Quiz with Kahoot

We have had an amazing experience, for sure we will never forget. Our professor has made the correction of the exam with Kahoot. 

In the official examination there were two different modalities, in each modality there were twenty questions. For the correction of the modalities we played 2 different kahoot, one for each test. 

The whole classroom has had to do the first modality of the exam, to see what kind of difficulty it had and if we could get a better mark in the other test or modality. In the first modality, there have been three winners of the entire class.✏📖

In the second modality, we also played kahoot and our friend  Aintzane came in second place.

Congratulations Aintzaneeeeeeee!!!

We also filled up a  google form after the second quizz, we had already done it on the first day of class, to find out if our level of English had improved during the subject, we needed to do it before we left.

All of us had a template with the answers we had put on the exam, so by doing the Kahoot of the two modalities, so we had the possibility to find out our marks.

It has been an enriching class with a new way to deal with the correction of exams, in a funny way.

OUR EXPERIENCE

Good morning everyone! 

So this is our last post... time flies!! And that's because it only lasts 2 months, not 4 like the others...BUT it has a good part, some of us are going to start their Traineeship. 

Honestly, all of us would like to study it till December, it was one of the most interacting subjects ever!! And that is how we like to learn... playing games and kahoots', making projects....

We enjoyed allot the game of the 5 senses, an easy way to play, have fun, and the most important thing, learn. We learned all the vocabulary related to the 5 senses, and we still remember it :)

We also can't forget when Yasmin had to eat garlic, or when Razvan had to touch anchovies! We had a lot of fun :)  By the way, Yasmin loves food, so she ate everything without any doubts! She also ate  FISH POT (baby food), impossible for the rest of us!

We enjoyed every kahoot, trying to be in one of the 3 first places. It was so interesting and intriguing!! All these little tests helped us to learn more, and obviously to withhold better the information and also to review if we have any doubt. 

With any doubt...we loved to create the last project, the Augmented Reality. We were like kids, enjoying every project, with its games, videos, and songs!! We loved to sing any single song! It was the most interesting project because any of us had worked with virtual programs before.

We also think that the hardest thing in this subject was the blog; because it has to have a lot of information that means making many posts! It is a hardworking project, and some of us just didn't want to realize that you need to update it every week, so there were much more work when the deadline was close... but at the end, we are very happy with the result, finally it's better than we thought. 



We enjoyed making the extra credits, thanks to that we learned extra things, like different apps, games, how to create multilingual classrooms and the sport's sexism.

In conclusion, we loved coming to class because every day we started a new adventure... we also met amazing new people... 

Thanks for having being with us all this time...we hope you liked our vision of the amazing SKILLS subject.

See you in another life.

Augmented Reality in ACTION! - Project 4 Presentation

     

While Augmented Reality is still in its early days, teachers and different educational centers believe how AR will one day change the world.

Students become increasingly demanding, and therefore, they are also more receptive to new experiences, such as AR experiences...that's the reason why the school's organizations are trying to bring in this type of technology for complete learning and development.

Which is the purport behind it? It is to get students, and even teachers, to create a multiple sense environment with the AR to complement the learning process and provide different experiences.

Therefore, we wanted to contribute with our ideas and our project. We, and all our classmates, of course! All of them have done an amazing job! Do you want to know a little more about all these projects? 

Continue reading!

Our project, as we explained in another post, is about the solar system! Do you find it interesting? We thought it was a curious and fascinating topic for the children, that if it worked out well, it could be very striking and cool!

Here we have our project exposed and we can see a group of classmates enjoying with our AR! Thanks for all the feedback you made us girls! We are very happy! 😄💜

And now .... Do you want to see the other cool projects? Yessssssssssssssss!

Without any doubt, the project that impressed us was the human body, we were taught the digestive system with a real human person! What a real experience, we could almost play the organs, play games related to them, learn vocabulary ... Look what an interesting idea to do in class with children! 

Actually, it was the one that struck us! Good job girls!! 👀👍 

About animals, which is a very recurring topic for children, we liked two projects: wild animals around the world and farm animals.

The first was based on a very colorful world map ... what kind of school does not have one of those? The wild animals in AR were so real that it seemed we could travel to the area of the world we wanted! We really liked it, especially the koala song! Koalaaaa! 🎵

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALhA9WGqG0k

The farm animals were special, because the poster was a "carpet" on which we had to place the animals with the indications of our partners. Teamwork!

Apart from playing and learning about farm animals, we were singing the chick song all morning! Thanks for that girls! 🐤🐥

Also, we get into the fun world of the circus! Something that really attracts our attention was the design of the project. It was very colourful what is something very important to work with children. 

Oh! We almost forget!! We became in shell gamers! 🎲 That was so cool!Do you think we did it well?

Finally, we want to talk about the seasons project (focus on seasons clothes). It was a memorable experience because we made a new AR friend!

