Online Brainstorming/Mind Mapping: Engaging EAL Activities...to direct learners to new ways of...

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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: mberezyanskaya@myenglishonline.ca

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