Seven principles 25 multi-media lesson ideas 45 multi-medi tools By Sylvia Guinan for TESOL GREECE 2015 Athens

2. Seven Multi-Media Lessons for
Highly effective Teenagers
By Sylvia Guinan For Tesol Greece
By Sylvia Guinan For The 36TH TESOL Greece Annual International Convention

3. Based upon the seven habits of highly
effective teenagers by Stephen Covey
Seven Principles 25 multi-media lesson ideas
Learn to speak by learning to think
Life centres for teenagers balance and flow
Problems & choices who are we really teaching?
Personalisation hearts & minds
Roots of selfhood versus outrageous fortune
A to K of pro-active versus reactive lesson ideas
A to E of begin with the end in mind
Put first things first
Think win-win
Seek first to understand then be understood
Synergise collaborate
A to E of sharpen the saw Nurture mind, body, soul

4. If we want to
teach students
how to speak,
we’ve got to
teach them how
to think....

5. Life
centres
for
teenagers
Stuff-centred

6. Who are
we really
teaching
?

7. Image credit: Erich Ferdinand

9. Celestine Chua

10. Lesson
Principle one
Be
Proactive

11. Brainstorm proactive versus reactive
a

12. Who
am
I?

14. Students mindmap proactive
associations

18. Coggle
Mind
maple
Popplet
Spider
scribe
Text2
mindmap
Ibrain
storm
More mindmapping tools My tool

19. You overhear your best friend
badmouthing you in front of a group.
She doesn’t know you overheard the
conversation. Just five minutes ago
this friend was sweet-talking you to
your face. You feel hurt and betrayed.
Do you?
b

21. Students look carefully at this image and talk about the different feelings and expressions
on peoples’ faces. Then each student must imagine that he/she is one of the characters in
the photo and make up a story about this character overcoming a challenge.
(See next slide for details)
c

22. Students create their stories and characters using tools like Storybird or Cowbird.
Stories must have a special principle or moral that helps the character to overcome a
major challenge. Storybird also facilitates poetry writing & this is also highly
recommended.
d

23. e
Student’s can use the
heroe’s journey
concept to develop
their stories and take
them through the
challenges that would
test their principles,
and develop their
problem-solving skills,
imagination, creativity
and confidence.
Sample comic slides of
the heroe’s journey
and cool comic tools
for stories coming up
next.

28. Bitstrips app.
On facebook
f
Personalised
friendship
stories
about
challenges.

29. Bitstrips
app. On
facebook
Personalised
friendship
successes

30. Make
belief
comix
Bitstrips Pixton
Toon
doos
Comic
life Powtoons
Makebeliefcomix free ebooks
Go
animate

31. g
Students create interactive posters showing three things that are
important to them.
This is one way of discovering their values and principles. Knowing
what’s important will make them more resilient, confident and pro-
active.
When they have identified the things that are most important to
them, they must try to associate these things with ruling principles.
Glogster Tackk Pictochart Thinglink

32. Glogster interface

33. Using posters for
“three things
about me” idea
Sample interface
from environment
lesson using Tackk

34. Sample
infographics
design

36. h Students learn to
understand what
they can control/can’t
control and then discover
proactive ways to ride the
waves of outrageous
fortune.
Recommended tools:
Prezi, linoit, padlet, interactive
posters, Thinglink

37. i
Padlet Linoit Popplet
“Popplet is like wall-wisher on steroids”
Larry Ferlazzo
Best online bulletin boards
What I can
control &
what I
can’t
control
Students create their own colour-coded bulletin boards of things
they can’t control & things they can control.

38. God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Photo
collage
Students make photo collage of things
they have the power to change based on these words.
j

39. Things I
can do
Things I
can’t do
k
?

40. Principle two
Begin with
the end in
mind.

41. Make a video
of yourself as
you’d like to
be one year
from now.
What have you
done with your
life?
How do you feel?
a

42. Moovly

43. A poem with
story bird
A meme
quote A song
Word cloudVideo with animoto
A comic
A prezi
While everything
about you
changes, your
roots will keep you
strong.
An infographic
b

44. Ten
Things
I love
to do
MAKE
Media
Come
AliveThinglink
c

45. 1) Write clear and measurable
goals.
2) Create a specific action plan
for each goal.
3) Read your goals daily and
visualize yourself accomplishing
them.
4)Reflect on your progress to see
if you are on target.
5) Revise your action plans if
needed.
Celebrate your accomplishments.
Visualise
goals with
slidely video
maker
Also photosnack
Students can blog
about goals or share
them on discussion
forums, like Shelly
Terrell’s Edugoals for
teachers
d

