Designing activities

Designing Activities

On this page I will give examples of:

When I make a particular activity using Intellikeys, I usually make several different versions of the overlay to cater for different ability levels among my students. An example of this is our daily programme. This activity involves students typing up their daily routine. Some of the goals include assisting students to prepare themselves for the day, sequencing, and recognising days of the week. Currently I use 3 different overlays:

In this way, students of different levels can participate in the same activity.

An additional goal with the third overlay is that of sight recognition. To make it easier, I tend to start off with each button on the overlay having both text and a graphic, and then later removing the graphics to have text alone. To make sure it is the sight word the student is remembering and not the position of the button, change the order of the buttons on the overlay.

Evaluation

A photocopy of the overlay is used for evaluation purposes. When the student can recognise a word on the overlay, s/he gets to colour it in on the photocopy. Each day we use a different colour so I can keep a track of how long it takes the student to learn each word. I have found that this form of evaluation is highly motivating for the student - s/he can see s/he is making progress and is keen to learn all the words so that he can colour them in.

The beauty of these strategies is that they can be used with just about every Intellikeys activity. I try to make up a different activity every few weeks and I revisit some vocabulary every now and then to reinforce it.

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