                  

He taught us a lot of vocabulary related to topic, and while two of us were playing to organise a closet and dress up dolls, others created the most beautiful tree in autumn. It was a very interesting project for a school classroom because you can mix the crafts with the AR in each season of the year.

That's all for today! We had really enjoyed playing with all the projects, and we hope that the classmates had enjoyed ours. Oh, and all our followers have felt the same as us!

See you in the next post!! 😎

QUIZ 2

HELLO LADS!!!

This post is about theory....yes, we need to talk about this stuff...it's also a very important part of our learning process.

The second quiz is about relative clauses, the passive (the difficult part) and verbs with the infinitive and of course -ing.

So let's start with the difficult part...THE PASIVE!!

It's too hard to explain it, we better show you a video....LOL.

And what about the relative clauses?

On one hand, We learned the defining relative clauses and the non-defining, the first one gives detailed information defining a general term and you don't put them in commas and the other one is for giving more information about something.

On the other hand, we have relative pronouns, such as...

And last but not least...verbs with the infinitive and -ing.

Have a look at the next video, we know you will learn a lot with it...it's not that difficult to understand... ;)

That was all for today.. we hope you have learned some English rules today.

SEE YOU SOON!!

The Multilingual Classroom

Alexia and Yasmin

How to deal with multilingualism?

Currently multilingualism is the order of the day in today's classrooms.
To promote multilingualism we can carry out some activities, for example, we can mingle our Spanish students with children whose L1 is English. Along with this, we improve the L2 (English) in children with an L1 in Spanish.

Another activity could be making groups of 2, 3 or 4 children, after that we give them a script so they can adjust to their role and finally perform it. The language they need to use is the L2 this probably reduced their anxiety when they speak in public.

Finally, a good way to acquire an L2 is to mingle the groups, so they can meet new people and learn from each other. In conclusion, you help them with "getting out of the box" or in other words, to get out of their comfort zone. In addition, to learn a foreign language in a proper way, the atmosphere has to be comfortable, relaxed and always with a touch of fun. 🌏

Augmented Reality

AUGMENTED REALITY ABOUT THE SOLAR SYSTEM 

Last project! We have voted to select the subject of work, between augmented reality and scape room, unfortunately for the group, augmented reality came out. We all thought it was the hardest topic to deal with between the two, but at the same time, the most interesting and something new for us.

We started to work, and first of all, we researched the two programs that the teacher provided us; ROAR and AUMENTATY.

Roar, is an application easy to use, that makes it easy for us to use 3D pictures, videos, images, audios, text, even geolocation. But it has certain negative aspects, such as the option to just put a  video, ten texts, one 3D image, one audio and ten pictures. This made us think about using this app, as we were not free to use all the tools we'd like for our project. 

Next, we turn to research the second program.

Aumentaty is an application in Spanish, it is harder to use than Roar, when moving 3D images, get the right size... It features a multitude of useful tools, such as images, videos, audios, text, 3D models and links. In addition, the program had a photo library, where you could search for images in the same application, without having to obtain them over the Internet.

Finally, we chose the Aumentaty application, even if it was more complex because we could make unlimited use of the tools. 

The group decided to make augmented reality with respect to the solar system, a subject we had worked on before. 

After several working sessions, we successfully completed our augmented reality project.

Through the application Scope, installed on the phone or tablet, made us see the finished project.

What about consonants?

And last but not least...the consonants!!

I just want to remind you that this is coming to an end...

We learned so much about phonetics, the vowels, diphthongs, and triphthongs sounds...so now we are ready to see the final part...

We can find 24 consonant sounds...they are a lot, aren't the?

Just check them out...

Let's start with the single one, just like in spanish or at least quite simmilar /m/,/n/,/ng/(like in mango), /l/, /h/, /f/, /r/, /w/,/j/.

In the other hand, we can find the consonant pairs, /p/, /b/, /t/, /d/, among others.

We also can find the french one of the two "th"...we also can classify them in, voiced or aspirated. Checl out the video to improve your English communication skills.

And to our surprise, the teacher just brought another envelope with words according to a sound...You want to see how got we were...There it goes.

And we just finished it in 1 minute...how is this possible? Course the Literacy subject next course and you will be addicted to the phonetics world.

You want to lear more about phonetics? Join the Jolly phonics family. jollylearning

Computer and videogames

Alexia and Yasmin.

Today we'll show you how to motivate our students to learn with online games.

Is it possible? 

Sure... 

One of them is called Dragon box it is an educational game that introduces children to algebra.

It starts being simple but as you pass the first levels it becomes more difficult every time. 

With this app the children learn in a playful way.

In the other hand, we want to share with you this creative video game it's called Minecraft.
When they created it, it was not intended to educate, but with the time programmers and educators saw the opportunity to create a new version...in which you can find many educational activities.

So...if you want to improve your marks in math go and play some rounds.

GENDER IS IRRELEVANT

Football is for boys. Synchronized swimming is for girls. Dance... well, it depends on the type of music; if it is sexy music, the girls have to dance it. But if it is boys' music, such as rock music, they are who have to dance it, right? What would it be like if some boys dance to the Spice Girls' rhythm? Weird? Maybe disgusting?

