This week,
our teacher showed us how to use two softwares. One was called voice thread.
Voice Thread is a multimedia tool which allows us to create an online discussion
with the teacher or with other students on a topic, picture, or video. The teacher
also showed us how to create an account, upload a thread, and make a comment on
it.
Our teacher
introduced us “Wordle” as well. The concept is easy : you tape a word and you can tweak it with different fonts,
layouts, and color schemes. It is very nice to make a story or anything you
like, and I think it is more captivating, more fun, playful.
After having
been presented these softwares, Maylis, Louise and I tried to get familiar with
them.
Then, we
kept on thinking about our story project, and shared out the activities we will
propose to the children. We finally agreed that Louise will keep on creating
the characters of the story, Maylis will think of the backgroud we will use for the first slide of our story, and I will create the “game” which will be a
labyrinth.
Being a
teacher is not easy, and we have to be adapt to children, according to what
they already know, their age, what subjects could interest them more than an
another one. In a nutshell, three words : let’s be thoughtful, creative and
adaptable. (This is when it comes to prepare a course, then, when it comes to
teach… patience also must be required !) Although it is not that simple to
create a story, I prefer doing it than only reading a story which has been
written. We don’t during the course, (too many things to wonder, to prepare and
when you like what you do, time automatically flies!
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