A prototype of my open educational project

Hello 21cenTeachers!! Today I am going to share with you all a new challenge that we have been assigned. After analysing an open educational project from EDIA-CLIL projects (Analysis of "A TV program") we have been challenged to prototype our own educational projects.

As I have already said, I will present you a prototype of my educational project in the following lines. Also, I will try to explain carefully all the steps I followed and my learning experience concerning this matter. Moreoever, it is very important to make clear that this is a first approach to the project and it can be modified if necessary.

First, I started to think about what topic my educational project would adress. After thinking about some posibilities I have in mind I decided to center the project on the next topic: healthy lifestyle. This CLIL project could help students acquire healthy eating habits and healthy routines in their lifes that will lead to a better life standards.

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"Live a healthy life!" is the title of this project. After deciding on this topic and its title, I started to shape the whole project using a template that we were given for this purpose. Below you can see the template which is complete and shows the main features of this educational project.

Prototype of a CLIL project: "Live a healthy life" 

As you can see this project would be carried out within the subjects of Natural Science and Physical Education but it is connected to other subjects such as Arts and Graphs (cross-curricular link). It has been dessigned with the aims of:  promoting collaborative work, fostering creativity, acquiring english, learning about healthy routines and improving digital skills. Throughout this project, I would try to provide students with the necessary tools and full of examples to ensure they succeed. According with what I have in my mind, all these activities would be related to the final task: creating a class magazine (online). Additionally, concerning the teacher´s role, he/she will act as a guide and will follow a student-centered approach by prompting them to investigate by themselves and by helping or giving them examples when necessary.

Now, I would like to share with you all a video that I have created with Powtoon.  I must say that I was going to use the application called Tellagami but while I was editing my character I realised that the free version only allows us to create thirty-second videos. However, Powtoon is a free online tool that allows its users to create animated videos that result very interesting and attractive for others. A significant advantage of this tool is that it is very easy to use and it offers labeled templates and animations that can be used dependind on the type of video we want to create. This fantastic tool has given me to opportunity to present my project in a fresh and unknown way (at least for me).

Finally, I would like to reflect a little bit on my work. For me, this has been a challenging task which has given me te opportunity of experiencing some interesting things. Regarding the educational project I have to say that I had been said to create a didactic unit before but I had never been assigned such a complete task. I have had to think carefully what I would like students to learn and then fill up the template that we were given. In addition, regarding the online tools, I had never used a video editor like Powtoon and I have to say that I have found it very useful and easy to use. Thanks to it I have been able to create an interesting presentation for my educational project. I have used also some other online tools to share my work; I uploaded my template to SlideShare and my presentation to YouTube. 

In case you have any idea that could either improve or be useful for my project, let me know by dropping a comment here or contacting me on social networking websites.

See you soon 21cenTeachers!