TEACHING AND LEARNING

Hi everyone! This is going to be my last post as student. It is the end of ICT subject. It´s time to look back all that I have learned. I have to say that I have improved my  ICT skills. I was worried at the beginning of this subject because I was´t really good at technologies. Now I am proud of me because I know a lot of things, I am able to use several resources that I will use in my future as a teacher. I consider very important learn ICT as a teacher because nowadays children are getting used to with technologies. It is a good method to catch their attention and to make them an effective learning. It´s difficult to put the whole subject in a video. First I created a presentation using genial. ly  then I record my screen while I explained the presentation with  screencast-o-magic . Later on I uploud to youtube . In the presentation I have explained all topics that I have learned. I have tried to show how you can use all the resources, you will see there link...

Hello, Today I would like to speak about #twima8 that is an educational collaborative project worldwide. In this project teachers and students from all the world have the opportunity to share their stories. All people have their own story and have the opportunity to share with others have a lot of benefits. Share stories create empathy and also you can learn from each other. Also listen people let you open your mind.  You can spend a little time learning from the others experiences. I used the Flipgrid App  in order to record my experience video. This platform, let people to connect and socialize with others. I used the webcam from my laptop, is so easy to use and very fast. You only need to be relaxed and share your history. Flipgrid allow you to record a video of just five minutes so you have to know before what you would like to talk. With the hashtag #twima8 all stories are connected with each other. I´ve really enjoyed record my video. I am a bit embarrass...

Hello, as I told you in my last post , here you have the rest of the project in more details. I did with my group "Girl power" that is formed by: Silvia Gato , Patricia Portela , Lucia Roza , Laura Carballo and me. We really enjoyed the process because all of us worked hard and we share responsabilities. First of all we have prepared all materials before going to the Ministry: clothes, accessories and visuals. We went there to Future classroom Lab where we found the resources necessaries for us to record the video like the chroma wall. We had funny moments there. We practiced the dialogues and we spent 50 minutes recording the video. We recorded the video in order to use it in a flipped classroom. Do you know what is a flipped classroom? Is a blended learning strategy with the aim to improve student engagement and outcomes. This methodology let teacher use their free time to support and asses the students. I think the video will be really useful in class becaus...

Hi everybody, Today I would like to write a post speaking about an storyboard that I have done with my group: "Girl power". My group is from my university we are doing a Bilingual Master in the URJC (Rey Juan Carlos University). The main of this project is that our students know more about the important woman in the history: Who they were? What they did? What the did accomplice? They will see the importance of women in the different areas: writer, pinter,singer, politician,queen,etc). The goals of our project are: - To work democratic values -To know the importance of women thought history -To know what is women accomplish and why these accomplishments were important -To be aware of the gender equality -To work in groups First of all, we created a draft. We decided who will develop each role, the dialogues, the scenes, the materials that we will need, the costumes, etc. We used a Google Doc to created the collaborative document : It most important is to organ...

Hi everybody, Today I am going to write about Content curation. Do you know what is this? First of all think for a while...when you are looking on the web about some topic, how many time do you usually spend on it? In my case I have spent a lot of time, but now I know how to do it faster. I have discovered: Content Curation. Nowadays there are a lot of resources that you can find on internet and sometimes you spent many time clicking and clicking. For that reason I started to use Content Curation. First of all you can organize all your resources and also linked to other resources that are very useful. There are different tools to start curating content: Pinterest Pearltrees Symbaloo Listly Scoop.it I have worked with Pinterest because for me is intuitive and easy. Also there you will find resources about all topics. I am going to explain a little more about Pinterest. First of all Pinterest is a web page that serves as a virtual board, you can discover, organiz...

Hi everybody, Today I would like to talk you about an interesting topic.Last tuesday I have attended to a online conference in WEBINAR , where I learned about an interesting information for teacher´s training. As a teacher I have to write about this because I think that it´s something that many people don´t know and is really engaging. I would like to start remarking that the webinar carried out by Maria Jesús García, my ICT teacher from de University (Rey Juan Carlos). You can follow her on twitter if you clip here . She spoke about different "free courses". There are trainig initiatives and each initiative has its own learning experience. You can improve your digital competence for education. I would like to explain you more in details each of them. All of them are made for the Ministry of Esducation. MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). There are aimed at a large number of participants through internet.  This kind of courses have a duration of...

Hi everybody, Here I am again! Today I am going to show you a creative project that I have created. I would like to start by explaining what a podcast is and how you can use in your classroom. A podcast is an audio file that you can use to improve the level of english of your students. Also will improve self-confidence with the language grammar. It is useful in all subjects but specially in those related with language. Fist of all I will explain you how to create a podcast. There are several tools and apps where you can create an online podcasting. The one that I used is SoundCloud . There you can make your own playlist. It is very useful and easy. To get started you have to register with your google account, Facebook or email, then you will have your profile where you can organize and personalize. The audio tracks that you record can be share, tagged and categorized as you like it. Where can I record my audio tracks? It is so easy. I have used Audacity . You must download i...

