Welcome to my blog! Here I will post what I learn in my new subject regarding ICT´s and CLIL. I will share different tools and personal artifacts, which can be used in different contexts in the classroom. I hope you enjoy it! Do not hesitate to ask me any question. Thank you in advance.
Hi everyone! I have evaluated an eProject
called Enjoy Learning: Art and Music, which was made up by students of
this Master some years before. At first view, I liked a lot the project,
but it´s a fact that some things could be improved in order to get a
more complete eProject and catch children attention. I
have made a presentation including these things I consider positive and
the others that I think they could improve. In order to build this
presentation, I have used Genially: I have to admit that I prefered to
use another webtool at the beginning, but the teacher encouraged me try
do do it wit that one. It was a little bit dificult first, but then It
was really fun because Genially has lots of resources that you can use. I
have called "things that could be improved" due to I believe that it´s a
subjective work, because everyone has a different opinion about the
same thing.
It´s
important to say that evaluating other projects is very useful, because
you can say what do you like and whant don´t you like, and it helps you
to decide the things you will include in your own eProject and the
things you don´t.
How are you? I´m very happy because I have
started a new challenge which enthusiasms me! Our teacher María Jesús asked us to make a
prototype of our own CLIL eProject and I would like to share with you my
experience.
The first thing María Jesús told us was “It´s
just a prototype. You didn´t put it into practice, so you might elaborate it
very short. You´re looking for being realistic”.
Well… The first task was to define the
topic of my eProject. Due to the fact that I was doing my school internship at
the same time we did it, I thought that I could take advantage of it. I decided
to choose the Social Science topic which I was teaching to my pupils in CEIP CarmenLaforet: The Solar System. I consider this topic very interesting for children
and very abstract at the same time, because it is something that they cannot
touch or see through a screen.
Once I have chosen the topic, I started to
think what program I will use in order to create the video-presentation. My
final choice was Buncee since I have used in the past others like Prezi,
Genially and Powtoon and I would like to know another one.
Buncee is very easy to use. You only have
to create an account (if you didn´t have one yet) and click on create new!
Then, you will see have to enter your Buncee Tittle and begin by adding your
first item and choosing the background of your slide (you also can choose if
you want the same background in all the slides or one different for each one). The program gives you some backgrounds but you can also look for others.
In the program, an item can be some text, an image, an animation, a Youtube
video, a web page, a sticker, a QR Code… You have multiple options. Finally you
click on download or share and you have your slideshow wherever you want! It´s
fantastic!
From my experience by using Buncee, I have
to highlight some advantages and disadvantages:
· The images are really fantastic! You
can adapt their size and move them wherever you want!
·The colour and
type of letter can be changed as you want and It´s pretty easy to use!
·I also like
that you have the option to add audio support, which means a voice which reads
all that you have written on the slides.
·Another thing
I liked a lot is that the program save your job automatically so you don´t have
to be worried about loosing it.
·Furthermore,
you can download the slideshow and share it with the Social Network that you
want.
·A disadvantage
I found it is that I couldn´t add my voice to the slideshow using this program,
so I had to use another one.
·Finally, I
couldn´t download the slideshow as a video, so I had to use also another
program to do it.
On the other hand, I have included the web
tools Jigsaw, Powtoon, Pixton and Pinterest in the prototype of my eProject,
since I know them and I think all of them are easy to use for children from
that age (6-7 years) [You will see what to do with this web tools in te prototipe of my eProject]. I also claimed that the artefacts that they can create
with these web tools are very attractive and they motivate them to learn more
and more about the topic and ICTs.
Once I had the slideshow finished, I used
aTube Catcher 2014 to record my screen and become my Buncee work into a video. I also
added my voice explaining the eProject and a background music (but I had some
problems with it and currently, it sounds more as a noise). So that, I include
the video here, because I think it can help you to get into character!
Furthermore, after recording the slideshow
with my voice and the (failed) background music, I wasn´t able to cut the video
using aTube Catcher 2014. My boyfriend recommended me using Movie Maker 2012, so I was
brave and I encouraged myself to prove other different tool (and there were
three). But… what a nice surprise! Movie Maker 2012 was free and really, really easy
to use, I could choose the language and I could cut the video spending only
five minutes of my life (that is important, since I don´t have so much time to
waste now). I dragged my video made up with aTube Catcher 2014 to the Movie Maker 2012
window and I moved the cursor where I want my video to finish. Just a tip: due
to the fact that I wanted to share my video to Youtube, I had to save it in my
computer as a film (not as a project as I did at the very beginning).
And that´s all! I had the prototype of my
eProject finished! Do you want to see it?
Ouch… Before it slips my mind! In order to
give you more information about the eProject, I did also a writing,
where you can have access to more specific aspects as the objectives, the
content, the evaluation...
Hello everyone! Today I´m glad to tell you that I have another CLIL project in Pinterest, the webtool I have explain you in the post before. I have created my first board! Yes, after three years using Pinterest (not as well as I might to do it) I have built my own board. It´s called CLIL Field because it´s destinated to organize and share all the interesting things that I could found about this topic. Initially, my work was to add 6 different pins, but I have added others after I have completed the Master´s homework because I consider a very useful way to order and clarify my mind. All my classmates have created their own CLIL board too, and I recommend you to visit them as well as mine. See you soon, I wish in Pinterest too!
Good afternoon everyone! I´m here again to talk you about Pinterest. It´s a social website which allows you to look for, upload and share information regarding all the topics you can imagine. You can find there images, websites or even videos. First of all, you can search lots of things using that website, in different Boards or Pins. You can reduce your search clicking or writing specific words in order to make the search easier. People upload a lot of interesting information, adding links about other websites and information from others regarding the same topic. Secondly, you can apload also information in form of videos, images or websites which you consider important to share with others. Furthermore, the most important characteristic of Pinterest (of course, for me) is that you have the opportunity to make your own Board and add all the pins you have found or made to it; you are allow to give them the name that you want and make your Board public or private. To conclude, from my way of thinking, Pinterest is a nice webtool to organize our information and have a clearer idea about we want and what we know. This week, our TIC´s teacher encourage us to collaborate in a Open CLIL Bank of Common Knowledge, called Open CLIL, adding to this board she had created 6 different websites, videos or tools we consider could be interesting to share with our classmates. I believe this is a great idea, because we can share a lot of things there and it will made our work with CLIL easier. In fact, some of us have created other boards shared between us. I hope you to enjoy this Pinterest boards and to enjoy also Pinterest in general, I recommend you to use it as your resources search engine. See you!
