PROJECT 2 - DIGITAL STORYTELLING - "The three musketeers"

Telling classic stories is great! 

I'm sure all of us when we were little read some tales like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and the Seven Dwarfs, the Beauty and the Beast... Right? 

But do you know how many implicit stereotypes there are in children's stories? 

These tales tell stories in which there is always a boy who is brave, who is not afraid, who faces the wicked, and a girl, who is weak, who is afraid, who is beautiful, who seeks to get married, right? And then the hero defends her, saves her from danger or solve your problems... Finally, all the tales end with a wedding... seriously? For this is what we mean by the traditional children's stories that have been passed from generation to generation...

Some time ago, we read in the newspaper EL PAÍS a news story about a school in Cataluña (Spain), where teachers made a selection of tales and removed from their libraries all books that reproduced sexist stereotypes or patterns. You can read this news at the following link: 

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/04/11/inenglish/1554966765_493855.html

Do you think about this news? Is it really necessary to remove these books from the library? We think you can do two things: 

1) Remove all books that convey sexist patterns, gender stereotypes, ... and use the new adaptations of these stories. Or current stories. 

2) We can preserve the original versions to work critical reading and reflect on gender stereotypes and roles. We can do any of the following activities: 

 a) Tell a story by swapping all men from women and vice versa.

 b) Invent a different ending. 

c) Reflect on the positive and negative values that each story conveys. 

 d) Move the story to the present day and reflect on what the new story would look like.

 e)Etc. 

That is why today we are going to change this reality between all of us!  

For this, each group has created its own story or made an adaptation of the traditional tales that we all know and will exhibit in this post. 



We presented our Digital StoryTelling to our classmates and professor. We start the expositions by reversing the order of the groups, starting first by group 9, 8, 7...




All groups followed roughly the same guidelines for presenting their stories...

• First, each group showed the activity they had proposed to do in class to work the vocabulary with the students before reading the story. 
• Then they showed us the story they had created. 
• Finally, they showed us the final activity to work the story.

After seeing all stories... we were able to see the different versions of the stories we had created among all of us, tales that include attention to diversity and have no stereotypes, because traditional versions of these stories are full of stereotypes and prejudices.

These are some of the stories that we liked the most because they were more original and worked on current and very interesting themes.

We had lot of fun together, because we met at the university and created our story, which talks about 4 mosketeers, every single one with a different problem. We all agree that the best and the funniest moment was when we recorded the audio. We had lot of laughts!! 

If you want to see our story, here is the link:

https://www.storyjumper.com/book/index/72875235

We hope you liked our story.
See you soon!😉🙋

The article “The big lesson from the world's best school system? Trust your teachers”.

“The big lesson from the world's best school system? Trust your teachers” By John Hart,, The Guardian- August 2017

ALEXIA

The author of the article compares the Finnish system with the English system. Giving the Finnish system fairness and less stress for students and teachers. 

The article also talks about the gender and wage gap that differs from England. The real success of the Finnish education system is to take care of values and start to trust each other.

RAZVAN

In this article, we can find 11 "opinions" which talks and show us the difference between the Finnish educational system and the English one. It says clairly that Finnish education is on the top of the world, and it is being an example for the rest of the countries. 

SONIA

Which is the best world's best school system?

The article compares the Finnish school system with the English school system. After reading the article, I think that in Finnish system the real success is the level of responsibility and autonomy given to teachers to do their jobs. And this is reflected in the student's results. In this way is how the Finns stand on top in the ranking in terms of schools.

YASMIN

Can a School System affect the whole world?
As we can read in the article, Mr. Hart just makes a comparison between the Finnish system and the UK system.
Since many years ago the Finnish system is seen as the best system in the EU for its efficacy, but what others don't take account is that they are not affected by the same factors, such as the economy or the population. In fact, the UK has to look for more equity and give teachers more responsibility.

You want to know more about it?

click here

WHEN STORYTELLERS ARE WORKING...

Hello everyone!

We are still working on our story, it's easy to be a storyteller they said....

Here are some ideas after brainstorming.....

We want to create a story with types of disorders and also a character with difficulties, a blind girl/boy or maybe a deaf one? And also it has to be inclusive....so many things to think about...

But don't be that dramatic they said and STAAAAARRTTTT!

So we thought the best inclusive way is to mention the characteristics of each character but without putting their difficulty or disorders a name...because everyone wants to put a name to every single thing, but is it necessary? We don't think so....

While some designed the Story, others were looking for a good online app to give our story a life.... José told us some of them but finally, we chose.....Storyjumper!

(If you are looking for a good book creator click here)

That's all for today...see you soon!

QUIZZES

Hello!! 
In this post, we are going to talk about a thing that we all didn't enjoy much... yeah!! The theory... Clearly, we all prefer to practice instead of listening to the theory, but it is very important when we start learning something new.

We are going to talk about our 2 quizzes, and what did we learned with each one, and obviously the theory we studied!

The first quiz included the first 3 units and was the lightest quizz (in comparison with the other one). In unit 1, we studied Past and Present Tenses. In fact, it was a review of what we had studied the other years. Basically, we evaluated the using of "Present Simple", " Present continuous", "Past Simple", "Past Continuous", "Present Perfect" and "Past Perfect". It wasn't as hard as we thought because we remembered the information from high school.

Unit 2 was a little bit more difficult than the first one. We saw the future and conditional tenses, how to use them and when. For those who have little problems with conditionals, and don't understand them still, here we have a good video talking and explaining them.

Finally, Unit 3 talked about Modal Verbs. We studied when we have to use them, and how, and this is a small and easy review. 

