Is This The End?

So the end of the semester had arrived and it's time to do a review of everything that I had learned in the ICT class. For this, I’ve created a video where I explain my learning process and a short opinion about the tools that I had discovered.
At the beginning, I didn’t know which was the best way to record it. In first place I thought about creating a video with PowToon, but I discovered that it had a maximum of 20 seconds of audio per slide and is very short for everything that I wanted to say.

So finally I decided to create a slideshow and record the screen, for this, I decided to create the presentation with genial.ly, that is a tool that I discovered earlier this semester and record it with a program that I’ve just discovered is called screencast-o-matic, this app, is very interesting because it allows recording videos free with a maximum of 15 minutes, and after you can edit the video, the only problem that I found with this app is that in the free version, it’s impossible to record sounds from the computer, only from the microphone, but anyway, it’s very easy to use.
This has been a bit challenging for me because sometimes I forget what I want to say and I had to stop and start again many times to make it better.

Now, I will show you the presentation that I have created, and the video where I make my review of the learning process through this semester, hope you find it interesting.

Then, I would like to do a short summary of all the activities that I’ve done in the ICT class and a short reflection about it:

Block 1: First things first.

Creating a blog: I’ve created a learning diary through Blogger which is a very easy tool, and completely free, so I really recommend it.

Create your own avatar. To create my avatar, I used Voki, that has a free account version with a lot of cool features. What I most like about this web page is that the avatars have movement and audio. I recommend this tool for classrooms because is very easy and fun to create an avatar.

Block 2: Respect for authorship.

Creative Commons: I’ve discovered this resource and I think that is very important in order to respect the authorship of the work of others on the internet. I’ve also put a Creative Common's logo in my blog so everyone can use the information inside of it.

The attribution of the image for a CLIL class: I’ve made a CLIL lesson about mammals using Creative Commons images that I’ve found in an image searcher called CanWeImage, that only looks for photos with Creative Commons rights.

Block 3 - Content Curation and dissemination

Content Curation: I’ve made a compilation of educational resources that I think that are very interesting and put them together with the PearlTrees tool, which is completely free and it helps to organize in a proper way a lot of web pages of your interest. I really recommend the use of it.
Twitter: Even doe I already had a twitter account, I created a new one that looks more professional and it can help me to interact with other colleagues, to share knowledge and to be updated to new education resources.

Block 4 - Think, design and present.

Educational Slideshows: In this activity, I’ve found, in my opinion, the most useful resource of all and the one that I most like it, Genial.ly. This tool, allows us to create really cool things like presentations, quizzes, games or maps. So I really recommend the use of it and I think that I will put it in practice in my classroom.

Block 5 - Visualize and share.

Comics: To create a comic, I’ve use the webpage StoryboardThat, this tool, helps us to create a comic in a very easy way. Even doe I do recommend the use of this app, there is a problem with it, and is that the free version only allows to create a comic of 6 vignettes, so if you want to create a longer one you will have to get the premium account or use other programs.

Mind maps: I’ve used Coggle for creating a mind map about the Roman Empire. I didn’t like too much this tool because is too simple and doesn’t have many features. The positive point of this app is that is very easy to work with it so maybe for students in early education stages can be useful.

Infographics: I’ve created an infographic about protecting the environment with easel.ly, which is a very easy and free tool to use because is very intuitive and a lot of cool features are available to improve an infographic. This tool also has a lot of really cool templates to use freely.

Block 6 - Podcast it!

Podcast: I’ve been a huge user of podcast but I’ve never thought about using it for education purposes. I recorded the audio for the podcast with a free program called Audacity which at the beginning can be a bit difficult to use it, and for uploading to internet, I’ve used SoundCloud that is a very interesting tool but with the issue that the free version only allows to upload short videos.

Block 7 - Flip it!

Storyboard a video project. We had to create the script for the video that we were going to record, for this, we used a google doc where everyone could upload their ideas online and Pixton, that is a comic app that we used to create the images for the storyboard.

Record your video clip. The activity was done in the INTEF lab with a Chroma, and it was very fun to do it, all my teammates did a great job. After this, we had to edit the video and I did part of it with an Android tool named VivaVideo which is a very easy app to work with and its free.

#twima8. The world is my audience: This has been for me one of the best activities. I think that #Twima8 is a great idea because sharing your experience is great not only for the people that hear you what you are sharing because they can learn from your experience, but it also is very positive for the one who is sharing his story to think that someone is listening. In this activity we also learned about FlipGrid, that is an app that allows the users to share videos in a safe way. By creating a “Grid”, only the people with a code, will be able to see the videos that are uploaded to that “Grid”

Webinar: This activity was online at it was about attending a Webinar that our ICT teacher María Jesús García San Martín gave to us. She explained to us a lot of interesting things about INTEF, the portfolio and the many free courses that we can do to improve our digital competence. I’ve also found very interesting this way of giving a lecture because it allows you to attend to it no matter where you are.

