Hello again!
How are you? I have been quite busy this weekend. My two neurons get mad with training; they love it (one more than the other one) and sometimes this “love” makes me feel very tired because I enrol in many activities...but I am quite satisfied with myself 😌
On Friday I started an immersion course/workshop called Exploring your own classroom practice. It was for teachers who wanted to share their own innovative practices (good practices) or activities that make them feel proud of being teachers. The course lasted since Friday afternoon until Sunday afternoon. It has been amazing! I learnt a lot of new techniques, met a lot of people and swam in a heated pool. If you have got any chance, enrol in a course about innovation or sharing between teachers. It’s worthy 100%. If you are asking which good practice I brought, yes, you guessed it! I talked about the radio project 📻 My colleagues shared with me different ideas that I am going to apply for sure in my lessons: a real radio programme in Madrid (so excited about this 🤸🏽♀️), an app to record and host podcasts, the activity Teacher for a day, how to create films with stop motion technique and more and more and more.
But this is not the only training that I took 😏 I have to say that few months ago I didn’t like online training, I thought that online courses/webinars/workshops and so on were of a bad quality and a waste of time...until I discovered educalab. It’s a website from Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, which has got quality courses and a huge directory with different courses:
How? They divide the project in different windows:
Is this for me? Of course that this is for me and for you. The radio is a very attractive product and you have seen that almost all the key competences are connected, so you have fun and you cover all the curriculum; not all, but you know what I mean 🙌 The radio improves the coexistence; this is a personal opinion but I think that the vast majority of the problems are caused by a lack of communication; then I complete agree that radio improves the coexistence, our students learn how to communicate and between you, me and the gatepost, that's an essential skill for their adult life.
And this is all for today folks! I am quite exhausted because I have got a lot of information and new activities and resources that I want to apply tomorrow and my students are going to think that I am crazy (more than usual)!
Enjoy the rest of the weekend!
TwoTwo
- MOOC: Massive Online Open Courses
- NOOC: Nano Online Open Courses
- SPOOC: Self-Paced Online Open Courses
Besides you can find a lot of useful resources like this one for being journalists. And this weekend they organised the 4th Webathon on Digital Educational Experiences. What is that? Wait! I’m coming! You only need a good connection on your device and time. You are going to be the public of a digital educational monologue or conversation between specialists.
Left neuron: Ok, that’s fantastic 😒, but how much does it cost? 😏
Right neuron: Nothing! You are going to learn for free from specialists in different areas ✌🏼They want to share for free!
Left neuron: Really? 😳 Well, that’s not bad 😒 but I didn’t enrol and now it’s late 😁
Right neuron: Don’t worry! The marathon is on YouTube and you can watch it whenever you want and whoever you want with 😍
Left neuron: It’s ok 😩 You won!
And this is how I watched this webinar (I saw the programme and there was one webinar about school radio, I think that the radio project follows me 😂 and I cannot be happier! Yes! I chose it!):
📻ON AIR INNOVATION (since 1:58:27 to 2:30:48)📻
What? Scholar radio.
How? They divide the project in different windows:
- Products: the products are the podcasts.
- Tasks: the students can choose different tasks to create the final product: interviews, investigation, marketing.
- Activities: evidences that they are learning.
- Key competences: linguistic competence; competence in information treatment and digital technology; competence in learning to learn; social and civic competence; initiative and entrepreneurial spirit and cultural conscience and expression.
- Methodology: the methodology involves 11 steps; the start with the election of the topic and plan a question, then they form the teams, they defining the product or final challenge until they arrive to the metacognition.
- Spatial and temporal distribution: the scholar radio goes outside and inside the classrooms. They implemented this project in three phases: training and investigation, collaborative training and project and experiences in the classroom.
- Indicators.
- Instruments and tools for evaluation: they evaluate through rubrics.
- Didactic resources.
Who for? Early years, primary, high school, university students and even children in educational prison centre classrooms.
Is this for me? Of course that this is for me and for you. The radio is a very attractive product and you have seen that almost all the key competences are connected, so you have fun and you cover all the curriculum; not all, but you know what I mean 🙌 The radio improves the coexistence; this is a personal opinion but I think that the vast majority of the problems are caused by a lack of communication; then I complete agree that radio improves the coexistence, our students learn how to communicate and between you, me and the gatepost, that's an essential skill for their adult life.
And this is all for today folks! I am quite exhausted because I have got a lot of information and new activities and resources that I want to apply tomorrow and my students are going to think that I am crazy (more than usual)!
Enjoy the rest of the weekend!
TwoTwo
I am so happy that you have become an addict to online learning!
ReplyDeleteReally glad for you.
Thanks for joining #DirectoINTEF and being part of #AprendeINTEF. You won't regret it!.
Warm wishes
Thanks! I think that it's going to be addictive ;-)
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