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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Design a visual metaphor!

Welcome again guys!! 

I have some news for you. This time I would like to show you my visual metaphor, the new challenge for my TIC class. First of all, it would be necessary for us to have a look to my latest post . There you can observe the Prototype of my Open Educational Digital Project that it was about clothes and actions. In this post, I’m going to show you how I have thought to convert it into a collaborative work. 

First of all, what is collaboration? Working together for common goals, partnership, shared leadership, co-evolving and co-learning. If we develop the collaboration between our students and, also, with students for other schools we can obtain different points of view from different people. Every person has her own opinions about, for example and related with the topic, clothes. Not everybody dress equal, each person has his opinion about what kind of clothes he/she likes. There are people who like black clothes, another colourful clothes and so on.

Thanks to my visual metaphor I would like to show to the world an activity that I think that is trendy topic in schools: uniform. I can talk from my experience, I was in a private school and I had to wear uniform sixteen years, for me, using uniform was the most comfortable thing in the world, why? Because in the morning I could sleep more because I didn’t need to thing about different clothes every day, I only had to put the same uniform day after day. As I did, I have given my opinion about the uniform, defending it, but I’m sure that there are millions of kids that prefer to wear normal clothes instead of uniform. This activity is for this, to know their opinion.

I have chosen the final task to create the collaborative work. In this case, I thought that the perfect collaboration movement would be collaboration out of the classroom, connecting with other schools. I would like to get a debate between children who assist to a private school and children from a state school. As you known, my project was about clothes, then, the topic of debate will be: UNIFORM VS NONUNIFORM. 

The idea that I have had is: make a connection between two different schools (private and state school). Then, the teachers from the schools have to assign pairs, one child from the private school will write to one child from the state school, and vice versa. They will send emails between them to discuss about the topic. All this activity will be under teacher’s supervision. 

Once they have obtained a final result, they will prepare a brief exhibition to explain to their classmates what they have talked about and how they have gotten a final conclusion. 

Here I leave you the visual metaphor that I created. In order to create this I used the digital tool called Canva. I have to say that this tool was very useful and very easy to use. As far as I concerned, it would be a good tool to use with the students to make some works, for example, they can do an activity where they have to do their own poster to present an exhibition in class from different activities that they have done.

Uniform vs nonuniform de Blanca García Martínez

Thanks to this challenge I have had the opportunity to enrich my project that, one week ago, it was an idea and now, when I made this activity, I have been able to see a bit more of what I want to do. 

I would like to say that, this year I’m learning how to use lots of digital tools that I even didn’t know that exist. In my opinion, all these tools can help us in a near future with our future career. We live in the 21st century, and it is the digital century, in some years, who knows, maybe schools only use computer to teach their students and, if we know different digital tools we will be ready to teach them. 

What do you think? 

Thank you for reading my post 😊 

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Prototype of my CLIL Educational Digital Project

Here I am again, now with my Prototype of my CLIL Educational Digital Project.

First of all, we had to complete a template with the main points of our project. I don't know if you remember that the other day I wrote a post where I was talking about the analysis of educational projects. This time it's my opportunity to start my own project.

In the template you can find a brief summary of my future project. As you can see it's very complete so I hope you can image how it will be.

It's true that this step of the process it's the most difficult because it's when you have to start creating and thinking activities, rubrics, class distribution, content and so on.

Here you have the link of my template and then, I have done a video where I have explained some characteristics of it.

LINK:

VIDEO:

Personal reflection 

Doing videos and put on the Internet is not the best thing that I like to do. I was looking for another tools to updated a video but it was so difficult for me to find it so finally I decided to use Youtube. 

Thank to this homework, we are practicing with some tool that I haven't work before as Googledocs or Youtube. 

I also have to think about the characteristics of my didactic unit before complete the template and it carried me a long time but, I have to said that it was good to think about it, it let me prepare for next projects that I will have to do. 

Thank you for reading this blog.

SEE YOU SOON :)