Teachers' magic

Hello everybody!!                                    In today's post we are going to become... radio announcers!! Well, actually we are not going to be on air, but we are going to create a PODCAST!!👏👏👏 There are lots of advantages of using podcasts in our classes, for instance: it helps develop students' listening and oral skills, It allows teachers to rest their voice, students can listen to it whenever, wherever and the amount of times that they may need, it fosters students' imagination and so much more!!! I am going to show you an example that I just made for my fifth grader for english subject. You will see step by step how I did it!!😉😉 What I did first, was to select a topic. In this case, it was easy because we haven't started the course, and I want the students to get to know each other, so I asked them to create a podcast introducing themselves, telling something interesting about the...

 Hello friends!!! In today's post, we are going to create a presentation through  Genially  which is an amazing tool that gives us the possibility to design interactive presentations capable to call the students' attention and engage them and focus on the task working at. I must confess that it was my very first time using this program and it really surprises me for good. In the beginning, was a little bit messy to use it because it have a lot of options and tools, but also it was very intuitive and with just a few minutes you can discover a lot of resources to be used and make much better your slides. With this program, you can make your classes have great quality and be more meaningful!   I really enjoyed the process doing this task because in the  meantime  I was creating the content, I was discovering new functions and my presentation was becoming more creative. I highly recommend this tool because is very useful and it allow you to give a little ...

Hello everyone!! In today's post we are going to talk about INFOGRAPHICS!! Infographics are a very useful resource because they are very visual, so that students can take a lot of advantages of them. They help to organise the relevant information of the given topic, summarise it and it enhance the use of the visual memory helping students to understand and internalise the lesson better. I have chosen an online tool called Canva . I have to say about this tool that it's amazing, it is free, it has a lot of options and models to create not only infographics but also presentations, posters, logos, Instagram post, resumes and so on. It gives you the opportunity to share and embed your creations and to do a collaborative work.  I didn't find anything bad in this tool, but if I have to say something I would say that you can't embed a You Tube video in there (but I am not hundred percent sure about it) I am still discovering this tool, but for now I love it and definitively I...

What's up mates!!  Today I am bringing you a very interesting and useful tool! Not only it'll help your students to understand the lesson better and organise the concepts but also it is going to make your explanations easier to carry out.🎉🎊🎉 I am talking about MIND MAPS!! and in this case I'll recommend you MindMeister  that is the one that I used to do this example!! Is not difficult to work with it, but you will need to create an account. Then just follow the five steps given and you will get it. 👍👍👍 I'll tel you step by step how I did mine!!  -First, I decided the topic I wanted to carry out. Main european landmarks -Secondly, I wrote the main idea or word of the topic  -Third, I linked the main idea with the secondaries through different branches or arrows, adding images and a  YouTube  video.  After completing the mind map I clicked on the sharing button and copied the link and the embedded code as you can see bellow. https://www.mindmeister...

Hi FRIENDS!!! Today's post is about Comics!! Comics are a very useful tool to use in our classes because they help students to be engaged in the reading process, motivated and it's a fun way to learn important cross-curricular content. I just have created a comic using the online program Storyboardthat  as you can see bellow! The aim of this comic is to make the students aware that if they have any problem or concern, they can talk about it with their teachers, and that is normal to not have a good day every day. It could help students to recognise their feelings and to see that they are not alone.  Ok, now I am going to tell you about my experience using this interesting tool.  At the very beginning I didn't know how to start, but this web tool gives you a lot of options to chose to create your story, as a several backgrounds, a lot of characters and on, moreover you can personalise them changing the features as the colours, sizes and shapes. Furthermore you can add ...

 HELLO HELLO!! In today's post we are going to add to our blog a content curation tool, this is about to filter and select the best sources and resources of our interest. For that we are going to add a widget to have a handy tool to pick resources we need in an easy and quick way. In this case we are going to use Pinterest . To create our widget we need to have an account in Pinterest . It is very easy to do, and if you have a Google account even more, just follow the steps and it's done😉.  Then we must save the materials that we are going to use and after that we have to clic in the interrogation symbol ❓ on the right side of the page and then select the option "create a widget" A new window is going to be opened and then you have to copy the two codes indicated. Paste them in your page wherever you want the widget appear. And that is all!! Fast, easy and practical. Now you are ready to use and enjoy the selected content!! I hope you find this information usef...

Hey guys!! Today we are going to learn how to correctly use images, audios, videos and so forth!!👏👏 I am going to show you some images that I used in order to create a CLIL lesson about the WATER CYCLE and some more examples. Image  by  Venita Oberholster  from  Pixabay   Every time we pick some audio-visual resource from the internet we have to properly cite the font. We cannot take whatever we want and use it as our pleased (well, we can but we mustn't) because there are some of them that have copy right and we need to pay for it. In other cases we can freely use it but respecting some conditions proposed for the author of that work. So that reason we have to know where to find public domains resources and respect their  Creative Common licence . Image by  Karen Noboa 56559_cc-by-sa_big THE WATER CYCLE Credit: Image courtesy NOAA National Weather Service Jetstream With this image the intention is the student to visualise in an easy way the w...