Ipod Use Number 2

Unbelievable that I haven't posted in a month. Unbelievable that that is the first sentence I choose to post in a month. But it has been an insane month. In that month, though, I have found multiple uses for the iPod in the language learning classroom.

Idea number 2... Vocabulary Scavenger Hunt
The kids had a list of something like 40 vocabulary words related to geography tostudy, and we had photos in the class representing those 40 words. The kids had duplicate mini photos in their vocab notebooks to study. So after a night of studying, I put the list of 40 words on the overhead cam for the students. I had each of them randomly choose any 15 words from that master list in any order and put them on a piece of paper.

Prior to school starting, I snuck into the classroom and hid the 40 vocab pictures all over the room. Taped to random places.

I then collected the kids' lists and redistributed them to different kids. The task? Each student had to go on a scavenger hunt to find the pictures of the 15 words on their list. They had to take photos of the images with the iPod touch. The twist? They had to do it in the order that the words were listed on their lists.

Wild. The kids had a great time. And it forced them to really think about the words in print versus the words as images. And when the quickest kid in the class discovered that he had missed picture number seven, he had to delete his last eight photos and go back at it again. It was a fun, fun challenge to see who could get done first.