Task 8: Commenting other blogs


The journalist’s role is not only based on telling what we do each week, but also on exploring two more blogs related to our weekly task.

 In this post, I have decided to comment a blog called Discovery education. I really like it, because it shows many ways to create a story. Some of the author's suggestions are: flipbooks, stop-motion animation, cell and cut-out animations…

I have really enjoyed reading this blog, since it reflects easy and funny things you can teach your students in many different ways. The point is that you can change your routine as a teacher. I mean, introducing methodologies like this, in which children are active learners, would suppose reducing the use of boring textbooks teachers usually prefer because of comfort. In plus, we think that the author's ideas are really interesting because of the fact that children can acquire knowledge by themselves.

As you will see if you take a look at this blog, it also provides some videos in which the author presents examples of what you can do with her ideas. One of these is explaining the importance of stopping air pollution to students, by using cut-out animation.

To sum up, I would say that this blog has really inspired us, because it shows that there is some kind of hope for evolution, of a possible change in order to remove all the useless things, such as some textbooks, and find and integrate in the classroom new things that could motivate students to do their best at school.

Here, I include the blog's link so that you can have a look and enjoy it and a picture of the comment we wrote in it.

http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/blog/2016/05/01/animation/




Besides, we have commented a blog of our colleagues (as always).  We think it is really important to give them some feedback, since we also want it from them. This time, we have chosen the group Teachers Formation. Here you have got the screenshot:

http://teachersformation.blogspot.es/

That is all so... Thanks for reading and...

See you soon!!

L. T.

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