ONLINE CONFERENCE

Hello everyone, I’m here to tell you about a recent experience that I have lived thanks to the ICT subject, an online conference!

What nervous I was! You can’t even imagine the feelings when you see that it’s your turn and you have to talk in front of different people which are inside the digital world of education. This experience was carried out by moodle4teachers and the two people who were in charge of it were @mjgsm and @nelliemuller.

What did allow us this experience? Well, as you have read in my previous posts, we have been carrying out a learning process which had different steps explained one by one in different posts:

• This time: evaluating and analyzing an educational project.

• Prototype of my CLIL Educational Digital Project

• Design a visual metaphor!

• Partners search.

• Superlearning mission 1

• Learning mission 2

• Learning to use rubrics

Apart from show to people what we have been doing, thanks to our classmates, now they can visit our blogs and give their opinions about our ideas. Also, our classmates give our main links to our Twitter and the direct link to our open educational project.

Furthermore, it was the opportunity to listen our classmates talking about their own projects and give our opinion about them.

This online conference has been the last step that we had to achieve in our ICT’s classes and, as far as I’m concerned, the most important challenge. 

Here you have the slides that all my classmates and me made to present ourselves in the conference following a model that our teacher provided us.

      

Open educational digital projects for clil primary education from Jefe de Área de Formación en Red y Redes Sociales. INTEF

Here I leave you the draft, using the tool Issuu, that I used to prepare my presentation in the conference.

    

And finally, here you have the video of the online conference where some of my classmates and I appear talking.

            

To sum up this post, I would like to tell you that this experience was new for me. Carry out a blog, something that I always have wanted to do, create super activities which let us to think more about them, use different digital tools to achieve the knowledge in our students and finally, this online conference which was, as far as I see it, the most constructive activity that I have ever made. 

As 21 century teachers, we have to take into account the new technologies and add them to our classes in order to innovate the education world and to achieve a better understanding in our students. 

Thank you for reading my posts. 

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Learning to use rubrics.

Did you miss me? I’m back here, but this time, with a new post where I will talk about assesment. When you do an activity with your students, you always need a tool for evaluate them, it can be an exam, a survey or, in this case, a rubric. 

Do you know what is a rubric? As you can read in Merriam-Webster, a rubric is “a guide listing specific criteria for grading or scoring academic papers, projects, or tests”. We could say that it is a tool that helps us to obtain the final result of our students. 

Thanks to the rubrics both, students and teachers, have some advantages. 

For the students: 

• Students have much more information than with other instruments (feedback) 
• They encourage learning and self-evaluation. 
• They know in advance the criteria with which they will be evaluated 
• They facilitate the global understanding of the theme and the relation of the different capacities. 
• They help students to think in depth. 
• They promote the responsibility of the students, who according to the exposed criteria, can review their work before delivering them to the teacher.

For the teachers:

• They are easy to use and explain to students. It increases the objectivity of the evaluation process. 
• They provide feedback on the effectiveness of the teaching methods used. 
• They are versatile and conform to the demands of the competency evaluation process.

After doing the Superlearning Mission 1 and Learning Mission 2, I have decided to evaluate the Superlearning Mission 1. Do you remember what activity did I do? A flyer where our students had 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.

The aspects that are going to be evaluated have direct connection with the goal established on the mission, that are the followings:

• 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.

Here you have a presentation made with Canva where you can see the criteria that I’m going to follow in my rubric.

What are we going to evaluate? de Blanca García Martínez

And finally, I have done my rubric using the digital tool Quick Rubric, which let me to do an easy rubric in few minutes. It was a fantastic tool, very useful and very easy to use. 

Here you have my rubric:

  

Rubric by Blanca.

Making rubrics let us to be open-minded at the time to evaluate our students, changing our form of evaluating them. It’s good to see different ways to evaluate and I love to learn new things every day. 

Thank you for reading my post. 

SEE YOU SOON!

Andrea, what about yourself?

Hello everyone, today I have a new post where you can know my friend Andrea.
I have known her in this Master's degree and today I have decided to ask them some questions to know better her.
First of all, I did some tricky questions about herself, for example, how many times a day do you look yourself in the mirror? or what do you do when you can't sleep? After this questions there will be another ones where we will talk about this master and why we decided to come to this master and let us to know each other. Do you want to see her?

She is Andrea, she is 23 years old and she's from Valencia. She decided to settle down in Madrid for a year to life the experience to live by their own. 

Doing this activity we have learn a bit more about ourselves. Also it's an opportunity to know a new App called Soundcloud that we had never used. We were working listening and speaking skills doing this interview letting us to improve our English and at the same time how to use TIC and English together. 

Here it is the audio of the interview that we did this afternoon. I hope you like it and I'm waiting for your comments. See you soon.