Final reflection

After working hard during several months with the ICT it is time to say good bye. We have learnt a lot about online tools, disseminating, content curation, augmented reality and so on.

In order to recap all the learning process and highlight all the relevant aspects that took place during the subject I created a presentation with Present.me, Present.me is an online tool that allows you to upload any presentation and add audio or video at the same time. It is quite easy to follow, as you can record your audio / video in time and publish it on any social networks.

At the beginning of this activity I decide to carry it out with Genially as the presentation and recording my own screen while I explain the details with ScreenCast o matic. I had some logistic problems with Genially and I eventually used Present.me instead. Anyway, I learnty how to use Creencast o matic and it was good experience.

 Here you can see the presentation:



As I said in the presentation some of the things I really enjoyed were the video introduction, the Chocotalk and the augmented reality topic which completely caught  my attention.

I hope to keep on working and learning about ICT and I will try to post all my progress and discoveries.

See you soon!! 

Evaluating CLIL e-projects

Hello everybody! In class we did an activity where we had to evaluate a project created by another person.

First off, the project I decided to evaluate is in this link: http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=42675

This project was created by a webprofile named mthornton and I found out that this person has a lot of other project an educational resources thta might be useful for us. Therefore, here you have the link to his personal profile:  http://www.livebinders.com/shelf/search_author?terms=mthornton

The project I evaluated and the rest of projects that this person had gathered before belong to the same tool: LiveBinders
 This is the link of the tool if you want to have a look and share more educational resources with other teachers and members of the community:  http://www.livebinders.com/welcome/home

This tool is fantastic to organize your ideas and put them together in order to create a nice product. It is an online public tool so all the resources are available for the rest of people and the exchange of information is constant.

 Regarding my evaluation I decided to use Genially because this tool catched my attention and I wanted to know how to work with it. My first impressions were good as I checked all the possible templates, pictures, effects and animations that the programme offers us.

 Despite all these nice aspects I realized that something that simple as the letter size could not be changed while editing the slides and that is something to improve for the genially staff.
Here is the link to my evaluation:  http://www.genial.ly/Preview/Index/56e6e9601561e809bce37b85?idSlide=56e6e9601561e809bce37b86

Anyway, this activity has helped me understand how rubricks work and how to put them into practice. Evaluatiuon is a essential part of education and we as teachers need to master it from the very beginning.
Only by this way we will get a efficient and effective teaching.

CONTENT CURATION

Content curation is the process of filtering, selecting and editing information so that it is valuable and useful for and specific purpose. We can use it for learning about a subject topic or for providing students with a range of different locations where to get information from.

I chose Symbaloo to create my personal webmix where I gathered interesting websites and tools regarding CLIL approach or methodology. Symbaloo is quite easy to follow and they give you several ways to edit and present your webmix in an attractive way.

Here is the link to my Symbaloo webmix: https://edu.symbaloo.com/mix/interactiveresources4

OPEN CLIL: BANK OF COMMON KNOWLEDGE

Here you can see six of the pins that I added to the bank of common knowledge called Open CLIL in Pinterest. In this board all the students of this Master in Bilingual Education gather interesting information and useful resources for CLIL. This is the Open CLIL board link: https://es.pinterest.com/mjgsm/open-clil/

Here are the six pins URLs:

Effective group work: This is a nice blog where a ICT committed teacher explains how to carry out group work activities successfully.
https://es.pinterest.com/pin/269653096417220515/

Phonics: Fun video that makes a difficult issue simple and easy to understand. How two-consecutive-vowel words are pronounced? Here you can see it.
https://es.pinterest.com/pin/269653096417220260/

Job virtual games: Good website where children can get closer to the proffesions they are interest in. They can check if they really like that job or not. Perhaps they could find their vocational job that soon!
https://es.pinterest.com/pin/269653096417219515/

Edpuzzle: Fantastic tool that let teachers edit and modify videos so that they can be followed easily. Moreover, teachers might add questions during the video and check whether the students have understood the content or not.
https://es.pinterest.com/pin/269653096417219516/

Blended learning: Javier Touron brings us a neat outline about what blended learning is. Something to take into account by teachers.
https://es.pinterest.com/pin/269653096417219517/

Seterra online: A wonderful website where students can play different game styles in order to challenge their knowledge about geography.
https://es.pinterest.com/pin/269653096417219542/

LEARNING BY TWITTERING

Twitter is a well-known tool that thousands of millions of people use everyday. Regarding education Twitter is wonderful because so many teachers, students, and any memeber of the community can share what they know and what they do at once.
Anybody can show new ideas, techniques, resources, tools, perspectives and so on that could be helpful for another teacher/ student really far awway.

From my own experience I must say that Twitter is a good tool to keep up to date in terms of education. The more you share with the rest the more you receive.

Here is my Twitter handle for those who want to follow me and know about the latest innovative resources in education.

@GLHmaster in https://twitter.com/GLHmaste

Here you can have a look at one of my tweets. In this case I am talking about CLIL, a fantastic educational approach and methodology that bilingual schools follow nowadays.

https://twitter.com/GLHmaster/status/701002557766897664
 

MY PLE AND PLN

The PLE (Personal Learning Environment) and PLN (Personal Learning Network) is fantastic way to organize clearly what you know about any topic, which source you used (PLE) and where you shared what you know with other people (PLN). It is a metacongnitive activity that can lead you to knowledge development on the specific area you are working on.

When I was in the Master classclass I had enough time to see all the the different suggested mindmap tools. I found some of them which were fantastic like Popplet or Creative Multimedia Outlines. However, at the end, I decided to use Coggle because it is a decent tool that give us the opportunity to create an attractive and serious diagram. Moreover, Coggle provide us with different ways to share our artifact like using the link or dowloading the diagram in both PDF or PNG format. And what is more, the diagram can be developed by more than one person at the same time, so it is perfect for group work because people can interact each other with their colleagues while they all see a live diagram.
Regarding my PLE and PLN I have to say that I took  also into account the Bachelor´s Degree last year and Master´s one.  Fortunately I could learn a lot about CLIL before starting the Master, so I have been able to increase my knowledge about the topic focusing on some terms which were not as important before.
Furthermore, apart from classes, last year I had the chance to develope a deeper knowledege about CLIL as I carried out the TFG about this topic precisely. Then, it played a big role in my PLE and PLN.
I did not want to forget about the scholar intership periods I had during the degree. They were really important for me beacuse I was in three different bilingual primary schools and I could put into practice what I had learnt about CLIL beforehand.
In logistic terms, I must say that the decision of not adding picture into the diagram was personal although you might disagree. However, I think that there is to much information and that adding images will make the diagram be over the top and hard to follow.