Hi buddies!!
How are you?? I've come back to tell you about an amazing app where you can share your experiences and watch other people's too. This app is called flipgrid.
It is a great resource to foster your students speaking and listening while they watch the other students stories as well as motivating and technological. In addition, we foster cultural awareness since it is a worldwide collaborative project called the world is my audience, so, they can watch as many people as they want telling their experiences in the 8th edition of this project.
The app is super simple to use. You have to download the app, then you login in and finally, introduce a code to get inside the platform with the stories related to the question that has been asked to us. In this case, our "platform" is called #twima8: we all have a story.
This platform encourages us to share our story and broad our minds to think about helping other people sharing our experiences. It has also a great educative potencial since it is a new way of storytelling. We can get rid of the cd player with the old tape with listenings and we can start listening "real" people telling us true stories.
Of course, I have participated in this project to give an example of how to do it.
First, you have to go to the main page of the worldwide collaborative project.
Then, you click on #twima8: we all have a story and you will be able to watch other experiences related to your topic and upload yours.
How do you create your own video? Easy! You click on the green button and you start recording it yourself. Your video can last more than five minutes and then, you can decorate it with emojis and pictures. This is my video as an example:
I also tweeted my experience in #twima8 and #itcclil_urjc:
Being part of #twima8 with #itcclil_urjc What restorative is listening to other people's stories! https://t.co/WScPSXnI3N— SuperEnglishTeacher (@CanoCanou) 30 de abril de 2018
Before coming to an end with this post, I would like to tell you how participating in this experience has contributed to my life.
Regarding my learning, I have not only learn one more digital tool to improve listening and speaking skills, I have also learnt to not repite some mistakes that my partners and other people have already done and that they share with us in their videos.
To my teaching experience, I have learnt another way to improve social and civic competence as well as lingüistic competence. Students love sharing their adventures and to be informed of the others' experiences. I used this app with my classroom one week ago, when we did an Etwinning project and we wanted to see the other students' faces. It was great because we received their Etwinning projects (which were letters) but we didn't associate a face to the letter. So, we shared our individual experience using flipgrid and we could see how excited they were,
So, from this experience, I have learnt how to motivate our students and the eagerness they have to interact and to meet new people. I have learnt through the observation of my students. They really loved it.
From my professional point of view, I think we can't do nothing, we should keep renovating ourselves and looking for new tools and techniques to motivate our students, because, motivation is learning and success. From my personal opinion, teacher must be perfectly organized because, otherwise, the classroom could be a mess. However, the first time will be a chaos, but the next ones will improve, until being an expert.
This activity is also comfortable to be assessed. It can be evaluated in any computer, in your school or at home. The best way to evaluate it is through a rubric. Having 4 assessment grades, you will write whatever indicators you need. In my case, pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and creativity. From 1 to 4.
So, as I told you before, I have already apply this tool in my classroom, and it was simply great. I wanted to teach how to respect people who speak other languages and who have other cultures while we keep learning our curricular contents. It was a total success. They got it and I'm totally sure I will use it again.
That's all buddies! I hope you have enjoyed my story! I would like to hear yours and your pupils'! Share your story with me in the comments below!
See you!!!
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