LEARNING MISSION 2

HELLO! Yesterday, you have been able to read my previous post where I have transformed a flat activity into a superlearning activity. In this post, it’s time to follow with the transformations to achieve a better understanding on kids. This activity is based in the Open Educational Project (OEP). I think that my learning mission fits in the blog that I would like to collaborate with, Tertulias con sabor a chocolate. 

The students continue working with the clothes and how they can order the adjectives when they are talking about clothes and their characteristics. 

Furthermore, with this activity the students will develop the following key competences: 

• Learning to learn competence
• Digital competence
• Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship
• Communication in foreign language 
• Autonomy 

First of all, I create a poster that I will put on the class to explain to the student what they have to do and what goals they have to achieve doing this activity.

GOALS

• To know the clothing names. 
• Create a fashion catalogue. 
• To search on the Internet to find different kind of clothes. 
• Be critical with the information found. 
• Plan the process. 

INSTRUCTIONS

• Organize your ideas. If you want to do a women's catalogue, men's catalogue. both of them
• Choose a digital tool to create your catalogue. (Emaze, Canva, Smore...) 
• Search on the Internet to found online shops (Stradivarius, Zara...) 
• Create your Fashion Catalogue. 
• Describe under each photograph the kind of clothes. Be specific. 
• Present in front of the class your catalogue.

CREATE YOUR FASHION CATALOG de Blanca García Martínez

Now, here you have the sample digital artefact that the children have to achieve. We can show them it, to make easier their understanding of the activity. Also, we can start to create another one with them in class to explain how the digital tool works.

I’ve never used the tool Emaze, and it has been a great discover because now, I have discovered a new tool to create presentations to the university or for using in the future with my students. 

Now, it's time to explain the final activity, where we will use the Wool Group Dynamic again, as you have read in my last post. I would like to remember that this activity will be done as a group dynamic because it's one of the activities that the blog that I would like to collaborate use, and this blog is Tertulias con sabor a chocolate as I said in the beggining of this post.

This time we will show to the students and stick in the classroom's wall this poster made with Canva. 

Wool Group Dynamic II de Blanca García Martínez

We will explain to them that this will be the second wool group dynamic where they will have to bring photographs of the clothes that they will add to their Fashion Catalogues. And the dynamic will be the same as in the previous post but, with the difference that, this time, they will have to present their photographs at the same time that they are talking to their classmates about their catalogues. When the student who has the skein of wool throw this one to another student, this one will have to choose their favourite piece of clothes from the previous student. When he/she finish talking about his/her favourite piece of clothes, they will explain his/her Fashion Catalogue. They will repeat this until all of the students have presented their works. 

Thanks to these two-last post, I have had the opportunity to think a lot about how you can transform flat activities into more interesting activities for the students.

Thank you for reading my post.

SEE YOU SOON!

SUPERLEARNING MISSION 1

Hello, hello, it’s me again!! I've been disconnected for a couple of weeks, but I'm back with the batteries charged and with something new for you, my first learning mission. And you will be thinking, what is she saying? Well, I’m going to explain to you. 

A learning mission consist in transform a flat activity, as a match activity, into a meaningful, attractive and interesting activity. Kids are bored of the same activities day by day, so, with these kind of learning missions we are looking forward their interest and constant with the activities that we want to carry out in class. As we consider, thanks to these kind of activities, we can achieve a better understanding of the concepts that we are explaining. 

The creation of my first learning mission is based in one activity of my OEP (Open Educational Project). As you could read in my previous posts, my OEP is about clothes and typical actions. Thanks to this learning mission, students can do activities related to their daily life, such as shopping. 

Here you have a poster made with the tool Canva, where I want to present you how to transform a flat activity into a learning mission.

Supernormal hero de Blanca García Martínez

The flat activity that I have choose is the typical activity that all of us have made once in our life: What are you wearing? Describe yourself. It is boring, isn’t it? Now comes the changes in this boring activity. Between children and teenagers is very fashionable the subject of superheroes, so I decided to take advantage of this. They have to create a superhero, but, do you remember the film “Superman”? He had a special costume when he had to save his city and, in his normal life, he has his normal clothing. What I want that they do is to create a flyer with their superheroes, description of them (with superhero and normal clothes), search on the internet among the clothing shops to find clothes for the superhero to wear in his normal life and finally, describe the change. 

What are the goals? 

- Plan the steps you are going to follow. 

- Look for information using the Internet. 

- Create a catchy flyer using a digital tool. 

- Use the vocabulary and expression about clothes and actions.

What are the instructions? 

- Create your superhero avatar using the digital tool Superherotar. 

- Name your superhero. 

- Search the internet for different clothing stores and choose the photographs of the clothes you want     to use. 

