Famous films (2). Mind mapping

As I promised on a previous post, here you have some of my students' works:

Blanca

Paula y Raquel

Pablo y Borja

Mindmapping is really useful in teaching and learning.It reflects the way the brain works and can help students organize their ideas.
Mind maps were developed by Tony Buzan who "wanted to know how to use the brain most effectively in order to cope with all the learning we have to do".

They are a powerful tool for:

-taking notes
-doing a project
-writing an essay
-new vocabulary
-summarizing information
-giving a presentation
-explaining grammar
And many more..

How to do it?

Write the main idea or topic in the middle of the page, start a main branch on a new line radiating out from the key word and add some other ideas on smaller lines coming off the main branches.
It is a good idea to use lines, colours, arrows, pictures or some other way of showing connections between the ideas generated on your mind map; by personalising it with your own symbols and designs it will be easier for you to understand and remember things.

For further information:

Maximise the Power of Your Brain - Tony Buzan MIND MAPPING

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newISS_01.htm

For creating a mind map:

Wikimindmap

bubbl.us

mind42

Press clipping

Good article, isn't it? Written by a good student as well!

I'd like to thank Antonio Solano for this fun link
It could be a good idea to use other such links in order to motivate our students to do their homework, don't you agree?

Famous films

We must encourage our students to participate in our classes.Activities, tasks, projects... should be designed bearing in mind their different styles and preferences.People learn in different ways and by providing our students varied inputs relating to different senses and different intelligence types (click on information),we will be offering them more effective learning opportunities.
The other day, we were talking about films and they did this activity that has to do with visual intelligence (click on materials)

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They had to:
-identify the films above
-say what kind of films they are
-choose one and write about its plot,main characters,critics previews...

Once they have done it, they will create a mind map about films just here

They will include:
-different types of films
-films posters
-a link to Wikipedia
-another link to a site with interesting information (plot summary, video clip...)
-their opinion

Students' works coming soon.

Las clases van mejor...por ahora

Anteriormente, en otro post comentaba los problemas que había en el 1º curso de secundaria de adultos y el reto que tenía ante mí. Pues bien, afortunadamente, el contrato está funcionando y las clases parecen que van mejor.
Cuatro han abandonado definitivamente, un señor joven pero jubilado,una ama de casa y dos marroquíes, uno de los cuales ha vuelto a su tierra y el otro se ha ido a la costa a trabajar.Así que,quedan nueve, y salvo uno de ellos, todos los demás ya han acumulado un punto por venir a clase.Algunos compañeros piensan que esto es una barbaridad,¿premiarles por cumplir con su obligación?, cierto, pero mi objetivo es hacerles venir y conseguir que sean constantes, ya que de otra forma no nos cundiría lo que hacemos y por ahora... se va cumpliendo.Con esto me conformo, vamos despacio, pero no me importa.
Aquí os dejo unas grabaciones que hemos hecho,seguro que les hace ilusión.Cuando llegaron, apenas sabían inglés,algunos no sabían más allá del cinco,leían inglés igual que se escribía, J. no hablaba nunca debido a una timidez excesiva...y ya van haciendo sus pinitos.Son pequeños grandes logros.