Hello Imagination Engineers!
In this post, I am going to talk about MM10: Educational Digital Projects for CLIL a conference in which I participated with my Master's Degree classmates. I will share with you all the details and my personal reflection about the experience and the process that we followed to be ready for the big day.
First of all, it is necessary to have clear what it is Moodle Mooc 10 (MM10) is. It is a series of online conferences about different education issues that are taking place from May 1 to June 4 2017 on Moodle. The goal of the MOOC is to connect people from the education profession from different countries. These teachers share and exchange experiences, knowledge and practices and resources. Fortunately, I was able to participate on the conference that took place on Thursday 4th of May at four o'clock at WizIQ. Its title was Open Educational Digital Projects for CLIL Primary Education.
Source: https://docs.google.com/documen/d/1zMHab0y3cBItvZe89ahtY54XS6xwWuBUOV18ileAMlM/edit
Now, I will summarise all the process that we followed until the day of the conference. Firstly, I individually made a scheme or a draft in which I settled the main points of our speech for the conference day. The speech had to include a brief summary of the challenges accomplished, a reflection about our experience in the Master's module, mentioning our Open Educational Project and our learning diaries.
Once I had clear what I needed to include in our 5 minutes speech, I designed a support slide for the online live class. In my slide, I proportionated my name, my twitter account, the URL of my blog and the title of my Open Educational Project. To do it, we used Google Drive, later my teacher uploaded it to Slideshare. Here you can see it:
Open educational digital projects for clil primary education from Jefe de Área de Formación en Red y Redes Sociales. INTEF
I was ready to rehearse our speech. My classmate and I were at home, but we were connected thanks to Moodle4teachers. One by one, we checked if everybody could hear and see us without problems. I have learnt that for giving a good speech on streaming, I need to have some headphones and a microphone. After the rehearsal, we were waiting eagerly for the 4th of May.
Hereafter, I let you the online conference. It is uploaded to Youtube and you can see it here:
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtSBDWzqPWw
As you can appreciate in the video when we were not giving our speech, we acted as community managers sharing the URLs of the presenter learning diary or the link to the entry that he/she was mentioning. Definitely, we were a team. We gave support to the other not only when we facilitated information to the rest of the audience, we were also writing tweets about what they were saying. Besides, we invited our followers to join us! All the tweets included two hastags #moodlemooc10 and #ictclil_urjc. You can have a look on Twitter.
Before finishing, I want to reflect about the experience and what I have learnt during the whole process.
To tell you the truth, I was nervous during the whole conference. It does not usually happen to me, I made several speeches during the Degree and the Master's Degree, but I could not manage the situation, as I wanted. During the interventions of my classmates I started to be worried, I tried to calm down and be helpful. I proportionated some URLs and I was active on Twitter. As I was watching the incredible interventions of my classmates, I felt more confident. However, in my speech, I was completely nervous again. It is so hard to speak in front of the camera when you know that everybody is paying attention to you and the only thing that you can see is yourself on the screen. The more I watched the screen, the more nervous I felt. I think that the problem was that I could not see the friendly face of my classmates or someone in the audience what makes me feel fine. I was there alone and I can see my frightened face. Although, it was not my best speech, I am proud of me because I tried to do my best. Now, I value the experience in a positive way because I have been part of an incredible conference that showed all the effort and the time that we spent working on our Open Digital Educational Projects and our personal evolution. Furthermore, we shared our work with other people who are interested in improving and changing education. If I had the opportunity to be part of other conference, I would be more relaxed. Even thought, I remember the experience as a positive one, I would have liked to enjoy it at that moment.
As I said, I have learnt valuable things; I did not know about all the effort and the previous preparation behind a conference. In our case our speech was short, but it took me ages to prepared it and my effort was not reflected in my performance, it is a pity. The next time, I am going to rehearse in front of a mirror because I need to get used to seeing me and trying to hide my nervousness. Besides, I am going to buy a good pair of headphones with an integrated microphone because you spend hours listening to others and at the same time you need good quality of the sound when you are talking. I must confess that the most useful thing for me was to discover WizIQ. It is great because it allows you to create a virtual classroom. I am thinking about the rural schools for example in Castile. The weather conditions do not allow to the teacher to go to the school or to the school bus many times. I strongly believe that the teacher on these days can teach by using WizIQ. New technologies always surprise me. Let me finish by saying thank you to María Jesús García, Nellie Deutsch, my classmates and all the people that joined the conference. It was an enriching experience that I will never forget.
To tell you the truth, I was nervous during the whole conference. It does not usually happen to me, I made several speeches during the Degree and the Master's Degree, but I could not manage the situation, as I wanted. During the interventions of my classmates I started to be worried, I tried to calm down and be helpful. I proportionated some URLs and I was active on Twitter. As I was watching the incredible interventions of my classmates, I felt more confident. However, in my speech, I was completely nervous again. It is so hard to speak in front of the camera when you know that everybody is paying attention to you and the only thing that you can see is yourself on the screen. The more I watched the screen, the more nervous I felt. I think that the problem was that I could not see the friendly face of my classmates or someone in the audience what makes me feel fine. I was there alone and I can see my frightened face. Although, it was not my best speech, I am proud of me because I tried to do my best. Now, I value the experience in a positive way because I have been part of an incredible conference that showed all the effort and the time that we spent working on our Open Digital Educational Projects and our personal evolution. Furthermore, we shared our work with other people who are interested in improving and changing education. If I had the opportunity to be part of other conference, I would be more relaxed. Even thought, I remember the experience as a positive one, I would have liked to enjoy it at that moment.
As I said, I have learnt valuable things; I did not know about all the effort and the previous preparation behind a conference. In our case our speech was short, but it took me ages to prepared it and my effort was not reflected in my performance, it is a pity. The next time, I am going to rehearse in front of a mirror because I need to get used to seeing me and trying to hide my nervousness. Besides, I am going to buy a good pair of headphones with an integrated microphone because you spend hours listening to others and at the same time you need good quality of the sound when you are talking. I must confess that the most useful thing for me was to discover WizIQ. It is great because it allows you to create a virtual classroom. I am thinking about the rural schools for example in Castile. The weather conditions do not allow to the teacher to go to the school or to the school bus many times. I strongly believe that the teacher on these days can teach by using WizIQ. New technologies always surprise me. Let me finish by saying thank you to María Jesús García, Nellie Deutsch, my classmates and all the people that joined the conference. It was an enriching experience that I will never forget.
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