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[ASSIGNMENTS] ANA SATRUSTEGUI

ANA SATRUSTEGUI ARAMBILLET

PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARREYEAR 2014

ASSIGNMENTSTEAMWORK

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CONTENT CREATION PRESENTATION Page 3

USING THE WIKI Page 5

USING DOTSUB Page 11

USING THE WHITEBOARD Page 13

MY PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT Page 16

USING WIKISPACE Page 17

INDEX

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1. DEVELOPING AND UNDERTSTANDING DIGITAL COMPETENCE FRAMEWORK

Being and advanced user means that;

I can produce digital content in different formats, platforms and environments. I can use a variety of digital tools for creating original multimedia outputs. I can mash-up existing items of content to create new ones. I know how different types of licenses apply to the information and resources I use and create. I can interfere with (open) programmes, modify, change or write source code, I can code and programme in several languages, I understand the systems and functions that are behind programmes.

2. COMPARISSION

ADVANCED USER OF DIGITAL CONTENT and TEACHERS

Function Knowledge Skills

General framework of advanced digital competences

-Produces digital contents in different formats, platforms and in different environments. I can use digital tools for creating new multimedia products.-Able to combine created content elements for a new one.-

-Knows which program fits best according to the content created -Acknowledges the creation of the significance of the content created.-Knows how systems, digital process work either software.

Capable of using editing functions to modify contents-Create presentations using multimedia -Combine existed contents in order to create new ones.-Uses proper licenses for sharing and creating

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contents.-

Teacher advanced digital competences

-Uses creatively, a wide range of media that are used for the creation and edition of educational digital contents.-Uses resources to combine and reuse educational digital contents, in a collaborative environment for the integrate use in the curricula.

-Knows how to apply owner rights and content and information licenses in terms of installing and maintaining digital media.

-Modifies efficiently digital media and program code in virtual environments of the teaching and learning process.-Creates communicative virtual channels for the developments of educational projects.

3. QUESTIONAIRE

1. Do you create digital contents such as videos, images or even texts?

2. Are you capable of using different tools for multimedia purpose?

3. How do you manage with programs? Can you master them without any difficulty?

4 .How often do you use your setting resources?

5. Are you aware of different types of licenses and “all rights reserved”?

6. Do you consider yourself a creative person in the content creation field? (You create contents in different formats, including multimedia, you can modify yours and others creatively)

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EVALUATION OF WEB PAGES TO USE IN CLASS

“Hippocampus” - http://www.hippocampus.org/

1. Good points:

Technological points:

a) Exploration of digital content in 13 subjects areas. Each one has been distributed using different sections: presentation, worked examples, test prep and simulations. Although all of the subject areas don’t have these four parts, most of them have only presentation and simulations.

b) You have the opportunity to browse topics, launch a course and text correlations using videos. 3. You can make a playlist on Hippocampus with a tutorial video.

c) It is focused on new models of digital content development, distribution and use.

Pedagogical points:

a) Students use these digital resources to study and prepare exams accessing to quality education. Personalized learning.

b) There is a section which is called NROC Community and it gives you the chance of learning, sharing ideas and helping each other as user community of teachers, students, administrators and parents.

c) It is easy to learn properly and you can find quickly that you need due to its excellent distribution.

d) There are many blog posts where you can learn and practice with different games.

2. Bad points

a) If you access to the upper toolbar, you cannot come back to the main page, unless you open a new tab.

b) The section of the topics should be bigger because it is difficult to read it. c) There are only three colours and each subject area should be differentiating

correctly.

3. Level and age

It is thought to use for middle-school and high-school teachers and college professors, and their students.

4. Use of the web in your teaching practice

USING THE WIKI

http://www.hippocampus.org/

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We would use the digital content, videos, to practice different examples according to the topic which we are working with my students. It would be useful to make a playlist in groups to upload and share with NROC community.

5. Chosen website

The website chosen, has a wide diversity of games for all subjects. It attracts the attention due to its colours and structure. Moreover, it is really easy to use, because you can download the games and the app to play in your mobile phone. It is a useful website to help parents to develop their children’s knowledge. Music is included in all of the games and each game does not take you too much time. http://pbskids.org/games/all-topics

“Math words” - http://www.mathwords.com/index_algebra.htm

1. Good points


a) The website is well-organized. Content is searched easily in alphabetical order.b) Search is very easy, in the left side you can click on a letter and automatically it

goes to the letter section. There is also a Google searcher above it so you can start your search by using it.

c) A second index is divided into different topics what helps students either teachers for a better search.

d) Colours are used in order to differentiate sections; there are two indexes in blue and all terms are in white. This can help you in locating different words.

