WEBINAR: MOBILE LEARNING AND DIGITAL COMPETENCE FOR EDUCATION

Hello everybody,

Today, I'm going to talk about my last ICT lesson. It was a different lesson because we didn't go to the university as always, we did a Webinar instead! 

And what is that? "A webinar is a live web-based video conference that uses the internet to connect the individual hosting the webinar to an audience, the viewers and listeners of the webinar from all over the world."
In this case, the webinar was called: "Mobile Learning and Digital Competence for Education" ands carry out by our teacher:  María Jesús García San Martín ( Twitter: @mjgsm). 

So we had to register in the conference with our personal information, and minutes after we get an email with the link to get in the webmaster. It was quite easy follow the steps and at 18:00 pm the conference started and we could watch María Jesús talking about many interesting things.

In this webinar she was explaining the different online training courses for teacher that you can find in AprendeINTEF where you can improve your digital competence.

The Intef courses can be divided into:

Noonintef: This courses take 3-4 hours 

Moocintef: Takes 3 or 4 weeks.

Spoocintef: Let the students learn when they can.

And probably, the different one Edupills. It is a micro-learning app for teachers, aimed at enabling teachers to acquire or develop digital skills in a simple and fast way. So you can learn anywhere using your tablet or mobile phone. All of we have a phone, so this one became very interesting.

At the end, María Jesús talked about the Portfolio for the Digital Competence of Teachers. We had already heard about the portfolio, so this was not new for us.

The Portfolio for the Digital Competence of Teachers is a digital service for certifying your competence. There you upload your digital competence evidences such us your blog, digital projects, badges...and you have to relate it with a level from the common framework. Like in the language competences, they are: A1,A2,B1,B2,C1,C2. So they have used the same references. 

The portfolio help you to know your digital competence level and also to certificate it.

We live in the technologies world, so I consider extremely important to have a certification of your digital level.

To conclude, in my opinion the webinar was quite interesting, not only because it was another way to have a lesson, also because I discover new interesting things about how to develop and improve my digital competence. I think that like we do with the languages, it is important to have a certification of your digital competence as well as to be updated and be aware on your own learning. In the time that we live now, and we as teacher, should keep training and knowing about the new resources that the technologies give us. So making this courses and using the portfolio are great opportunities to keep developing our competence.

TWIMA

Hey! How are you today?

I feel really excited because in this post I'm going to share with you a important moment of my life.

But before to watch the video I'm going to talk a little bit about "#twima 8".

With the project "The world is my audience" and the hashtag  #twima8 you can see interesting stories about others. Through FLIPGRID I recorded the video that you are gonna watch. FLIPGRID is a website, very intuitive where you can record and share your videos.

Telling a personal story about you, or a event from your past, as well as listening to others' stories, make us be closer, and connecting with other people even if you have never seen them in person or have a friendship with them. It makes us more human.

I enjoy doing this as much as watching the videos of my classmates. Although I usually get quite embarrassed of anyone can know and see aspects of my life, the truth is that I find it very interesting to share your experiences with others. We all like to hear other's stories, so why not do the same?

I like being part of this project with my classmates. It is a good idea to be connected around the world. I think it is something very motivating and it could be a great experience also for our students in the future.

Twitter is a interesting app to see and be updated in this kind os experiences. So here e left my tweet so others can watch my story and know about the project   #twima8

I hope to watch your stories soon ;)

VIDEOCLIP

Hello everyone!

Were you excited about my last post? The Storyboard entry.

Here I bring you our amazing video clip, are you ready?

But before to watch the video, I'm going to tell how we created it, where and which program do we use to edit it.

As I told you, the first step was make the groups. I was so excited to work with my team and carry out this project that we called "Girl power". The components of the group are:

• Silvia @silviagaorpe (BLOG: Renovatetheeducationmission) as Malala and Marie Curie
• Patricia: @patriciaportg (BLOG: Teachingenglishisfunfun)  as Naomi Parker an Coco Channel 
• Lucía @LUCIARTF5 (BLOG:Keepcalmandteachict) as Cleopatra and  Frida Kahlo
• Laura @lauxo0 (BLOG:Teachingandlearningwithlaura) as Teresa del Calcuta and Gracie Hopper
• me @lauuracarballo7 as Marilyn Monroe and Joan of Arc

We had all the dialogues, the scenes and the dress up ready so last week we didn't go to the university. Instead we went to the Ministry of Education. There we could find the "Future Classroom Lab" which is a classroom with a Chroma where we could record our scenes.

All the groups had to record their project and we were the last group, that was the worst part because it was late and we were stressed if we didn't have enough time to record everything.

