What did you do?

That day we had a long class because  we  gathered the 2 hours of the 25th of October day with those of the 26th of October. We were discovering that a bloom's taxonomy is. It’s a document that it will help us to prepare activities for our syllabus, and the didactic unit. It’s divided from the low-level thinking skills, until the high-level thinking skills. We can find some key words and verbs in every level that It will be very useful for us. We also can find some questions to help us.
We started the unit 4 “ICT for the teaching of English”, and we were knowing many different apps. We also did a test to know if we have different ICT competences that every teacher of XXI century should have.

What did you learn?

Here, I am to describe some of the applications that we were working with this day in class.

  • First of all, we were practicing with google sites. It is a tool for creating web pages. This application allows you to create a website or an intranet as simply as editing a document. With Google Sites users can gather information in a single place and quickly, including videos, calendars, presentations, and texts.
  • Furthermore, we had to create a presentation. We had different tools as Present.me, Brainshark, Vuvox, Capzles and Prezi. I chose Prezi which is a program of presentations to explore and share ideas about a virtual document based on cloud computing. The application is distinguished by its graphical interface with zoom, which allows users to have a closer or distant view of the area of presentation.
  •  Besides, we had to create a storytelling. We had two options: Story bird and StoryJumper. I chose StoryJumper that is a tool that is used online and is created to encourage storytelling and illustration of stories, and therefore creativity and writing, as well as written expression, language, imagination, etc.
  • In addition, we had to do an interactive activity. We had several options but the most outstanding were Educaplay y learningapps. Both apps are very useful, because it helps you to prepare your lessons.
  • And last but not least we had to create a Limericks, which is a well-known poetic form.

What is your opinion?


From my point of view, making the lessons more interactive and using gamification has many advantages like promoting active and collaborative learning and linking education with entertainment. So, I think it is a good idea to train future teachers in ICT, because that will make teachers have competences of the XXI century.

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