Hello again!

Hello TwoTwonians,

I knew that the last post wouldn't be the last and here you have the prove 🙌 Writing a blog creates and addiction, each one of us have an imperfection and this is mine 😜

My neurons have been in an innovative training conference; III Jornadas de Innovación Educativa i&EDU 2018. These conference are organized by the Subdirección General de Formación del Profesorado de la Comunidad de Madrid. 

In the conference we have seen and listened a lot of things: presentations, round tables, workshops and Pecha-Kuchas. Ok, you don't know what Pecha-Kucha is, don't you? It's a presentation format: 20 slides and each one takes 20 seconds. And this is what we have done 👌

Our Pecha-Kucha is about the radio that we created in the school. We have presented it with Genial.ly, you know that we are in love with Genial.ly since we discovered it💓

This time, Soraya presented the Pecha-Kucha. It wasn't difficult, she only had to do her best and she really enjoys public speech. There are not 20 slides in the presentation and this is for one reason: in some slides she spoke more than 20 seconds and that slide represented two slides. I think that this is not cheating, but it can be our little secret 😉

There were very interesting presentations, and here you have our favourite ones:

• En sus zapatos: un proyecto de empatía activa. It was a wonderful presentation. Do you know that there is one type of theatre called conscience theatre that helps the students to share their fear, happiness, frustration and so on? You can find more information on this website. I think that we are going to take a look, it sounded very interesting. 
• Harry Potter. There were two presentations about Harry; one was about a complete Project Based Learning and the other one about a very enthusiastic librarian who changed the school library in a very motivating way! We need to motivate our children in each corner of our schools! 💪
• Aplicaciones móviles y ABP. Project Based Learning (PBL) is a very attractive format to introduce topics and link contents. In this workshop we learnt about a lot of apps that can make our teaching lives easier. Thanks Javier!

And this is all for today! There is a lot of information, so you have work to do! Explore, investigate and apply it 😙

TwoTwo

Is this the end?

Hello TwoTwonians,

How are you? I've got a mix of feelings and my two neurons too 😒😊This is going to be my last post as a student, but I think that it's not going to be the last forever and ever. We have learnt quite about ICT and we are quite happy about that. The radio programme is a new project that we started because of the things that we have learnt. And we want more and more; maybe a news programme, maybe other crazy ideas 😜 (Google Classroom, Edmodo, eTwinning,...who knows?)

It wasn't easy to put the whole subject in a final artifact. First, my left neuron thought about using Genial.ly, but my right neuron disagreed (no surprises, as you can imagine). I suggested Powtoon; we never used it before on this blog and it's an amazing app. Both agreed. The problem was the time, but no pain no gain and we started to work on it.

We used these apps apart form Powtoon:

• Canva: we told you that we love it 💕. It's very easy to use and the results are amazing and it's free! What else do you want?
• Pixabay: the photos and logos are from Pixabay. Remember that it's a good resource when you need photos. 

Final artifact

It hasn't been simple to summarize four months in less than 5 minutes, but we tried it. In this moment, we are wiser about ICT and we are mad about creating new projects with students and enrolling in some courses. I wouldn't say that this is an easy job. No sorry. All the apps that I suggested are easy to use but they consume a lot of time and sometimes you need to watch and read a lot of tutorials to master them. Is it worthy? All my neurons, my creator and myself think that it's more than worthy.

If I have to choose my favourite activity is, without any doubt, the video project. Using the Chroma technique was quite fun, but the outcome was A M A Z I N G.

Maybe I am not the right person to give you any piece of advice, but teaching is one of the most wonderful professions that exist in this world and suggest new things for your students is fun and gratifying. Show them how Chroma works, record them like in a radio programme, search for photos and be legal with the authors, try a new app once a month (my next is going to be StikBot). And overall, don't be lazy. Don't be that teacher that everybody points our like the I-like-the-textbook-and-that's-the-only-thing-that-I'm-going-to-do teacher.

It has been a pleasure 😍

We will keep in touch!

TwoTwo