#twima8 - The World is My Audience

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How is everything going?

Today I would like to share with you the video I recorded using Flipgrid to take part in an international educational collaborative project called The World Is My Audience (TWIMA 8). In this project you record a video telling something about your life and share it online so every project participant can watch it. Besides, the project has a hashtag on Twitter so you can share your video there too.

Flipgrid is a social learning platform that allows teachers to ask a question about any topic and the students respond to it in a video. Students are also able to comment on their classmates' videos creating a kind of web of discussion. It is an easy tool to use and also it is safe for students. When the teacher logs in and asks the question, the website will provide him/her a code which students will use to respond to the question.

In this video, I explained why I decided to live and study in Australia for 3 months and how was the experience. As well, I told you about a funny thing that happened to me before I moved to Australia. In the beginning, it was difficult to live so far away from my family, get used to living with new people and speak in English all the time. But without any doubt, it was an amazing experience!


This educational project is fascinating because it allows people from different countries to tell their stories. Moreover, when you take part in this project you can comment on the videos and give them likes. This is wonderful because you can share content and interact with the other partners, so you feel like part of it.

I think this kind of projects help us to meet new people around the world and interact with them. Furthermore, projects such this one give the opportunity to students to develop their communicative skills through ICTs.

I hope you like my video.

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Record your video clip

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Today I would like to share with you a Video clip my classmates and I recorded. This video clip shows the story I mentioned in the last post about a girl called Lily. As I told in the previous post, the story tells us about a little girl called Lily who one day woke up in the middle in the forest. She will try to find her way back home with the help of some new friends, but she shouldn't trust everyone. We performed the different characters that appear in the story: Lily, the rabbit, the squirrel, the owl, the bear, and the fox.

We use the free version of Filmora 9 to join the different scenes we recorded and to edit the video. We didn't know about this programme before, but it was easy to use. It provides you a lot of options to edit backgrounds, images, and letters. As well, it has some templates to add letters like titles or credits. Moreover, it allows you to join videos, cut videos and add music to them. The only bad thing is that when we exported the video a big watermark appeared at the bottom of the video.

The creation process has been quite long but amazing and very funny because we have had a wonderful time recording and editing the video. It was also interesting to create our script and the storyboard to organize and visualize all the scenes we will record later. Besides, it was useful because we have discovered new programmes which can be used with our students to create and share digital content. Nevertheless, we found some problems with the fabric we used to create the chroma key because it wasn't totally smooth.

Here you have our video that is called: Finding Lily's house.



Also, you have here the link to our video: https://youtu.be/wgdaWwXCHmQ

This video has been created to literacy subject and it teaches one of the most common and well-known children's literature genre, the fable. It can be used at any level because the language is easy to understand for most of the students. Through fables, a lot of values can be taught to students in an attractive and close way, because the characters are animals, and they love them. Furthermore, they usually have illustrations and these are striking for kids. To introduce fables using ICTs is a way of updating and keeping them in children's life. In the same way, if students create a fable by themselves they could understand better the values it teaches, and they identify with the characters. Without a doubt, recording a video like this one is really advisable and rewarding for children.

Both my classmates and I think that the objectives we have planned at the beginning of this project have been achieved. These objectives are to teach some values to the students, to teach that every action has a consequence, and to teach that you have to be responsible for your acts. In addition, using this video we want to introduce traditional stories through another ICT tool. We think in this way the students will be more motivated and the literature genre will be more attractive form them.

So as I promised, you have now seen the second part of our activity.

I hope you enjoy our video clip of Finding Lily's house.

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Storyboard a video project

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Today I would like to share with you a Storyboard that my classmates and I created. We created a storyboard which title is Finding Lily's house. We decided to create a fable because we think is a good way to teach and introduce values to the students. For this reason, we use forest animals as characters and a little girl so the students can identify with her.

The story tells us about a little girl called Lily who one day woke up in the middle in the forest. She will try to find her way back home with the help of some new friends, but she shouldn't trust everyone.

The main objective of this story, which is a kind of fable, is to teach some values to the students. They will learn that every action has a consequence. Moreover, we want to teach that if someone makes a mistake he/she should recognize it and learn from it in order not to repeat it in the future. Besides, it pursues the introduction of stories through another ICT tool. In this way, students will feel more motivated and the story will be more attractive to them.

Before I share with you our storyboard, I would like to comment briefly what is a storyboard and the tool we used. A storyboard is a kind of drawing about a video you will record later, and it consists of some drawings that represent each scene and some notes about each scene.

We created it with Storyboard That. We chose to create 6 frames or scenes in 2x3 format because is what offers the free version of this app. It is quite easy to use and understand. You can find in this app a lot of different backgrounds, characters and decoration elements that you can personalize. Generally, I like the tool but it can offer more frames for free. However, it is a good tool to storyboarding short videos which you would like to record.

This is our storyboard: Finding Lily's house.



This is just the first part of one activity because the final purpose of this storyboard is to make a short video using it. Don't worry, you will see soon the whole activity.

I hope you like our Storyboard!

See you soon!