FINAL REFLECTIONS

Hello everybody!!!

This adventure with ICT is coming to an end. It has been a useful subject to be more competent with ICT.

At the beginning I was a little scared because I wasn´t very good with technologies. However, a part from different difficulties I could have during this term, I have to say that I have impove. In addition, I am going to continue using ICT in order to teach my future students.

As you are going to see in my final video, in each module we were expected to create different artifacts. My favourite has been the module 3 because we had to works in groups. I had the pleasure to work with Victor, Lola, Elena and Ana Martín.

Regarding the tools I have used during this adventure, I would like to highlight Powtoon because it has been my main tool to create many of the artifacts. As I have told you in other posts it has many animations, props, characters, backgrounds, shapes, graphs and also you are able to insert images, videos and sounds. The unique critique that I have is that you only have 20 seconds per slide to record.

Thank you to my teacher for showing me this world and to my classmates for forming part of this adventure.

See you soon!!! =)

OUR CHOCOTALK

Hello readers!

On Thursday the 7th of April, our master´s class performed a ChocoTalk in Youtube about "how CLIL can contribute to having happier bilingual learners"

It was the first time that I participated in a ChocoTalk and I have to congratulate my classmates because everything worked perfectly.
In this ChocoTalk each person in the group played a role. In my case I was curator, and at the end of the ChocoTalk I had to summerize what had happened before, during the Chocotalk and after. Ana had the same role than me.
Elena and Victor were the managers on twitter. They role were to dissemintate the Chocotalk through this app in order to promote it.
Lola and Inma were the speakers during the chocotalk.

As I said before, Ana and me wrote a summery of the Chocotalk with Storify. Here you are what happened! Enjoy it!

It was enjoyable but a little stressful sometimes. We want to do a great job.
If you want to watch our Chocotalk, here it is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWyv1b63yxI 

World BooK Day celebration

Hello readers,

The 23rd of April was the Word Book Day. Due to this day we have create an aura. Maybe you don´t know what it is, but don´t worry, I am going to try to explain you carefully.

Aurasma is a difficult app to describe without see how it works. It is an augmented reality system, that use the camera of your phone to identify objects that are in front, and in real time, overlay over  them any type of animation we choose to react with this object.

In my case, first I created a poster with my favourite books with piktochart and then I created a video telling how I am as a reader in powtoon. Then I upload both things in aurasma, so when I put my aurasma app over my poster in the computer, my video appear automatically.

It is a dinamic and interactive way to tell things about me as a reader. We share our work in Pinterest in Wall of books.

If you want to see my aura follow me in aurasma: nataliamench

How to create a rubic!

Hello people!!

Today I am going to write about how to create a rubric.

From my point of view this challenge has been very useful for us as a teacher. From my experience as student, it has been the first time that I elaborate a rubric.

Before creating my rubric I consulted with some of my peers and finally I decided to use Quick Rubric. As its name says it is a quick and easy tool to elaborate a rubric. Once you logging in the tool you can use it. It offers you as many columns or rows you need. When you shave your work it inmediatly send the link to your e-mail.

To elaborate a rubric, first you must think about what you want to evaluate. The aspects you want to assess have to be written on the left, in the first column. Then you should think about which will be the point you will give depends of how the task has been made. In my case has been excellent 3 points, good 2 points, fair 1 point and poor 0 points. Finally you complete the table telling the student what is going to be your criterion in order to give feedback.

Quic Rubric is an useful tool to create our rubrics and give feedback to our students in order to improve their tasks.

Here it is the rubric that I have made for the e-project: https://www.quickrubric.com/r#/qr/nataliamench/e-project

Thank you readers :)

TUTORIAL

Hello people!

For this mission we were asked to record a tutorial in order to teach our children how to use an online tool. In this case, we chose to teach them how to use Piktochart since it was the tool they were required to use in their final challenge.

To create our tutorial we have used "Screencast-O-Matic" which is an online tool that allows to create videos with screen shoots with high quality of image and sound. This tool alse gives you the possibility to share your final product in YouTube or download it.

There are two versions, we used the free one, which we consider that is very complete. You can select the part of the screen you want to appear in your video and record it for 15 minutes. Moreover, you can use the webcam so your image will appear in a little slide in the corner.

From our personal point of view, we can use this tool in our classes for many purposes. For instance, we could ask our children to create a Storyjumper and then record the screen while turning the pages telling the story (they can imitate the characters´voices). In this way, they would be able to practice their speaking skills at the same time they practice their ICT skills, and all of this in a meaningful and engaging way.

In addition, to edit the video we used the e-tool IMovie. This app is intuitive and fast to work with. It allows you to introcduce any music that you like most.

We appreciate this activity, as it made us reflect on the need of creating tutorial in our classes. Even though working in groups make things easier, there are some tools that are difficult to manage. From our own experience, we have found difficulties in using some online tools. This why we consider vital to scaffold our students by doing tutorials of ict tools.

