Thursday 27 February 2014

Journalist's Work This Week "TELLING STORIES: Free Resources and Visual Presentations"

This week we have been working in our practice called “Telling Stories: Free Resources and Visual Presentations”. This activity is composed of two different parts although we have divided into three ones; we have made three groups to distribute our work.

The first group had to create a topic to any content on Primary School and the start had to prepare an oral presentation about it with a slide show for supporting and she had to present it for us, our classmates and to our teacher on Monday morning. Those who were responsible for making this activity were Javier Marín, Mariano Castillo and Ana de Lara (the start of this week). They searched for information on the Internet and they also looked up information in some books to create this part; and all the drawings have been made by Mariano Castillo.

The second and third group had to upload a show presentation to slide share with 30 slides on it. In this presentation you can see 10 slides which explain what the Creative Commons Licences are and another 20 slides which show the 20 basic tips for developing a good presentation. The second group was composed of Alicia Lova and Natalia Martínez; and the third by María José Herrero and Irene Martínez. We have searched for information on the Internet (websites, blogs, …) about our different parts and also we have chosen some different photos which all of them have Creative Commons Licences.

Before starting with our practice, Javier Marín offered himself to take the responsibility to draw the storyboard with our opinions and with our contribution of our different ideas.

When the parts were done, every pair had to explain to the star and to other components of the group what had worked and learned so that everyone knew correctly the development and purpose of the practice.
We believe that this practice is a useful dynamic activity because the work have been distributed more easily and each one of us work specific contents instead of a range of concepts and also, because the rest of the contents have been explained to you by your peers, and vice versa which give you an improvement in your skills and capabilities.

Here you can see our star of this week, Ana de Lara, explaining our topic "The Food Chain...with Dinosaurs" to our classmates and our teacher.
 




COMMENTS ABOUT OTHERS CLASSMATES’ BLOGS:
 I have been watching our classmates’ blogs and give me 7 have decided that the best groups which have been working hard this week have been:

·       The Teachleaders. As we saw on Monday morning, their presentation was clear, with a lot of colour and so expressive. Any kind of children could understand the presentation easily. Congratulations!!
 

 
·        Hide and Seek. All their images were drawn by hand and slides did not contain too much information so people focused on listening to them instead of reading information, and also, as I said before with the other group, their presentation was easy to understand.



OTHER BLOGS

I find a blog which is so interesting and I would like to recommend you. It is about teaching ideas using ICT. the main activity that you can see on this blog is called "Podcasting", a wonderful way of allowing children to share their work and experiences with people over the Internet. You can see "What is a podcast?", "How do you make a podcast?", "Examples of a podcast"; and many others wonderful things. Let's have a look!
 
 



JOURNALIST:  Irene Martínez Bermúdez

2 comments: