Personal Learning Environment in order to learn English idioms

A Personal Learning Environment  (PLE) called as Symbaloo.EDU was used by Event planning and Programing students. This group was given 24 idioms split into topics for each day. They had to research over the internet and organized the information collected on their PLE. After the assignment was completed, they created a Website.

 

The website idioms project was the final part of the “competencia producir textos en Ingles de forma escrita y oral”. The purpose of this assignment was to two-fold, first to use the information collected through the last 4 weeks in their Personal Learning Environment SymbaloEDU, about idioms and make them to relate them with images and meaning. Second introduce a Web 2.0 tool new that they could use for their personal lives, work and most importantly their studies.

They had to create a website using Wix where they followed the assignment given. The Website included the following:

·         The students were directed to add 10 to15 idioms.

·         Added the idioms chosen with their meaning in Spanish.

·         Added a clear description in English of the idioms meaning.  

·         An image was uploaded to relate each idiom with its meaning.

After all the students published their website and added the link in their SymbalooEDU account. In order to end their project, the students made a video using Camtasia Studio software to explain their feelings about the process and which idioms they like/dislike the most and why.

Click on links below to see some examples of their websites.
http://aparra991.wix.com/adriana-idioms
http://solivago.wix.com/sonia-idiom