Title: My favorite character.
Main objective: Describe the life of celebrities summarizing their biographies. You can search on Internet the life of writers, scientists, businesspeople, world leaders and summarize it.
Level: Beginners
Class type: Undergraduate students.
Aim: Search for and read biographies.Summarize them in a glog and do a postcasting with the summary .
Activity focus: Reading-speaking
Time: Max 3 minutes
Material: Computer with access to Internet / Headphones
Procedure:
1. Teacher tells students they will create a glog to describe the celebrity they have searched.
2. Teacher shows how to create a glog. Students make a bio-glog.
3. Students download Audacity and record a biography summary using Audacity.
4. Teacher shows participants how to record using Audacity.
5. Students link the glog in google doc.
6. Each student chooses one biography and checks the glog listens to the podcast embedded and writes a comment on google doc.
7. Teacher checks the glogs and feedbacks on google docs.
8. At the end of the semester, teacher evaluates them using a rubric.
9. Each student chooses one recorded biography and evaluates himself/herself using a rubric.
