Assessment rubric

Hello readers!!!

This task consists of creating our own rubric to assess CLIL e-projects.

I decided to use Quick rubric  tool because my classmates told me that they had a very good experience with it so I tried. The result was fantastic!! I like it very much. I thing is a very useful and quick tool(as the own name says).

At the time you reate a rubric you have to bear in mind which aspects are relevant and significant in order to assess the final Project. This kind of rubric will facilitate teachers the way in which they evaluate. I decided to include the following 7 aspects:

1. Organization

2.Use of language

3. Quality of content and coherence

4. Creativity

5. Web URLS and accessibility

6. Spelling and grammar

7. Dissemination

The points will be divided in three sections: Proficient (3 points), Emerging (2 points) and Revise your work (1 point).

From my point of view, I think this task has been very useful for me because, I didn`t know how to make rubrics and I have learnt and from now on I will be able to use it in my classroom. Also, it will help students to understand better their marks and they are not going to complain anymore about their unfair grades. With this kind of rubrics, students are going to know exactly what they have wrong and what aspects they have good and why.

If you want to see my rubric and use it in your classroom you have it here

I hope you find it useful!!!!!

My Ict's experience

Hello readers

Unfortunately this experience is finishing!! This is going to be the last mission of the year so I hope you like it. This task consisted of creating a multimedia presentation in order to describe our ict's experience throughout this year.

We have a huge list of tool that we can use  for doing the multimedia presentation.
I finally chose Capzles. I decided to use it because it is a great free online tool which allows you to create very visual presentation using a timeline template. We can add pictures, music, videos and audios. Thanks to that, you can personalise your presentation according to your needs.  I enjoy a lot using this tool.

The only disadvantage that I can say about this tool is that you cannot insert pictures or videos directly  from the web. You have to download it and then add it.

In my multimedia presentation I included many pictures of my previous tasks to explain my summary. Apart from the pictures I also addd my voice to explain the pictures better. If you want to see my presentation, here is my final result:

http://www.capzles.com/0858058f-d3df-4da0-9552-01ae29f4e4ae


I would like to say that this last challenge made me remember my whole experienceduring this year and all the bad and good moments that I had. Sometimes, I felt a lot of pressure with some tasks because I didn't know how to do it but it is true that at the end, you always see that moments from a different and more positive point of view. I think I spent a lot of time creating and doing my artifacts so the final result has been good. I have learnt lots of new tools to use them in my classroom. I could not imagine that I would be able to create all the artifacts and projects that I did. That's rewarding!!!

Finally I will like to confess that I loved to participate in our fantastic and amazing CLIL chocotalk.  I have very nice memories about that incredible day!!! It was my first time doing something like that so I was a Little bit nervous but it was really amazing. We made a good job because we worked all together as a team. I cannot find a better way to finish this nice experience that remembering our CLIL CHOCOTALK!!!!!

Thank you very much for all your time spent on reading my posts.

Bye Bye!!!!

World Book Day

Good morning readers,

Last 23rd of April was the World book day and to celebrate this we did an especial activity. It consists of recording a video or an audio explaining our favourite books and what type of readers are we. A few lessons ago we learnt how to use Aurasma app, so with that knowledge we had to use it to make this challenge.

The first step to do this challenge was to create a poster with images of our favourite books. I decided to use Piktochart to do my poster. I used Piktochart because I already knew about this fantastic tool and I think it makes things easier and unique. It is a good webtool which contains lots of free templates to design a good infographic.

This is the final trigger image that I used in Aurasma app:

I used also Aurasma. It is a great tool for us and also for students to learn more about Augmented Reality and to use it for learning content in an engaging and motivating way, so I really recommend you to try it in the future.  As I have said before I already explained how does it work in other post but in case you don't remember here is a nice tutorial made by my group:

The second and last  step is to create your video or an audio. In my presentation with audio I recommend you some of my favourite books:

-Sister by Danielle Steel
- Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
- The new education by César Bona

All these books make an important role during my whole life, if you want to know why and know more about these books you have to follow my Aurasma channel : paulalamas

We also send our contribution to A Wall of books, the social collaborative board to celebrate World Book Day on Pinterest. Here you can see my peer's fantastic contributions and my work , of course.

https://es.pinterest.com/mjgsm/a-wall-of-books/

Assessment rubric

Hello readers!!!

