Okinawa JALT - Teaching Younger Learners Conference - Oct. 34 2020
Channel: Rab Paterson
Date: 21/10/2020

This is the Keynote Presentation from the conference by Rab Paterson, Honami Kimoto, Aya Yamauchi, and Mitsuki Saito. It was a lot of fun presenting with my students, they did an excellent job and their sections are well worth a watch. So enjoy.
Abstract of session.
Many school teachers have their students read novels and give book reviews. Often these reviews are just a list of what their students liked and didn’t like. This session provides a template to enable teachers to go much further than this in their literature classes. Initially, we’ll cover the approach needed to enable students to start to shape the background research they need for a formal academic book review. Next, the session will very briefly give an overview of a list of digital writing apps to improve and judge these written reviews before final submission including a quick overview of Turnitin for final reviewing. Then the session will have three Junior High School students (Mitsuki Saito, Honami Kimoto, and Aya Yamauchi) cover the multimedia phase via an overview of the process they used in their writing and their follow-on live in-class presentation reviews and videos. The session will also cover the process of creating a team Google website to host and share their work on these book review projects, and some model team sites will be shown. The penultimate part of the session will have them giving their impressions of this process, what they learned from it, and showcasing their work. Finally, we will have a Q and A  / discussion part to end the session.