Earcos weekend workshop

1. Mind your Tongue

2. Objective
To develop an understanding of how tools enhance
understanding of language.

3. Task 1
Use the transdisciplinary skill sets and tick
which ones you think apply to language
learning.

4. Why use online tools?
 Engaging  Social skills
 Visual literacy  Media & digital literacy
 Reading & writing  Critical thinking
 Collaboration

5. Bitstrips

6. Transdisciplinary Skills
 Communication
 Social
 Self management
 Thinking

7. Bitstrips
 1. Go to www.bitstrips.com
 2. Student login: Bandu99 and choose your name
 3. Create password
 4. My comics
 5. Make a comic

8. Phase 1
PYP Language Scope & Sequence
Listening and speaking
Viewing and presenting
Reading
Writing

9. Question
 Can you think of any units of inquiry you could use
Bitstrips in a meaningful way?

10. Engagement
Create an engagement for a Phase 1 learners using
bitstrips as the conduit to learning.
Take into account:
 Phase 1 Learners
 Transdisciplinary Skills