Channel 4: we got it!

Hello friends!

Today it is great day for Teachppy and I. Do you remember our post about the collaborative work project called Channel 4? In that moment it was only a project, but we were working hard and… we were able to finish the project! It is a pleasure for me to show it!

My first reflection is about the collaborative work. I feel very fortunate to be part of this great team together Soraya, Lorena, Jenny and Silvana. Frequently, people remember great characters, for example Michael Jordan (I admire him) but we can´t forget that he has a great team around him: Tony Kukoc, Scotie Pippen, Dennis Rodman and Ron Harper. Probably, we had not a great star, but each of us are a star tip. We have formed a great team and we have worked very well. I hope that our project will inspire you!

To record this project, we had the privilege to go to the Ministry of Education and worked in the Future Classroom Lab. Before recorded, Francisco Prendes Veiga inspired us with a conference about eTwinning. Then, we started the recording with a chroma.

The recording was fun! All of us had prepared our speech, but we had to record the scenes several times to get the best. Then, at home, our editor had a hard work to create a singular the video with the best of around twenty videos. This edition was formed in different steps:

Video: First, she has to cut the video because some of them has gestures or sounds that we don’t want to appear. The app is QuickTime. It is an easy app to use. Apart to create the video, you can add your voice, record your screen and record yourself.

Edition: she has to select the best videos, put together them, fit it and delete some mistakes. She used the video editor program called iMovie. At the beginning, this is not an easy program, so we had to look for some tutorials with instructions to include music, headlines and the background photos.

Backgrounds: we had selected images from Pixabay, when we created the draft. iMovie allows to add our pictures together our videos.

Sounds: GarageBand has got sounds to incorporate into iMovie, both apps are synchronized. Moreover, we looked for free sounds in FreeSoundsEffects.

It was a great process and a hard work but… we love the result! We created a video as a TV new, we called Channel 4. Through this news program our kids have to work in different areas as Natural Science, Literacy, Physical Education, Social Science and Arts and Crafts. It is a pleasure for me to introduce you the video:

Our idea is to show the video to our students in the classroom. They will watch it and we are sure that they will enjoy it a lot. Then, we will work about the news: speaking about them, reinforcing the listening comprehension, making groups and preparing the teams to develop the questions that the journalist made up.

My experience in this project it was incredible. It was a hard work, we spent a lot of hours, we did well the teamwork although sometimes it was not easy, and all provide many different points of views. But all the effort invested is good if the result is productive to support the learning process and to help the students.  

Don´t worry... create you own video!
Don´t worry... teach happy!

Channel 4: collaborative work

Hello friends!

Today I want to explain you a great chance. Teachppy told me that, nowadays, the teacher job can´t be an individual work. It is very important the open doors at school and the development of projects and activities together than other coworkers, even with the involvement of all the educative community.

Thanks to my current Master degree at University, I have known great teachers and better people. We have created a group of five to create an innovational educational project. We are from different school and I believe that each of us can contribute with a lot of ideas from different points of view.  

I want to introduce you my team. I will add their professional blogs:

Lorena: http://misslorenaag.blogspot.com.es/

Soraya: http://mytwoneuronsarebilingual.blogspot.com.es/

Jenny: http://teacherjenny17.blogspot.com.es/

Silvana: https://misssmurfette.blogspot.com.es/

We wanted a great challenge… we wanted something new… we wanted a different way to teach… and we found it! A video project as a TV news!

Team work is exciting, but not always easy. We had the main idea, TV news, but it is important to create a communicative situation with all the members of the group to share ideas, opinions and a way of action. When we got it, we wanted to create a lesson plan.

In this project, the lesson plan included a drafter about the TV program. We created a serious lesson plan to involve all the educative topics to considerer into a clil lesson. Moreover we included all of the speech of the recording and the role of each of one:

- Soraya: editor / TV presenter.
- Lorena: drafter / nature journalist speaking about a natural disaster.
- Jenny: drafter / journalist in London speaking about the brexit.
- Silvana: community manager / journalist from UK speaking about Saint George.
- Dani: recorder / sport journalist speaking about new sports.

In addition, we wanted to interact with the students and start an activity for them. For that, at the end of each journalist performance we will ask the students several questions on which they have to work. To answer them they will have to create an oral presentation with digital tool. We will work as a cross curricular project through Literacy, Natural Science, Social Science and PE

We have shared the document in a Google Drive to facilitate our collaborative work.

So, once we finished the document, we are prepared to record… we can do it? I will continue telling you in another post on this blog.

Don´t worry… teaching is collaborative work.

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!