Podcast

Good morning/afternoon!

Anyway, today I am here to show you my podcast and the steps made for it.

First of all I decided that I wanted to do my podcast about a book. As I am an Infant Education teachers books are very frequent and useful. This time I have taken a wordless book, yes, as the word itself says it doesn't have any words. The advantage I see about this type of books is that every time you read it, you can give a different intonation, you can use different words or you can even let the students "read" it based on the images.

In this case, I have put the words into the pictures, that is, for every page of the book I have created a sentence or sentences. In this way, it was easier to me to have it as a base while recording the audio. Here is the introduction and the story done by myself.


 


 Once I have all the story made, I recorded my voice, I did this with an app from my phone called "Voice Memos". It is a simple app where you can record your voice and later edited if you want to cut part of it.  Later, I upload this file into the speaker website. Of course, in order to do this you have to create a profile and once you have created it you can make your own playlist. In my case I have named the playlist "PANCAKES FOR BREAKFAST" as this is the name of the book.

I hope you enjoy the audio! See you next time.

Creating an Infographic

Hello everyone!!

Today I am here to explain you another fantastic resource as it is an Infographic. For those who don't know what it is, here is the definition according to Wikipedia:  Infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present information quickly an clearly.

Therefore, as the definition says it has to be very graphic, that it, it has to include images in a clear way without distracting the attention from the text. So it has to be understandable and the images has to make reference to the text that they are next to.

There are different tools to do this Infographics but in my case I chose Canva. Canva is a tool with which you can do plenty of things, from presentations to your CV passing trough posters and of course infographics. With Canva is really easy to do these things because the tool itself gives you several different templetes to choose from. Once you have chosen the one that fits best for what you are doing, you can change the background, add more things, change the color...

If my explanations aren't enough go and try it by yourself!!

But before... HERE IS MY INFOGRAPHIC. I decided to do it about the planets as I like the theme and personally, it is something that seeing it visually can help students understand the content better.

Infografía Organización Benéfica Azul Icono de Irati Esteban

Thank you for reading me and see you in the next post!

Trying to do Mind Maps online!

Hello everybody!

Today I am here to talk about mind maps. After searching for different apps to do mind maps finally I have decided to do it with creately. I have decided to do it with this app for several reasons. First of all, because it is really easy to use it, and for me that I am use to doing mind maps by hand it's an advantage.

Furthermore, I found it really useful because you can add as many pictures as you want, change them, do them bigger or smaller... that is, you can put it in the way that is best for you. With this app you can also change the color of the text or the color of the boxes. In my case as I have done it about the water, I've used different blue color-scheme so it is easy to differentiate the different levels of the mind map. 

Regarding the arrows inside the mind map, this can be changed too, I mean, you can choose to draw a normal arrow, more elaborate arrows or just a line. Which is a plus because in this way when you want to use just a line because you don't find necessary an arrow you can put it.

Anyhow, that is all I have to say about this app. If you try it, let me know so we can learn from each other.

P.S. Here I leave you my own mind map. Hope its useful :)