Finally, I would like to thank my ICT teacher María Jesús for her hard work and his patience with me, I’ve learned a lot with her, and she had helped me to learn from my mistakes. It has been great to share this time with her.

Thanks for your attention!
It has been a pleasure.

Creating a Comic!

Hello everyone!

In this post I would like to talk about comics and why they are a great tool that we can use in education.
As you may know, comics had been very popular among young people because the way that combines text with images makes them very attractive and nowadays comics are starting to be recognized as one type of literature that can have a really good quality. Using comics, also helps the students to be engaged to reading and have a positive attitude towards literature.

But we, as teachers, should not only promote reading, it’s also very important to encourage literature production from our students. For this reason, I found some very interesting apps to create comics online, this app are:

• StoryboardThat

• Pixton

• Creaza

I have created a comic using StoryboardThat and I’ve found it very interesting because is very intuitive and easy to use for primary students. This tool has a wild range of feature that helps the students to be creative with their comics. Even doe I really recommend the use of this app, there is a negative point that I found using it. This issue is that the free account only allows to create 3 comics of a maximum of 6 cells each so it’s impossible to do a long comic. Anyway, I really recommend using this tool in classroom because as I've said before is an easy tool and is safe for the students to work on it.

After looking at the other tools, I thought that StoryboardThat was very intuitive and easy to use. The first thing that I did was to think about the main message of the comic that I was about to create and I thought that it was very interesting to explain how hard it can be to be a new student in a school. After, I choose the main characters for my comic: Joe, a new student of the school and Amanda, a very kind girl that helps Joe in his first day of class. We all know how difficult can be arriving to a new school without knowing anyone, so with this comic I would like to help students to empathize with new classmates, so they feel how scary can be to be in a new school.

In the process of creating the comic, I had some problems with the size of the text because it was too big to fit in the text balloons, so I had to change the size of the comic to make it a little bit bigger, so I think that It would be nice if there were smaller letters.
When I was designing the characters, I found very easy and fast to change their facial expressions and their gestures which is a very good point of this app.
After finishing the design, I saw that is very easy to share and the user is able to download it in many ways such as a PDF, as a presentation or as an image, this is a great feature for a free tool but the only negative point of this is that the app introduces a really big water mark in each vignette.

This is my comic, hope you find it interesting, thanks for your attention!

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The History Podcast!

Hello everyone!

Today I’m going to talk about the podcast project that I’ve created for a history class.
I had never thought about using podcast for educative reasons in a classroom and I’m a big fan of podcast, I had been using them for a long time on a daily basis, I think is a great tool for entertainment, because allows hearing radio programs on demand.
This project is about the greatest civilizations of history and is for students of 6th year of primary education. In this project, the class will be divided in groups of 5 and each group will choose the civilization that they want to investigate. After the research of information, the students will record several podcast of topics related to the chosen civilization and upload the podcast to the playlist created.

Here you can find in this Google document more information about the project. For recording and editing the podcast, I had used a program that I didn’t know before, it’s called Audacity, this tool allows in a very intuitive way to record the podcast, but if we want to edit them, I found it a little bit hard to use for students, but with the help of a teacher it can be a good way to learn about how to edit audios. Another advantage of this is that is a complete free program so everyone can have downloaded in their devices.

And for uploading the podcast, I had used the web page SoundCloud. This app, is a very famous audio storage tool. Is very easy to use and upload content to a playlist. The only issue is that is not completely free and there is a maximum of time that you can upload with the free account, but it’s enough for school’s projects because normally the podcast will be short.
I had also created a welcome podcast for the students of the history class with these programs, and a playlist for uploading more podcast. Hope you find it interesting.

This is my profile:

Here the playlist! And here the welcome podcast!
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

My First Webinar!

Hi everyone!

In this post I want to share with you my experience and what I’ve learned in the webinar “Mobile Learning and Digital Competence for Education” the 24th of April of 2018.

This webinar, was conducted by my ICT teacher María Jesús García San Martín and we learned a lot about how to certificate our digital competence and other very interesting resources provided by de Spanish Ministry of Education.

