TOWARDS A TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD

Audio Project Good afternoon! How are you?  This week, I was working in a Natural Science  project to my future students. This project, called " Discovering Living Beings ", is  focused  on 4th grade of Primary Education. In general, there are three sessions of fifty minutes in which students will do a presentation and a podcast in groups, to learn about the vertebrate and invertebrate animals.  Basically, pupils will learn through a cooperative work, a significant learning and a thinking- based learning. Thanks to these methodologies, they will learn how to work as a team, to solve possible problems, acquire knowledge without forgetting it and to develop their cognitive and critical thinking. Here, I embed you the whole document and as you can see, I used Google Docs . To explain to my future students the project, I created a podcast . Firstly, a podcast is an audio file similar to a radio broadcast, which can be downloaded...

Tips To Entertain Yourself At Home Good afternoon!  We´re living a difficult situation, but we must keep working our brain.  For this reason, I designed an infographic about some advices to bear this situation.  Firstly, an infographic is a visual way of representing key information . This type of tool makes more attractive and motivating to read information. In fact, it´s a good way to learn how to summarize and organize your ideas.  There´re a lot of tools such as:  Easel.ly ,  Piktochart ,  Canva ,  Smore ,  Tackk , Mural.ly or Padlet .  From my point of view, thanks to Piktochart you can create an interactive infographic easily. It´s simple from the beginning, because you have the chance to use a template and edit it, or create your own. What´s more, you might add pictures from your computer or choose among Piktochart´s pictures. Y ou could insert charts, maps, videos, shapes and icons in order to decorate your cr...

Living Beings Good evening! Today, I come back with new interesting tools. How many times have you made a mindmap ? Without a doubt, you made it over thousand times considering that, they are useful for brainstorming, studying, presenting information, summarizing etc. What´s more, if your students get used to making it, they will develop their digital competence and learn an excellent study technique. In this occasion, I offer you " collaborative mindmapping " where you could share your document with other classmates to work together on the same mindmap.  Honestly, I recommend you Coggle   or  Mindmeister . To my mind, Mindmeister offers you more possibilites than Coggle and you could design sophisticated mindmaps. Thanks to this website, you can  include some pictures, videos and notes. Other options are: to attach documents, to change the structure of your mindmap and to insert links as well. In fact , you can visualise it through a quick look or...

Pixton Good afternoon! I hope you and your family are healthy.  Yesterday, I designed a comic related to some children when they are nervous speaking English in front of their class, specially first days. Moreover, I have  dedicated it to every teacher when they started to teach.  I  utilised  Pixton  which is used to create comics. First of all, you should create an account and after that, start to imagine a story. It´s incredible the amount of backgrounds, characters. .. You could even play with the gestures of your characters. I n short, loads of possibilities.  Honestly, I had several problems to share it, because I didn´t realise that there were different types of Pixton.  On the one hand, Pixton Edu has a wonderful layout and it´s easier to create you own characters. In fact, they offer you a probationary period completely free. However, after this short period of time you must pay. It´s true that, if you press the right button ...

Children´s Diet Good evening! Today, I´m going to reflect about Children´s Diet because from my point of view, our health is the most important in our lifes. In fact, sometimes we forget it and we feed our children with the first food that we see. Which means have breakfast with processed baked goods. Do you want to start changing? Keep reading. This week, I´ve discovered  Genially   where you have the chance to create presentations for your lessons. I designed a presentation for Natural Science focused on 3º grade of Primary Education about Children´s Diet. Here, I explain a healthy lifestyle, the food pyramid and some activities to practise that knowledge. In addition, they could be chefs and create their own plate for a important restaurant in Madrid. Take a look! Honestly, I´d never used Genially  because I used to design presentations with Power Point. However, I realised that this tool it´s definitely awesome! In general terms, you have more layouts and it´s m...

Twitter Hi again! I am in twitter   and this   social network is very famous between teachers. Do you have one?  Sincerely, when we share resources and interact with other proffesionals we are wealthier than we usually be. In fact, in Education world it´s essential to create resources for your lessons. In this way, you can be inspired by another teachers.  Don't hesitate to follow me and discover my tiny story. To cut a long story short, it´s worth it. If you read it, please let me know your opinion.  Here, you can do click and see my profile  https://twitter.com/bynataliagarcia . Enjoy your weekend and see you soon! #tinystory_URJC Once upon a time, a primary teacher took off and travelled to a technological world where she discovered quite useful resources and became a better teacher. However, she received a call from FBI and now, she has a secret mission. Can you guess it? pic.twitter.com/U699RB28VA — Natalia García (@bynataliagarc...

Pinterest Today, it is already March! Which means at the end of this month, it will be Spring!  Have you ever used Pinterest ? From my point of view, it´s a useful tool to keep resources for lessons or to be inspired by others teachers, proffesionals etc. Moreover, you can utilice others webs. For instance: Symbaloo , Pearltrees or List.ly. In Pinterest, I created a board about materials focused on Arts and Crafts to teach the Spring in 1º or 2º grade of Primary Education. In this board, you will find five pins such as: a video about how to create a flower and some webs where you learn how to do a ladybird, a bee or a butterfly. Even I added, an interactive and manipulative way to explain how plants grow up.  It sounds great, isn´t it?  If you want, you can follow me in Pinterest.  See you in the next post and have an awesome week!