Aim: Help students process meaning by creating stories based on keywords
Moodle modules: Block and Blog
Extra programs: None
Ease of setup: *
There's nothing like telling a story to make language come alive. The context endows the words with more meaning, makes them easier to remember, and makes the whole process of language learning more enjoyable.
One way of doing this in face-to-face classes is for students to take a word or a group of words and create a short story from them. This Moodle activity does the same thing. It has the advantage that the stories are available to be viewed by the other students in the class. Also, in the variation we're about to create, we'll produce definitions of the vocabulary that students will use in their stories. At the end of the activity, students will be able to access the stories and/or definitions via a tag cloud block on the course page.