Here is the link to the webinar: https://www.il3.ub.edu/es/servicios_empresas/agenda_empresa/eventos/webinar-aprendizaje-linea-competencia-digital.html

The platform that we used was “Webex” and the host was the Institute of Continuous Training IL3 of the University of Barcelona (Link https://www.il3.ub.edu/es/Home.html)


This has been the first webinar that I have attended, and I find it very interesting because it allows you to listen a lecture in any part of the world, the only thing that you need is a good internet connection. Also, I think that the tool that we used is very interesting because you can chat with the lecturer and ask the questions that you have or contact the support team if you have any issue.

To attend this webinar, we had to sing up in a webpage of the University of Barcelona and then they send me a mail with the instructions, the only thing that I had to do is download a complement in Google Chrome and set the speakers.

When the webinar started, I had some technical issues and I couldn’t see the webcam of the lecturer because my internet connection wasn’t good and strong enough, but I was able to hear the explanation and see the left screen where I could see the interaction with the webpage, so it was enough to understand everything.

In this webinar, we learned a lot about the INTEF that is the National Institute of Educative Technologies and Teacher’s Formation and their portfolio. The INTEF’s portfolio The INTEF’s portfolio aim is to promote the improvement of the teacher’s digital competence. This portfolio works like the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL), with six levels of competence (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 and C2), and to get into this levels you have to first fill a questionnaire with questions of five categories:

· Information and data literacy
· Communication and collaboration

· Digital content creation
· Safety
· Problem solving
After completed this questionnaire, to get the level certified by the INTEF, you will have to send evidences that you have the level of English that the questionnaire says. This is very interesting because it allows the teacher to prove their level in their own rhythm.

But, how can we give the evidence needed to prove our level? Well every previous work related to ICT that you have done in the past can be uploaded to our personal space in the INTEF webpage and see if is valid to prove our level. And what about if we don’t have any previous work or we cannot prove our level? Then the INTEF offers a bunch of free different courses and resources to help us improve our level.

This are the training tools offered that where explained in the webinar:

· EduPills: This are short activities of 3-7 minutes to improve our skill in a self-learning way. These activities are done with the App and they are great to do in free time or if we are waiting for something.

· NoocIntef: In this courses, you can reach the objective in 3 hours more or less, this one are for cooperative learning and are available for 10 days even doe you can still find the materials in the web to continue you’re learning. 

· MoocIntef : This are longer courses than the NoocIntef ones, usually are 3-5 weeks long and are focused in innovative pedagogies such as gaming or learning based projects. In this courses, as in the last one, the materials are uploaded to the web even if they are finished. 

· SpoocIntef: This are self-learning courses, where you can do them autonomously and in your own rhythm, so you can start when you want to.

I really like how the courses works because each one fits for every type of persons from the people who like to learn in their own rhythm to the ones that prefer intensive courses.

For me this has been very interesting and I do believe that it will be an important issue in the future to prove our digital competence, because the ICT are becoming more and more important, and they are great tools to use in learning because they give us a lot of possibilities in our classrooms.

Also I will like to point out that the portfolio and all the courses are completely free so they are a great opportunity for us to use them.

I hope that you found this interesting and I really recommend you to learn more things about INTEF and how it works.

Are you Alrights?

Hello everyone! In this post you will find our new video! It’s called Are You Alrights? And the main topic of it is the human rights.


For this video I’ve worked with 4 other amazing persons: Pedro, Bea, Alba and Jaime. It was great getting the work done with them because they are very nice and hardworking, so we had an amazing time together. To organize the group everyone had a different task but each one helped the rest when it was required, so we were able to learn more with the work of the others.

After planning and making the Storyboard (That you can find here: https://letsrockthebilingualism.blogspot.com.es/2018/05/the-storyboard-of-our-video.html), the next part was creating the video, for this, we used a Chroma to change the background and make it more realistic, this was the funniest part, acting. For recording the audio and video, we use a microphone from Jaime and a smartphone because we had some technical issues with other camera that we wanted to use, but at the end, the results were pretty good. The program that we used, specially Jaime, who did an awesome job with the audio was GarageBand.

Finally, we had to edit the video and Bea, did a great job here, I also helped her when she had some trouble with the images and the audio because it was the first time that we had use this and in the beginning it’s not easy to do it.

I think that the task of editing the video is the most challenging part for the students because every program is different and can be hard to use if the user does not have experience with it. The tools that we used to edit this video where two: Bea, used iMovie, a program exclusive for Apple devices, because I don’t have an Apple computer, I used an Android app that is called VivaVideo, this program, is a video editing tool that has a lot of very interesting features in his free account. I’ve found it very easy to use and to share, so I would really recommend using it for educational purposes.

