Didactic sequence + web 2.0

Some time ago, our teacher of ECO asked us to create a didactic sequence for an imaginary course using one or more web 2.0 tools and to show the final outcome from our students. My partners and I had to teach irregular verbs in the past simple. After analyzing all the web 2.0 possibilities, we decided to work with Storybird; this resource lets us create, as I wrote in  my last post,  art-inspired stories. As final outcome, our ficticious group of students had to create a story about Ancient World , using the previoulsy mentioned tool, in order to share all their stories

To begin with this didactic sequence, we made a video in order to show "our" students what Ancient World is and to help them activate their schemata so as to create a brainstorming on the board.

After working and talking about the video and some civilizations, we presented a legend called The Secret Power of Ra with Storytbird, so students  had a model of what they were expected to create:

http://storybird.com/books/the-secret-power-of-ra/ 

Finally, we worked with some past irregular verbs that appeared in the story; and students had to complete some worksheets with those verbs in order to practice.

Although I presented  a general view of our didactic sequence, I hope you have seen how we can use our lessons to introduce different tools so as to teach English and to let students know how to employ them appropriately for different purposes.