This is a great game, it may be useful with ESL Users. You have to draw pictures, and online users have to guess in English what you are drawing. It's quite addictive. It would be better if you could load your own word lists. Go ahead and try it! Tell me what you think.
Spin the Bottle - Group Tool
Spin the Bottle is a unique tool educators can use for group activities. It has three modes:
Russion Roulette
Pick one person
Pick two people
This tool can be usefull for conversation starters, where the teacher asks a question, spins a bottle, the selected person answers the question. I'm really thankful to ShamblesGuru Voom of International Schools Island in SL for the tip on this one.
It could also be used for setting dividing a group of students into smaller subsets for group activities. Come check it out here
Group Debating Tool
English Village now has a group debating tool called: "The Opinionator". This tool is quite useful to use
for interactive surveys and conversation starters. "The Opinionator" is shaped as a hexigon, and each
sector is a different color. Each color has a label that defines the opinion of the user. For example,
Green - Neutral
Yellow - Agree
Red - Strongly agree
Blue - Strongly disagree
Light blue - Disagree
Once a question has been asked, users can simply walk to their corner of choise, and "The Opinionator"
will keep track of the number of users in each sector. In the center of "The Opinionator" a pie chart
automatically is formed to project the overall opinions. This is such a great visual tool. The next step is to
hook it up to a database to record the group activities. Come to English Village, and check it out here!
