Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter no. 5 - July 2015 | Page 64

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2015 Newsletter

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Stepping ahead in our way of teaching
by Ingrid Gallardo Sundqvist
LOCATION
We are a primary school CEIP Lope de Vega located
in Ceuta, a Spanish city in the North of Africa. We
have got 9 classes of infant education and 18 of
primary education classes each one with about 26
pupils whose ages go from 3 to 12 years old. In the
recent years we have been fortunate with the
incorporation of digital boards in nearly all the
classes and notebooks and tablets in six classes so
our way of teaching has been modified greatly.
DIGITAL CULTURE PLAN
This year our school has joined the programme
“Digital Culture Plan” and apart from receiving new
hardware we have also enjoyed training sessions
which have enabled us to implement useful web 2.0
tools in class for example padlet, powtoon and
symbaloo. Thanks to them we are changing our
traditional way of teaching and giving way to new
form of understanding the learning and teaching
process. New technologies are becoming powerful
educational tools that foster our pupils’
multisensorial capacity. The combination of texts,
graphs, sound, images and animations and videos
enable the transmission of knowledge in a more
natural and dynamic way which is vital in the
learning process. Our main aim has been to foster
skills to search, obtain, process and communicate
information and transform it in knowledge. This
kind of resources helps our pupils to be active in
their studies, not without forgetting the
motivational ingredient of them. Research has
shown that in contrast with the traditional way of
teaching this advance helps pupils to absorb more
information in a quicker form.
IMPLEMENTATION
We have used a lot of different software in class.
Among them we can mention the following.
Symbaloo is a free social bookmarking service. With
it teachers have created one personalised symbaloo
for each participating class and have incorporated
links to educational resources needed to put into
practice our educational planning and that they
share with the pupils and their families. Pupils have
become familiar with it in a quick way and they use
it to consolidate their studies. This also allows a
better communication with parents because they
are more informed of their children’s progress.
Kahoot is a free game-based platform which has
enabled our teachers to create games with
questions of different areas.

Google Forms/Sheets with which teachers have
undertaken tests, corrected with Flubaroo. Flubaroo
is a free tool that helps you quickly grade multiplechoice or fill-in-blank assignments.

Flippity together with Google Spreadsheet have
permitted the teachers to create a jeopardy-style
game.
Padlet is a tool where pupils can create walls in
which they can develop their writing skills or share
their projects or information found. This last one
has seemed to be very motivating, good examples
of them can be found in one of the teacher’s blog:
https://teacheringrid.wordpress.com/padlet/ where
pupils have invented a collaborative story in
https://es.padlet.com/embed/bjmrwdj1bxxj or
where they have even created exercises to practise
English:
https://es.padlet.com/embed/quoswqww9r1t.
Powtoon, a presentation software that allows pupils
to present their pr