Today I want to share with you a brief post in which I will mention three aspects of our ICT subject that I have liked and one that I have found suboptimal. For me, this post is a bittersweet task. Why? On one hand, this is the last
challenge that I have to overcome in my ICT class so I feel quite happy since
the course is finishing and at the same time I can clearly see my whole learning
process and all the knowledge that I have acquired unconsciously. On the
other hand, as this is the last challenge, it will be quite strange to stop
sharing with you all my experience within our ICT class so I will try to keep writing about my
project and other educational topics.
Today I will share with you my 3x1 review of our Master´s Degree Module of ICT. As I said before this review will contain the 3 things I liked most about the module and one thing that can be improved. I create a poster with canva to overcome this challenge.
In this post I am going to share with you the second super learning mission that you are waiting for. As I said in my previous post this mission has been developed in collaboration with my peer Raúl Oviedo, a primary school teacher specialized in physical education. If you want to find out more about him go to his blogThe Science Corner or check is Twitter account @ScienceCorner1.
As we wanted to work collaboratively, we started to think about how we could mix our projects in order to design and create a challenge in which the content and language from both open educational projects can fit in in a realistic way. After a while, we came up with an interesting idea which would enable us to fulfill our ambition. This mission is going to be explained below.
MISSION 5: Advertisement of a company related to healthy lifestyle.
In this mission, students will be divided into the small groups (3-4 people) and they will be given a task to overcome. (After searching information and learning about the three main sectors of economic activity), students will have to create a company and advertise it to attract costumers. To do this, they will have to think about a product that they would sell or a service that they would offer to their customers. Moreover, all these companies will have something in common; these will have to advertise a product or service related to healthy lifestyles such as a healthy food and a fitness center. So, the final activity of this mission consists recording and editing a video in which students have to appear doing and promoting healthy habits while offering a product or service. After that, the teacher will upload all these videos to the blog of the class.
Now, I would like to share with you, the video that we have recorded in order to provide our students with an example. The different scenes of the video were recorded with the video recorder of a mobile phone and then edited with the online tool Wevideo. This video editor is a free online tool which is easy to use so students would be able to create their own videos with the aid of the teacher. After this, the video was uploaded to Youtube and you can have a look at it below.
METHODOLOGY AND TEMPORALIZATION
The methodology to follow during this mission is going to be in concordance with the methodology applied in the whole project. This means that the teacher will act as a guide in order to push the students in the right direction but, at the same time, students will work independently while collaborating with the members of their groups to overcome the challenge. In other words, students will drive their learning process by discovering and experimenting.
As far as the temporalization of this mission is concerned, the mission will last two or three sessions and it will be carried out within the subject of Natural Science. Although, it could be carried out in different subjects such as Physical Education and English.
OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES
Regarding both the objectives and competences of this mission, Raúl and I wrote them down cooperatively by using one of the great variety of options that Google offers us. We created a shared Google Doc and we designed not only the objectives and competences but also a summary of the mission and the online tools that will be used. Then I shared it by uploading it to SlideShare. You can have a look at all this information in the document embedded below.
To finish, I would like to finish my post by reflecting on the knowledge and the experience that I have acquired as well as the process of learning itself.
I must say that I have realized how important is to keep students motivated through super missions that encourage them to continue learning. These missions provide students with the opportunity of taking part in reality-based activities and creating meaningful and public products. Moreover, this challenge has given me the chance to learn how to turn traditional activities into super learning missions, which is not easy at all.
Furthermore, I must say that we, as teachers, should collaborate with each other. We have to share our ideas and projects with other teachers and take advantage of the great number of collaborative movements on the net. If we do this, we will be able to learn from each other´s work. Also, I have learned that we have to change our minds in order to create engaging and coherent missions that could be carried out in the classroom.
Regarding the online tool that we have used, Wevideo is an online video editor which is quite easy to use. I had used it before to create my elevator pitch when I was looking for partners and I was really satisfied with this tool. It allows its users to change, add and remove countless elements. In addition, I truly think that our students will familiarize with it easily in a short period of time.
Finally, I would like to thank our classmate Jesús Cárdenas. He helped us to record the video and I would like to congratulate him for his outstanding performance. He is a good friend of us and I would also like to recommend you his blog about physical exercises (visit it by clicking here). You can also follow him on Twitter: @Yisustheteacher. See you soon!
Today, I´d like to share with you all an interview which I did with my classmate recently. Additionally, I will try to explain to all of you the process and the steps I followed to carry out this interview and how I finally obtained my artifact.
Laura is a 24-year-old student from Santander who is currently attending a Master´s Degree in Bilingual Education at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Below you can watch the video of the interview in which you can know a little bit more about her likes, hobbies, ambitions and future plans.
Now, I will explain to all of you the steps I followed to cope with this challenge and finally come up with this artifact.
Firs of all, when we were challenged to interview our peers by María Jesús, our ICT teacher, we were quite surprised since none of us had never done anything similar. We were advised to do a 3, 2, 1 interview which is basically a short interview where the interviewee is asked a few questions. The main objective of this sort of interview is knowing a little bit more about the interviewee, in this case Laura, in a short period of time and in an appeling way.
Once we knew what to do, I started thinking about what people would like to know about Laura in order to decide the questions I was going to ask her. So I made a draft with different questions according with what I thought people was going to be interested in knowing about her. Then I analized the questions and I finally picked out the six questions I was going to pose in the interview.
Here you can see some of the questions I decided to ask her:
Where do you come from?
What do you enjoy doing?
Do you have any special hobbies?
If you weren´t a teacher, what field would you like to work in?
As a teacher, do you feel that new technologies are important for us?
Once the interview was clearly defined, we agreed on carrying out the interview. I decided to record a video with my mobile phone rather than an audio because I think it is more attractive and inviting for others. Then, when we finished recording the video I started looking up information about different video editors. Finally I used a mobile phone application called Imovie to edit the video. This application allowed me to add sounds, effects, images and even a piece of different video. I found this application very easy to use since I had never worked with it but I managed to edit my video in a while.
To finish, I think this challenge was quite interesting. I have learned many things that I did not know becuse I had never done anything similar to this. I have also found out that 3, 2, 1 interviews are a very useful way of knowing more about people in a few minutes. Finally, it was a great opportunity for us to practice our conversation skills.
I hope you enjoy it!! If you have any comments, suggestions or questions, please let me know by dropping a comment.