- Create a catchy flyer where you explain: 

       -Your superhero's description. 

       - Why you want to become normal. 

       - Clothes that you have chosen. 

       - Shops where you found the clothes. 

       - A description of your superhero's normal clothes. 

I have created a presentation that I will put at the beginning of the class with the goals, the instructions and the timing that the activity will have. The tool that I have chosen is Videoscribe, that you have to download in your computer to use it and them, share your video with the tool Youtube. Here you have the presentation.

And finally, I have created a sample of the student’s final work, using the digital tool Smore.

As you can read in my previous post Partners Search, I have decided to collaborate with Tertulias con sabor a chocolate, the reason is because in their blog, they have use talks and group dynamics and the final activity in this Superlearning mission is one of them. 

For the student presentation I have decided to make a group dynamic, more exactly a wool group dynamic. What am I going to do? A group dynamic called "La Madeja de Lana" which translation to English is "The Skein of Wool". What is this? Well, it's a group dynamic where the teacher gives to the students a skein of wool and he/she starts to throw it to their students and then, these ones have to throw to their classmates. What have they had to do when they have the skein of wool? They have to explain their Super activity and their classmates have to listen. When one kid finish explaining his/her work, they have to throw the skein of wool to one classmate, and this one has to, first of all, summarize the activity which his/her classmate has done and then he/she has to explain his/her own work. The students don't know who will be the next one so, this is the perfect activity where the students have to listen, share and give his/her opinion. 

I have used the tool Canva to make a poster that the teacher will present to the students before doing the group dynamic. Here you have it. 

Wool group dynamic de Blanca García Martínez

I can only say that thanks to this activity, I have learned how to use many digital applications that I had never heard of. Also, it has allowed me to give many returns to the idea of ​​improving the activities to make them more striking for the students, something that will certainly be of great help for a near future.

Thank you for reading my post. 

SEE YOU SOON!

PARTNERS SEARCH

Hello, hello, how are you today?

Here I am again with a new challenge: searching for partners. If you have read my latest posts with my Prototype of my Open Educational Digital Project and my Visual Metaphor, you will have an idea of my project, now, it’s time to look for partners.

Before deciding on a collaborative movement I've been looking at different projects, this has allowed me to have a general idea of what was being said in each of them before making a decision. Between the collaborative movements that I was browsing I have found some interesting projects as The ESL Times, The Twima Project or InfoEDUgrafias, but finally, I have decided that the most interesting collaborative movement for me was Tertulias con sabor a chocolate.

There are so many reasons why I have chosen this collaborative movement but, I’m going to summarize the main ones: 

• Collective blog of enthusiastic teachers who encourage the participation of an educational community open to society.
• Collaborative blog that works with TIC and with all the possibilities that these offer.
• Project that aims to encourage dialogue among all members of the educational community to reflect, grow and introduce improvements and new projects.
• They work with the tool Blogger to inform about their daily news. 
• Encourage all types of expression: oral, written, artistic…
• Develop a Cooperative and Collaborative Culture between teachers and students from different parts of the world, through the network.

Retrieved from Tertulias con Sabor a Chocolate

Once I have decided in what collaborative movements I want to participate, I would have to do an elevator pitch, and you will be wondering, what is an elevator pitch? Well, it’s very easy. You have 20 seconds to explain your open educational digital project. 20 seconds? YES, so you have to choose what is the most relevant information that you want to say. 

First of all, you have to start with a catchy sentence, something that when people hear it, they want to hear something more. Then, you have to explain the problem and what solution you are to going to introduce. To end, prepare an attractive farewell. 

When you have finished the record of your elevator pitch (you can do it with your mobile phone, as I did), you have to upload to an online video tool. In my case, I have used WeVideo but, there are other resources as MovieMaker that you can find in almost all the Window’s computers. 

Finally, when you have your video finish, you can use the tool YouTube to upload to the net and embed to your blog. Or, if you prefer, you can embed your video directly for the tool WeVideo.  

Here I leave my elevator pitch. 

Everytime that I start a new challenge I meet a new useful tool for my future job, what an amazing discovery of WeVideo. Do not hesitate to use this application!

Before finishing my post I would be delighted to tell you how I found this new activity. This activity has allowed me to read the work of others, how they use their blog, how they manage them, every few they upload a post and so on.

I thought that the page “Tertulias con sabor a chocolate” is perfectly designed, where different posts come up each day talking about current issues. They talk about chats they do from time to time, such as women and the field of research. I'm very grateful to have been able to read their work. 

As I said before, I'm delighted with the online video tool WeVideo and very surprised with the lots of utilities that YouTube has and I've never imagine. 

It's time to finish my post. 

I hope you have faded.

SEE YOU SOON :)