Podcast

Hi everyone!!

I hope you are having a good time at home! For this period I would like to present you a tool that might help teachers in this situation. It is to record podcast!

I have used Spreaker to record and to create a channel with my podcasts.

At the beginning It was hard for me to find where to record inside the page, you will find the option in "create a podcast with spreaker" and then "record or broadcast live". You will have to download the programme but when you got it is very easy to use.

You open the programme and then you have lots of options. You can upload your records, broadcast live or just record, you can add sound effects for your recording (I used some that I found on the Internet), although the programma gives you some sound effects but I didn't like them... And much more options, that I recommend you to explore the programme to get used to it.

For me what I didn't like the quality of my microphone, because I had to use the one that comes with my headphones (the one on my phone doesn't work and the one that my computer has is even worst...) but, if you have a good microphone it will be amazing.

To create my podcast what I did was plan what I wanted to do and to say in google docs in drive, as you can see here.





After planning, I recorded the introduction of the activity in a podcast and an example. From that page you can upload your podcast to your channel directly.

When everything is publish I will send to my student the introduction.






Then I will send them the activity modelled by me to make sure they understand what I wanted them to do.






Finally, I will send them the channel where they can listen to the directions of the activity, the example and their classmates' podcasts.






I think that this tool is a great one if you want to carry out a project with your students, it is motivating and very easy to use and I think you can use it with any topic, you just need your imagination to create something great and motivating for your students.

In my case, recording is a challenging task because I haven't done it before, but it was a good experience anyways, since I had to deal with different problems and I wasted a lot of time but I guess this happend because it was my first time podcasting. Next time will be easier 😄

See you soon in my next entry!!

Infographic

Hello Everyone!!!

Today I would like to present you Canva it is an amazing online tool where you can create presentations, certificates, worksheets... and everything you can imagine... What I like the most of it, it is that you can keep all your creations online and there is not need to download them, so as long as you have internet conextion you can access to your designs.

In my opinion, I would say that this tool is easier to use than other well-known ones, because it consist of the creation of things from simple shapes and also there are plenty templates of you don't want to start from zero, from there you only have to drag the shape, the image, whatever you want to use... It also allows you to upload your own pictures from your computer.

I hope you enjoy this tool as much as I do. I embed here an infographic with classroom rules that I have created to show you how much potential this tool has.

See you soon!!

OUR CLASS RULES de Maria Mateos

Mindmap

Hello everyone!!!

Today I want to present you a wonderful tool to create mindmaps for your students!! It is called Mindmeaster. It is really easy to use and very helpful for your students to understand a topic.

I think mindmaps are a great resource for our classes to sum up a unit or to help those students that need a visual support 😃😃😃

For you as a teacher, it could be useful to plan your lessons since it allows you to put links for videos, images, etc.

I hope you enjoy this one I have created for you as an example.

See you very soon with more ideas for your classes!


Byeeee!!