Little storytellers!!

Hello friends, I'm already here again!

During this new post we will work with a very useful resource such as the use of podcasts in the classroom.

The use of podcasts in language teaching can be very useful as it is an opportunity to significantly increase the amount of real oral input the student receives.

In the case of the English language in particular, with such a chaotic pronunciation system, the possibility of listening and reading the transcription at the same time produces an obvious improvement in the oral productions of the students.

For this reason we will develop a project to take it to the classroom using the podcast, then I will explain the development of this:
Next I leave the welcome audio for my students and as an example a playlist to encourage and motivate them.

--> In the first place, we must have an organization and a structure of the project that we are going to carry out. For that we can use the google drive application that allows us to create documents in the cloud and share them with our students. In this google doc. We will find a planing in which the organization of our project is visulized, so that our students will know the work script.






--> Once we have our planning, we have organized our students in groups, we have chosen the readings and everything is well prepared, we started with the podcast recordings. For this we will use several tools or applications that will allow us to record and edit our audios.
These are some applications (audacity, soundcloud, hokusai), although there are many more. And we can even use the recorders of our mobile devices and then upload them to the network.

audacity

soundcloud

hokusai

-->After this, it is time to upload our audios to the network. For this we have used sound cloud since it is a platform that allows us to make recordings in the cloud, upload audios, promote them and share them. The audio tracks that we record or upload can be labeled, categorized, shared on social networks and organized into playlists.




For this reason we have used this platform which will be our audiolibrary and we will upload all the podcasts of our students. So they will be shared in a public playlist, so that all the students of our school can listen to them.

--->WELCOME AUDIO<---

-->PLAYLIST WHERE WE WILL UPLOAD THE PODCAST OF THE TALES<--

-->PLAYLIST TO CHEER UP<--

I hope you liked it and it will help you.

see you soon!!


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CREATE AN INFOGRAPHIC

Hi guys!
In this new post I am going to show you a very funny and motivating way to show graphic information through an INFOGRAPHIC.

This type of resource is very useful because we can show the most relevant information that we want our students to learn. With the use of this, we help them to learn in a more motivating way and the information is easier to assimilate.
In this case, I have used the theme of the animal kingdom, so that the following infographic is divided into each of the different kingdoms with the most important characteristics.
For this, I used the CANVA tool, very easy to use and it allows you to use the template that you like among the thousands that this tool has. What I liked the least is that if you want to choose between all the images available you have to pay the premium fee. In general it is very useful and easy to use. I recommend it to make infographics of the different subjects and print them and use them as posters to decorate the class.

Below I leave other websites to do infographics, I hope you help.

https://www.easel.ly/
http://piktochart.com/
https://www.canva.com/
https://www.smore.com/
https://padlet.com/

I hope it hepls you!
see you soon!!

THE ANIMAL KINGDOM de Francisco Javier Gallardo

USING MINDMAP IN A PROJECT

Hello friends!!
This week I'll show you an example of how to design a mental map online. To do this, we are going to carry out a project aimed at a sixth grade class in elementary education.

This project consists of several phases, which can be seen in the different parts of the mindmap.
The hook of this project is about a conversation that the teacher has about a student who has been near the Manzanares River (Madrid) and observed that the water was very dirty. As a result of this, the teacher initiates the project with a guiding question related to the topic that is being worked in natural sciences and social sciences. The question is: Why is the water in our rivers polluted?
After this, work begins in teams and research using all available resources. This type of project is divided into three tasks with their respective activities and finally a final product.
 As a guide we will use the mindmap to explain and organize the project, in the map we will find the objectives, contents, tasks, activities, resources and the evaluation of the process.

The use of mindmaps is very useful when it comes to displaying information in an organized way, in my case I have used the MINDMEISTER tool.
It is very simple to use and I have not encountered difficulties.
On the other hand, I would have been assured that this tool would have offered me more customization options.

Then I leave the link to other websites in the pages you can make mindmaps online.

Collaborative mindmapping

- Coggle: https://coggle.it/ 

- Mindmeister: https://www.mindmeister.com/

Single mindmapping

- Mind42: https://mind42.com/mindmaps 

- SpiderScribe: https://www.spiderscribe.net/ 

- Bubbl.us: https://bubbl.us/ 

- Creately: https://creately.com/ 

I hope you liked it.
See you soon!!

WHY IS THE WATER OF OUR RIVERS CONTAMINATED? por Francisco Javier

HOW TO EXPRESS FEELINGS THROUGH COMICS

Hello everyone!
This week I'm going to teach you to work with a very fun tool which you can use with your students to work on the feelings and translate them into a story format. In addition our students can create their own stories simulating different situations. These types of activities are very motivating and they develop their imagination.

So in this post I'll show you how to create comic through different online tools.
We can find in the following links that I indicate below, different applications.

- Pixton: https://www.pixton.com/

- Creaza: https://www.creaza.com/frontpage

- StoryboardThat: http://www.storyboardthat.com/

- Comic and Meme Creator:

iOS. For iPad: http://www.appbrain.com/app/create-a-comic/com.tiltedchair.cacomic

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tiltedchair.cacomic&referrer=utm_source%3Dappbrain%26utm_medium%3Dappbrain_web%26utm_campaign%3Dappbrain_web

In this case I have used PIXTON. This free tool to create comic seems pretty good because the quality of the images and the infinity of options that gives us allows us to make really good images.

On the other hand, I found it quite complicated to learn all the options and know the different options that this tool gives us.
I can also say that being a free trial does not let you use it for more than 15 days and some options are premium.

In summary, it can be used with our students and create great stories like the one I show you next. It is an example of the PIXTON application. This story is about cultural diversity and bullying. I hope you like it.

Greetings and see you soon!!

CLICK ON THE NEXT LINK TO SEE THE COMPLETE STORY

--> --> --> https://Pixton.com/ic:595i9qdl <-- <-- <--

CREATING EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT SLIDESHOW

Hi guys!
This week I will talk about some very useful tools to create educational materials and use them in our classes.
As we already know one of the most used tools for the presentation of information is the use of slides. Most people use the POWER POINT tool, since it is the best known in the world of office automation.
Below I am going to leave you several links of different free tools that we can use for the presentation of materials in our classes.

- Genial.ly: https://www.genial.ly/

- Google Slides: https://www.google.com/slides/about/

- Prezi: https://prezi.com/

- Powtoon: https://www.powtoon.com/home/

- Biteslide: https://www.biteslide.com/

In my case, I have chosen the tool GENIAL.LY, and after using it I think it is an effective application in which we can work in different ways. I liked it a lot because it allows you to create interactive images and add all kinds of links and videos, and in my opinion I think that all of these are very motivating resources that attract the attention of our students.

Below is an example of the tool Genial.ly which I used for one of my CLIL LESSON in 2 grade of primary education

I hope you liked it and it will help you a lot!
See you soon!!

Regards

Here you have a video of the representation and implementation of the CLIL LESSON on the water cycle using Genial.ly.