Final reflection on the PLEStorytelling

Facultat de Formació del Professorat

Universitat de Barcelona

2013

Sílvia Marín Màrquez

About this reflection…

In this document I have reflected on how my

process of creating my PLE has been.

I have also evaluated my own process when

developing my PLE and the goals that I wanted to

achieve at the beginning of the course.

Finally I have reflected on what to have an

extended PLE means to a teacher.

About me…

During this year I have had the opportunity of being in

touch with different digital tools that had helped me to

create my own PLE.

I have always been familiar with new technologies but, this

year I have learned some different and useful tools.

In my opinion, learning to use these tools offers a teacher

a chance to work more efficiently.

The fact of developing your own PLE makes you able to

save and share different educational resources such as

interesting articles, games or flashcards.

About me…Here you can see some digital tools with which I was familiar before

developing my PLE

PREZI: I have used this tool to create presentations for parents

meetings in my Scout Group. Here you can see an example

http://prezi.com/xjcofvynumky/

VIMEO: I have used this tool to share concert videos of my music

group. https://vimeo.com/46280524

GOEAR: I have used this tool to share some songs that I have

recorded with my scout group colleagues and children

http://www.goear.com/listen/372604e/follets-grimpa

BLOGSPOT : I have use this tool to write some information and

news about my Scout group. http://grimpablog.blogspot.com.es/

About me…My experience using Symbaloo

Symbaloo is a tool that allows you to share and expand your own

knowledge. By adding tiles in your own Symbaloo you can save and

share different teaching resources that you consider interesting.

My experience using Symbaloo has always been positive. I've never had

problems with its operation and since the first moment I understood how

useful it is.

At the beginning of the course in “ Didàctica de la llengua Anglesa” we

opened our own Symbaloo. I added some education web pages and

useful resources to use as an English teacher.

Nowadays I still use my “ Didàctica de la llengua Anglesa” Symbaloo to

get some information and save different resources.

http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/mywebmix1494

Developing my PLE…

At the beggining of the course

When we started the “ Storytelling” subject we

were asked to develop our own PLE in relation with

teaching English through stories. In that moment I

asked myself where I was and where I wanted to

arrive.

Developing my PLE…

Starting point

As I have said previously, before starting to develop my own PLE in

Storytelling I already had my own Symbaloo. I also had opened my own

blog to reflect on my process creating my PLE.

http://learningtoteachefl.blogspot.com.es/

Nevertheless I though about which goals I wanted to achieve when

developing my Storytelling Symbaloo. These were my goals:

To search and save digital resources to teach English through stories

To find some information about how to teach English through stories

To share and expand my own knowledge by consulting my

classmates’ Symbaloo.

Developing my PLE…

Where I am now

After doing this Storytelling course I have had the

opportunity to reflect on the goals that I wanted to

achieve at the beginning of it.

About my goals

In my opinion I have achieved all the goals that I wanted at

the beginning of the course.

I have found some information about how to tell stories and

about the importance of teaching English through stories. I

also had the opportunity of reading articles about the results

of using Storytelling as a way of learning English.

Another important goal that I have achieved is the fact of

finding digital resources that can be useful when telling

stories in class.

Finally I have been checking some resources that I have

found in our class Symbaloo and in my classmates

Symbaloo.

About my process creating my

own Storytelling Symbaloo…

Inspite of achieving all my Storytelling Symbaloo goals I can’t

say that my learning process had been continuous.

I have developed my own PLE at the end of the course

In this last semester of our degree we have been asked to do

a huge amount of work. Accordingly I haven’t been able to

take enough time to develop my own PLE.

I think that if I would developed my PLE during all the course

my learning process would have been more significant

My Symbaloo in the future

During this year I have been completing my own

PLE. I have had the opportunity to check how

useful it is.

I think that Symbaloo is a useful tool that I am

going to use in the future.

Conclusions

During this course I have developed my PLE. I believe that I

have created an extensive PLE in which I can find many

resources to be able to teach English next year

During this time I have realized how important for a teacher is

to develop his/her own PLE.

A teacher can create in his/her Symbaloo different webmixes

for each course and can her or she add interesting resources.

I also believe that is very important the fact of being able to

share Symbaloos. You can compare what other teachers do

in class and take some useful ideas to make your English

lessons better.