Kahooted out? Try Quizizz!

Students love Kahoot... but are they a little Kahooted out?!? Quizizz is a great alternative!

I love Kahoot too. It is great to give more CI and for formative assessments. Quizizz is very similar to Kahoot, but students can go at their own speed ----> easy differentiation! They are competing against each other, but at their own speed because the questions and answers are on their screens, not projected like Kahoot. Students can take their time to read, process, and answer questions. Also, you can do a variety of things with the settings, like turn off the "leaderboard," which makes students slow down. I also like to jumble the answers, usually not the questions because they are sometimes in order of the story.

I created a Quizizz for Arianne Dowd's "La Bicicleta" story (based on the song/video for the Shakira and Carlos Vives song). You can find the story on a free slideshow here (highly recommend the whole unit: example of Essential Questions and "I cans" here!). I will use this to give students more CI in a fun and engaging way.

MaFLA - follow up post for attendees

During MaFLA, Arianne and I said that we would create a blogpost to review what we shared and to share a few things that people asked about, so here it is!

I wanted to make a key point about why we use stories (in the form of music videos, cortometrajes, películas, and/or novelas) as the anchor for units. Using stories allows us to do the following things: give Comprehensible Input, engage our students, easily differentiate, focus on communication (not grammar), and embed culture easily in the curriculum. And all of those things lead to LANGUAGE ACQUISITION.

Things that we said we would share:

• Here is a possible order for the Soy yo unit (MaFLA attendees have access to the unit packet and the presentation)
• Rubric for legend project
• Ecuador Unit (free)
• Si tú la ves (song) embedded reading (done as part of the Ecuador unit)

Here are some of the activities that we shared/did:

• TPR for vocab
• Quizlet Live - to quickly introduce vocabulary, fill in the blank, comprehension questions, and Quizlet Diagrams (we didn't talk about this at the workshop, but here is an example)
• Quizizz (similar to Kahoot)
• Backatcha (add variations parts talked about like line, standing, sitting )
• Yellow Brick Road from Carrie Toth
• Gesture reading
• Hold em high
• Grítalo
• ¿Quién lo dijo? ¿Quién lo hizo? And a new idea from Arianne's colleague, ¿Quién lo pensó?
• Spoons from Martina Bex - fun!
• Scavenger hunt
• Pre-reading activity called Musical Milling is one I learned from TOY Nicole Naditz.  Take pieces of text from reading and put them on cards. Then play music. Students walked around the class and read sentences to each other and try to remember vocabulary or chunks. Then get back into groups and made a list of what they can remember.  Then students make predictions about what the text would be about. Makes reading so much more exciting.
• Predictions on Flipgrid - so fun! I need to go back in and listen the ones that were made about Abuela Grillo.
• Listen and draw (include Beniko masons idea of storytelling)
• Embedded Readings that lead to an authentic video/text (click here and here for two Ecuadorian legends with embedded readings)
• Use slide with lots of pics to ask questions, listen and identify pic, cierto/falso, make predictions, etcs.
• Retell with pics
• Flipgrid
• Goosechase
• EDpuzzle - not sure if we mentioned this, but here is some more information.

On another note:

• Ohio Rubrics! These are amazing for the three modes of communication.
• Here is Nicole Sherf's MaFLA presentation about putting grammar in its place. I went to this Friday morning and it was very affirming! I really like the myths about grammar, starting on slide 49. I also really liked that she talked about using stories

Some other things we mentioned:

• La Caja de Identidad (mystery box)
• El Seminario Socrático with an interpersonal twist.  

Something we forgot to mention - these two television shows are another great way to give engaging CI:

• Gran Hotel
• El Internado

Blogs to look at:

• Sharon Birch
• Martina Bex
• Kristy Placido
• Elena López weebly
• Carrie Toth
• Dustin Williamson
• Mike Peto
• Bethanie Drew
• Cynthia Hitz
• CI Peek

MaFLA attendees to our workshop, if you need any more resources, let me know and I will share more!

Also, Arianne and I both have Facebook pages for our blogs/TPT stores: Arianne and me.

Using stories also helps us to use the ACTFL Core Practices. I hope to have some blog posts soon about how we can do this with CI and stories.

More CI with stories on EDpuzzle!

Kristy Placido is such a CI guru! I have learned a lot from her (blog, tweets, presentations), and I love using her novels (Noche de oro and Robo en la noche are two of my favorites). And recently, she shared (on Arianne's blog) a new (to me) way to give students CI. She took a story-slideshow, made a video of her telling the story, and used it to make an Edpuzzle. She had basic questions for students to answer and it looked like a great formative assessment.

This idea is so simple, but so useful! It is another way to provide CI to students, but in a differentiated way. Students can go at their own pace, stop, re-listen, and take the time to process. 

Someone (at MaFLA, I think? or maybe on the CI Intermediates Facebook page) made me realize that I really need to mix it up when telling the stories with these slideshows (some of them are loooonng, especially the movie ones). So, this will be a way to break those up and do an assessment at the same time. The one below is for the story that Arianne Dowd wrote for the Coco movie trailer (find the slideshow free here in her post). It is part of my Día de los Muertos unit in my Cultura y Civilización unit.

I am putting myself out there because this is my non-native voice here, so be gentle! I am sharing because I think it is such a fantastic tool to give students more CI! I hope someone can use this idea.

I used the "Screencastify" Google Extension to record this. It is very easy to use! Then I uploaded it to YouTube and made the EDpuzzle.

(You can also view it here.)

I also created two for Arianne's "La Bicicleta" story, parte 1 and parte 2. If you are interested in seeing (or using) those, click here and here. 

On another note, you might have noticed that I changes the name of my blog and I got a new logo too! I have also started a Facebook page related to the blog where I will share things as well.