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REFLEXION -     -         WHAT DID I KNOW ABOUT WHAT WE HAVE DONE THIS COURSE? I already knew how to use excel and word, as I took some courses about how to use them, but it was like 8 years ago. So, for example, with excel I had to remember how it worked.  -       WHAT HAVE I LEARNT? I can now create digital content.  I have a learnt are a lot of different applications that can be used to create activities in class, such as genialy, quizlet, educaplay... I am also more concerned about the possibilities of the digital world regarding education, because we haven't used it a lot during our university years.  -         WHAT IS GOING TO BE THE MOST USEFUL FOR ME? AND THE LEAST? WHY? The most useful thing we have learned, are the numerous webpages we have learned that we later can use in class, although I think they are more focused on primary education than in childhood.  The least useful for...

After the course, this is what my final symbaloo looks like.  In the left side I have added the links that it can be used in class to do some activities for the kids. Whereas in the right side, there are some links that can be used for us as teachers and that can be helpful when preparing the materials for the classes. 

 We did a Powtoon presentatio n in groups. In our presentation, we introduced ourselves as teachers of different subjects. We didn't want to create a very complicated presentation, because we will be early childhood education teachers and we wanted to make it simple in order to address our kids. 

  ANIMALS NAMES Index => ANIMALS NAMES Matching exercise Match the items on the right to the items on the left.  Check  PERRO ??? MOUSE DOG RABBIT CAT GATO ??? MOUSE DOG RABBIT CAT RATÓN ??? MOUSE DOG RABBIT CAT CONEJO ??? MOUSE DOG RABBIT CAT  Check   OK  Index =>

  I used simple show to create a short video with a sentence.  This is a tool to create videos, that when you introduce the sentence, it shows some images and then it can be presented. You can even record audios and upload them.    

Here you can find the link to my excel spreadsheet, and also I attach a screenshot of it. 

 Another tool we used in class is called Mentimeter.  I created an interactive survey .  I did it for childhood education, so I used pictures instead of writing the name and as it can be seen in the picture below.  During 2 minutes, kids can vote what they want to be and then we can even see the results in percentages. The options I included are: police officer, cooker, firefighter, doctor and teacher.

I created a story in storyjumper .  I decided to use Hamlet and make it adapted to kids, so that they can have access to classic literature. This pictures are some examples. I also recorded myself reading the story, so that the kids can also hear the story as they read it. 

The second activity is an  interactive image  which I created also with the tool Genially.   I found this one particularly useful and interesting. We can work a lot of vocabulary from a lot of different themes. In this case, I created it about the living room, in order for kids to learn about the different parts of the house. If you click on the grey circles, they will reveal the name of the object. 

I created today in the webpage Genially this animated presentation.  The first one is an animated presentation , like Power Point. I created it about the animals. In the first slide, I recorded myself and when you click on each image, it says the name of the animal. I also wrote it because that way the kids can read it while they hear the name. In the second slide I put a song about the animals that we can find in the farm.  The good points about this webpage is that it is very cute and that we can add a lot of different things (although for some of them we have to pay), such as: audios, pictures, videos, animated buttons...

In order to work the animals, I decided to create a unit about wild animals. That is why I used this webpage called Quizlet .  The idea with this game is that they have to guess which animal is the one they see in the first card. If they see lion, they have to say that it is: león. If they click on the card, it turns and they can see the word and the picture. 

 This is the activity I created in Educaplay .  It is for childhood education and its purpose is to help kids learn the animals names in English. That is why it appears in English and in Spanish, because they are very young and having them in the two languages can help them.  They just have to link one column with the other. I put pictures because it can be more visual for infant education. Here we have the imagen of what I have created. 

This is the second hot potato exercise we tried to create in class. As we did it in the computer of the university, I do not have a screenshot of it. 

 We analyzed in pairs some links that can be useful in education.  1. Education.com 1) Good points of the web from a technological and pedagogical point of view (at least 3 technological [colours, organization, easy to use, easy to locate things] and 3 pedagogical)  It’s free, easy to use, organisation by grade and subject Attractive characters, motivating, and colorful 2) Bad points of the web (at least 3) Games don’t have “instructions” Some games are quite short We need the internet and a computer or tablet 3) Level and age to be used with It could be used for every range of age 4) How you would use the web in your teaching practice It would be nice to use it in Exit tickets activities and also to revise before an evaluation   2. Anglomaniacy 1) Good points of the web from a technological and pedagogical point of view (at least 3 technological [colours, organization, easy to use, easy to locate things] and 3 pedagogical) There are online and printable activities, ...