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Storyboard a video project...

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 Hello!!!  Did you miss me?  My mates and I decided to create a video about the recognition of women's work  to dedicate some time in class to talk about this topic.  How can we use these videos for educational purposes ? It's very easy because with these tools you can engage students in the topic you want. Your students can feel more attracted to the lesson if you introduce the topic with an original video! Also, one important thing about this is that students will be able to watch the video at all times they need, so that, the information will be always available. The story is the following:  First, we decided to create a Storyboard of our video. Why? Because with this website you can create a plain comic so that we have to create a general idea and do not focus on too many details firstly. Apart from that, our students can have an initial idea about what your video is going to be afterward. In each slide, the students will read a brief resume of how...

Podcasting...

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Hello! Welcome to another post This post is going to be dedicated to podcasts ! Yayyyy!  Podcasting has been becoming hardly trending these recent years, and some teachers have started using it in class! But... how can you take advantage of this tool during classes?  There are a lot of advantages of using educational podcasts . First and foremost, it can reinforce the students' oral comprehension, you keep the students' attention on what they are listening to and stimulate the imagination . Apart from that, you can collect all these podcasts in a playlist and you can listen to them all the times you want! This means that everybody can listen to the contents you explain, some important information about the course... and so on. You won't have any excuse that you have forgotten to turn in your homework! With podcasting, you will become a storyteller , and the wonderful fact is that you can also add some original intonation and some action to your podcasts. There are such ...

Mindmaps...

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 Heeeeeey! How is it going? Welcome to another post  I just want to tell you a great presentation tool you can use during lessons! The tool is the use of MINDMAPS .   This wonderful tool is an image of different elements which helps you to present the information in an easy way for the students. That is, explaining a project that is going to be carried out in the class in a more visual way . Using mindmaps in education is a brilliant tool because help students memorize information effortlessly because all the information is ramified and connected with other concepts related to the main content. There are several online tools for creating these mindmaps. Some of the websites are: - Mind42 - Bubbl.us - Creately  In addition, there are collaborative mindmaps in which your students can collaborate and create a mindmap altogether! Does not that sound great? Some of the websites are: -  Coggle -  Mindmeister Time to show you my  first mindmap ! ...

Activity for you!

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 Welcome everyone to another post! ... Vertebrate animals or invertebrate animals ? There are some pictures of different animals.  You have to PUT ON  your   X RAY SUPER GLASSES   and help me to classify all these animals into vertebrate or invertebrate animals!  Are you ready?  Please, let me check your answers in the comments! ONE... Copyright by: designboom.com  TWO... loading scanner... 25% completed Copyright by: Yahoo News Photo Staff  THREE... Copyright by: Quora  loading scanner... 67% completed FOUR...  Copyright by: The Creative Bazaar Ptf Ltd   FIVE... Copyright by: X-ray Widescreen Wallpapers SCANNER COMPLETED 100% YAY!!!! YOU HAVE FINISHED !  ... There are multiple advantages of using images while learning. First of all, if you include any type of image to your explanations you are developing your students' visual skills . Apart from that, using real images (as the ones you have seen above) can motivate l...