Honestly, if you have read until here without any problem, without questioning anything, you have a lot to see and learn!!

Boys dancing If you wanna be my lover? Sure!! Even better than girls. Take a look!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw-faHKKjPU

Why do we have to put gender into sports? Where is the classification of sports, divided into girl's sports and boy's sports? I would like to see it...

This is what we want to discuss in this publication, and for that, I will talk about my experience.

When I was 8 years old I started Kung-fu, a supposed sport for boys. There wasn't any problem, it was the most normal thing, boys doing martial arts. In fact, thinking now, I had a few girl's companions, why do you think?

At 17 years old, I left kung-fu to start rhythmic gymnastics. It was a 360º change for me, my parents didn't want to because it was a girl's sport and I was a boy. It was hard for them to accept it but finally, they did. In the end, parents have to support their children, but what about the rest of society?

Honestly, for me, it wasn't easy to understand. Understanding why people make fun of it, for doing what i like and what i want. Why I was less than the others? Just for not playing football. Why I wasn't as accepted as them?

Those were stages, people's mentality changes, and fortunately, it changed a little. Step by step it started to be more accepted, even some people admired me, for doing what I like, for fighting for my dreams, not carrying about what society says.

However... 4 years later, why are there still people with a sexist mentality? Can't girls be better than boys at football? Or, can't I be better at rhythmic gymnastics than my teammates who are girls?

Little by little we are going forward, very slowly, slowlier than I would like. When boys doing twerking are going to be accepted and well seen? And boxer girls?

All these things take us to hate and contempt of what isn't "normal", and society doesn't help us. That's it how at many schools we can find a lot of bullying cases to children who practice a sport which doesn't match with their gender. All these teasing and threats bring them to give up their sport, their dreams. There's nothing more...

Nowadays, I'm very proud of what I did, what I do and what I will do. Rhytmic gymnastics formed me as a person and has given me lots of values and memories. I have to say that I will fight against all these things, to broke all these stereotypes, because they don't help us in nothing.

Every person has to be free on doing what they want to do and what they like, always respecting the rest. What matters if I like football, gymnastics, volleyball or ballet. Sports haven't got gender and they will never.

PROJECT 3: Creating Flashcards, Mind Maps & Interactive posters.

ICTs bring us many benefits if we integrate them in our classrooms day to day. If we work with ICTs our students lerar ia a dynamic, interactive and motivating way. 
Would you dare to enter in this technological world? 
Read on, just to see how easy it is to use them with your students... 

After that, we'll talk about some online apps tht are very interesting to create your own activities. 💻

CRAM

Online flashcards are a great way to study! Cram is a number one online educational resource. In this app you can find a wide selection of flashcards that helps you to study, memorize,test yourself on and much more..... 

Once you create your online flashcards, you will be able to study, export or even share it with your classmates. You can collaborate seamlessly with anyone, anytime. 

Cram also has a large app store so you can find other mobile flashcards for your Android, iPhone or Windows device, allowing you to take your flashcards on the go... 
There's no limit to how many cards you can create and share!

Find, create, and share flashcards!

CANVA

Canva is a truly spectacular online tool to design and create web content of all kids: posters, infographics, documents, business cards, graphics..., in a very simple way. In addition, Canva templates and layouts allow us to add image, text, videos and change the organization of templates elements. It's a fantastic tool to develop the creativity of students. 

We have previously used this app to create our infographic for the first project... And now, we are using it to create a Mind Map!!

THINGLINK

You want to know what ThingLink is? 

ThingLink is an education technology platform that makes it easy to augment images, videos and virtual posters with additional information...  And it's an easy to use online application. 

In addition, it's an app that allows you turn your images into an interactive poster. Use it t create 360 degree videos, 360 degree images... Or from an image, you can add elements that expand the information you want to work on in a more visual and interactive way. 

It's very easy to use!

We are still working on our interactive activities... In the next post, you can see how AMAZING it's to use these apps... 

See you soon!!!👋 

The Futuristic Classroom.

Can you imagine a world without books or colours in a classroom?

ALEXIA AND YASMIN

I think that the clases of the future Will be more focused on ITC'S...

Maybe one day the children Will make the tests with tablets or the arts and crafts subject using Microsoft Paint?

Children will have tablets, whiteboards or interactive panels also augmented reality will be in the classroom, the educational content can come out of books or through computers.

RAZVAN

I thing that in the future, and even nowadays, teachers will be more focused on TIC's. 

The classes of the future will be very beneficial for students at all levels of education but don't forget to use the tradictional and manipulative educational tools too.

SONIA

Technological advances are a fact. In all areas of life, especially in education. But, I think that technology in class is a good resource, because you can develop different activities, but we have to combine it with other traditional methods, because can you imagine a school without books and only tablets? Should robots replace human teachers? I don't think so.