As all teachers know, assessment is key to analyze our students' learning and help them improve with our feedback. However, this is not only necessary for learners but also for teachers, as we need to self-evaluate ourselves too if we want to be better teachers. In this case, I have created a rubric to evaluate my e-project, which I can use to evaluate my work and also see other classmates' assessment of my work using this rubric. Besides, I think it could be used
for any e-project as also could be my peers' rubrics, which is great to have a bank of
rubrics in case that we need them in the future.
I have used a great tool to
create mine, Quick Rubric, which is really easy to use. You only need to
register and use a template to fill in with the information that you want. For
instance, you can write a title for your rubric, a brief description and
instructions, the scale of ratings, maximum and minimun scores and the
criteria. All this aspects are basic and very important to design an
appropriate rubric so this tool is very useful because it offers everything in
a simple way. In relation to the
criteria, I would like to comment that I have chosen the main aspects that I think
we should evaluate in every e-project. For me, the most important one is the
effective use of the e-project, as the use that we have made of them during all this time is something that I consider very important. In conclusion, I think that
rubrics are great tools to evaluate students and also our work. Without any
doubt, online tools such as Quick Rubric can facilitate our work and lose our
fear to rubrics. I hope that you like my
rubric! You can find itin this link or here:
On 23rd April we are goint to celebrate World Book and Copyright Day,so I have added a pin to A Wall of Booksboard on Pinterest to contribute to the celebration of this day. In this board people can share their thoughts related to books, such as their favourite books, a current book that they are enjoying and so on.
I have designed an Aurausing Aurasma, an incredible online tool to create augmented reality. I have used this tool before to create an infographic in our collaborative e-project and also my group and I made a tutorial to explain how this tool works, so if you need help with Aurasma you can use this link to start using it.
Aurasma es an easy tool that we can use to motivate students by helping them to create auras of the topic they are studying at school. There are many examples ofthis tool on the Internet so we can show them to students and surprise them with the amazing things that can happen!
To create my Aura, I have used a picture from Matilda's film as the trigger picture and I also tried to add an audio file but I had problems to make it work so I created a video with the same trigger image and then I added the audio in which I explain which book genre I usually enjoy reading and what is my favourite book from my childhood.
Finally, this is the Aura that I have created. You need to download Aurasma in your mobile phone or tablet, follow my Aurasma account (maria92collado) and then point your mobile phone or tablet's camera at this picture in your computer screen, you will see what happens!
Besides, if you want to see our augmented contributions to A Wall of Books board on Pinterest, here you can visit it:
Our next challenge has been creating a video for our
e-project about animals. Before recording ourselves, we have been thinking in
the organization of the video, our roles and what to say. To have a clear idea
of what we wanted to do, we used StoryboardThat, an online tool in which you can create an storyboard, similar to a
comic, to create a story or present and activity to children, for instance.
In this case we have used this tool to describe our
video, which consists of explaining an activity to children about visiting
Faunia. This tool has been very easy to use and it is great for students as it
is engaging and attractive for them. They could use it in class to explain an
activity or develop their imagination by creating stories.
The comic that we have created is divided into
different frames:
1 -Presentation
of the activity
2 -Explanation
of what students have to do in Faunia
3 -Tools
that they are going to use in Faunia
4 -Students
in Faunia
5 -Explanation
of the activity after the trip
6 -Final
comments
Here you can
see our comic:
Moreover, the aim of our video is to motivate learners
to do an activity while and after their visit to Faunia. As our e-project is
about animals, we decided that a school trip to Faunia could be a fun way to
keep working on this topic while children learn more about it.
In the video
we briefly explained how to carry out a research on the animals’ topic in which
children will investigate, take notes and look for specific information about
the characteristics of vertebrate animals. Then they would prepare a
presentation using Genially to share
their experience and learning to the rest of the class.
In order to do that, we have created a video using Chroma, which is an audio-visual
technique used in TV, cinema and photography. It consists of removing a colour
from an image, usually green, and replace it for another picture or video using
a computer. To do this, we used a green sheet to cover a blackboard and we
recorded ourselves with a mobile phone.
Besides, we have used Sony Vegas Pro to edit the video.
This is a great programme which let you do anything you want to add or modify
in your video. The only drawback is that there is not a free version.
During the
editing part we changed the background using animals’ videos and we added animals’
sounds to modify the audio.
We have learnt
a lot from this activity, not only for the cooperative work but also about
about editing videos and especially in my case, it has been the first time that
I use chroma, so it has been very interesting to try new things in this
challenge.
Without any
doubt, we laughed a lot when recording the video so the experience has been
great!
Both the storyboard
and the video challenges are part of a nationwide educational collaborative project, The ESL Times. This project consists ofpublishing students or teachers’ work
in english and the aims are to foster the development of the four language
skills, reading in english, using TICs to teach languages, encourage collaborative
work and value the sociocultural aspects of the english language.
