Last day reflection

In our last lesson we learned about VIRTUAL PLATFORMS.
First of all we were introduced to SurveyMonkey, a web place where you can create surveys, share them and analize the results. Surveys in education are a very useful tools, even more if you are in the second or the third cycle because pupils of that age manage the computer and the internet resources better.
How patient are you? --> My personal survey

Then we visited Edmodo, a page where you can manage different lessons and classroom groups using a computer. You can create a site shared with one group of students, send them homework, announcements, tests, surveys, etc. It's like conducting a lesson in a classroom, but using your computer. The option that I liked the most is the chance of uploading some bibliography/materials to each group, and the chance of communicating with the families through Edmodo.

Final entry

This final entry will compilate my opinions and suggestions for the subject: New Technologies applied in Primary Education, which I have been taught at the UPNA during the seventh semester of the degree.
First of all, I would like to say that this subject has been really interesting and formative for me as a Primary Education teacher because now I am able to use some digital tools and devices that I wasn't before, such as: interactive whiteboards, applications like Edmodo or Podomatic, spreadsheets... From now on I will have a wide range of internet and educational resources to experiment with and to improve my teaching skills for becoming a digital and updated teacher.
This subject has been enriched by the presence of the practicum period, in which we have had the oportunity to put the things we have learnt in the university into practice. We have seen the effects of the usage of some devices in real life, with students, and also, we have discovered new usages of them actively.
The problem of receiving the lessons before and after the internship is that we have felt a bit overwhelmed by the quantity of homework we had to accomplish by the time we came back at the university, because we (my group) had to have many appointments to fulfill the activities that had to be done by the end of the internship and that minimized the time we had to finish the rest of the subjects' tasks.
My suggestion is that this subject should be taught before we do our internship period as we have the chance to put into practice everything we have learnt and reflect deeply about it. The contents are well-chosen but some of them have become a bit repetitive, as using blogs, due to the fact that we had already used them previously. Nonetheless, I strongly support the presence of two important contents taught in this matter: subtitles edition (Amara, Dotsub...) and podcasts (Podomatic). They were a breath of fresh air to me since I had never heard about them and I liked them so much.