Content curation tools

Hey there,

The Internet has become the most powerful resource bank. However, it is difficult to find what we are searching. Something similar as looking for a needdle in a haystack. Fortunately, there are a bunch of tools which help us to find, classify and share resources nowadays. Some of them are:

• Pinterest
• Symbaloo
• Pearltrees
• List.ly

I have been using Pinterest for more than a year and I can say that it is a marvelous teaching tool. It is very illustrative and easy to use. Users can save pins from others and share their own pins and boards.

• Home

Here you find suggestions related to your last searchs and a search bar.

• Profile

In your profile you find the same search bar and all boards and pins that you saved and shared.

As a example, here you have one of my boards where I have saved resources for my CLIL lessons.


I invite you to use any of these websites to your classify your resources. Hope you like it! ;)

Using images under creative commons license in a CLIL lesson

WATER CYCLE

Illustration by José Alberto Bermúdez

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license

Hey there,

I am currently working the water cycle with my students at school and searching images for my CLIL lessons I decided to share this resource with all of you: images under creative commons license in a CLIL lesson.

I have chosen this picture because it has all that I need for my CLIL lesson. 

• All the contents in the unit are included in the picture.
• This image can be used as an exercise where students label the water cycle vocabulary.
• It is very colourful and visual which helps learning.

To summarize, this picture will help me in my lesson because students understand better when they see a real picture or an illustration rather than listening to an explanation. I will show the picture to my students to explain them the different water cycle stages. Moreover, it also works as an assessment. Once you have explained the topic, you can check if they have understood it or not using the image as an exercise. I will give them the picture, and they will have to label the different stages. They can also draw it on their notebooks, Finally, I will also use the picture to review the unit before the exam. There are no word on it, so you can ask your students different questions about the topic and ask them to describe the image.

Hope you like it! ;)

Welcome

• Avatar's name: Jaime Rayo
• Age: 25
• Gender: Male.
• Occupation: English teacher.
• Interests and talents: music and sport.

The tools that I have used are Bitmoji and RawShorts.

Bitmoji:
First, you have to design your avatar. You choose your gender, appearance, eyes, nose, mouth, clothes, etc. One you create your avatar, you have available a bunch of images to use.

RawShorts:
After selecting some images, I wrote a brief description and I started to edit my welcome video. RawShorts offers you a lot of backgrounds, fonts, animations that you can use in your presentation. It has one disadvantage. If you do not want a watermark in your video, you need to pay.

Own reflection

Since I was a child, I love the audiovisual aid. I have spent a lot of hours teaching myself how these tools work. Some years ago, I created another blog. Besides blogger have changed a lot, it was easy for me to create this Learning Journal. Creating my avatar was more difficult. I found a lot of problems exporting the video and recording voices and sound effects on it. However, I finally finished it after a whole afternoon working on it.

Hope you like it! ;)