My main task while editing the video was introducing some images about the historic events that we talk about in the video, and the anthems of each event. Firstly, it took a wild for me to understand how should I do it, but after a while, I decided to introduce the images and the audio like a different video, and then mix this new video with the other one, so after I discovered how to do it, it was quite easy.

Another challenging problem that we had when we were recording de video because our teammate Alba, was not able to come, so she had to record herself and send it to us, and by editing, Bea was able to introduce her images to the final video.

When we finished editing the video, we decided to share it with everyone with YouTube.

As I said before, the topic of the video is the human rights because we think that is necessary that everybody knows the importance of them and be conscious that in many parts of the world they don’t have the same rights as we do.

The main objectives of our video are:


· Know what are the human rights


· Where does the human rights come from?


· Learn the actual situation of the human rights.


· Learn how to work in teams


· Improve the knowledge of ICT

In my opinion, this video can be used as an introduction of the human rights topic in the class of Values. This, can be a little bit hard for students in the first levels of primary education, so it will be interesting for boys and girl of 5th or 6th grade, because this video will invite them to think about the rights that they have and if it is the same all over the world.

This is our video, enjoy it :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEuZbhMxSrQ




I would like to thank all my teammates in this adventure, it has been great to work with them and I’ve learned a lot.


Here you can find some really cool photos taken by Pedro along the process 😛.

After a great day of work! #ictclil_urjc pic.twitter.com/zk4qipQw1A

— Peter the teacher (@peter_teachs) 19 de abril de 2018

Working via Skype with @LaProfe_Alba nothing can't stop #TeacherTubers #ictclil_urjc pic.twitter.com/sE0dlLU2Dx

— Peter the teacher (@peter_teachs) 19 de abril de 2018

TeacherTubers are back in town! #ictclil_urjc pic.twitter.com/KjbZCxU75s

— Peter the teacher (@peter_teachs) 19 de abril de 2018

Working hard now on our storyboard and our script!💪💪💪 #ictclil_urjc #TeacherTubers pic.twitter.com/ZofqhHEbEl

— Peter the teacher (@peter_teachs) 12 de abril de 2018

Working hard on our draft! #ictclil_urjc We have a topic: Children's rights! pic.twitter.com/fYFr1Pckzz

— Peter the teacher (@peter_teachs) 12 de abril de 2018

The Storyboard of our video

The Storyboard of our video

Hello guys! I would like to share the storyboard for the video that the Teacher Tubers as we all ourselves. The storyboard, collect all the important information that helps us to make the video such as the description of each scene or the dialogues that we will have in our video.

The video that we choose to create is about the human rights and the importance of them. The main rights that we are going to explain are: Equality, right for education, and the right for a good quality of life.

We think that is important to show what are the human rights and that in the past, this rights didn’t exist so everyone should fight for only our rights but also, for the rights of everyone because is not fair that some of us have them and other people don’t.

Here you can see our Storyboard, hope you find it interesting.

Sharing my experience #Twinma8

Sharing my experience #Twinma8

Hi everyone! Welcome again to my blog. Today I would like to share with you a new exiting tool that we can use in our class in order to share our experience with people from all over the world in a safe space for us and our students.

This tool is called Flipgrid, this amazing app, created with educational purposes that allows students and teachers to share their videos with people all over the world their experience and their knowledge.

But of course, people can think that this tool might be dangerous if anyone can see what the students have uploaded right? Well, for this matter the app has created what they call “Grids”. The Grids are safe spaces where only the people who know the code of the Grid can enter to the sharing space. For example, a teacher can create a Grid and share the code only with their students, so them will be the only ones that are able to see what their classmates or the teacher had uploaded.

Using this app is very easy and it’s not even necessary to sing in to share our videos and watch others, I think that Flipagrid is a very interesting tool to use in classrooms but more important, in project with people from other parts of the world for example, an eTwinning project with students from different countries of Europe.

In my opinion this is a really interesting way to share our experience that can be interesting for other people and helpful to hear them from people just like us.

The experience that I had with FlipGrid has been thanks to a project that I’m involved with my peers called  #Twima8 (The world is my audience, 8^th edition). This projects ask us to share our story, something that it has been important for us and that we think that it might be interesting for other people.

It would like to say that my experience with #Twinma8 has been great, I have been able to share my experience of living abroad in Finland. I had also watched other experience and each one is different but they are all interesting because you can see that what they are sharing is important for them.

Now I will share with you the Grid of this project and my personal experience. Hope you found this experience as interesting as I did.

See you soon!

Working & discovering a great new project called #twima8 #ictclil_urjc
Has been great to hear other experiences! pic.twitter.com/lUC5V6td9S

— Ramón Estruch (@RamonEstruch) 1 de mayo de 2018