The Journalist

Monday, 5^th of March

Today, we have had a special visit; Manel Rives has come to our class. He was invited by Linda. He has shown us some activities (using technology, of course) that his students have carried out and that are very impressive. It is so amazing that six-year-old children could do so many things, the ability to recollect information and the ability to use new technologies (like Ipads, for example).

The exercises we had to carry out were about dinosaurs. All the members of the class brought dinosaurs toys, plasticine and colours. One of the activities was the production of a comic. We had to do it in groups. We had to make up a story where some information about dinosaurs was shown. To produce the activity we took some photos of the dinosaurs with the Ipad that Manel facilitated to us. It was very funny; we laughed a lot and learnt too! Here is the picture of our comic

The second activity that we had to create was a story made with the Toontastic application. We invented another story about a little girl that makes a dinosaur become vegetarian. It was so funny too! We had to role-play different voices and move the different characters of the story.

Finally, we did not have time to do the last activity (a stop motion). Linda proposed us to do it for Wednesday class. So…this is our activity for this week!

Tuesday, 6^th of March

Today, we have had free time between the different classes. So, we have used this time to take the pictures we need to make the stop motion. We seemed like mad people, taking photos to dinosaurs toys at the parking of the faculty. 

Thursday, 8^th of March

Today, we have had some problems to download the stop motion program. Finally, we have discovered that this program could be downloaded with our smartphones. The problem was with the photos. We had to take all photos again because we could not change them from the computer to the mobile phone. Finally we did it perfectly! 

Friday, 9^th of March

Today we have started the class with some questions that Linda asked us. These questions were about “what do we think about “Manel experience”? After that, Linda proposed an activity. It consisted on thinking (in pairs) about how we could implement some of the activities that we made with Manel to our future students. Finally, Linda talked about video and its implementation in the class, the ten mistakes using video in the classroom. 

Ana González Zapata