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Women's Week Project!

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  Hi there, welcome to the Women's week! We are in Project of the Week and each week we work on different topics. In 6th grade the project of this week is about inportant and influential Women during History. I will be opening the new project with a podcast! have you ever heard a podcast? There are many podcast in different online platforms such as Spotify , SoundCloud ...  In this case,  I have created a podcast using SoundCloud to introduce you the project of this week:  inportant and influential women during history. The project's aim will be to research about important woman in a specific area such as arts, sports, science, cinema, fashion... The students will be gathered into groups of 3-4 people, each group will have a specific field: arts, science, sports, literature, medicine... Therefore, each group will be attached to an area, and they will have to research about a woman in their field. For example, if the field is medicine, the group will have to find a wo...

Online support slideshow

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Hi everyone! Welcome to our special week. We are celebrating the week of THE WOMAN and today related with Arts and Crafts we are going to know a woman that had influenced the style of surrealism as well as causing effects on other styles. This incredible woman is Elena Ivanovna Diakonova. You might not know this name but I am sure that Gala Dalí will be more familiar than that.  This woman was not only the muse of thousands of painters but also she was the coauthor of Dali's project. She was behind thousands of pieces of Dali, but the only difference was that her name was not on the paintings. However, was not until 1950s when Dali started signing the paintings as Gala-Dalí. There are thousand of women that their work was not recognised enough or even recgonized. That is why I found extremely inportant to raise awareness about giving recognition to women that worked as much or more as other men. So, without going any further, I wanted to mention that there are several webistes and ...

What is canva?

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You might know what Canva is, but I did not and it changed my life! Canva is a  a  free   web design tool with which you can create and publish wide range of beautiful and elegant free designs without for free and using tools like Photoshop, PowerPoint or Illustrator. You have templates of almost anything and you can use those templates to start creating your own ones! You can make a lot of things related with education such as presentations, exams, worksheets, posters, inforgraphics... Canva is very easy to use. When you register yourself you create your profile where you can have all your templates. Once you have log in, you have several examples of temples were you can use for free, or you can start a new template from the beginning. There are different types of cailgraphies, images and stickers that you can add to your template! The infograhic that I have created is about the movements of the Earth: rotation and revolution. Hope you like it!

Creating comics

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I have always loved comics! I used to read comics about superheroes when I was little, but now that I'm an adult I can create them!  There are several apps that you can use in order to create a comic, but in this case I h ave used Storyboard website to create it.  In Storyboard you can create comics of one or more slides. When you log in in the website, you can create a comic, when you create a new comic, the screen looks like this: As you can see on the top of the website in the left, we have the settings of the comic where you can choose the character you want to use, the scenes of the comic and much more things that you can see in this photo: Whereas at the bottoom of the website we can find some buttons about the structure and settings of the comic itself. You can see the options in the photo below: I have found this website really interesting and diverse as you can make a lot of changes; there are a lot of different scenes that you can use as a background, there are thous...

Using mindaps in class

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Hello again! Hope you are feeling good 😀 Today I bring you a new tool: mindpas. They are useful for a lot of things such as organising, studying, reviewing, preparing a presentation or whatever you want! The main aim of mindmaps is to organise different concepts into a clear outcome. Here I have a list with diferent websites where you can create your own mindmaps. They usually recquire register in the websites, you can do it with your Google account, Facebook or even your e-mail. These are the websites: Mindmeister Mind42 SpiderScribe Bubbl Creately I have created a mindmap about animals, classifying it depending on the skeleton structure (vertebrate or invertebrate), reproduction and nutrition.  The link to the mindmap:  ANIMALS mindmap   I have created this mindmap with SpiderScribe and I have to say that I really like it because you can add images, files, maps and calendars into your mindmap! Here you can see it: Hope you like it and let me know if you create any mind...