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'Developing the 4C's of CLIL through storytelling' workshop

Developing the 4C's of CLIL through storytelling was the title of the workshop we attended on Thursday at the Ilustre Colegio de Doctores y Licenciados in Madrid. Organised by Asociación Enseñanza Bilingüe we really enjoyed D. Mercedes Pérez Agustín's talk.
She offered us a practical CLIL lesson on storytelling. To do so she used "Press here" children book by Herve Tullet.

Then she taught us about Vladimir Propp's narratemes and morphology of fairy tales. So interesting!
Finally we got down to work and made up an original story in groups by taking into account Propp's character types just to finish the event by performing our made-up tale in front of our audience.

La Asociación Enseñanza Bilingüe apuesta por la formación del profesorado.
“Developing the 4C’s of CLIL through storytelling”
Taller de Mercedes Pérez Agustín organizado por @Ens_bilingue en el @CDL_Madrid pic.twitter.com/S3x4lMuPgJ

— Xavier Gisbert (@XGDC) 7 de febrero de 2019

Excelente taller de storytelling promovido por la Asociación de Enseñanza Bilingüe. Enhorabuena a Mercedes Pérez Agustín!@XGDC @Ens_bilingue @UNIRuniversidad @CDL_Madrid #storytelling #inglés #CLIL #AICLE #enseñanza bilingüe https://t.co/Ii2KK1TM9n

— Virginia Vinuesa (@VirginiaVinuesa) 7 de febrero de 2019

#ICTCLIL_URJC Meet you in a couple of hours! #Storytelling #CLIL @Ens_bilingue pic.twitter.com/bfqrZSqAHr

— Francisco González (@FranciscoGonGal) 7 de febrero de 2019

Our learning journals!

Only two weeks of course have passed and everyone has her/his own blog or learning journal.
All of them have been collected on this Pinterest board.

Pinterest is a very useful curation tool that will be studied in depth on the next few days. As for today, this is 'Our blogs at ICTCLIL_URJC' board embedded for a quicker access to any learning journal of ours. The same HTML code has been applied for the right sidebar gadget, only height and witdh have been adapted. Do you like it?

Licenses and authorship

Last Tuesday we talked about licenses and authorship. We learned to cite and attribute those images and resources that we usually take from the internet in order to use them in our CLIL projects.

Creative Commons (CC) licenses are the most widespread. The first activity was to license our learning journals. Some of us set up a new widget on the sidebar of our blog while others stated the license at the bottom of the page.

Creative Commons logo

The most popular license for our work was CC-BY-SA license: Attribution + Share alike. This means that anyone using any content on our learning journal must specify the source (our name & blog) and share his/her work under the same license.

We found the next presentation about Creative Commons license by Anna Araky to be extremeley helpful, by the way.

Our classmate Sonia licensed her learning journal via a sidebar widget and here is the result; she prefers applying a CC-BY-NC-ND license.

Screen capture from Sonia's Adventura Blog

Now we are ready to start respecting authorship for the material used in our lessons meanwhile teaching our students at school to do so as well.

Getting started: the first week

Time passes by so quickly. Now we are entering our second week of course. But, what happened last week?

On Tuesday, our first day, we started by introducing ourselves: our names and our previous teaching experience.

We continued by watching a presentation while we discussed about why ICT is necesary in Primary Education. Motivation, communication, content curation, cooperative work... self-training.

We talked about the jobs in the future to come and realized that some of them may sound a bit odd at the  time such as earthquake forecaster, commercial space pilot or memory surgeon. We did agree on the skills our children will need to develop: problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, people skills and STEM. [Top 10 Jobs in 2030: Skills You Need Now to Land the Jobs of the Future ]

A question was due to be made: Do we know our kids? What are they into these days? Digital divices since they are little (digital natives?), online videogames, social media at an early age... Are we ready as teachers?

It was a nice talk but after watching the presentation it was time to check what we had learned that day in a fun way. What better option than playing a Kahoot! And even better, there were some prizes to be won, something is better than nothing! We had a really good time.
The last few minutes were spent by getting acquainted with the virtual campus on Aula Virtual.

On Thursday we worked on our computers. Unit 1: First things first. Our first activity was to open our learning journal, the blog we are going to update every time we finish an activity in order to post our reflections, share our digital artefacts and so forth.
Blogger, Wordpress or Tumbler were the options chosen by the students.

The second and last activity for the day was to cartoonize ourselves. We had to turn ourselves into our avatar. To do so we were offered apps such as Tellagami, Doppel or Bitmoji, the last one being the most appealing to us.

Here you are some of our avatars:





We all agreed that it had been a great week. And so be our week starting tomorrow too!