TEACHING AND LEARNING

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...