Here you are link to our turorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g3bQYyKX30&app=desktop

Thank you for your attention and enjoyed it! 

VIDEO CHALLENGE

Hello readers!

In this post I am going to tell you about my last challenge.

We have created our video challenge using imovie. As template we have used the comic we previously made with storyboard, then we have played and recorded it. Here you are the link to check it out in case you didn´t! https://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboards/elena_ictclil/the-olympic-games

Regarding the edition of our video we have used imove in an ipad. We have enjoyed this app particularly because the clear and neat production that it makes. It is very intuitive and fast to handle, allowing the use of any music you wish, adding a mixture of videos and pictures, cropping images/videos, labelling pictures, etc. The only "bad thing", if saying any, wouldbe that it did not allow us to make the opening title any bigger.
In our video we have schemed the directions and steps that our students have to follow in order to achieve one of the activities of our CLIL eporject. The students final outcome is to represent one European country candidature to the Olympic Games.

Here you can watch our videoclip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QNB7WITDtY

Providing the necessary scaffold to our students it is mandatory for us as teachers, but doing this by using digital artifacts it is a step forward into attracting their attention in what you want them to do. On top of that, even if we sometimes do not notice, children do realize the effort a teacher makes to create new and motivating materials and helping them to have a good time. Having said this, we believe we will make a good use of this technique in our future classrooms.

I hope you enjoy our artifact!

INPHOGRAPHIC

Dear readers,

For this mission we have been asked to work in teams previously allocated to. Our team is composed by Victor Rodríguez, Ana Martín, Natalia Menchón, Inma, Elena and Lola. The name of our common e-project is: "Travelling around Europe" and within it we decided to create a final activity for our students to learn about the physical and political features, as well as about some of the most distinguishing representations of some European countries. Therefore, our ain in this task is to create an infographic explaining how to carry out this final activity.

An infoedugraphic is a visual presentation of data. To carry out and design out own one, we chose Piktochart, as some of us had prevviously evaluated an e-project in which the author had used this tool and we liked how the final result looks.

Piktochart is a perfect tool to create attractive infographics, presentations or reports for our lessons. Among its features we can highlight the templates, bachgrounds, graphics and different types of letter. When you finish your design, you can also download it in different formats or share it. We cannot think of any disadvantage since we consider that it worked fantastic and allowed us to accomplish the task without any problem.

We believe we can use the Infographic for many purposes in our classrooms. For instance, we can use it to support learners with special needs, as it allows the teacher to present information in a more visual way, or to clarify those concepts thar are usually more difficult to understand. Furhemore, due to its ease of use, students can use it too. For example, they could use it to summarize their learning. In this way, apart from reviewing one subject content they would also have the possibility to practice their ICT skills.

Here you are the link to our infographic: https://magic.piktochart.com/output/12544036-untitled-infographic

We hope you like it and enjoy it!

My prototype video clip with Powtoon

Hello everybody!

Here it is my e-project:  https://www.powtoon.com/online-presentation/bvLSfgvUHXc/my-e-project/?mode=movie#/


Through my video I have tried to catch your attention and curiosity about my project. I have chosen a topic related to geography because I really love it and I wanted to do something different using ICT. The topic is Spain and children will learn the autonomous communities, provinces and culture in depth. Moreover children will use ict tools to get the aims of the unit which I think is more interesting and attractive for them
I have used Powtoon to create it because it has visual tools as animations, props and a variety of resources such as backgrounds, types of text or characters. In addition, you can play music at the same time, which keep the attention of the people. For these reasons you can create many attractive presentations.
 
Due to this task I have learnt to summerize and synthesize a lesson plan through elaborate a visual way to catch your attention.  

My project´s prototype is develop more in depth in Google docs so in case you have any doubt you can check it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FAi8FX628YIYgnzmoenN-uhgBgnfcQzRn7qWzy5z_4Q/edit
 
Thank you and I hope you enjoy it!

The e-design evaluation

Hello readers,

I had the pleasure of evaluate the Marta´s project she did last year. Here it is the link: https://sites.google.com/site/chefofvolume/author

I decided to evaluate this project because I thought it has creative contents and it is originally. As you will see in my assessment, Marta did a good job. Her porject is formed by many different resources made with ict tools, such as inphographic, videos, graphics, etc. Furthemore it is very well structured and easy to understand. She has into account children with special needs.

Doing this assessment I could take some ideas of tools that I hadn´t used yet and realize about the strengths and weaknesses of other projects in order to improve my own tasks. It is something that we must do with our students in class, giving them the opportunity to assess their peers and in this way they will have more critical view.

