Welcome!

Hi everyone,

I´d like to welcome you to the 2016-2017 English language course. I´ll be your teacher during the next terms and I am really looking forward to getting started.

I´m Sergio and I´ve been teaching for a long time in many different schools. I really enjoy encouraging students to speak foreign languages, as it is essential nowadays. 

But what I really like is to link traditional language teaching together with the use of the ICT. I find it really motivating and challenging to use technology in class. By doing so, you are able to improve not only your English language skills but also to appreciate the importance of dealing with the internet and making good use out of the many different apps and software, which has been designed to be used by anyone with some basic knowledge on technology.

I therefore welcome you and I hope we have an excellent relationship and learn while enjoying each minute out of it.

Module 1 - Storytelling 2017

What is storytelling for you?

Storytelling has been an integral part of human life since time began, from sharing stories around the campfire, recording them in drawings on cave walls and writing them down on parchment and then paper. Now in the digital world, storytelling has the tools to evolve even further.

Why digital storytelling in class?

Digital storytelling is a way of capturing still and moving images with words and recorded sound - voice and music - to create and keep a lively, multisensory story.

This type of activity is so rich in opportunities for supporting language development that we find it should be used in language classrooms.

Your expectations and goals with this course

Throughout this course I´d like to create simple videos by adding some music in the background while visually zooming in on still photographs.

I´d also like to try sites such as Voki or Storybird, which offer a different type of digital storytelling. You select an avatar - a graphic character that represents you or any character in your story - and provide a voice to that character. There are options for different actions. You can type words and have the characters say them, or you can record your own voice. There are multiple language options as well.