I am going to write about three things that I have absolutely love about this Master's Degree Module and one thing that should be improved (from my point of view)
Positive aspects:
1- I have learnt to use the ICT in a competitive way.
2- I have enjoyed to get to know new tools to make creative works for students.
3- I have reflected about how ICT can be integrated in the classroom.
Should be improved:
1- This module should be given at the beginning of the master, because the amount of work is so huge and sometimes you feel that you don't have enough time to finish your work on time.
Ok, that's all about my 3x1 review.
Than you and I wish you good luck for your future!
Hello everyone, today in this post I am going to talk about my experience, participating in the live online conference Moodle Mooc 10.
First of all, what is Moodle Mooc 10? It is a series of online conferences with the purpose of connecting teachers (from any country) to share knowledge, experience, reflections on personal and professional development, social and collaborative leaning, ... This year, the MM10 will take place between 1 of May and 4 of June.
In our particular case, we participated in the conference Open Educational Digital Project for CLIL Primary Education. This conference took place at WizlQ (a cloud-based learning delivery platform with a suite of integrated features).
Once I read about the aims of the challenge and about the instructions I did the following:
1) I added my single support slide for the live class to the class collection (using Google Docs).
I have to admit that it was very simple. I added (on the slide) a photo of myself, my name and a screenshot of the layout of my blog, adding its URL.
2) I started thinking about my speech. It was very difficult, because I had lots of ideas in my head. Mainly I wanted to refer to my experience with ICT, the dynamic of the ICT classroom and my Open Education Digital Project. In particular I wanted to talk about why I chose it, its aim and about one of my supper learning missions (The sound of the European countries). Finally I wanted to include a personal reflexion.
3) I redacted a transcription of my speech.
4) A week before the conference (27th April), we did a simulacrum in order to check if everything worked properly (sound and image) and to practice. It was an excellent opportunity to improve my speech for the conference.
5) On Thursday, May 4 the conference took place and all of us talked about our projects. I was quite nervous, but listening to my classmates and seeing how well they did it, I kept calm. Maria Jesús introduced each one of us before talking and I was the number 20.
It was amazing, because at the same time we were participating in the conference, a people around the wold were listening to us and giving feedback through the conference chat. Moreover at the same time (while each one of us was talking), our mates were sharing information about our blog, twitter account, etc. using the hashtags #moodlemooc10.
The live conference was recorded and you can see the final outcome here.
Through this experience, I have had the opportunity to participate in my first educational conference. Although I was a little bit nervous at the beginning, I have to confess that it was amazing.
I have also learnt to organize the time of my speech, because although five minutes might not seem a long time, you still have to organize your ideas and put them in order.
I am of the opinion that this is the future of teacher. This means to be in touch with each other, share experiences, projects and ideas. I hope to have many more opportunities like this and to always offer something new.
I will be pleased to receive ideas to improve my work. Together we can do an awesome project.
Welcome again to my blog! This time I am going to show you the rubric that I have created to evaluate my Open Educational Digital Project.
This is the last step to complete my project. Maybe you have already seen in my previous post that I have created a rubric. This is because I didn't know the aim of this last challenge. This time, I have investigated deeply about what a rubric is and how it has to be designed. It has been necessary to look for examples and more information in order to do my best approach.
I have to confess that before going to University, I had never taken part in the assessment process. I mean, I knew that it was necessary to do my best in order to pass different tasks successfully, bit I didn't know that the teachers expected of my work.
Why should you design a rubric? What do you have to take in consideration? Here I will show you both aspects, summarizing the most important facts (I have used the online tool piktochart).
Once I had clear how a rubric should be, I planed one based on my Open Educational Project. I tried to do a useful and clear rubric (for me as teacher and for the students). Taking into account the previous aspects, I designed one. I have pondered deeply about what criteria I wanted to include and I wrote too many at the beginning. Then I though that ir would not be useful and reduced them to five. I haven't used any specific online tool to design my rubric, because I have already created different rubrics for my students on my computer. Therefore I preferred to save it in the same format than the rest of them. Here I present you my rubric.
As you can see, this is a clear rubric that makes the teaching-learning process easier. However, we can use other tools to evaluate. For example, it would be interesting to create a similar rubric for the students but with a more understandable language. We can also add the direct observation and the class diary as resources to assess.
As a conclusion, I can say that designing a rubric to evaluate my super learning missions, has not been as easy as I though. Above all, the most difficult was to describe each descriptor. The assessment process is something serious (it is the goal of our work). In this way we can improve as teachers and at the same time the students can see their progressions. When I created this rubric I have also reflected about the most important aspects of my super learning missions. This last challenge, gives meaning to the previous challenges and concludes hard work along 3 months. Moreover it demonstrates that the teacher's work is not easy but when you do your work properly you will be rewarded.
I will be pleased to receive ideas to improve my work. Together we can do an awesome project!
