Hello blogger friends!
Here we go with the third challenge: my PLE and PLN for CLIL.
I have to say that the first time I heard about CLIL was during my
University Degree in Primary Education at León. I did the English mention and I
had three subjects in which we studied it: main concepts, principles,
methodology, how to use it, practical sessions… Then, I had the opportunity to
learn more about it and to apply it during my placement in the schools. The first
one was in Ireland, and they used this methodology. The second time I was in a
MEC British Council school, and they do also use CLIL. Thanks to that I could
see the theory I had learnt in a practical way. Then, I went further when I
started this Master in Bilingualism, where I have learnt more about strategies,
resources, activities… and see more examples of the use of this great
methodology.
Both my PLE and my PLN are linked to each other, as you can see in my
diagram:
Apart from that, I use more tools in order to learn more and find out
new things about CLIL:
1) To organise information:
- Dropbox: it is a tool to keep information in a very easy way. It
offers the possibility of saving pictures, projects, tasks, videos… and to have
them always with you even if you have not your computer.
- Google Drive: it offers almost the same things mentioned before in
Dropbox, but also it allows to share a project with a group of people and to
modify it in a real time.
2) To share and communicate:
- Twitter, Facebook and Blogger: I often use them to share information
and thoughts about CLIL, as well as to see other points of view and new ideas.
They give you the possibility to follow many pages related with that.
- Gmail and Outlook: both of them are used to share my projects, tasks,
lessons… with other people.
- WhatsApp and Skype: they are very useful to share opinions, ideas or
to solve doubts related to CLIL immediately.
- Pinterest: it offers a great variety of displays, ideas and models
which can be used in a CLIL lesson.
- Moodle URJC: it allows to share projects or tasks about CLIL with
our classmates as well as to have a look to their projects at the same time.
3) To learn more and look for information:
- Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox: both of them are useful to find
information about CLIL, to solve doubts related with that, to search pictures
or resources linked with it.
- Word Reference: I use it in order to clarify my doubts when I do not
know some words or expressions about CLIL explanations.
- YouTube: here it is possible to find so many songs, explanations…
related with CLIL.
- BBC: it offers a huge range of resources to plan a CLIL lesson.
4) To create new things:
- StoryJumper: I discovered it recently, and I use it to create stories.
- Paint: it is useful to create simple pictures, diagrams or to modify
some other elements.
- Movie Maker: to create videos.
- Microsoft Office: I use it to create the activities or lessons with
CLIL methodology.
- NovaMind: it offers the opportunity to create mind maps. It is very
useful to arrange information.
In order to create my PLE and my PLN, I had a look at all the tools that
our teacher suggested to us. There were great ones such as Coogle, Popplet or
Easel.ly. Among all of them, I finally decided to make it using NovaMind
because it is quite easy to understand and the outcomes are very attractive. It
offers the opportunity to create your own mind map since the very first moment,
so you do not have to choose a template and then modify it according to the
theme. You can change the colours, the style, or insert different elements such
as images, texts and adornments according to the aim of your diagram (if it is
for children, for you, for other student…).
Thank you for your attention!
