Record your videoclip

Hello everyone!

Today I am going to talk about using videos projects in the class. Creating and using videos in class in more fun, creative and entertaining. If you give the content in a different and creative way the students will learn the concepts easier and better. Now, with the Internet, we have a lot of sources to watch different videos, but the most common is YouTube which has a huge variety of videos. 

Videos are a very good tool to explain concepts that are difficult and abstract to understand. Videos are a good support to have the concepts clear. If the students have to create their own videos they will develop different skills such as ICT skills, also they will have to learn how to search for good information, they will have to learn to cooperate with other students, and the learning to learn competence. 

Eva María Roco, Marta Jinénez and I create a video project teaching about the "Seven Wonders of the World". The three of us we go through the different monuments and we talk about some curious information about them. We teach our students like I said before, the "Seven Wonders of the World" and to do this we used a chroma and we added images for each monument as a background. The images we took them from "Pixabay" which are free and the effects we did it with "ZapSplat". We recorded the video first with the mobile phone and then we edited with VSDC Video Editor. 

I enjoyed doing the video project with my friends it was fun and it was an activity that I didn't do before and I think I will use in my future as a teacher with my students. 

I hope you like it and see you in my next post. 

Reflection

Hello everyone!

Here is my next post is a Genially presentation explaining all the activities we had done in the ICT course this semester. 

In the beginning, I wrote the different contents that I am going to go through the Genially presentation. First, we create our learning journal in the blog you can see all the entries that we have done during the course. Follow by creating our own Avatar with the Bitmoji app. 

For the Image Attribution, I have learned that I can’t still photos from other people that if you do it you need to name the author and also from now on I would take the photos from Pixabay that are free I didn’t know this before and it has been a discovery for me. 

In the activity of the Content Curation, I create a board on Pinterest with different pictures about "Wild Animals". In Pinterest, you can take free images and save them on your board. 

The Tiny Story activity for me was difficult. I had to think a short tweet that at the same time had to be a short story and with an end. It took me a couple of hours but I like the activity and read my classmate's tweets. 

The Educational Slideshows I did it about the classification and characteristics of the "Vertebrates and Invertebrates Animals" from my point of view I should have done it in a more dynamic way. 

“Sharing stories through comics” is a very good idea I like creating the comic I think is another way to learn and is a very good way to introduce a new topic in your classroom. Comics are an effective way to introduce your learners to digital storytelling. 

I think we have to teach our students how to create good "Mindmaps" from the very beginning so they can learn easier the concepts. Mindmaps are a very effective method to extract and memorize information. 

The activity of “Infographic” it was very useful because it is very visual, you only have to write the important information that the students must learn. I would like to do some infographics in class when I am a teacher at a school.  

“The video recorder” and the “Podcast,” I think they were great and fun I like them. The “Video recorder” and the “Podcast” are activities very creative that you can do with your students and they will love it because they are learning in a different way. 

The “Storyboard” is a great activity to do in groups in your classroom about a specific topic so you can see the creativity and the previous knowledge of your students about a specific topic. 

The flipgrib platform from my point of view, this tool is very useful and it is a different way to meet your students better. Teachers let the students express themselves freely on a topic that is proposed to them, and each of the students can contribute something and thus be able to learn from each other.

At the end of the presentation, I recorded my voice talking about the different activities and tools that we used in ICT class. 

I like this course a lot I learned different tools that I didn't know before and they are going to be very useful in my teaching. I want to say thank you to Francisco to be our teacher this semester and teach us all these tools it was great. 

Here you have a video that I create with Genially app talking about all these tools and all the activities and videos that I had to create. 

I hope you like it and see you in my next post!

Flipgrid

Hello everyone!

Today I am going to talk about a new tool called flipgrid is a leading video discussion platform for millions of PreK to Ph.D. educators, students, and families. The teacher creates a new topic on the platform and every student has a voice to give their opinion about that specific topic.

Students can record short and authentic videos and can reply to each other's videos. With this app, we can let our student's creativity flourish with the powerful, easy-to-use recording tools. Students can capture widescreen videos, pause while recording, add more after reviewing, a trim to perfect. They can record a video from 15 seconds to 5 minutes, they can give a short presentation.

In my video, I talk about my first experience working in a school as a Primary English teacher. I have a good experience doing the video however, I had to repeat the shot several times until it came out as I liked it.

I like this tool and I have a great experience with it. I think is a useful instrument to use in your classroom where your students can learn in a different and creative way. Teachers let the students express themselves freely on a topic that is proposed to them, and each of the students can contribute something and thus be able to learn from each other.

Like I said before, it was a great experience and it was easy to do it because you were talking about a personal topic that you decided, you could express your ideas and your thoughts about that specific topic.

I hope you like it and see you in my next post.

Eva.

Storyboard

Hello everyone!

In this post, I am going to talk about the storyboard, the goals, and the future purpose of this activity.

My group did a storyboard they are going to represent each scene and record it. 

Our storyboard is called "Seven Wonders of the World" the film is about three friends Eva María, Eva, and, Marta. Eva María and Marta are bored in the kitchen, they don't know what to do. Eva comes to the kitchen with a brilliant idea. She has three magic balls that allow them to go wherever they want. Taking advantage of them, they will travel and visit the Seven Wonders of the World: The Great World of China, Petra, Christ of Redeemer, Machu Picchu, Chichen Itza, Colosseum, and Taj Mahal. Each one is going to visit two of them and will explain to them a little bit of each monument. In addition, they will tell us the continent where it is located and the city. Let's discover each of the seven wonders of the world. 

Each girl will take two magic balls and will visit different monuments and, in the end, they will meet again in the last destination. 

The teacher has used a template to create the storyboarding. They used the emojis from Bitmoji, images from Pixabay, and Word to make the final images for each scene. 

The aims of this activity are:

- To learn the continents. 

- To learn about the Seven Wonders of the World. 

- To recognize the country where the monuments come from. 

- To develop digital competencies.

- To improve listening skills. 

- To develop a critical and open attitude towards other cultures different from ours. 

Here I let the storyboard that we have created. In the storyboard, you can see the title of our film and each scene and a brief description of each scene. Also, in each scene are different dialogues and different backgrounds of each monument of the Wonders World.    

We will watch the video in the classroom and then we will show them the different continents and countries on the map. After they will learn about each monument, we will play an interactive game in which they will have to stand up and point to the country, continent, or the monument. Depending on what the teacher asks them to do and they will have to tell their classmates the other things (name of the monument, country or continent). For example, the teacher says: "point to the Colosseum" and the student will have to point on the map where the Colosseum is, and tell the rest of the class the continent and the country where the monument is. 

Kralizec (2011). Planisferio con la ubicación de las 7 nuevas maravillas del mundo. Versión adaptada de la original obtenida en Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved from https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/New_7_Wonders_Winners.png

With this project, students will be divided into seven groups. Each group will be one Wonder of the World. They will have to search for information about the monument and present it to the rest of the class. 

I hope you like it and see you in my next post. 

Eva.