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.

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.