Thinglink: Uncountable food
This week, I tried out a tool called "Thinglink", as I couldn't think of how I could use the other tools with my student population, pre-literate adult learners with no computer access for most, and little to no computer knowledge. I'm currently working on food with my students, and we have non-count (or uncountable) food nouns coming up next week. I looked for an infographic I could use, and put that on Thinglink, and put "links" onto the picture. I have to admit that even after looking at other Thinglinks, I really liked some of the Thinglinks I saw, especially this one...
https://www.thinglink.com/scene/657897861412814848
But with my own, I wasn't really able to think of as many creative ways to use it with my students. I made it kind of like an interactive quiz sheet, and I put a link to a GREAT video I found on YouTube (which I plan to make an EdPuzzle of for next week).
I didn't find it very easy to use, as I was unable to add links, and after watching a number of how-to videos, I finally just copied my links and added them and then edited them. I can see what a great tool this could be in certain situations, such as the example I provided above, and will keep it in my teaching 'toolbox' to use at a future date I'm certain.
Hey Amy!
ReplyDeleteI really liked the thinglink you found. Is this a proposed migrant rescue vessel or an infographic of a real one?
I also really liked the migrant vessel infographic! It's a great example for the potential thinglink has. On the uncountable food thinglink that you made, I like how there is a video first going through the lesson and explaining the rules and then some buttons over some examples. I think to make it stronger, you could add buttons over ALL the food and use these foods in the infographic as your vocabulary for the lesson. That way, they have all their vocab words in an attractive visual, plus they can test themselves about what the plural or singular is of the foods on the left, and how to make the noun-count words countable (like water=glass of water) on the right. As a follow up, you could create a padlet with COUNTABLE and NOUNCOUNTABLE as the headings, write in a bunch of foods, and have them drag them to the correct column. Good luck!
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