VR - Virtual Reality - Google Expeditions

There's a good application to visit several places without going outside school.

This is Google Expeditions that can be downloaded on all smartphones, and used with virtual reality goggles.

Among the 200 expeditions availabe, I choose 5:

1. Visit 7 new wonders of the world, to work global citizenship and culture.
2. A Dickens Christmas, to work on literacy competence and future, present and past tenses.
3. A first look at the College, to practice school parts, material, and routines.
4. A walk through the Museo Nacional de Guadarrama, in case of AICLE lesson together with biology subject.
5. Ancient Egypt, together with Geography and History subject. What a nice way to see how are different places on Earth without the inconveniences of travelling.

Augmented Reality

Some of the applications to practise and create with AR are:

Quiver Vision
Blippar
HP Reveal

My fellow teachers can use AR to create multidisciplinary projects and in an appealing and innovative way.
Here is an example of trigger that can be scanned and make it reveal what the creator has related to it.

Video project - iMovie

Youtube Dubber

Possibilities to use Youtube Dubber
Dub TV series, a Conference after a match, Hamlet's play dubbing the speech into funny discourse, Big Bang theory, Dub Weather forecasting report. To sum up, you can create funny videos with a recorded voice on a original version so make a mashup by playing one youtube video with sound from another.
 

Voki - My avatar

This is an example of an avatar you can create with the application Voki. Good to use for shy students or simply to create a different lesson. Click here to see my avatar.

SoundCloud - audio tracks

This is a good application to make audio recording and store it in a visual and ordinated way.
One possible activity for the students is search a picture and record what does this picture inspire you.

Quizlet - Town

Today to start the lesson we played at Quizlet. A kind of a test but collaborative which fosters communication and critical thinking. With this application you can create memory games, flashcards, write what you listen and other interesting activities. There is quizlet.com to sign up and create the tasks, and quizlet.live to enter the code and participate in the activity the teacher suggested.

Click on here to access.

Walkwoke - Create engaging posters

This application is excellent to create engaging posters to tacke social problems.

Click here to access.

Forms with Google Form

It is possible to create forms to ask students their previous knowledge on something, surveys, or tests. Here is an example of a Google Form I created to ask the students about their English level. It would be a good idea to give them this at the beginning of the year.

Slideshare

Here is an example of what can Slideshare users can upload and share with whoever they want. This example is from Abel Galvez.

IGNITE YOUR CURIOSITY TO REV UP LEARNING - ABEL GALVEZ BENITO from abg3

Keep Calm posters

Here I suggest another interesting ICT tool to generate a kind of meme. The well known Keep Calm posters, and this is my example!

ICT Tool: Keep Calm posters

Memes and learning

The famous adage "a picture is worth a thousand words" is more than 100 years old and many things have changed since then, but it is still in force in our current times. A picture without a message can interpreted in several ways, but if we add few words to a picture maintain the same visual strength but with a more accurate and concise message.
In my lessons I would use memes because it is a fast, easy and funny way to generate reflection and debate among the audience.

 

ICT tool: Meme generator