Mini Project with Genially

Healthy Lunch Project: Motivating students to practice Speaking using Genially Presentations to edit their Performances. The idea of using genially to edit students´classroom speaking presentations arose because many of the students were reluctant or were scared of presenting in front of their peers.I planned to prepare different stages where they could practice their speaking and then, together, since we only have 23 tablets for the whole school to share, we could edit a presentation with their performances and show it in google classroom, so they could self- evaluate their work . STAGE 1: The topic chosen was the one on which we were working on at school, it is about a healthy diet and the use of there is and there are to talk about healthy meals during the day. STAGE 2: Students were given a draft where they could choose the ingredients for elaborating a healthy lunch, vocabulary has already been introduced at the beginning of the lesson. STAGE 3: Students were given a “ friendly” rubric, so they could interact while their peers were presenting. STAGE 4: Students watched a video ( included in the text book) where a student models the presentation, attention is focused in the way he looks to the audience while he speaks, intonation and gestures. STAGE 5: Students carried out the oral presentations individually because of covid restrictions, and audios were recorded. They used a paper plate as realia where they drew the healthy food for their lunch, and at the back of the plate they glued a guide where they could check to help them with the sentences in the presentation. STAGE 6: Students and teacher chose the presentation format to edit the audios and pictures taken during the presentation.In a choral way and with the help of the smart board, the presentation was created. Decisions were taken as a group, although students could choose whether their audios and pics were going to be included in the presentation or not. The use of genially, although it was a whole group way ,has motivated the students strongly. They were able to reflect and self evaluate their performance using the rubric and without being the focus of attention. Next time I would like to have the opportunity of using tablets or chromebooks for each student so they could edit and create their own presentations. Unfortunately there are few digital resources available for primary school students and the covid restrictions don't allow us to group students to carry out projects of this kind. It took four sessions to organize, create the plate with the drawing, the guide with the sentences they were going to present,the rubric, the presentation, the recording and finally the edition of the presentation. RESOURCES AND MATERIALS