Reflection on the first part of the course

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In this entry we are going to talk about all the things we have work throuout these weeks in the ICT course from the Primary Education Degree in UPNA.

Firstly, our teacher taught us how to link our email account to the university platform (MiAulario). I find this very useful, although I already knew how to do this. However, I think it would have been better if someone would have taught us this in the first year of the Degree.

Then, we used a wide range of websites to create mindmaps. I think this was a good idea, as we didn't know there were that many amount of different sites for this purpose, and this way one can choose the site that better suits their learning style. My group worked with Coggle.

The next step consisted in working with Wikispaces. There, we opened an account and joined the teacher's page, where we uploaded our opinion on the different webpages we have been using in order to create the mindmaps. You can read them in here, if you are interested.

After learning what PLE was, we created our own in Symbaloo. Here you can see mine:

If you don't know what a PLE is, watch this video! It might help you.

Using Symbaloo was really interesting, as I was able to see all the tools I use in my daily life. And it got me thinking that I might be spending a great amount of time online, as almost everything I do during the day is supported by some of this tools.

Then we learnt about a website where you can generate references automatically. It stores your searchs, so you won't lose your references. And another one called  Mendeley, but this one doesn't store your searchs.

Another thing we used was this webpage. It is a site where you can subtitle videos. I found this very interesting as I love translating texts, and it was easy to use, so I enjoyed it very much. Besides, I think it can be very useful when we become teachers, so as to scaffold videos to our students.

I already knew how Hot Potatoes worked, but I found challenging having to upload the activities to the net. So I have uploaded the HTML coding in the blog, and also the HTML file to a hosting site in case it didn't work properly in the blog. This way one can see it directly anywhere from the Internet.

Working with Story Jumper was interesting because I believe that it is going to be a useful tool for teaching English to young learners. You can support a text with images making it motivating and more understandable for them.

To sum up, the most useful tool in my opinion is going to be Cite This For Me, as we have to do lots of referencing this year on our TFG and it will definitely help us with that task. And the least useful one is going to be Symbaloo as we already have quicker ways to access everything we use these days. Though I still think that it is good to have one not to forget everything that might interest you. 

I found everything quite useful, and there was a huge variety of different tools, and I really think we are going to use much of what we have lernt in this subject in our future. But if I had to choose my favourite it would be the subtitling one (Amara subtitling). I really had a great time working with this site!