Today we have been talking about the usage of dropbox with collaborative purposes. We have learnt how to upload a folder in the classroom shared one. We have had problems for accessing the Dropbox webpage at the university because of the web collapse. We have found that it is impossible to introduced a shared document inside a shared folder unless you have permissions to do that.
Next, we have been introduced to a webpage created for uploading podcasts, which is called Podomatic. We have visited the different spaces available and, we have found that this is a very important tool for people that is willing to teach something or to be connected with someone showing their tastes or creations. It is also really important for "digital teachers", who can produce materials, upload them in the net and share them with their students that then will be able to practice English wherever they are and acquire digital competences at the same time.
Next, we have been introduced to a webpage created for uploading podcasts, which is called Podomatic. We have visited the different spaces available and, we have found that this is a very important tool for people that is willing to teach something or to be connected with someone showing their tastes or creations. It is also really important for "digital teachers", who can produce materials, upload them in the net and share them with their students that then will be able to practice English wherever they are and acquire digital competences at the same time.
18/12/2014
We have created our first podcast using Audacity and uploading it into Podomatic, a place where people can drag their productions and publish them with many purposes: education, entertainment, business... Ours are aimed at teaching English as a foreign language in Primary Education or at using English as a vehicle in CLIL classrooms.
Once we have done the exercise of podcasting, we have been introduced to the usage of excel spreadsheets for grading. I like using Excel for that kind of things because as soon as you understand how to operate with formulas, calculating the grades in Excel is really simple. It saves a lot of time and the only tool you may use to work with Excel spreadsheets is a computer with the programme installed. Although, there are similar tools on the web such as: google spreadsheets, OpenOffice Calc...
All the students have completed the spreadsheet with the information detailed in the New Technologies Course Notes and this is the result:
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