martes, 18 de marzo de 2014

Advantage and Disadvantage of Chogger for teaching English!!

CHOGGER 


 Chogger means web comics, it is used to Create and share web comics with the world.

Chogger inside the classroom?

Cartoons are likely a form of entertainment that your students are very familiar with. As a matter of fact, every student in your class probably enjoys cartoons in some form. Teachers can use Chogger to provide students to learn and work in an unfamiliar topic in a funny and attractive way. Utilizing cartoons and comic strips in your classroom is a way to meet students where they are at and allow to combine your goals with their interests.




Advantages:

  • To explain vocabulary words or other concepts from any class or subject area.
  • To write summaries of current events, responses to reading assignments, expressions of teen problems, and creative works of humor.
  • To share or create a class comic on a current topic of study, such as the life cycle of the frog or ways to conserve energy, etc.
  • To integrate an art and writing lesson.
  • To demonstrate a concept in science or social studies, rather than a traditional paper/pencil quiz. 
  • To demonstrate written language skills in the "context" of their comic situations.
  • To help explain social interactions.

Disadvantage:

  • you need internet
  • You can not add music or videos
  • You have to keep the link, because it´s difficult to find it after  a few days.