8th day - Finished with PhotoStory

We've finished our short but meaningful video made with the PhotoStory programme! It's a commemoration of another video created by Mtv, which was banned by the States' government just after its premiere.

A picture speaks a thousand words, so here you go:

7th day - Photo Story

Today we've started to create the slide-show with the Photo Story programme and it's gone quite well. It's much easier than the PowerPoint project!

Tomorrow we'll go on with it, trying to insert a song for the projection.

See you tomorrow!

Maggie goes to the mountain

Hello everyone!

Today we've shown you in class our interactive story (Maggie goes to the mountain), and now we would like your feedback! Would you make any comment on it? How did you find it?


Cheers mates!

6th day - Learning about PowerPoint

As our next project is to create an interactive story using PowerPoint, in today's class we've learned a few tricks to include different effects in the presentation. For examle: inserting images both as background or as object; transition of slides; inserting sounds & dialogues...

It seems easy to use... let's see how we find it when working in the slides!

Good luck, classmates!

5th day - Creating an Interactive Story

After finishing our first team assignement about New Techonologies in Education, let's start with the second one!This time we've got to create an interactive story in English for kids in primary!

Today we've watched 3 interactive stories, which were made last year by 3rd year-students, to give us an idea of what we should do...and if possible, improve!..we'll see..it won't be easy!

After watching these production, we've learned a couple of trics to know how to insert different effects on the slides.

It's something completely new for most us, but I'm sure we'll learn a great bunch of things that can be done with the PowerPoint programme. It 's an exciting project and appart from being really interesting, it also seems to be very useful for our near future as teachers.

Let's put our imagination and creativity into motion!

Come on, classmates! We're already willing to watch your final stories!

M-learning and "Menosca Espedizioa"

Hi there!

Surfing in the net we found out an article from Urola Kostako Hitza about Menosca espedizioa, which is an m-learning project for learning romanization in the Basque coast through new technologies. It talks about how secondary students go to the Archaeology and History Museum of Zarautz to learn the romanization process using PDA and GPS technology. They use e-learning and m-learning methodology and the purpouse of it is to use the technology for building up a constructive-learning-model. This one also is an article about m-learning and Menosca Espedizioa from Hik Hasi aldizkaria.

About m-learning, here you go a link for an interesting blog which talks about it and also has a few interesting comments and links for deepening: http://www.karrajua.net/blog/benito/m_learning

IKASYS Project

Hi!

IKASYS is a project, elaborated by Ikastolen Elkartea, wich introduces microcomputers with a particular software in schools, initially for primary school students; they use them for working individually in some contents or subjects such as Maths, Euskara, English, etc.

Today the media (TV, radio, etc.) have been talking about the project, and as it could concern us...

"Arbela elektronikoaren magia"

Hi there!

This is an article from Hik Hasi written in 2003 about how a teacher represented the future, where the technology would be used in the day by day teaching experience. It is interesting as it is a kind of utopia, or idyllic representation, where some different technological stuff such as internet, digital chalkboard, etc. are suitable tools for building up meaningful learning processes. As we are somehow in this represented-future-time, it could be interesting to have a look to the article, just for a bit of thinking...

4rth day - The Truman Show

Yesterday we watched a movie called The truman Show.
In this film, the main character, Truman, is a man whose life is actually a fake one... Truman thinks he is an ordinary man with an ordinary life, but he doesn't know that the place he lives in is in fact a big studio with hidden cameras everywhere, and that all his friends and people around him are actors who play their roles (obeying the creator's instructions) in the most popular TV-series in the United States: The Truman Show. He is, of course, the star of this serial.

Here the trailer:


If you want to read our comments on this film (fx. how it's related to new technologies...), go to moodle and enter the forum. You'll find many interesting comments!