CAN/ CAN'T/ CANNOT 

- Be able to

- Possibility 

- Permission* 

COULD/ COULDN'T 

- Be able to in past

- Probability

MAY

- Permission

- Guessing

MIGHT

- Probability 

WILL

-Offer 

SHALL/SHAN'T 

- Suggestions

SHOULD/SHOULDN'T

- Advice

- Guessing

MUST/MUSTN'T

- Laws/ Rules

- Mustn't for prohibition 

HAVE TO/ DON'T HAVE TO 

- Things to do 

- Don't have to - for opcional things  

And last but not least, some vocabulary about the senses...they were easy to remember because we learned them in a playful way.

PRESENTATION OF PROJECT 1

Hello to all our supporters out there!

We have finally our first presentation to show our colleagues the poster we created.

For all of us, It was a new experience....because we had never done a presentation in that way, so it was exciting.

We went to the multipurpose classroom and placed ourselves in groups.
Each group with its poster, we previously stick them on the wall.

It was our first presentation but we felt comfortable because we managed it well, every one had his position and knew what to do.

Some of us stayed to explain the poster, and others moved around to listen to the other teams.







Every time the teacher shouted: CHANGE!...we went to another team.

As you know our poster was about Hong Kong and Shanghai and we told the differences in the school system of these two Chinese cities and some curious facts. 






In addition, we wanted to make it more interactive and we created two QR codes so our classmates could watch two videos about education in these two cities.

You want to learn about Hong Kong's school systems? Then watch the videos!

And what about Shanghai?

And that is our little baby...just kidding LOL :)

About the others...these are some pictures we made of them....in fact all the groups had amazing poster's and made lovely presentations.

 
 



Hope you liked it! We want to read your comments! We are already working on our next project! 

See (or read) you soon :)

Project 1: INFOGRAPHICS - HONG KONG and SHANGHAI

Hello ladies and gentlemen!

        
Second week and we are ready to start a project...
We can't choose an education system so a member of the group went to the teacher and took a piece of paper... and there it was... Hong Kong and Shanghai...

I think the first thought of our group was OMG because we didn't know anything about their school system.




Some of us started to search for information about...




Meanwhile others about.....

After the research, we decided to follow the next steps...

1. We red the key concepts that the professor gave us and decided which one them to use in our infographic.

2. We found information on the web and different books about the school system that we had been assigned.

3. We chose a web program to create our poster....CANVA

4. We selected some good pictures and graphs to illustrate our poster. And... we did it!

This has only been the first steps....

See you in the next post!! :)

Making new friends! :)

WELCOME TO OUR BLOG!! 

We are Group 007 and we have the Licence to Teach!!!

We're students of Integrating Skills subject (G2 10am) of Primary and Pre-primary Education at the University of Alicante. 

Do you want to know more about us? 

So let's scroll down. 

• Sonia Ramírez: Hi! I'm Sonia and I'm from Alicante. I'm 24 years old. I'm graduated in Tourism specialized in Touristic Guide, but my true vocation has always been to teach. So here I am. I love to travel, read, play basketball and the "Hogueras de San Juan".

• Alba Tello: Hello! I'm Alba and I live in Elche, but I'm from Murcia. I'm 20 years old. I'm organized, hardworking and a friendly girl. I love to play basketball in my free time and I'm also a  monitor in a children's association.

• Karima El Anzi: Hello everyone! My name is Karima El Anzi. I live in Villajoyosa, but I'm from Morocco. I'm 20 years old. I consider myself a responsible person, funny, friendly and generous. I like to read, listen to music, cook, meet new people, be with my friends and my family...

• Alexia Sánchez: Hi, my name is Alexia. I'm twenty-three years old. I live in Elche. My hobbies are to travel whenever I can and to read...because I love reading books. I started this master's degree because I like to teach and also learn new things all the time.

• Razvan Adrián Balan: Hello!  My name is Razvan Adrian Balan,  I'm 21 years old and I was born in Roumania. I came to Spain when I was 7 years old with my parents and my younger sister. I love sport, and I practice Rhytmic Gymnastics since 2015.

• Yasmin Krebs: Hi boys and girls. I'm Yasmin, a 24-year-old woman from Germany, but I live in Spain since 1997. My parents decided to start a new life in Spain because they ever loved Spanish food and the "siesta". Since I was a little girl I wanted to be a teacher and now here I am...in my last Degree Year. Something that everyone notices when they're some days around me is that I LOVE UNICORNS and all the glittery stuff...and yes...I also speak 4 languages. 

Every week we will be sharing with you all the projects and activities we do in class and much more...! 

Stay tuned ! :)

Ready... Steady... KAHOOT!

Have you ever heard anything about Kahoot? Do you know what it is?
NOOOO??????!!!!!

Then pay attention!

Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform, used as educational technology in schools and other educational institutions. Its learning games, "Kahoots", are multiple-choice quizzes that allow user access via a web browser or the Kahoot app.

Kahoot! can be used to review student's knowledge, for formative assessment or as a break from traditional classroom activities.

Since we are at University we have used it sometimes, but without a doubt, this year we used it a lot in Integrating Skills subject.

Do you remember when we played it in the game of the senses? This was for sight sense! Through the app, we could see different images and answer the correct answer.

Go to the post of the game of senses in case you want to have a look at it.

We used this app daily because through kahoots about theory, the teacher saw if students were coming to class or not.

How would you like to learn how to use this fun app?

So you can break out of the routine with your students in class and they don't get bored!

Video tutorial: How to create a Kahoot?

And if you want to play... you have to enter the code here: https://kahoot.it/ 

And... Ready.. Steady... Let's play Kahoot!!

Also, if you have any doubt or new ideas about how we could use Kahoot, tell us in the comments! Thank you!!! 😁

See you in the next post! 👍