Pedagogical points:

a) Content is given through definitions and explanations. Different links are provided to widen knowledge.

b) This index enhance students the learning in the mathematical field by a wide range of terminology.

c) All words go with each definition and a problem solving, this makes a better understanding of what students are learning and a good practice to make it perfect.

d) Students can achieve an advanced learning by working through the topics open to them.

e) Teachers can use this index as a tool for everyday lessons depending on the topic who want to work on.

2. Bad points:

http://www.mathwords.com/index_algebra.htm

http://pbskids.org/games/all-topics

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1. Definitions given may be too short and graphics cannot be understood. 2. Lacks of range of colours, only three colours are used. 3. Content words are is in a high level within the subject.

3) Level and age

This index could be used with students in last course of Secondary School, age 16.

4) Use of the web in your teaching practice

We would not use this index for primary students. We consider that content in general terms the level is very high for students from 6 to 12 years old.

5) Chosen website

After doing a further research, we have chosen this website because it contains Math´s Dictionary and is very interactive. It is colorful, that can be a very good point in engaging students to keep learning and motivate them for the subject matter. It has proper information with explanations, activities, pictures and it is a very good practice though for pupils of this stage. http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/

“NROC MATH” http://nrocmath.org/

1. Positive points


a) Focused on providing teachers with resources and helping them to create and organize didactic math’s units.

b) Good organization of the different elements of the web page. Easy to locate what you are interested in.

c) Full and clear explanation of the different content that are inside the web.

Pedagogical points:

a) Different ways of learning, you can learn through videos, activities, tutorials.b) There is a great variety of mathematic content, so you always will find what you

are looking for. c) Math content designed for today’s student. Offers the instructional content

and tools that math teachers need, with the multimedia approach that students want nowadays.

d) Gives the opportunity to develop and share digital content and tools to empower learning between teachers and students.

2. Bad points:

http://nrocmath.org/

http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/

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a) It is tedious and complicated. Difficult to manage for young children. b) Content are not for primary education, maybe are designed for secondary or

higher education (algebra, functions, polynomials…) c) It isn’t a very colourful web page… There is lack of bright colours that makes

difficult to motivate and engage the students.

3. Level and age

It is focused on offers instructional content and tools for math teachers and it is also suitable for secondary school students after 12-13 years old.

4. Use of the web in your teaching practice

Personally, we will not use this web page in our classes given that we consider it has a level that is too high for primary students. Maybe there are some videos or tutorials that could be useful for the last primary course but I insist that the contents are quite high.

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EVALUATION MINDMAP TOOLS

TEXT 2 MIND MAP

How the Text 2 Mind Map works

Basically, this tool can turn your typed outlines into mind maps. At first there a some tips given to get you started such as; write text in the text area , indent text (using the TAB key) to start a new branch of nodes and Click the "Draw Mind Map"-button and watch the mind map evolve. At the left side you have a table with different tools. There are four main options noticeable; create, save, download and zoom.

How easy it is to use it

Firstly, if you want to start with creating a mind map, just type out an outline in the text box. After doing so, you click "draw mind map" to have your mind map created at the right side. If you want to add more elements into your mind map, go to the text box and indent text to start a new branch, after doing so click "draw mind map" again and it will come up.

Main advantages;

o You can change the position by sliding the mind map.o The style of writing can be changed according to the font, color or sized wished.o Headings appear in different colors so you can distinguish them easily.o The width of the branches can be chosen from the thinnest to the thickest. You

can also pick another color for these lines depending on your likes.o You can download your mind map and save it as a PDF or PNG file.o Every mind map created can also be shared via email, Facebook, or Twitter.

Main disadvantages (if any);

o You probably get lost in how to create new branches because if you do not indent text (using the TAB key) all the branches are joined to the first element.

STORMBOARD

( https://www.stormboard.com/storms/setup)

How Stormboard works?

It is a slick new service designed for hosting collaborative online brainstorming activities. Stormboard allows you to create an unlimited amount of "idea boards" or Stormboards with up to five collaborators on each one. Each of your Stormboards can

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include sticky notes, images, videos, drawings, and word documents. Moving items around on your Stormboard is a simple drag and drop process like the one you may have used on services like Padlet. Each item that you add to your Stormboard includes a commenting option that your collaborators can use to give you feedback on your ideas.

How easy it is to use it;

o If you have never used this mind map tool, it is really complicated to understand how it works, because there are lots of templates to choose depending on your purpose.

o Once, you have discovered how it works, it is really easy to use its tools.

Main advantages of the tool;

o You can create new templates, but you don’t need it because you will find what you are looking for.

o It is a logical tool, which has thought to make easier the teachers’ work and also it has templates to use in the business’s context.

o It gives you 8 reasons to use this mind map toolo Your mind map can be downloaded as a PDF or PNG file.o You can add pictures, video, sticky, stack and a file.

Main disadvantages (if any);

o It is quite tedious at the beginning because you have a lot of templates and a lot of different types so you don’t know very well what to choose.

o You can’t write in the templates, you can only comment in a sticky.o There are too many templates and tools to use, so you can be lost.