The main idea of our project is to see the importance of the women around the history. To make it more interesting we decided to make conversations between the women, and we group them according to the topic. Cleopatra with Joan of arc, Marie Curie and Gracie Hopper, Frida Kahlo with Marilyn and Coco Channel, etc.

With this video, the students could work with different subject such as: history, arts, Science and Values. In this time we consider very important to educate in values, and through this video students can work with equality between men and women.

Once that the video was recorded we started to edit it. This part was a bit difficult and to help us we needed a Youtube Tutorial.
To make our video, we used the program VideoPad. This is a program that need to be download in your computer and then you can add pictures in the Chroma, letter, audios, cut scenes... It took us some hour and it was hard but after that we were happy with the result.

In general this was a great experience. We work in a team and we share all the ideas, we have to discuss different points of view but we get on well. Also, I have learned a lot about video edition, and I will use it in my future.
From an educational point of view, I think this is a great resource to use in the classroom. Firstly because it is fun and you can work in groups, which is very important because students have to discuss, share ideas, listen others points of view... And secondly because it is a different way of the traditional books. The students can watch the videos and through them, work with different subjects and develop a lots of contents. Last but not least they can create their own project. When you have to participate actively in something, find information, develop the topic...learning is much more productive. And we can not forget the digital skills that they are working on.

The objectives of this video are:

• To know the importance of women through history.
• To know some important women in history such us: Cleopatra, Marie Curie, Frida Kahlo, Naomi Parker, Joan of Arc, Grace Hopper, Marilyn Monroe, Teresa de Calcuta, Coco Channel and Malala Yousafzai.
• To know what this women accomplish and why this accomplishments were important.
• To understand that women and men are equals.
• To get to know the life of this women.

So once that everything is explained, now...are you ready to watch the video?

3,2,1....

Hope you like it.

STORYBOARD

Hello!
In this post I'm going to start to share with you probably the funniest project that we have done during this weeks in the ICT world. But before to watch the project (this have to wait until the next post), I have to tell you the things that we made before: the storyboard.

Firstly we had to make work groups, and that was the good part. Work with your classmates is really interesting, you can share points of view and learn from others at the time that you are working with friends, and if the reason is to create something creative, useful and funny, what else do we want?

The aim is to create a video explaining something to our students, but befor,we had to create a storyboard.

Storyboards are the blueprints of a digital story which consists of drawings and notes in frames. Each frame represents a scene in the video story. Some storyboards are basic, only consisting of empty frames. Other storyboards require more details such as having learners outline the music, characters, dialogue, sounds, narration, transitions, script, lighting, special effects and scenery.
And that is what we did with ours.

So once that the groups had been done, we plan our topic and we decided to make it about importants women in the history.

If you want to know all the details and information about our storyboard, check it out at the following Doc:




If you can not see well de Doc you can also click here

Also, we share in Twitter some pictures of when we were planning the project with the hashtag #ictclil_urjc

In this picture we just have decided the topic

As I told you, you will have to wait until my next post to watch the result.

See you soon.

Laura.

WE ARE SINGERS!!

Hello everyone!
I´m here again with a new interesting resource to use in your classroom: podcasts.
Probably, for you it is the first time that you heard this word, like me. So I will try to explain in a very easy way what I'm talking about.

Firstly, What is podcast? Podcast is an activity that students can do in the classroom, which improves various skills and competences such as: digital competence, linguistic, teamwork, cultural, etc.

Why use podcast in our lessons?  Through podcast you can work with any topic and any subject in a different an entertaining way.

Who can use podcast? Everyone. Not only the teacher can use it, also de students, individually, in pairs or groups. They will make their own learning while they are developing various skills.

What podcasts can we create? We can use this resource to create a school radio or a place where students can upload and share their information and interests.

Now that you know a little bit more about podcasts, it is the time to tell you my project and how I created it.

To share and create your podcast you will need to create an account in a online platform. To do this I have used SoundCloud. It is very easy to use. There you can find different playlists depending on what you want to listen, they are categorised. Also you can upload different images to personalise you profile.
Once that you have your account, you will need to start creating your own material. To do this, I have use a programme that I download for free called Audacity. It is a intuitive program to record your audio. You need to press start and record what you want to say, pause, and so on.

Time to explain you my project! It is about music. I love music, I listen to music at every time and I think students love it. I also think that music is a good resource to use in the classroom, to improve the language,  to create a fun or relaxed atmosphere and also music help students to feel more confidents, to understand better the world around them, to develop their emotions... That's why I think it is very important and normally in our schools music doesn't have a relevant place.
To explain the project, I have created a document in Google Docs.
Below you can see my project:




This is my channel:



This is my welcome:



And here you can find some songs to reproduce in classroom when the students are working:





Thanks for reading.
See you soon.