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Create an Aura around one picture with a video where the character itself explains the more relevant things about their life.

I was born in Badalona, I´m 23 years old and I love swimming.

THE TASK

• In the box you will find some pictures, choose your favourite or …you can draw a face in the blank faces sheets.

• Talk to your partner and decide what´s more relevant about them. If you need more information search it on wikipedia (who they are, where and when they were born, why are they relevant…)

• Write four lines about them (first person!)

• Now it´s time to give the picture a voice!, we will use the app called Morfo to animate it and create a video. Save the video afterwards in the library.

THE ACTIVITIES

• Tap on this Icon to activate the app

• Tap on “Create a new face”.

• Tap on “Choose here to take a picture”

• Take a picture of the sheet you have chosen, clic on “Use photo”

Animating with Morfo. Helping Guide

• Frame the head, eyes, nose and mouth.

• Clic “Finish” A page with animals pops out, cancel it.

• Now you can record your voice! Clic on start and say what you want your character to say. Stop when you finish your message.

• Clic play and listen. If you are happy with the result clic on Share and clic on Save Video.

• Great! You have animated your character! Save your video.

Animating with Morfo. Helping Guide

• Now, let´s add Augmented Reality to the picture with Aurasma, link the video that you have just created with the picture so when anyone focuses the picture, the video that you have made will appear. (Internet required)

• When you finish, explain your experience to the Journalist or (in case the Journalist is busy) record a video explaining it and upload it to Dropbox (TB1.Learning about others)

Activities

Create AR with Aurasma.

• First open the app called Aurasma

• Tap on the menu

• Touch the + sign

• Touch on “Device” and touch the + sign

• Choose Photo Album and choose the Morfo video that you have recorded before

Create AR with Aurasma.

• Touch Use and write a name for your Aura, clic on Finish

• Now, clic on it again and clic Select.

• Focus on the worksheet with the picture, wait until the pointer turns green! And then tap the camera icon.

• Great! Now hang it on the wall! Everytime that you´ll focus that picture with the Aurasma App the video that you made will pop-out bringing the picture to live!

Albert Einstein

Frida Kahlo

Cleopatra

Steve Jobs

Android

Macaca silenus

Hillary Clinton

Barack Obama

Beethoven

Kilian Jornet

Mireia Belmonte

Rafael Nadal

Miley Cirus

Justin Bieber

Twitter

Facebook Thumb

Darth Vader

+ ideas for an augmented class

• Place the student’s compositions on the walls and add and aura to each writen composition with the student oral exposition.

• Add auras to the wall displays and to the flashcards.

• Hide Auras in the class with “The question of the week” or “The word of the week”

• Invite your students to add Auras to different objects of the class, so as to have an Augmented speaking class!

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Travelling around the world

In this box you will find…

Headphones

Tablet IOS/Android

StreetView in Google Maps Appto find your dreamed place

Tellagami app to present the place

+ info about Street View

+ info about Tellagami

In this box you will use…

What is your dreamed trip? Why?

THE BIG QUESTION

The Eiffel Tower, the liberty statue, the colosseum in Rome, the Big Ben in London, or Chamonix in France, what´s your dreamed destination? and why would you like to go there?

Create a video with an avatar in front of a landscape of your dreamed place explaining where it is located and why have you chosen it.

THE TASK

• Discuss and decide your destination with your partner

• Open Google Maps App and write the direction in the box.

THE ACTIVITIES

• Touch longer on the spot where your destination is so as to activate Street view.

THE ACTIVITIES

Make a screenshot of the image (press ) and it willbe saved in library/screenshot

THE ACTIVITIES

• Think carefully the reasons why you would like to go there and write them down (Who are you, where are you, why it is your dreamed place)

• Open the tellagami app

• Choose a character • and costumize it

THE ACTIVITIES

Finally record or write why you would like to visit that place so the avatar will say it. Save the video. Upload it to share it with

the class

THE ACTIVITIES

If you read this, it means that the wi-fi is not working…you will always need a Plan B (analogic or offline)

You can create a similar activity with a laptop with wired connection using a voki (www.voki.com) instead of a tellagami or with Crazy talk (offline).

http://www.voki.com/

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Bee-Bot Town


Bee-Bot

I´m a serious toy!

