The final project... is not and end.

Every good story has a great finish. Teachppy and I started this subject and this blog in February, and we have tried to make this learning journal as well as possible. We have put all our effort and love in each task. We have invested much time to get educational tools which can assist and encourage our students. We are very proud with everything we have learned about Information and Communication Technology.

Some of the tools that we have learned to develop this year, now I am using in my classes. For example, the daily routine activity created using Genially; Pinterest to organize my digital resources and Easelly to create infography. Moreover, I am considering developing other projects such as eTwinning, training through AprendeIntef and to acquire and improve the Portfolio of teacher´s digital competence. Also I discover other digital resources with my classmates, as ClassDojo or Edmodo. I am considering all the tools for my future as a teacher. 

During this subject, my favorite activity was the video project, it was really hard and we have to spend a lot of time, but it was fun and very productive. Thanks to this task I could work as a team, discover the Future classroom lab of the Ministry of Education, using a chroma and create a video project. 

Now, I want to introduce you the final artifact. I tried to summarize all the digital projects that I made during five months. My first idea was to use iMovie, but then I thank that it was a chance to discover another app, and I used Powtoon. It was a great discovery, because the offer you a lot of options: backgrounds, shapes, scenes, texts, characters, props and media. It is a very intuitive webpage, but you have to spend lot of time to do a good job! Finally, I put the video in my Youtube channel, because is better to watching. This is my final video, I hope you enjoy it!

I really enjoyed doing this final project, because I´ve remembered all the tasks and I have seen that the time and effort invested gives good rewards: educative resources, be part of teacher´s network and meet enjoyable classmates. I am very grateful to my ICT teacher and all the chances and challenges to learn about how to use ICT at school. 

Now, fortunately, I feel that I am closer to being a good 21st Century teacher. 

This is not an end, this is a to be continue…. 

Don´t worry... teach happy.

Enjoying with the school radio!

Hello friends!

Teachppy and I were thinking about the first day at school, and how we can work in two ways; introduce ourselves and introduce the bilingual subjects. 

As you know, Teachppy is very enjoyable, and he recommended me to create an audio. Through the recording we can develop a lot of skills as digital competence, linguistic communication competence, teamwork competence, cultural and artistic compentence and the competence to learn to learn. 

I will want to tell you the steps that we follow to create a lesson plan, an audio channel, a playlist and, finally, our welcome recording. 

The firts step was to create an audio lesson plan. I created a document in Google Docs, it is one of the tools that Google Drive offers us. As I did it, you can create documents, presentations, questionnaires and spreadsheets. One of the most benefit is that you can work online and save the document in the cloud.

In the audio lesson plan I pick up the aims, learning outcomes, EU key competences, classroom managment, cross curricular link, resources and assessment. At the same time, I was making the draft about the things that I will say in my welcome recording. Moreover, I include the scaffolding to help the students to create their own draft and their own recording. 

To create the online postcasting we can advice you about SoundCloud. This website is very intuitive and easy to use thanks to the good presentation and indications that they look like. As usually, you have to sign in. You can use your personal email or social media account. 

Then, you will find a welcome message and a guide abot how to use. You have to spend only a few minutes to use it effectively. 

Using SoundCloud, the first thing that I did it was to create my own playlist. To do it, you have to look for your favorite songs. You have to select the fist one to create the new playlist. Then, with the next ones, you will find the option to add to the playlist. 

I enjoyed a lot, a lot! Creating my playlist about Bruce Springsteen. I discovered song with singers as Bon Jovi or performances and live shows that I never listen before! 

I want to share this playlist because I want that my students do their favourite music playlist after than their own recording. 

Music is very important in our lifes and our schools, so we want to promote it and stimulate our pupils. 

Finally... our welcome audio! To motivate the students, Teachppy and I imagine a local school radio. In our message we wanted to integrate the areas of Science, literacy and music. We want that the students have fun using English. We hope that they will enjoy listening the welcome audio and they will improve their self esteem speaking English, creating their own audio project.




Don´t worry... create an audio!
Don´t worry... teach happy!

First day at school... how do the students feel?

Hello friends!

Teachppy and I were talking about the next course... well, really we started to speak about summer holidays 😊... but the next year we will be first grade teachers! It is a great challenge, but the beginning is always complicated.

How can we help those pupils? Maybe with something creative... curious... striking... motivating... Teachppy always has the answer: a digital comic!

Once we decided to create a digital comic, first we made a reflection about the topic. The first day at school is an excited day. Learners, families and teachers are nervious, thinking about the things that they will find the new schoolar year. So, what better than create a comic about the first day´s emotions?

Then, we created a draft with our pencil and rubber. We made the main characteristics of the characters, the dialogs and the scenes.

Finally, we were ready to create the digital comic. We can recommend you different websites: Pixton, Creaza and StoryboardThat.

In this case, we decided to use the last of them. StoryboardThat is a very useful web to be creative! You have to create your account, it is very easy because you can do it with your personal information or with your social network account.
To create your comic they provide you a lot of options, as scenes, characters, textables, shapes, etc. Inside each one of it, you can choose from different topics. Por example, indoor, outdoor, historical or transportations scenes , or sports, jobs or medieval characters.
Also, you are freedom to include a brief description about what is happening in the story and write the words that the characters say.
So, this tool gives you many facilities for its use, but you have to spend a lot of time ifyou want your comic to be well.

It is a pleasure for us to show you our comic. It could be a great tool for teacher and families, to help students prepare for the first day at school, especially when we start the firts grade of primary education. In this comic they can detect different emotions in other children (also in the teacher), and they can check that it is very normal to feel nervious or other emotions when something is going to star. Also it develops values of multiculturalism and integration. It is a funny comic, they will enjoy!

Press here to see the comic on the webpage

We hope that you enjoy with our comic, and also we hope it will be an effective and useful tool for families and teachers.

Don´t worry... sharing stories through comics

Don´t worry... teach happy!