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How was this video possible?
Many times we see amazing videos -I am not saying mine is the best, but I tried at least- and we do not see all the process, that´s the reason why I wanted to post this brief description.
The process to create a video is challenging, specially when it's your first time. However, if you use Adobe Spark Video it will be much easier. Spark Video is very intuitive and on every slide it gives you the option(s) you want to display there: image, text, imgage and text, audio, video. As easy as dropping the file you want to play! This is my design-draft for this video, step by step: First, you need to find a place with good lighting. The camera has to be steady, that is why I used my webcam of my computer. Before recording the videos, I designed a storyboard and a script. 1. Video cover. 2. Introduction. My name is Francisco Usero González, a doctoral student at the University of Houston. My scholarship focuses on Family Engagement and Early Childhood learning for bilingual learners. I am originally from this amazing country: Spain. 3. Pictures of my home country, Spain. 4. Teaching experience. Previously I worked as a teacher across age levels with experience in Spain, United Kingdom, France, and the United States, that´s why I can speak English, Spanish and French. 5. Pictures of the flags of the countries. 6. Teaching awards in the USA. During my experience in Houston ISD I was the recepient of 2015-2016 Rookie Teacher of the Year, 2016-2017 Teacher of the Year, 2017-2018 Teacher of the Year and Bilingual Teacher of the Year, and eventually 2018 North area of HoustonISD Bilingual Teacher of the Year. 7. Pictures. 8. Teaching value and philosophy. My personal teaching philosophy is that every child can learn given the right and supportive instructional environment that addresses the child´s social emotional psychological and educational differences. 9. Pictures and video. 10. Today. Currently I am a research assistant for Dr. Nicole Andrews at the University of Houston. Our research focus is on the faculty perception of family engagement, a very interesting topic. 11. Pictures. 12. Goodbye. That´s a brief introduction of myself, on my ePortfolio you can find more information about my interests and likes. Thank you for your attention. Have a good day and see you around the virtual universe. 13. Pictures. 14. Social media accounts.
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 The Open Educational Resources (OERs) apply to free-of-charge teaching, learning and study resources in digital media, since they are distributed with an unrestricted license (Creative Commons) that encourages us to access, modify and redistribute them without any limitations or requirements. The OER concept is considered of considerable significance and relevance in the future of teaching and schooling, particularly in school and university settings. The OERs provide a useful tool for students and teachers to gather information without needing to repay a dollar as they can be used in interactive contexts, they can be implemented in various methodologies/approaches and they can be tailored to facilitate student-centered learning. These OERs provides everyone with free and perpetual permission to engage in the 5 R's activities that are summarized here:  Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that protects ideas and their authorship. The basic idea of Creative Commons licenses is simple and helpful. The following infographic shows very clearly how Creative Commons works.  We can find several OERs websites: - Curriki (curriki.org) Through multiple sponsorships, it provides more than 50,000 services for the school community (K-12) and has more than 430,000 registered customers, more than ten million visitors and almost 1000 working teams. - Connexions (CNX) It was founded by Rice University, Houston (TX), with the involvement of organizations from more than 20 countries. Most of the content is for university students, but this aspect enables teachers to be associated with work and the university climate. Currently, it sells more than 20,000 kits and provides free space to build and distribute your own content. It is part of OpenDOAR an open access registry directory with a catalog of more than 800 software repositories. - Commons OER. It is one of the oldest archives, founded by the Institute for the Study of Information Management in Education in 2007. Currently, it has more than 150,000 services in many languages. - CK-12. It has classrooms, seminars, tests, and a fantastic learning environment. The CK-12 group, founded in 2007, produces free downloadable textbooks for the different U.S. educational grades and subjects. - Wikieducator. In Wikieducator there are tutorials about how to find, create, edit, use and exchange free educational tools in the classroom. Here you have one example of my OERs with one Kahoot! activity to learn Spanish in Dual-Language Prek: Challenge activity link: https://kahoot.it/challenge/09964053?challenge-id=88d3b312-01c1-46cd-bce5-963725e67679_1587336833797 Challenge PIN: 09964053 The activity is about ABC vocabulary about the Fall in Spanish.  Reflection on the use of OERs
1. What guided your decision in selecting the open educational resource (OER) for your artifact? As I am more visual I am using freepik.com, it is one of my favorites. As I am creating materials and resources on Teacherspayteachers and other platforms for educators, I use lots of pictures, indeed I got a premium account. For lessons I really like curriki.org. I am really grateful for this! 2. How would this OER benefit both you and your students? With the images from freepik.com I created an activity on Kahoot! (connections to the former module - educational apps) to learn ABC vocabulary in Spanish. You can find the link to the challenge activity above. 3. What challenges did you encounter in developing or designing this artifact? The biggest challenge is time. Designing and creating your materials and resources using royalty-free images is time-consuming. You need to find the proper image for your PreK students, it has to be simple and child-style, but without losing its appearance and meaning. 4. What hurdles do you foresee in utilizing OER in your course? Many times the images have other complements like decorations that are unnecessary. To delete the extra or complementary images around the one you like you need to use a specific program. Therefore, you need to download the image, edit it and save it. It often works. However, when you try to use that image on the new document the image lost quality or was modified, it presents other unexpected characteristics that stop your creativity and increase your frustration... Anyway, I really enjoy designing and creating new activities for my students. This time I have added my own voice to a PowerPoint I created about CLIL approach.
To add your voice to the slides, first go to insert on the top menu and go to "Media". There, you´ll find the "Audio" menu that has two options: 1) add an audio on your computer, and 2) record audio. I chose option 2) "record audio". Then, I clicked on a red circle to record my speech. During the recording, the time appears and you can save it or cancel it. Before adding your voice to the slide, you can listen to it and make the decision. If you don´t like it, you´ll start again the same process. For more information, please visit the official Microsoft website to learn about it: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/record-a-slide-show-with-narration-and-slide-timings-0b9502c6-5f6c-40ae-b1e7-e47d8741161c Link to the Powerpoint: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/izogre8wwav6x9prh273e/CLIL-introduction.ppsx?cloud_editor=powerpoint&dl=0&rlkey=rx7le72p8ckvg312ti0yivsom |
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