My last post

I want to dedicate this last post of my blog to talk about my experience during these three months since we started with this subject.
Beeing honest, the first time I saw the activities, I thought I wouldn't be able to do even half of them. Little by little, thanks to your  explanations in class, and trying at home and learning to use some of the tools you were talking about, I was encouraged, and one way or another, I was overcoming barriers.
I'm aware that in some activities I have preferred "to take the shortest way"; in spite of that, I feel proud to have come here.
Thank you, Ángel, for all the facilities you have given me, You have never asked for anything beyond what my limitations with the ICT allowed me to do; on the contrary, you have always encouraged me to continue.

THANKS!!!!!

Podcast

For the activity of the podcast, I have decided to tell a story, specifically "The Pied Piper of Hamelin". I would have liked to use Audacity for the possibilities that it offers to compose the podcast of several tracks, whereas Spreaker conditions you to make the recording all at once.
But I didn't know how to use Audacity, so that putting on a background music, a noise of mice that I added in Spreaker, and with the help of my little son playing his flute, I have tried to tell the story as well as possible.

This is the link to my podcast.

Today I've finally finish my Storyboard, another activity of the blog. There were only six bullets, but I had to get  used to this tool. In addition, I had to fit  my story into the options that Storyboard offers.
In conclusion, saying that I plan to use it on more occasions, becuase it is a fun and easy to use tool.
The link to my Storyboard is this. (Sorry for the word "demo" that appears in all the images).

Creating a video

In the activity of creating a video I've used Keynote with its slideshow.
I've chosen the topic "Vertebrates Animals", with images and simple explanations, and repetitive structures.
Then I've upload my video to Youtube, where I could have a channel to collect all those videos that we created in class for more interactive learning.
This is my video:

My learning space

Another of the activities that I had to carry out was to organize my learning environment through Symbaloo,  in order to have on hand the tools that I most use in English class with my students. As you can see, I consider necessary tools such as:

• Internet browser
• Translators
• Websites and videos related to teaching English
• Social networks
• And other interesting and useful applications.

Here I leave the link to my Symbaloo desk.

https://www.symbaloo.com/mix/mylearningspace4

Featured websites to learn English

Useful websites for teaching English trough gamification in Primary School:

https://www.gamestolearnenglish.com This website provides tools to review various contents though entertaining games about:

• relating concepts 
• spelling words
•  time 
• completing sentences...

http://www.funenglishgames.com This website is divided into several sections:

• games about different skills (reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary)
• activities with great ideas
• worksheets for filling and colouring
• quizzes
• videos with instructions and songs
• fun stuff about idioms, anagrams...
• topics vocabulary  

https://www.adaptedmind.com/index.php  It is a BBC website where teachers design problems and instructive videos to help students develop ways of thinking about Maths in English. They also create a world where familiar characters, like Peter Pan, and monsters will make students interact through engaging stories. This website has a problem and it is not free.


Useful websites for teaching oral English skill in Primary School:

http://sermaestromola.es In this website, we choose the grade and English subject and we find various activities to practice oral skills. Songs are given great importance for reasons such as:

• They use real language
• Encourage creativity and imagination
• Connect with cultual and social issues
• They can be relaxing or stimulating

https://www.aprenderinglesgo.com/8-actividades-mejorar-speaking-ingles-oral-2066 It proposes eight interesting activities to practice oral skills in a creative and fun way, with games like:

• "Who am I?", to describe a character.
• "Tell me what to draw", to describe a drawing.
• "Taboo", also to describe a word without being able to name other words.

https://eleinternacional.com/blog/10juegos/  Again, the use of games for oral English practice is very important. Telling stories, "Pasapalabra", even outdoor activities such us playing "Pañuelito" are ideas offered by this website.

As we can see, in these websites we return to gamification, since games turn the class into an environment of creativity and imagination where improving the oral skill.

Useful websites for teaching written English skill in Primary School:

https://writeandimprove.com  Cambridge´s latest tool, which points out the errors of the text sent and gives advice about how not to fall back on them. Its feedback allows the student to be aware of what he has done wrong and be able to progress.

http://www.saberingles.com.ar/lists/describing.html This web gives the student the main tool to be able to write about a topic, a broad vocabulary with which to function. So we find vocabulary to describe people, to talk about tastes and preferences, hobbies, personality... It also offers texts that serve as models, and execises to practice.

https://www.educapeques.com/recursos-para-primaria/ingles  Here we can find complementary exercises for the classroom with which students will work in a creative and fun way. These exercises are divided by grades and in turn by evaluations.


Useful videos for teaching English in Primary School:

https://youtu.be/WVf30ZHHFh4 With this video, students will learn the hours in English. It is a long but very repetitive video with all the cases that may occur.

https://youtu.be/Gp29NK9YwNg "Learning English with Mr. Pea" . This character offers a series of videos for basic lessons in the first grades os Primary School, such as body parts, days of the week, numbers from 1 to 100, the present tense of the verb to be... The link I show is the one in the first lesson.

https://youtu.be/8irSFvoyLHQ This video shows us different situations with very useful dialogues in the daily routine, such as greetings, thanks. asking for things...

Concept map

In this post I show a concept map of the vocabulary of animals seen in the presentation of Powtoons. I have chosen Mindomo because it seemed an easy to use application. I have inserted it in image and also in video for more dynamic learning.

Educaplay

Another task that we must do in the Processes and Resources course is to develop two activities with Educaplay application. We´ve seen in class the amount of possibilities of this website; it´s able to choose the course and the area of knowledge, and you can elaborate from crossword puzzles and letters soup, to a roulette of words. I liked it very much. So that I leave the links to the two activities, both of them to work the vocabulary of animals that it´s been seen in the Powtoons presentation.
Activity 1.
Activity 2

Animals

                                                         

We are going to work the vocabulary of "animals" with a presentation for students in First of Primary School. For this, I´ll use Powtoons.
I´ve thought of a simple presentation, with images so that the students are able to associate the concepts. I´ve divided the animal into five groups: pets, farm, jungle, forest and sea.

Presentation of my blog.

Hi!!! I´m Cristina Navarro Otero. I´m 45 years old, I'm married and I have two children (17 and 11 years old). I'm currently studying English Specialty of Teaching, not only because it is the one I like most, but also because I think it is the specialty with more possibilities to work in the future.

I´ve created this blog to collect very interesting activities for when we are working with ICT in English class. Sincerely, I've known best of them when our teacher has been showing us them. I didn't know the amount of original resources that can be used when you are teaching.

I will try to make this blog a useful tool for me, both as a presentation and as a key site to gather everything that facilitates my work, and at the same time makes learning a game and fun for students.

Rania Essa shows my idea with a video:

But its a reality that teachers find many problems to use ICT with total normality.

  escuela20.com shows us the five main problems of teachers with ITC.