The tool that I have chosen to present my evaluation is Genially. I didn´t know it before but I´m going to start using it because I love it. You can do great attractive presentations with many different resources. At the beginning it was difficult but once you start it became easier. Genially is a tool that allows you to create all kind of online content (images, posters, presentations, guides, catalogos...) You can get extraordinary results using this tool.

Have a look at my presentation: http://www.genial.ly/View/Index/56e19e971561e809f06daddc

I hope you like it :)

My Pinterest blackboard

Hello everyone!

As I told you in my last post, with Pinterest you can share different resources. In the next URLs you will find my CLIL blackboard where I´ll share more interesting things about CLIL for your English classes. Have a look at it!

Thank you :)

https://es.pinterest.com/nataliamench/for-clil-teachers/

Resources for CLIL teachers!

Do you know what is Pinterest?  Here you have six CLIL useful resources in Pinterest. With this tool you are going to be able to share ideas, resources about many topics.

In my case I want to share with you CLIL resources for your english classes. I hope you find them useful.

Thank you for read my post ;)   

https://es.pinterest.com/pin/269653096417237553/

https://es.pinterest.com/pin/269653096417237542/

https://es.pinterest.com/pin/269653096417237549/

https://es.pinterest.com/pin/269653096417237527/

https://es.pinterest.com/pin/269653096417237532/

https://es.pinterest.com/pin/269653096417237525/

Creative Common License

Hello people,

This is the licence that I have chosen for my blog: http://ictclilusefullearning.blogspot.com.es/

What does my license allow  others to do with my CLIL e-materials?

My blog license allow you to share, copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format. In addition, you are allow to adapt, remis, transform and build upon the material but you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license and indicate if changes were made. You are not allow to use the material for commercial purposes.

What are good ways to motivate our students to use Creative Commons material and attribute properly?

Doing an activity where children have to use some work they did before, but when they use a peer work they should attriubute it to someone . In this way they realize that their hard work they did before, is useful and also they peers recognize what they made. 

Learning by twittering

Do you know what twitter is? I guess all of you know this app. Twitter is an app where you can share your ideas in 140 words. It´s clear and concise. At the same time you can follow people of your interest and get knowledge and ideas from them.

Here it is one of my tweets about CLIL:

CLIL is a educational approach in which children learn a foreign language through the content of any subject #ictclil_urjc

MY PLE&PLN MINDMAP

Hello people!
When I had to start doing my mindmap I was not  sure about what were the differences between PLE (Personal Learning Environment) and PLN (Personal Learning Network). After asking the teacher and some classmates I could realize what they really mean and I started looking for the tool that I could  use to create my mindmap. I have visited and tried some tools like Popplet, but finally I have decided to use Coogle because, from my point of view, is fashion and trendy. You can use this tool to work in groups and share your work through different applications or download to keep it on your computer.
Unfortunately , I did not do my degree in English,  that´s why I am doing this Master, because I wanted to learn different methodologies for teaching English. So I started to learn about CLIL this year. As you can see in my mindmap, I have used many tools along this year. Some for sharing information, others to find the information, ideas, resources, songs, classwork.
I hope you like my work! :) 

https://coggle.it/diagram/VsiUaos-o0Nj0ZDo

MY 321 INTRODUCTION WITH POWTOON

Hello everyone!

I want to tell you about the tool that I used to do my video. I used PowToon, it is an interesting tool very easy to work with. I did´t feel very confotable at the beginning, but when I started creating my introduction it was funny and interesting.

 It has a variety of themes, characters, animations, props and backgrounds very useful. You can include music to make your video more attractive. Besides PowToon allow you to upload your own photos or music, to do your presentations more personal.

I would like to use this kind of tools more often and I´ll do it because it is worth it.

Here it is my introduction: https://www.powtoon.com/online-presentation/bU9cnM56Edd/my-presentation/

Thank you for your attention! 

My introduction

Mi nombre es Natalia Menchón Rodríguez, tengo 23 años y soy de Segovia. Estoy estudiando un maestro de educación bilingüe para convertirse en un gran maestro de la escuela primaria Inglés.

En 2010 empecé a estudiar un grado en la Escuela de Enseñanza Primaria en la Universidad de Valladolid en Segovia. Elegí este grado porque desde que era joven me gustaba este proffession. El año pasado tuve una experiencia increíble la enseñanza en los Estados Unidos, yo estaba allí como pasante. Podría trabajar con los estudiantes desde tercer grado hasta el séptimo grado. Mi escuela estaba en Baltimore (Maryland) y fue una escuela de inmersión de la carta en 5 idiomas (francés, español, chino, ruso y árabe). Además, hice 3 cursos de convirtió en un maestro allí para bebés y toodlers. Podría viajar y conocer otras culturas que Es algo que realmente me gusta. Esta experiencia fue increíble y me ha hecho crecer como persona y ser más abiertos de mente.

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Twitter: @ Nataliamenchon