Group choice;

We have chosen the first one (Text 2 mind map) because we think it is less complicated to use and it is very useful and funny for children.

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VIDEO SUBTITLING

Transcription from the video;

http://dotsub.com/view/1c84e314-a099-42f5-af7f-c8fe34962d77

(From min06:30 to min08:40)

We are going to say to spell human, -hu-man,

Now if your are native English speaker and you are wondering about just follow along I think you are going to find something kind of open up for you

So let´s go ahead, say to spell –hu-man.

How many syllabus? Two; the first syllable is –hu, -h , -u , the second syllable is –man, -m,-a, -n

Go ahead and write it!

And as you said as sound it out, and then let´s help me to write it.

First syllable is –hu, -h, -u

Second syllable is –man, -m, -a, -n

And what did they –u say here? It´s that is long sound so open a line, all right?

Well say to spell again; -hu, -man

But what do we usually say? Human

Now in English, this is a place where we can begin to use morphology

Because the accent its syllable is –hu and this is actually –schwa sound which we´ll discuss later about

Just for your help right now schwa sound an unaccented vowel sound

So what you´ll notice here though, is that man and human are related in meaning and we can draw for our students how they are related in meaning and that´s why the spelling is preserved to that way

You might also be interesting to now that in a word like humanity

I can write It for you here, that your clearly

USING DOTSUB

http://dotsub.com/view/1c84e314-a099-42f5-af7f-c8fe34962d77

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Here this –a sound in humanity

So we can find the derivative humanity and this vowel sound here is clearly articulated as an -a

So this is part of the morphophonemic in nature English

Where in number eight, would be women.

I know that women from work, women

We are going to say to spell

Yes you guessed it; -wo, -men

That´s some kind of funny I think

So let´s say to spell –wo,-men and two syllabus

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HOT POTATOES ACTIVITIES

To work on the concepts of the mind map we are going to develop the following activities:

MULTIPLE CHOICE:

We develop the first branch “What is it?”

Three definitions are given and only one is true. They have to highlight the key words which are the ones that we will take into account to develop the mind map.

MATCHING

We work on the branch entitled “Benefits of doing exercise”

FILLING THE GAPS

We develop the branch named “Aerobic”

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We create a text where the students need to fill the gaps with the appropriate words; these are the ones which will appear in the mind map.

Filling the gaps´ text

AEROBIC is an activity which needs oxygen. When doing aerobic exercise you realize that you breath faster. There are a lot of examples of doing aerobic activity such as basketball, football, swimming, running, tennis or walking. Moreover, this activity is very funny not only for kids but also for adults.

CROSSWORDS

We work on the branch named “Elements”

With a crossword activity we will work on the words (elements) that students should learn from the mind map.

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As a follow up we will do this completed mind map giving oral instructions

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FIRST PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

LAST PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

This is the story that my group and I created. They teacher gave us the starting sentence and the ending.

When he left, he was very worried; I had never seen anybody so worried in my life. Well… that is not true at all.

I remember the time when my mother decided to go on a day-trip over the mountains. All of us had this thirst of adventure and therefore, we were excited and could not wait for that day.There was not a day goes by I did not think of it. We started packing two days before our

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departure time because we wanted everything to be ready in advance. You cannot make a picture in your mind about the lot of things we were taking with us. This time was going to be the first time when the family was getting-together for such a big challenge!

Those two days were very long because when you are expecting to do something anxiously, time goes slowly. However, when an important day arrives, time flies. We thought that we had prepared everything, but at the beginning of the day-trip we weren't aware that we had forgotten to take the pills of our dog. He did need to take them because he could stop breathing. We didn't realize till he started to cough and to breathe deeply. I asked the others where did we put his medicine? And everybody said," I don't know". We were really scared of our dog´s health.

We had already started our day-trip and we were so far from home so it was impossible to take the dog pills. As we couldn't do anything for him we continued our trip being optimistic and trying to forget about it. It was 1:30 in the afternoon and everything was going well so far. We were very tired due to the large walk that we had done during the morning and very hungry as well however, we couldn't stop for eating because it was starting to rain and we needed to find a refuge. Fortunately, the dog seemed to feel good so we walked quickly trying to find a refuge.

It was pouring with rain and our clothes were all dripping wet when trying to seek refuge in a cave at the mountains. Our dog seemed to be quite anxious as if he was expecting something worse to happen and we were worried as ever. We all kept walking for half an hour and we started to lose strength so we decided to stop for a minute when the dog ran straight to my Dad, suddenly he fainted. Before even the rest of the family could react the dog started to bark as louder as ever and we all understood what the dog was trying to say to us: the best way to save ourselves was asking for help. We shouted and shouted very loudly until two travelers who had camped on the mountainside came to help us. We were safe!

I could not believe how relieved I felt at that moment.

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