schools still let me do what I do. By the way, because I have pretty small after school classes, each student played on his/her own - no teams.You know, there is a way to turn bomb games into the whole class activity - where every student participates - all you need to do is do a bit of minor PPT editing. Remove all negative points/Change/Bomb/etc - only leave positive points - then get all students to write the answer the each question - and get them to add points if they get the right answer. It would work like Golden Bell - but with a theme (since most bomb games have a theme). Oh, and students should take turns when selecting the question on the main game slide. Otherwise, take a look at my other PPTS - http://www.waygook.org/index.php/topic,102847.0.htmlMy speed games are particularly good, IMHO - though I'm currently working on making them a bit more all-class inclusive. BTW - in the near future, I plan to make another game similar to the world music one (in the sense that it cannot be edited to fit other topics) - it will feature a number of puzzles from professor Layton games (logic/word problems), while the main selection slide will feature body parts (world music featured a map).
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