CardBoard,

Sticks, plasticine

and wooden shapes

• Bee-Bot is a Bee and a robot

• If you want him to move…you have to program it!

• Press the correct commands to direct him

• It´s great to work spacial skills.

• Here you can see a real use of it:

• It also has an app for IOS

About Bee-Bot…

How does Bee-Bot Town looks like?

THE BIG QUESTION

Bee-Bot needs a town where to live.

In the Box there is a cardboard with 15x15 squares drawn.

This is Bee-Bot town….but…it´s empty! Decide what buildings are there and where

they are placed.

THE TASK

• Decide the buildings that “Bee-Bot Town” needs

• Create a little sign for each building. Use sticks, paper, wooden figures and plasticine.

• Great! You have designed the town!

• Now show it to Bee-bot by giving him directions. One member of the team decides the place and the other one gives directions to Bee-Bot.

• Explain your results. (written or spoken through videos, podcasts or writings)

THE ACTIVITIES

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This alphabet is alive!


Tablet IOS/Android

Headphones

AR Flashcards

AR Flashcards APP

+ info about AR Flashcards


• What animal is hidden on each letter?

THE BIG QUESTION

Welcome to the virtual safari!

Discover the animals hidden in each card, listen to their names and take a picture of each one them!

THE TASK

• Place the letters on the table

• Open the AR Flashcards app

• Focus on each letter and wait a second…

• Discover the animal. Touch the animal and listen.

• Take a picture of it! (screenshot)

• Upload the pictures to TB4 on Dropbox.

THE ACTIVITIES

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Phonic Tricksters

Challenge


Smartphone

(IOS)

Headphone

Have you ever seen a trickster phonic? Can you imagine how they might look like? They are nearer than you think…

THE BIG QUESTION

Participate on a collaborative phonics board on Facebook or on Pinterest

THE TASK

Look for a folder called Pearson

Apps and touch the app called

Phonic Tricks

THE ACTIVITIES

Look around through your mobile…find and

chase a Trickster. Answer the phonic question

Afterwards, if your answer is not correct,

he will scape again!

THE ACTIVITIES

Ok, now that you knowHow it works…let´s give it a Twist!

Welcome to the #TRICKSTERCHALLENGE

THE ACTIVITIES

Clic on the app again. Choose a Trickster.

Catch the trickster in front of a place whose

name contains the sound you are chasing. (For example, if you are chasing the sound “ch” chase it on a “chair”)

While you are chasing it

screenshoot the picture

and save it in the library

THE ACTIVITIES

Now let´s open another app called InstaFonts

(Same Folder as before)

Open the screenshot you did before

THE ACTIVITIES

Label the picture. “I caugh this trickster on a ___”

Save it into the gallery

Share it in Facebook or PinIt with the #tricksterchallenge

Let´s create a collaborative phonics board!

THE ACTIVITIES

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StoryTech


Tablet

IOS

Headphones

Pencils

Puppet Pals allows you to animate a story and record it as a video, you can choose or create the charactersand the setting and then recordthe movement and your voices fora puppet show!


The camera allows you to take pictures, record videos and save them.

Do you know how to create a story?

THE BIG QUESTION

Create a story and make a movie out of it, the story has to contain the five elements (theme, setting, characters, conflict and plot) and upload it to Dropbox TB6

THE TASK

• Talk with your partners and think of a theme for the story. What is it about? (Environment, Emotions, Sports…)

Write it here:

Our book talks about…

______________________________________________________________

THE ACTIVITIES

• Talk with your partners and decide the characters.

Draw them as detailed as you can (next page) and take a picture of each one

One character for each team member.

THE ACTIVITIES

Who is in the story?

THE ACTIVITIES

The characters of the story are…

THE ACTIVITIES

The characters of our story are…

• Talk with your partners and decide the setting

Draw it as detailed as you can (next page) and take a picture of it.

You can have three different settings

THE ACTIVITIES

Where does it happen?

THE ACTIVITIES

My story happens in…

• Talk with your partners and decide the conflict between the characters and how they solve it (plot)

Write the story script it in the next page.

THE ACTIVITIES

What´s the problem? How do they solve it?

THE ACTIVITIES

My story script…

Character1:

Character2:

Character1:

…

…

1. Switch on the tablet. The code is…..

2. Look for a folder called “StoryTech”. Touch it.

3. Look for an app called “Puppet Pals”. Touch it.

This is the first screen.

Touch on “Press start”

This is the second screen. Here you can choose the characters

Choose the characters you have drawn before. Adding actor from picture.

How to use Puppet Pals. Helping Guide

This is the third screen.

Choose the setting you have

drawn before.

You can choose up to three.

This is the movie set.

Touch the red button.

It records everything that´s

happening in front of

the background…and your

voice too!


You can rotate the characters

and change their size with your

fingers.

Touch here It will change

the setting


Touch the square button to

Stop the recording.

Touch the triangle

to play it.

You can save it

or share it.


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Emotions book


Three pens

Cardboards

Book

Are you aware of your emotions?

Do you react in the same way as your friends or differently?

THE BIG QUESTION

Create a collaborative “Emotions Book”

to learn about your and your classmates

emotions and reactions so as to know them

better and improve your class climate.

THE TASK

How to create a collaborative “Emotions Book”

Choose an emotion: Hapinness, Sadness,

Excitement, Anger…

Think. What your reactions are

to this emotions?

My name is…………………………..

- I feel happy/sad/angry/excited when I…

- When I feel happy/sad/angry/excited I...

Write it down in the little cardboards

THE TASK


Open the talking book and place each cardboard in a plastic holder.

Look at the number of the page.(yellow sticker on the top)

Record the sentence that you have written in the correct button.

To record your voice press the number and the black button at the same time.

When the red light flashes you can talk.

THE TASK


If you want to listen, just press the button with the number.

Listen to your friends recordings.

Compare their reaction with yours. Do you react the same way or differently?

THE TASK

9

Solar System


Tablet Headphones


I-nigma App is a great QR code reading.

Works both for IOS and Android

What do you know about the Solar System?

THE BIG QUESTION

TASK

Discover facts from Our Solar System and recall the information you have listened.

Switch on the tablet

Look for the i-nigma icon

Touch the app. Focus this QR code with the tablet and listen.

THE ACTIVITIES

Let´s find the information

I am the _______.I’m a burning ball of fire.

I’m very _____ indeed.Life on earth depends on me.

I am the ______.

I am _________.I’m the ________ planet to the ______.I’m a ball of iron — I have no ______.

I am _______.

I am Venus.I’m the same size as the Earth

but I spin the other way and much more _________.I have no _________ — I am _______

I am the Earth.The place where we all live.

There is land and lots of _______ so I _______ blue.I have a ________I am the Earth.Check the answer here!!

Complete

THE ACTIVITIES

Do you want to create your own QR?

This is a great site!

Extended information

And what about a voice QR?

Try it here!

Extended information

10

Forces and motion

What a magnet atracts?

THE BIG QUESTION

Experiment, think, discover, elaborate a report and explain what a magnet atracts.

THE TASK

Place the objects on the table

Bring the magnet close to the objects.

Observe which objects move.

Bring a magnet close to another magnet.

Bring it close to different parts of the magnet.

Observe what happens.

THE ACTIVITIES

List

Objects Atracted

by the magnet

________________

________________

________________

________________

________________

List

Objects Not Atracted

by the Magnet

_____________

_____________

_____________

_____________

_____________

List

Objects Repelled

by the Magnet

_____________

_____________

_____________

_____________

_____________

Write the results

THE ACTIVITIES

What do the objects that were atracted have in common?________________

What do the objects that were not atracted have in common?_____________

THE ACTIVITIES

Compare the results.

When you finish explain your conclusions to the rest (you can record it in a video or podcast)

The end that points in the North is called the North Pole of the magnet

and the end that points South is called the South Pole of the magnet.

Extended reading

Read here the results of the latest research

done by Stanford University.

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/july/flipped-learning-model-071613.html

Extended information about Flipped sessions















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