WOMEN´S DAY AND THE USE O TIMETOAST

 Hello!!

We celebrated at school 8th March Day- Women´s Day. So that, we worked the biography of someones important women in the history. 

Teachers established these Learning Objectives with this activity:

• To know important women in the history
• To read and understand an English text
• To collaborate in group
• To do a timeline through the text
  
• To use Timetoast correctly. 

The advantages of use TimeToast are multiple: 

• Students have to collaborate so that they reinforce metacognitive strategies – planning, self-regulation and self and co-evaluation.
• The motivation of the learners was very high.
• They improve their digital competences.
• They love work with laptops, so that they put more attention in the activity.

In order to set up the activity, first we made the groups, in this case we choose heterogenous groups of 4 pupils. Then, we gave them the comprehension reading sheet, and we explained them that they had to read it, first loud; then, they had to read aloud, one paragraph each child;after of this, they must to underline the important facts and dates of the woman life.  They answered some  questions about the reading.

After of this, students took their laptops and we explained, in the digital board, how to use TimeToast, and we did one timeline together.

In groups, they did their timeline in TimeToast.

How is normal, there were some problems with the laptops (batteries), someone didn´t understand what they had to do... There wasn´t important problems.

Learners were very motivating with the activity, the digital activity obvious. They wanted to do more timelines.

That day we didn´t have specialities, so that we had time to do the activity. The problem will be if  we would not have had so much time. In a normal class( 1 hour), we would not have finished the activity. We have to programme the use of Timetoast according with the time of the class.

The use of TimeToast helped us to achieve our leaning objectives because the students had to work in a collaborative way; they knew some important women and the facts why they were important; they learnt to do a timeline in a playful way, this is very important.

Here you have some of that timelines:

 https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/3045758

 https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/3045743

 

"Reflect of Reading habits"

 

 

As you can see from the different images, there are many ways to read a book. I tried to switch from books to e-books years ago, but I love books, its smell, its pages.... Finally, I sold my e-book.

I have been a compulsive reader since I was very young. At school forced me to read books that I didn't find interesting, even I hated them. Whwn I had to do some work about those books, I looked for the films to do it.   My love of reading started when I began to  read all the books  that there was at home, that it was very much. In this way, I discovered what genre I liked so much. I love mystery books.

I have mixed feelings about the pictures. On one hand ,I can see and enormous library in which there are people reading comfortably in armchairs, and at the end of the room there are people studyng. So, we can find readers for fun and, at the same time,forced  readers. 

 At school, students have to read, normally, books that have been chosen by the teachers, so they have to read obliged. I know that teacher do it with their best intention, but, as a teacher. I think that children must choose and read a book that they like them, and they have tome at school to read them. We have to  encourage that learners read for fun, for this reason we have to choose their own readings.

 I think that people have to read for pleasure, like the man who is shown reading on a break from work or the woman reading in her e-book. When you really like reading and a book hooks you, you try to read it at any time, even on train journeys, as we can see in another image.

 

 As for my reading habits, I love read in Spanish. I always have read mystery/ crime books, but now I also read self-help books and teaching books like neuroscience, cooperative learning, and so on. I also read some books in English, especially teaching books. I force myself to read some books in English, as I know it has many benefits. As I mentioned at the beginning, Ialways  read "paper" books.

 Finally, I try to read at the weekend, but it is true that in summer I always read much more.