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As you know, in my last post I created a Visual metaphor to explain how to convert my Open Educational Project in collaborative.
As you know, in my last post I created a Visual metaphor to explain how to convert my Open Educational Project in collaborative.
Today in my blog we are going to look for partners for our collaborative
project! For this I have been seeing a list where many projects of this type
appear, such as The 30 goals Project or The Twima Project , so I have taken a look and I have chosen the one that was closest to
what I am looking for! This is The ESL Times, a collaborative project where the
reporters want to learn and enjoy together.
The reason for my choice is because you can collaborate in many different activities. Also, the collaborative project that I have to choose, has to be associated with the subject developed in my project "What´s the weather like?" which is English, and Natural Sciences as a cross-curricular subject. For that reason, the best collaborative project I could join in is The ESL Times.
Apart from that, within their goals is working with the four language skills: reading, listening, writing, and speaking; which I think children at this age should work. Other main goals are several:
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The reason for my choice is because you can collaborate in many different activities. Also, the collaborative project that I have to choose, has to be associated with the subject developed in my project "What´s the weather like?" which is English, and Natural Sciences as a cross-curricular subject. For that reason, the best collaborative project I could join in is The ESL Times.
Apart from that, within their goals is working with the four language skills: reading, listening, writing, and speaking; which I think children at this age should work. Other main goals are several:
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Working with the four language
skills: reading, listening, speaking and writing.
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Encouraging reading in English
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Using ICT when
teaching/learning ESL
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Promoting Collaborative work,
team work, autonomous work.
- Valuing the socio-cultural
side of the English language.
This project offers many activities in which you can collaborate such as News, Surveys, Poems, Text
o Comics. This is why I like it so much this collaborative Project. As you can remember, my final task will be a comic created by different group of students.
First of all, I need the members of this project to accept me so that I can
collaborate together. For this I have done an Elevator Pitch where I explain
the main reasons why they should accept me as a collaborator. An elevator pitch is an enterprise technique to find financial support for a project in 20 seconds, that is, you have to say things in a clear way and to get to the point. Thus we can catch the attention of others with few words. From my point of view, it is a good way for students to expose their thoughts about any specific topic and considering that it only last 20 seconds all students have the opportunity to tell their opinion.
What I want to achieve with my elevator pitch is that The ESL Times accepts me in its collaborative project and in this way I can also collaborate. I hope they take it into account and I can learn a lot from them. Below you can see my elevator pitch:
What I want to achieve with my elevator pitch is that The ESL Times accepts me in its collaborative project and in this way I can also collaborate. I hope they take it into account and I can learn a lot from them. Below you can see my elevator pitch:
The steps I´ve followed to create my elevator pitch are:
- Research about what an elevator pitch is.
- Record a short video where I explain why they have to accept me as a collaborative partner. You only have to answer 3 questions: what, why and how. That is what I want to do, Why I want to do, and How I want to do it.
- Edit my video with WEVIDEO. With this program I can cut the video, put music and titles. It´s easy to use.
- Share my elevator pitch through my YouTube’s channel.
In my opinion, I think that The ESL Times is a really completed project where
I like so much to collaborate. In my view, either teacher as students can learn
a lot with this project. So, I hope they accept me as a collaborator.
I have to say that WeVideo is a great tool where you can edit
o remove videos and it has a lot of advantages for us as a teacher. It has a lot of themes, music or types of letters to edit you videos, as a teacher you can use it for presentations in class with your students. I´m sure I
will use this tool more times¡
To conclude, I would like to highlight that with the 2 lasts challenges I have learned a lot about Collaborative projects and I think that it´s necessary for today´s education. The teachers of today are the ones in charge of giving a push to the traditional education and for that reason I see necessary all this that we are learning today.
To conclude, I would like to highlight that with the 2 lasts challenges I have learned a lot about Collaborative projects and I think that it´s necessary for today´s education. The teachers of today are the ones in charge of giving a push to the traditional education and for that reason I see necessary all this that we are learning today.
I hope you like my post of today and, as well as me, you have learned a
lot¡
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