Online Brainstorming/Mind Mapping:
Engaging EAL Activities
July 26/27, 2013
This webinar will be recorded
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Brainstorming / Mind mapping
to direct learners to new ways of thinking
to generate ideas
to visualize learners’ ideas
to find creative solutions
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Visual Teaching & Learning
Approximately 65 % of the population are visual learners
The brain processes visual
information 60,000 faster than text
Visual aids in the classroom
improve learning by up to 400 percent
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Can I do it Online?
www.popplet.com
- free
- easy to use
- online
- fun!
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Registration
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Registration
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Starting a new Popplet
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Starting a new Popplet
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Popple Anatomy
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Popplet & EAL
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What
activities?
How?
Examples?
Popplet & EAL
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Warm-up/icebreakers
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Warm-up/icebreakers
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Speaking
Speaking
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Pre-Reading
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While-Listening
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Writing
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Questions?
Margarita Berezyanskaya
e-Tutor Coordinator
English Online Inc.
www.myenglishonline.ca
E-mail: [email protected]
Skype: margarita_myenglishonline
Feel free to contact me!
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Resources
1. Generating Many Radical, Creative Ideas // www.mindtools.com/brainstm.html 2. Regina G. Richards, The Writing Road: Reinvigorate Your Students' Enthusiasm for
Writing // www.ldonline.org/article/The_Writing_Road%3A_Reinvigorate_Your_Students%27_Enthusiasm_for_Writing?theme=print
3. Why Visual Teaching? // http://visualteachingalliance.com/ 4. www.popplet.com
