Reflect on my own super learning

It is time to say goodbye to this amazing subject. It is been five months where we have learned many different alternatives to implement ICT´s in our lessons. Technologies have started to invade the real world and that is why teachers must adapt their way of teaching according to this new reality. We have discovered how to create avatars, boards to organic materials, comics, mindmaps, infographics, slideshows, podcast and video clips, all of them under the creative commons licenses. However, this is just the beginning of our learning. ICT´s change every day, so we have to keep updated all the time and surfing to use the best tools possible. 

To summarize our learning, here you can see an infographic created with Piktochart with all the projects that we have carried out during these months. I have listed the benefits that they have for education and a couple of digital tool for creating them.

Apart from it, in the end, you can see my own personal reflection and the tools that I absolutely recommend to use in the classroom.  I want also to highlight one of the key ideas from this learning and it is the importance of social media. The correct use of platforms such as Twitter, Instagram or Tik Tok can have plenty of benefits for our students because they see them as entertainment, which can motivate and engage them into the learning process more than traditional exams and homework do. 

I hope you have enjoyed the different posts that I have created.

It is not goodbye! See you soon...👋

 Record a video clip: "Back to 1256"

The first part to create a video is to think about what you want to say. To learn how to do it have a visit to my last post "Storyboard a video project". 

After doing the script it is time to record the video. In our case, we did it using the camera of our mobile phone and a drone. If you have one at your disposal I absolutely recommend you to use it, the views look amazing👀.

When the video is ready, it is time to edit it to make it look more flashy and attractive for the audience. There are many different programs to modify your video. It is necessary to have a view of a couple to choose the ideal one for you. You should check how professional it is because there are very complete resources that can be difficult to use, and for pedagogical videos, a simple program easy to use is enough. Some of them are, Powtoon, Screencast -O-Matic, Tellagami, Touchcast, Flipgrid or iMovie (just for apple), one we chose.

iMovie lets you edit your video close to the most professional platforms. You can cut and paste and edit the duration as you wish, include effects, music, audio, images. Furthermore, it also has a wide range of templates, filters, special effects, trailers and amazing beginnings and endings to make your project more engaged to the students from the very beginning. 

Related to the music we used lamusicagratis.com. It is a website where you can download music without copyright, accessible for everybody. 

Finally, the last step is to upload the video to an online service or repository. In our case, we decided to use youtube. 

Now, it is time to present the video. It has been a group project. You can also visit the entries from my partners. 

Title: "Back to 1256"

Objectives: To compare how we live now and how people live centuries ago.

To raise awareness of cultural aspects. 

Subject: Social science. 

Grade: 5th grade. 

Here you are! I hope you enjoy it. 

See you in the next chapter👋

 Storyboard a video project 

Create a video is a very interesting task for children. With these kinds of activities, students are going to increase their creativity, imagination, language and communicative skills. Most of the time, these tasks are performing in groups, which is why they are also going to work on cooperative and collaborative skills. they are a kind of role-playing where students are going to feel and think like other people, which is also a crucial fact to develop in young learners. 

The first step to creating a video is thinking about what this video is going to be about. Children must do brainstorming to share their ideas, and then choose one that everybody agrees with. 

After that, it is time to do the script to order the characters´ different ideas, settings, and dialogues. Also, we can include explanations and the words that the narrator would say. There are different ways for preparing the script, however, we decided to use "Storyboard that" for planing our video. If you want to know more about this tool check my post "The benefits of comics in education".  

To finish, let me present our work. In the picture below you can see a storyboard that we created to organize the ideas of our video. It consists of 3x2 comic strips which is a free option in the application. The theme of our video is "The middle ages". We want to do a comparison between how we live nowadays and how people lived many centuries ago. 

 

 Do you want to watch the video? You will do it in the next post...

To be continued... 👋