PODCAST.

The podcast that I have created is a story. I am going to use it as an introduction of a unit.  In the podcast, it appears questions using have, and later students are going to see them in the unit as a grammar point. The competences that we could develop through this activity are linguistic and digital competence. Students will reinforce their listening.

Creating Process

First, I created the story in google docs. Below, you have the written document.

 


Secondly, I recorded my voice telling the story with a mixing console. Then,  for editing the audio I used Audacity. There I changed the voices, giving a high or low pitch. Also, I added the music and background noises from a soundbank.

Finally, I uploaded the podcast to my account of Soundcloud. I created the playlist where I am going to put all my podcasts for teaching. Here is the playlist:

Opinion about podcasts.
Creating a podcast for the students it´s a really hard working process, but it´s worth it if learners enjoy and learn from it. I will try to record more podcasts in the future to use them in my teaching lessons.

COMIC. PIXTON.

Pixton is the resource that I have used to make the comic below. It is a useful tool to create stories for students and at the same time children can make their own comic for any content.

I created a comic to show students the case when someone feels left out when making groups to work. You have to bear in mind how they might feel and that maybe he or she has aspects that you don´t know. These aspects could be the reason for the beginning of a friendship.

This resource is useful to create comics to explain contents. In my view, I prefer using comics to explain values to the children. In the activity, we will read together the comic. Then, we will draw conclusions and they will give their opinions.

One disadvantage of this tool is that the comics have to be really basic because for the 80% of things you have to pay.

INFOGRAHIC. CANVA.

I have created an infographic about artists of the XX century for the arts and crafts subject. This digital poster is made with Canva. I have been wanting to use this resource for a long time now. 

Canva is an amazing tool to create free digital posters. Once we choose a template we have plenty of options to help us to create creative designs, lines, shapes, icons or original illustrations. In addition, we will also have the option of incorporating and uploading the images that we have on our computer, as well as changing the text or the background that our design will carry.

The only drawback of this tool is that is not completely free, you need to pay for some options.

Using an infographic in class will help students to understand everything better and clearer. At the same time, it´s a funny and a ludic way of seeing any type of content. Usually, seeing theory in arts and crafts is a little boring so with this digital poster, we will get students attention.

Learn how to creae your own typeface, from start to finish. Ideal for beginners de Ana Muñoz

MIND MAP. CREATELY.

The tool I have chosen to create the mind map is Creately. This resource is really easy to use and practical. When you start creating your mind map, the first thing you see is a white page with squares. In the left side, there are some facilities to add pictures and create figures and lines.  I like this tool because is simpler for students to use and you can add any kind of picture.

The mind map attached below is about ecosystems. This mind map can be used at the end of a lesson to review all the contents that they have learnt. Also, you can make an activity, leaving some spaces in blank and then students must fill de gaps. At the same time, students seeing this visual map while reviewing everything might help them to structure all the new contents.

All the images are taken from Pixabay.