Mindmapping my eBook

Hello dear readers,

Today I would like to share with you a resource to visually organize your CLIL e-projects: 

the mind map

It is a diagram that connects ideas around a single concept, in this case, my digital eBook, The Ancient eBook of the Storytellers' secrets. This resource allows teachers to present the different aspects of projects in an enjoyable way that guarantees that children are going to look at them before carrying out the tasks. 

Moreover, If we teach students to create mind maps, they learn how to summarize the content by highlighting the essential information; and develop cognitive skills to associate different ideas and concepts.

Here it is my eBook's mindmap using Cacoo and shared on a GoogleDoc.

Mindmapping my eBook

I recommend Cacoo and Bubbl.us as online resources to create mind maps.

Hope you find it useful!

Marta

Creating an infoEDUgraphic

Hello dear readers,

Today I would like to share with you a resource to create visual and engaging ePublications: The infographic.

Infographics are representations that mix information and pictures of an specific topic. We can use them to present certain facts in an attractive way, that allow people to get the information without a ton of heavy reading.


I joined the collaborative project of infoEDUgrafías that is intended for teachers and students in all the Education Stages. You can find a wide variety of activities linked to all the areas of knowledge. Therefore, I became a participant in the project and I decided to use the information of my CLIL eBook outline to create a visual infoEDUgraphic that engages sixth graders:

View at Canva

To know more about the tools I used and the steps I followed to carry out this project, read the post on InfoEDUgrafías' blog

An infoEDUgraphic is not just an attractive way of presenting facts, it develops visual thinking and information processing cognitive skills. As a participant in the project and as an infoEDUgrapher, I encourage you to use this resource with your students!

Designing my digital eBook

Hello everybody!

The first step to design an interactive ePublication is to define some basic aspects that will determine the rest of our eBook features.

At the beginning, we should think what is it going to be about. I chose the topic storytelling because it doesn't limit me to just one curricular subject so, despite I finally decided to carry out this project linked to Literacy, I could have developed it linked to any other area of content.

Also, this topic allows me to create cross-curricular links to any other subjects by designing characters, settings and plots that match the content that I want to highlight from other areas.

Then, our next step is to decide whom is this project intended for. I want to work with this eBook in 6º Grade because, according to our curriculum, it is the grade where we can go more deeply to the characteristics of the narrative genre and the features of the storytelling process.

Also, 6º graders are students whose technological knowledge is considerable. At this age, they are already familiarized with most of the tools that we are going to use in this project.

The next aspects of the eBook are determined by these previous ones and I created a shared document on Google to establish them:

MY CLIL EBOOK OUTLINE

I hope you find it useful!

Marta

CLIL teachers on Twitter

Hello dear readers,

Before beginning with mi digital ebook, I would like to tell you about our Twitter Project at university:

One of my courses in this Master is about the use of ICTs and other digital resources in Primary Bilingual Education. As part of the content of this area, we have to learn how to use social networks as interactive tools for teaching. Our professor @mjgsm encouraged us to create a twitter handle (@MartaLFabero28) and to spread out all our learning outcomes using the course hashtag #ictclil_urjc 

So, if you enjoy this blog and you would like to have a look at my peers' work, click on the hashtag link!

Why CLIL?

CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) is the approach that integrates the teaching of content from our curriculum with the teaching of a non-native language.

Currently, this is the best approach in the Spanish Bilingual Program due to globalization and academic inflation. The students are required to be fully competent in the use of a foreign language and this means that there must be a balance between their four skills development (reading, writing, speaking and listening).
In past generations, we learnt to know about the language and the activities in school were clearly focused on reading and writing development. As a consequence, adults are still suffering nightmares about their first trip to a foreign country where they were trying to distinguish the present perfect in that speedy mix of weirdly pronounced words.
Fortunately, things are progressively changing. Using CLIL method, students are able to acquire the language in a natural environment, using it as a vehicle for communication in the different curricular areas. This means, that they are able to use English in a wide variety of contexts, developing the four skills that allow them to be competent in a language.

My students are not going to know about the language because I want to teach them how to use it. I want them to be able to enjoy music, books and conversations with people all over the world.

Break the intricate bonds with textbook and grammar and begin to enjoy teaching!

Welcome to my ICTs & Storytelling Blog

Hello everybody!

This is my first post on my new blog about epublications and storytelling. The resources that will be shared in here are intended for children, teachers and parents.

I would like to give you my personal welcome and encourage you to have a look at the different issues that will be progressively published.

Stay tuned at this site to learn how to become wizards of storytelling!

Marta