Utilizing ShowMe with an ELL student

Thanks to Angie, I had an opportunity to work with an ELL student Nazo with the utilization of technology.

Nazo is a third grader from Iraq. Before attending school in America, she didn't have any learning experience in English.

I planned to use google translate as a media to start conversation with her. However, there is no Kurdish available. Originally, I thought Arabic would be similar to Kurdish, since I had not encountered these two languages before but from the geographical locations, they are probably related to each other. But I failed after tried two days. Nazo didn't give any reaction towards Arabic translation on second day. So the utilization of technology with her was in a hard time in a degree.

Based on limited conversation between us, we barely made brief introductions with ShowMe. Nazo's teacher Miss Angie Zulkoski told me that she is doing letter tracing recently. So I tried to let Nazo look for words with certain letters and she looks for the picture on web to see what the visual meaning that word delivers. Thanks to ShowMe, whose recording function records the learning process of Nazo's and her pronunciations towards the words she found. I found her voice becomes louder and louder after several days.

The pictures attached below are Nazo looking for words, search pictures on web and her products on ShowMe.

Learner Control with Multimedia Learning

With further study of utilizing technology in k-12 classes, leaner control environment becomes a teaching goal with the facilitation of technology in modern classrooms.

In my 259 sections, we've experienced how to use shorebird, prezi, google slides, powtoon, voki, cacoo, google doc, google form, kahoot, as well as various online education games. With various functions, how to make use of them to meet the goal of learner control environment?

According to researches conducted, an effective learner control environment means four aspects:
















and finally, we expect





To make an effective learner control environment happen, we have to meet two factors: