Genial.ly

Hello teachers ! How are you? To be honest,  these days have been tough at home due to the coronavirus pandemic ,so  I decided to spend this period of time doing videocalls with friends and family, reading, playing games , working out, watching netflix ,  and of course, learning!

It is a good opportunity to keep learning especially about  ICTs. Many teachers are adapting to this situation and use technological tools to keep their student learning. One of these tools is genial.ly

This week I have been learning and working with Genial.ly. It is a tool to create original  presentations, interactive images, dossiers, infographics...

I had always used Power Point or Prezi to create presentations, however Genial.ly has a lot of free options and it is really easy to use due to the fact that it has templates, images, icons...
but you can also insert your own or external photos, videos and audios. Moreover, Genial.ly  is more attractive for students since it has many interactive elements. They will love it.

I have created this interactive presentation about vertebrates animals for the 4º course of Primary Education, so  here  you can see many of their option.  I hope you enjoy it .

Gamification on Pinterest

Hello teachers!!  Today I am going to talk about a very useful tool that I have discovered some years ago , and I have been using since then for educational and personal purposes. This tool is called Pinterest. It  allows users to save , share and discover new images, web pages  and videos.  

When you see an idea that you want to use in class you can create boards and save the pins that you like the most so you do not forget or lose it.

In this case I save some interesting pins about gamification which is an active methodology that  briefly explained it consist on using game elements in the learning context to motivate students. Here you have some pins that explain evething about this methodology and how to implement it in your classrooms