46. “The tree that never
had to fight
For sun and sky and air
and light,
But stood out in the
open plain
And always got its
share of rain,
Never became a
forest king
But lived and died a
scrubby thing.”
Douglas Mallock
Give students something
worth fighting for.
Students can secretly write their
weaknesses on a piece of paper
or message them to their
teacher.
Then students all brainstorm
solutions and action plans to
overcome the weaknesses using
mindmaps, sticky boards or
quotes.
Collaborate
with others
using Toodle -
doo
Toodle-doo – productivity &
collaboration
e

47. We procastinate to
stay in the comfort
zone while we
prioritise the
important things
even if they’re scary.
Penzu
personal
journal for
weekly
goals
Principle 3

48. This is a belief that
everybody can win.
A useful skill for teenagers to
learn in life
for relationships, and in exams
for
using the language of
compromise and co-operation.
Students role play conflict
situations and then create
comic dialogues of the role
play. To practise reported
speech, they can also add
captions reporting what’s being
said or what was said.
Principle four

49. 5
Active listening for language development, exams and interpersonal success.
Enhanced listening through storytelling Get a life by Fluency MC
Embed this
inspirational teen
video on a
discussion thread
and get student to
ask questions
about the story –
and answer each
other’s questions
through tagging
Get a life –
RAP song
by Fluency
MC
Students
can try
writing
their own
rap
stories.
Principle five

50. Students record themselves
talking about a personal
experience and post them on
Storify. Then their partners
must listen to their stories,
restate the story in their
own words, and ask clarifying
questions in the comment
stream. This is also great
practise for summarising and
oral speaking exams for
collaborative decision-
making tasks.

51. The classroom eco-sysem & collaborative
diversity
“Synergy is the creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.“
Class
blog
Storify
Radio
show
Visual
slideshows
on Slidely
Collaborative
stories and
poems
Synergise6

52. Τhis is about nurturing body, brains heart & soul
The body
Create a food magazine with your class.
Students can collect up tasty, healthy
recipes and images.They can all be added
to a word doc, converted to a pdf and
uploaded to an online ebook maker, such
as Isuuu.
In this way students encourage each
other to eat healthily in a supportive way,
learn lots of language, share traditional
recipes, avoid burning out, and gain
experience in publishing and designing a
book/magazine on the web.
7
a

53. Τhis is about nurturing body, brains heart & soul
The brain
Build a virtual class library with students.
To encourage everyone to develop reading
and thinking skills, create a fun visual library
students choose video or reading links for the library.
This would be a very simple class curation project for a
video/book club. It can be used to show students that
knowledge is fun and inspiring. It can also be used to
exploit learning objectives throughout the school year.
A music library could also be created for themes – but
only with meaningful songs that have intelligent lyrics
and life messages. Inspiring literature & movies should
be included too.
Beautiful library slideshow Teenage language library
b

54. Τhis is about nurturing body, brains heart & soul
The heart
Build a virtual class library with students.
To encourage everyone to develop reading
and thinking skills, create a fun visual library
students choose video or reading links for the library.
This would be a very simple class curation project for a
video/book club. It can be used to show students that
knowledge is fun and inspiring. It can also be used to
exploit learning objectives throughout the school year.
A music library could also be created for themes – but
only with meaningful songs that have intelligent lyrics
and life messages.
Beautiful library slideshow Teenage language library Teen culture/male & female brains
c

55. Τhis is about nurturing body, brains heart & soul
The
heart
Random
acts of
kindness
We can use facebook, Edmodo or other
social platforms to encourage
spontaneous acts of kindness
and develop the habit of kindness.
Student actively find ways to be kind to
each other through online discussion
forums, sharing quotes, ideas, songs,
information etc. They will learn how to
express their hearts and minds in
English. They’ll also learn how to build
great relationships for life and be part
of something bigger than themselves.
Use bitstrips
and slidely to
make videos
of your
relationships
with your
friends.
d

57. Τhis is about nurturing body, brains heart & soul
The soul
IQ matrix blog with 250 + free mindmaps
Use amazing
mindmaps as
inspiration for further
development of highly
effective teenagers,
language
development, self-
expression and
student created
mindmaps.
Image credit: IQ matrix
e

58. Brainfriendly learning methods, tools, environments and communities
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