Our journalist talks about how was the week!

Hi everybody!


I'm Berta and this week I've been the journalist of the group, so let's do a short summary of the week!


On Monday, we had the great opportunity to meet Manel Rives, a teacher who works with technology in a primary school. We started his workshop showing us some slides in which we could observe his concept of technology and which kind of tools he uses. In the slides he told us that his inspiration for doing what he is nowadays doing in a school near the city of Santiago, was a Ken Robbinson's conference. When he first saw it, he realized that another way to teach and educate children was possible, so he started doing all that he knew.


Here we have the original conference to Ken Robbinson:

Manel also talked about the proyects that he usually does with his students. Some of them are: Stopmotion animation, toontastics and comics (all of them done with applications of iPad). We worked with the three proyects but all of them related to dinosaurs.


He encouraged us to become good teachers, helping us with good technology. He also trasmitted the importance of motivation, which help him to look forward to going ahead with those proyects, because he sees that his students love what they do.


Now, let's see what we did during the session:

• Toontastic:

•  Comic:

And here we have our photo with Manel:

To finish with the Monday's summary, I have to say that I really enjoyed the workshop although it was four hours long. I think that Manel is a perfect example of a teacher who does the things in the correct way. From my point of view, most of my peers (included me) would have thought that they want to be a teacher like him, although following this methodology requires a lot of hard work appart from the hours at school!

I you want to have more information about Manel Rives and what he does at school, here you have his class blog: http://bandadadepatos.tumblr.com/ 

We hadn't enough time to finish all the tasks in the workshop so we decided to meet up on Thursday to start and finish the Stopmotion animation. We had some problems with it because it took us a long long time to find a good program to do it. Finally we decided to do it with Movie Maker and....that's the result!:

                                   

On Friday we had a theoretical class and Linda explained a part of tools that teacher can use in their classes. She told us some common mistakes when using videos with students.

That has been our week, how was yours?

Have a nive weekend! 

Berta :)