Welcome again!

Today I want to talk about today’s half group class. During the first hour, we have been working with the poetry videos our classmates did. We have been creating activities we could do with those videos. After that, we generated a GQ code with the video and the activity related to it, because we are going to challenge the rest of the students of other classes to do it. I really think this is a very good idea because I like doing things that are going to be useful or put it into practice, in this case with our college mates. Another thing I like about this activity is that we are going to have the chance to check if our mates did the activity, because we put a couple of hashtags which are #Soy CUCC and #helpingAnnieOnlight to see their answers. This activity is going to be carried out next week, I’m so eager to see what happens.

Related to using the GQ code to do these kinds of activities I realized that we have found it a bit difficult to create. In fact it is something really simple and easy, but we are not used to do it, and this make me think that we as teacher have to be always alert of new things and in this case, new technologies, because this world is continuing progressing and we can’t be stuck in what we learnt. Children and children’s necessities changes through time and we have to adapt ourselves and our way of giving classes to the time in which we are living.

The second part of the class, consisted on created our own poems following a technique or a kind of poem. In my case it was the “shape poem”. We decided to do a beach and all the things related to it like sand, sun, fishes, ball… In my opinion this is a really good method to make students feel more attracted to poetry due to that is more catchy and visual, for that reason students can feel more motivated to read and produce poetry, something I consider very positive.

That is all for today! have a great week