Sample lesson plans

Topic: How to use JCloze

Author: Orawan Wangsombat


Date: 13^th of October 2004
Time: 30 minutes
Materials needed: Internet, diskette
Teacher level: expert
Student level: beginner


Learning styles/intelligences supported:

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  Mastery learning style
  
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  Intrapersonal
  
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  Visual-spatial
  
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  Logical-mathematical
  

Why technology is used in this lesson:

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  To help teachers design exercises/materials
  
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  Time-saving lesson
  

Overview:
It has five options of Hot Potatoes, interactive exercises: JCloze is a gap-filling exercise that can have clues and multiple correct answers, as well as feedback.


Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, workshop participants will be able to:

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  Create exercises/materials
  

Training content:
Warm-up activities/review:

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  Set up the topic
  
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  Write a paragraph about it
  

Instructions:

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  Copy the text into the large field first
  
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  Highlight one word or phrase and click “Make Gap”
  
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  Add clues and alternate correct words, if you like
  
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  Click “Save Change” when you are finished
  

Follow-up activities:

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  Add or edit the text
  
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  Save with a different name
  

Assessment (how will you know the lesson was successful?):

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  Set up a topic
  
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  Group work
  
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  Students create their exercises using JCloze and share to other groups
  
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  Peer editing