Hi mates! Today I would like to show you what an infographic is. As I said in my last post, nowadays we have lots of new tools. Our students must be able to develop many competences and for them is very important to learn strategies to organize and analyze their knowledges. Infographic is a tool to create pictures with your computer. How we can do it? It is so easy, you have many webs where you can do it. It is very interesting because our pupils can create a picture with the most important information of one unit, topic or project. In that case I used the infographic with my first graders. I have created a poster with the most important information that we learnt in the first unit of science. I think that is very striking and attractive for them. Also the can learn how to abstract the most important information of a text. Here I would like to give you tips to create a good one. The infographic must contain: -Title -Body -Explanatory text -Source -Authorship and license No...

Hi mates! Pay attention! Today I am going to show you  how you can explain yours projects throught mindmap. If you have a project in your mind, you can create one of this to your pupils. Do you now exactly what a mindmap is? Well, is a diagram use to represent words, ideas, drawings or other concepts. It is also a good method that help to memorize information. I think it is really good and visual for children. Today I have created a Mindmap for 6º graders. I have made a mindmip to explain them the following Project that we are going to do. I used to show them the characteristics of the Project, what they will know to participate corretly, the aims of the project, etc. Moreover students can use mindmaps in order to express themselves, to work with a variety of contents and create their own knowledge about a topic. The mind map that I´ve created is called us the Project: I would like to show you different webs where you can make a mind map: - SpiderScribe ...

Hi, Today I would like to show you an interesting tool to work in your classroom. It´s a really good way to catch the attention of the students. In that case I have created a comic to work the relationships. Also I have related with a topic from physical education. I show to my students  that a boy, who is new at school is worried because he don´t know anybody. His first day in the school is a Little hard. Little by little he meets Friends.  Through this topic children can realice that maybe it could be difficult be new, and they can reflect on how to help. It is more attractive for pupils visual tools, also they can fell identified. We can use the avatar that we did before (as you can see in the other post). I made a comic that I called: MY NEW SCHOOL I used Pixton to do this. This website is very easy to use and also is free. You have to register on the page and create an account. You can find different sceneries and landscapes that you can use to create the comic....

Hi everybody, Today I would like to show you different resources that you can use in all subjects. During your life, I am sure that you have had to use programs to do a presentation. One of the most popular is Power Point, because is easy to use and also is free. But we have to keep in mind that there are a lot of programs and applications to make a new and original presentation. Here you have modern resources that you can use to create presentations in a engaging way: Examples: - Genially - Google Slides - Biteslide - Powtoon I check all of them and I think that are easy to use and also free as Power Point.  All of these programs have many options to make your presentation more attractive. You can insert audio, video, images, movements, symbols, etc. Furthermore you will have all your presentations inside the program and you will able yo modify when you want. I am going to show you an example of a presentation with Prezi .  To use p...

Hi again! Today I am going to show you how we can do a Clil lesson with pictures from internet. We have to take care with the photos that we choose from internet because there have authors and we have to be respectful with the copyright. At the end of the post; there will be the links where you can to download images and see the authors and the Creative Commons. ARE WE HEALTHY OR UNHEALTHY? It´s very important be an example for little children in many cases. One of the most important is the nutrition.  I do a lesson related with the importance of eating healthy food. Also my students will learn to distinguish between good food and fast food. They will learn which aliments they should avoid and which others should consume more frequently.   They will share with their classmates what they usually eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner.  I will make four activities with the different pictures that I have chosen.  The first one is try to identif...

Hi everybody! Today I`m going to talk about the use of avatars in education. First of all, we need to know what is an avatar. Is an image that represents an animal, a person or a thing that we can use with the objective of keeping our identity secure. MY AVATAR Here you have my avatar. My name is Lora. I am 10 years old. I am a explorer and I learned all that I know from my parents. I`m lost in a temple and I need help from the third graders. I am very interested in science, history and also in traveling. I usually travel a lot, but normally with friends or family. This time is different, I am alone and I need help to solve the riddles. I came here, looking for a treasure. During my trip I will ask to my friends from third grade. HOW TO CREATE AN AVATAR In my case I have used an application that is called "Toontastic". I chose that one because is not registration requires and is easy to use. I will use the avatar with children in scien...

Hi everybody, Today I would like to show you how to create a blog. If you are a person who is not very good at using technologies, don't worry! It is so easy!. I have created with  Blogger , but there are more options  to do it.  You can create one following these steps: STEP 1 Search on internet: BLOGGER STEP 2 First of all you have to create an account with an user and a password. STEP 3 Choose a title and make a description about yourself and what you want to show through the blog. Then setting the background, the type of letter, the gidgets, plugins, etc. When you have all ready, you can start doing your first post. Try to be original and creative. Why create a blog?  I have to say that as a teacher I consider very important share your ideas and also consider the ideas of the rest of your colleges. If you want to keep in touch with different people and learn from them this is the way.  To be a good blogger, you only n...