The slides from my talk Designing Digital Materials for Young Learners at the ACEIA conference in November 2014.

1. Designing Digital Materials
for Young Learners
By Michelle Worgan

2. Your Course Book Your Digital Course Book
What’s the difference?

4. Creating your own activities
Presentation of target language using
Little Bird Tales
Alternative tool: VoiceThread

5. Practise target language by answering personal
questions using VoiceThread

6. Practice target language using Vocaroo
Focus on written forms using Little Bird Tales

7. Offer a choice of practice activities:

8. Online games
LearnEnglishKids by British Council

9. Nick Jr (Nickelodeon)
BoomerangTV

10. Cbeebies (BBC) Disney Channel
National Geographic Kids
CITV
PBS Kids
Check for Parent/Teacher sites!

11. Songs and Videos
Youtube Channels:
KidsTV123
Super Simple Songs
Maple Leaf Learning
ELF Kids Videos
ETL Learning
Have Fun Teaching
Busy Beavers

12. Create your own games
On classtools.net :
• Venn diagrams

13. Create your own games
On classtools.net :
• Venn diagrams
• Dustbin game

14. Create your own games
On classtools.net :
• Venn diagrams
• Dustbin game
• QR code treasure hunt*

15. Create your own games
On classtools.net :
• Venn diagrams
• Dustbin game
• QR code treasure hunt*
• Instant message generator*
* Suitable for Upper Primary/Secondary learners

16. Create your own games
On classtools.net :
• Venn diagrams
• Dustbin game
• QR code treasure hunt*
• Instant message generator*
• Fakebook*
* Suitable for Upper Primary/Secondary learners

17. Create your own games
On classtools.net :
• Venn diagrams
• Dustbin game
•QR code treasure hunt*
•Instant message generator*
•Fakebook*
•Twister*
* Suitable for Upper Primary/Secondary learners

18. Create your own games
www.educaplay.com
• crosswords
• fill in the blanks
• quizzes
• jumbled sentences
• wordsearches
• riddles
• matching games

19. I can speak
English!
Interactive
ebook
Electronic Village Online:
evosessions.pbworks.com
Registration 6th Jan 2015
Session 12th Jan – 15th Feb
2015

20. Useful Links
Creating Activities
• www.littlebirdtales.com
• www.voicethread.com
• www.vocaroo.com
• www.classtools.net
• www.educaplay.com
Songs & Games
• www.abcya.com/paint
• www.learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/
• www.nickjr.co.uk
• www.boomerangtv.co.uk
• www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
• www.disney.co.uk
• www.kids.nationalgeographic.com
• www.itv.com/citv
Youtube Channels • www.pbskids.org
•KidsTV123
•Super Simple Songs
•Maple Leaf Learning
•ELF Kids Videos
•ETL Learning
•Have Fun Teaching
•Busy Beavers

21. Thank you for
coming!
Get in touch!
Email: michelleworgan@gmail.com
Twitter: @michelleworgan
G+: +MichelleWorgan