I was invited, thanks to my fairy godmother Gladys, to present a project I had done with my students using Google Apps. A day of Googling, attending interesting presentations and showing off my work? I'm in!
Sunday 17 November 2013
Heaven. Google Heaven.
I had the pleasure today of attending Google Argentina's first educational event. Together with Fundación La Nación, they organized a full day event at their headquarters in Puerto Madero: "El rol de la Tecnología en la Educación de la Era Digital" (The role of technology in education in the digital age)
I was invited, thanks to my fairy godmother Gladys, to present a project I had done with my students using Google Apps. A day of Googling, attending interesting presentations and showing off my work? I'm in!
I was invited, thanks to my fairy godmother Gladys, to present a project I had done with my students using Google Apps. A day of Googling, attending interesting presentations and showing off my work? I'm in!
Powtoon - Our School Project
I love, love, love Powtoon! It has a cool motto ("Bring awesomeness to your presentations"), it's super user-friendly and it's free! I'm sold!
I gave it a go to wrap up a project I had been working on with my 4th graders. I noticed none of them knew how to refer to the different areas in our school, so we created a draft of a blueprint of the whole school and each group was assigned a different area. They went round the school taking pictures, measurements and small interviews to the people working there (eg, the librarian, the school secretary, etc) Once they had all the information they needed, they sat down and became architects. They created big posters with the four levels of our school and thus created a huge blueprint of the school, with pictures, signs and small descriptions. This was also a great opportunity to revise/present prepositions of place.
When I saw the enthusiasm they showed on what I thought was going to be a boring activity, I decided to document it with as many pictures as I could and then resorted to good ol' Powtoon for an awesome presentation.
Et voilà!
I gave it a go to wrap up a project I had been working on with my 4th graders. I noticed none of them knew how to refer to the different areas in our school, so we created a draft of a blueprint of the whole school and each group was assigned a different area. They went round the school taking pictures, measurements and small interviews to the people working there (eg, the librarian, the school secretary, etc) Once they had all the information they needed, they sat down and became architects. They created big posters with the four levels of our school and thus created a huge blueprint of the school, with pictures, signs and small descriptions. This was also a great opportunity to revise/present prepositions of place.
When I saw the enthusiasm they showed on what I thought was going to be a boring activity, I decided to document it with as many pictures as I could and then resorted to good ol' Powtoon for an awesome presentation.
Et voilà!
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