This task consists of creating our own rubric to assess CLIL e-projects.
I decided to use Quick Rubric tool because my classmates told me that they had a very good experience with it so I tried. The result was fantastic!! I like it very much. I thing is a very useful and quick tool(as the own name says). At the time you reate a rubric you have to bear in mind which aspects are relevant and significant in order to assess the final Project. This kind of rubric will facilitate teachers the way in which they evaluate.

I decided to include the following 7 aspects:

1. Organization
2.Use of language
3. Quality of content and coherence
4. Creativity
5. Web URLS and accessibility
6. Spelling and grammar
7. Dissemination

The points will be divided in three sections: Proficient (3 points), Emerging (2 points) and Revise your work (1 point).

From my point of view, I think this task has been very useful for me because, I didn`t know how to make rubrics and I have learnt and from now on I will be able to use it in my classroom. Also, it will help students to understand better their marks and they are not going to complain anymore about their unfair grades. With this kind of rubrics, students are going to know exactly what they have wrong and what aspects they have good and why.

If you want to see my rubric and use it in your classroom you have it here

Augmentative reality. Aurasma app

Good afternoon everybody!!

This assignment was the last one that we did in groups. It consisted of creating a collaborative slideshow about how to use Aurasma app through a tutorial. This tutorial will support students to learn about Aurasma. We have decided to do a tutorial about Aurasma because students have worked previously with this app in the last assignment about infographics.  

We have decided to divide the tasks in our group. Two of us wrote the dialogue that we are going to record in the tutorial and the rest of the team searched about how to use the tutorial called  Screencast-o-matic. It is an online tool that you have to downloaded. Once you have downloaded it, you can start working on it. It is a very easy and useful tool. We had to record it twice because in the first time the sentences we not well-coordinated with the actions of the computer mouse. If you want to see our final result go down. 

We participated again in a collaborative project that is called A por TICS . It consists of creating tutorials from different students about different topics .As we did it with all the previous tasks we have already send our task to the collaborative project but this time we are waiting for the answer and to get our award. 

I would like to finish with an idea for teachers. As teachers it is important to know how to create tutorials and how to use Aurasma app in order to teach their students this fantastic tool and how they can use it to create better and fun projects.

Thank you all for your time spent reading this new post. 

Video challenge

Hello everybody!!

For  this mission we continued working by the same groups.

My groupmates are : Mara Dominguez, Neus Fiol, Marta Gayarre and Álvaro Gómez. 

This assignment consisted of creating a draft that explains what is the video about. We decided to use with Google Docs. If you want to see our draft click here

Once we create our Storyboard we started working on our video. We recorded this video in Moncloa neighbourhood. We had to record it twice because of the wind sound. 

We have used a tool called IMovie. I have used this tool before and I think it is fantastic. It is an amazing and useful tool to edit videos. If you want to see the final result you can do it here: 

To conclude this post I would like to say that this fantastic project is going to be part of the collaborative project called The ESL Times. 

It is a great project where students share their knowledge through different types of activities in English. We send our storyboard and video, as we did it with our infoedugraphic project, to their mail and theu gave us another award: 

A Live CLIL Chocotalk

Hi everybody!!

Last April 7th was a special day, you know why? My classmates and I we made a live CLIL chocotalk!!

That chocotalk consisted of one component of each group was talking and debating and the rest were in charge of being content curators and also disseminate the information. 

My group roles were: 

Speaker:  @Alvaro_Gope @nepeuspu

Disseminate the information: @marta_Gayarre

Content curators: @maradominguezgo @22paau

The different topics exlained during the chocotalk were all related to CLIL. The first one was the advantages and disadvantages of CLIL, the second one was social and emotional benefits of CLIL, the third one was the role of the ICTS in the classroom and the last one was an introduction of all of our CLIL E-projects. The E-projects are:  History, body, animals, space, neighbourhood and travelling through Europe.

Here you can see a label that announce the event:

If you want to see the final and amazing result, you can see here our fantastic Live chocotalk!!!!

I hope you like it because we worked very hard to make this possible. It was a group work so all the members of the group participated at the same time:  disseminators, content curators and speakers. 

If you want to see the content curators' job you can see it here

Finally I would like to appreciate Chococharlas  to let us to participate in this collaborative projects.

Enjoy!!!