Week 11 - Reflexion on "Emma on the seaside"

Today, we had to watch Emma on the seaside, a story by our classmates : Charline, Lucy, Léa and Chloé. And we had to give our opinion on this story and give ideas to make it better.

First, we noticed that the pronunciation is perfect, as Lucy is English. She insisted on important words such as colours and adjectives, which is the pedagogic aim.

Talking about the recording, we heard some noisy exterior sounds sometimes but we like the sounds of train, waves, insects...

Then, few drawings could be improve as the cake in which some flowers are not coloured but they are all very nice and are focused on the important colours.

On the pedagogic side, the story is focused on colours, which is a good thing to teach for children, and on vocabulary of holidays. Simple words are used so it makes the story understandable.

However, the fact that Lucy is almost the only talking is a shame, the group should split up the voices more, but it is just a detail.

Week 7, 8 and 9 : the final stretch ! ( By Emilie)

During the last three weeks, all students of our class included us had to record their voice on voicethread which will be the support of the story telling for the teacher, and had to have finished the activities that will be proposed to children in different classes of our region.

It is important to say how Maylis, Louise-which are the member of my group- and I split up the work. All of us thought of the eductional activities, so each of us drew the different slides and agreed the exercises would be a multiple choice questions for the first exercise, and an association of words with theirs corresponding picture for the second one.I drew the labyrinth which is the playful activity.

In class, we watched the story tellings of all the other students and could comment on them, pointing the positive- for instance the content, the story, the voice- and the negative aspects- which could be a mistake of pronounciation, or a drawing which could be improved- of each story. It was a necessary step to make us realize our mistakes and improve our story. After class, we had to take the remarks of our teacher and the sudents into consideration so as to make a second voicethread recording.

We could say it was quite difficult for us to use Gimp, as we had to be really precise when it came to colour our drawings. The second little " problem" was each of us did the drawing by our side, so we had to match the colours of the trees and backgrounds when we met at university, as we didn't necessay used the same green to colour the trees, for example. Finally, we had to record many times before we could get an acceptable recording. 

To finish, we all had to focus on questions we wanted to ask the teacher about our work, and he or she is supposed to tell us what he or she liked or disliked. The questions had to be quite short. Let's see her answer, hoping we did a good job !