TIME TOAST TASK

I had never heard of this tool but I find it very useful since not oly does it allow cooperative work but it brings about a high motivation for learners to read as they have had to read some webpages to be able to choose the required information, so it helps them increase their reading speed. 

The main learning objectives persued with this task are: 

- to make students familiar with British women ahead of their time such as the figure of Beatrix Potter

-to develop students' digital competence by using ICT tools such as Time toast to produce their work. 

-to enhance students' communicative competence by developing their reading, listening, writing and speaking skills.

- to help them learn to learn so that they can use this tool in future works

- to know how to work in groups

On the occasion of Women's Day we have dealt with important women so in order to end up this second term we have worked on Beatrix Potter. Among the different tasks they have carried out  one of them has been to create some timelines about her life and literary career and works. Firstly they have been provided with the tool Time toast and we have learnt them how  it works, then we have asked them to create a timeline about this woman ahead of her time and her it goes their final product: https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/2529635 or this other one  https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/2529661

The experience of using Time Toast has been a very positive one  since my students love using new ICT tools to produce their works. This is something that makes them forget about routine and carry out new ways of learning so they got surprised when they saw their product 

Furthermore it has also helped us to achieve most of the objectives mentioned above since Time toast make students develop their social competence since they work in groups, they have also developed above all their reading skills since in order to create the timeline previously they need to read a lot about the topic and last but not least their digital competence has also been enhanced.