Content Curation Tools - Respiratory System

Hi everyone!!

In this post, I will talk about what the "Content Curation Tools" are, listing the four types seen in class and then I will show how I use one of them.

Nowadays, most people go to the internet to look for information of any kind. In order to easily access useful information related to the topic that you want to work on, there are different resources known as "Content Curation Tools" which facilitate the search, filtering, selection, organization and healing of all the information found . In addition, they allow sharing this information with other users of the network.

There is a wide range of "Content Healing Tools", highlighting the following four:

• Symbaloo
• Pearltrees
• Pinterest
• List.ly

For the CLIL material search for my lesson I was driving Pinterest, Symbaloo and List.ly. Finally, I decided to choose the Pinterest picture because I had already used it before.

In my opinion, Pinterest is a very simple tool to manage and with a wide bank of resources both in the educational field and in other fields. Users can both share pins through boards and sub-boards so that other users can see them and save the pins that are added by other users in their profiles.

I hope you like it and you can use these tools at any time
THANK YOU! :D

Respiratory System - Creative Common License in a CLIL Lesson

Illustrated by OpenSax College

Creative Commons Attributed 3.0 Unported (CC By 2.0)

Hi everyone!!

How are you? Today, I am using an image under creative commons license in a CLIL lesson to learn our respiratory system.

This lesson focuses on learning the main parts of the respiratory systems of the human body and, therefore, the vocabulary related to this system. This vocabulary is the following: 

• Bronchial tube: right and left main bronchus
• Lungs (right and left)
• Diaphragm
• Oral cavity
• Pharynx
• Trachea
• Nostril
• Nasal Cavity
• Larynx
• Inhalation
• Exhalation
• Oxygen
• Carbon Dioxide

I will use this image in different parts of the lesson. First, I will show the image with label to know what students know about the topic, and then to teach learners not only the parts of the respiratory system or how the respiratory system works but also to explain to the students some breathing techniques for different moments such as while exercising, at times of stress, etc.

Finally, I would like to conclude this post including a brief opinion not he use of images in the teaching-learning process. From my point of view, the teaching-learning process in most cases is usually more effective if the explanation is supported by images or interactive resources because these tools or other more innovative usually awaken in students a greater degree of interest and get this process to become something more entertaining and fun for both the leaner and the teacher.

I hope I have liked it! :D

Hi!! anyone there?

Hi everyone!! How are you? For this week I was making an avatar for my learning journal. Now, I'm going to show it to you and explain how to make it. Let's go!

It's a female, her name is Bea... yes, we share the name hahaha. 

She's 26 years old and works a teacher. She loves playing basketball, referee, go to the cinema, go to shopping and sleep. I think her 

How to make an avatar like mine?

I used different apps and websites to do it. Firstly, I created my avatar with "Bitmoji". This app is easy because you just have to follow the steps which indicate the characteristics you can choose for the avatar, such as gender, skin color, shape and color of both the eyes and the hair and the body, mouth, nose, clothes, etc. Besides, you can change you can change the clothes or the appearance of the avatar when you want.

Secondly, I used the web page "Raw Shorts" to make the video presentation of the avatar and the learning journal. With this web page you can choose different wallpapers, images, texts and even add music and audios. In all the options there are two options:
1. Add own contents of the web page.
2. Upload your own content.

It's a very complete page because it contains numerous tools, the problem appears when you want to make a presentation with tools in motion since they belong to the premium program and you have to pay if you want to use them legally.

Finally, I had to use "iMovie" to record, modify and add the voice and some effects

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I loved making my own avatar and all the work involved in doing it although sometimes I thought I could't to make the sketch I had made in my mind. I have to admit that I would't have been able to achieve it without the help of my partner Jaime, who has solved many of the doubts and problems that have arisen while I was creating the video.

I hope you like it and enjoy it as much of this work as of the next ones!