Creation of a comic

Hello! How is everything going?

Today I would like to share with you a comic that I have created for CLIL History subject to introduce the topic of Romans in 4th grade.

But, before I show it to you, I will talk about the resource that I used to create the comic. I created the comic with...

Pixton is a useful app to create and share comics. It gives you the choice to add as many strips as you want for free. Moreover, you can find a lot of different backgrounds to create comics of whichever topic and a lot of characters too. Apart from that, you can create and personalize your own characters with 60 steps that give you many options to customize the clothes, the appearance, the colours and the complements. Also, you can choose between some face expressions and this is really important when you are creating a comic. Moreover, you can edit body characters' positions to make them more expressive

It was the first time that I use this app and it is quite easily to use. The only problem that I had was that at the beginning I registered myself as a teacher, so the app didn't give me enough tools to create a comic for free. However, if you register as a teacher, the app give you the opportunity to create your virtual classroom and share comics with your students. So if you want to have more options for free to create comics, you have to  register as an entertainer.

Apart from that, I think it is a good tool for students too. It is a safe place where they can create their own comics and share them with their classmates. Besides, it is easy to use, and it can develop and increase their creativity.

I really like the app and I will recommend it to other people. Nevertheless, it can be improved including more characters for free, giving you the opportunity to create more than 5 characters for free. As well, it will be useful for new users to include a video tutorial explaining the app.

This is my comic about Romans. I decided to create a comic to introduce this topic of the curriculum because I think is a good and attractive way to teach history facts to our students. When you're teaching history you don't usually use this kind of visual aids, so I think is interesting to introduce new ICT tools in the classroom.




I hope you enjoy my comic.

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Design and present a support slideshow

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Today I would like to share with you a new tool that I created to my CLIL lessons. This time I decided to create a slideshow to talk about Sea Animals topic.

To create this presentation I chose...

Genially is an app very useful to create so many resources, not only slideshow. You can create interactive images, posters, lists and more. I like this app because it offers so many templates to personalize our slideshow, but some of them, sometimes the most attractive and the most originals are for pay. 

Although it is a good tool, if you're not used to use it, it can be quite difficult to understand it at the beginning. However, I think it is important to know some new tools, which we can use as a teacher, like this one.

This is the slideshow about Sea Animals. I chose this topic because I'm working on it in my internship. 

This is a resource that I create to use in my CLIL lesson to teach Natural Science, as I said before. Here I explained easily six kinds of animals that we can find on the sea: the sea horse, the jellyfish, the turtle, the octopus, the whale and the shark.

Moreover, I added some nice free pictures of each animal, so while I was explaining its main characteristics, students could know what they look like. I chose the images from Pixabay, which is a website that offers free images. It was easy to insert them because we can just doing from Genially, so we don't need to download the images and after upload them. Besides, I included a song about sea animals and some animal gifts.

The experience of creating this presentation to my CLIL lessons was wonderful and exciting, because I discovered a new tool that I like and that I will use in the future.

I hope you enjoy my presentation about Sea Animals.

See you!

Twittering a Tiny Story

Hello everyone!

Today I will share with you my tiny story. A tiny story is a very short story that tells us something. They are similar to tales, but they are shorter.

To write it I use Twitter, one of the most popular social networks use nowadays in education. Twitter is really useful to share information between teachers and the educational community.

My tweet tells a tiny story about what true love is, because today is Valentine's Day, and I would like to celebrate it giving some love. This story is quite different since it isn't the traditional love story. It shows us what is the real meaning of true love. Here you can see and read my story.

#tinystory_URJC One day a granddaughter asked her grandad what true love was. He told her, smiling, that it is loving someone unconditionally, no matter what the other person does. The girl gave him a hug and told him she already understood it, true love was what he felt for her. pic.twitter.com/Y4U1enkgzO

— Nadia Valor Gómez (@NadiaValorGomez) 14 de febrero de 2019

I hope you like and enjoy my story.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Aggregated Content Curation

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In this new post I will describe a content curation tool that I have chose to collect useful resources for CLIL lessons.
In my case, I chose...

I decided to use this website to collect some resources which we can use in our CLIL lessons, because I think it is easy to manage and it offers a lot of different resources from many topics, not only educative ones.

I created a board that is called CLIL lessons and I added five different pins. These pins are different between them because each one is related to one of the school subjects.



The first pin is about classroom rules. In this case we can see some fantastic and colourful posters which we can use to create our classroom rules with our students. It is a different way to create a poster and share time with your students.

The second pin is related to animals. We find here a lesson plan which talks about how to take care of pets. This lesson plan could be included in the animals unit and it is really useful because we can teach values through it.

The third pin is a video that we can use in Science subject. This video shows in a simple way the different parts of a flower and explains the function of each part.

The fourth pin is about the classic fairy tale of The Three Little Pigs. It is a video that tells us the story of the three little pigs visually. We can include this video in the literacy subject to work values or classic fairy tales. The Youtube channel that upload this video, Oxbridgebaby, it is full of videos about classic fairy tales, and they are really nice. I hardly recommend you to have a look of it.

The last pin is an interactive game about a map of Spain. This game can be use in Geography subject to work the autonomous communities of Spain. It gives us an innovative way of work this topic and it is more attractive for students.

I hope you enjoy my post and I hope it is useful for you to teach or plan your CLIL lessons.

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Image attribution for a CLIL lesson

Hello everyone!

Today we have seen how to create a Creative Commons Licence for our Learning Journal with

Moreover, we saw how to cite and attribute an image that we want to use. To practise this new knowledge we chose and cite properly some images, which we are going to use for a CLIL lesson to explain some contents.

Our CLIL topic is The Universe. This is the third lesson that we are going to teach and the main topic are constellations. To teach children some well-known constellations we will use these images to make them more visual to students.

"Leo constellation". Image by darkmoon1968/ 1332 imágenes. CC

"Ursa Major constellation". Image by darkmoon1968/ 1332 imágenes. CC

"Pegasus constellation". Image by darkmoon1968/ 1332 imágenes. CC

I chose these images from Pixabay, a page where you can find a lot of images about different issues or topics. It is really useful, because you can find there the author of the images and this information helps you to cite the image correctly.

These images will help me to show students how some constellations are and the picture that we associate to each one.

I hope you like this post.

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Cartoonize myself

Hello everybody!

This is the first post of my blog. In this post I will talk about an avatar I created and the app I used to do it.

This is my avatar, Nadia Valor. She is 22 years old and she is a girl. She is an English Pre-Primary teacher and a student of a master's degree of Bilingual Education.

She likes listening to music, watching films, travelling and spending time with her loved ones. She is good at writing and dancing.

I created this avatar with

Bitmoji is an app that allow you to create your own and personalized avatar. It has a lot of different options like hair styles and colour, eye colour and shape, eyebrows, body shape, clothes and more. It is very complete and it gives to you a lot of tools to personalize step by step your avatar.

I really like this app, because I consider it offers to you a lot of tools and options to create an avatar that looks like as you.

This app or other apps to create avatars are really useful and interesting for everyone. Through creating your own avatar you will maybe pay attention to some aspects about you that you ignore every day, like your eyes colour or your nose shape. It is a good idea to create an avatar to rediscover yourself and know you better. Furthermore, it is an entertaining activity to carry out, which offers to you the opportunity to develop your creativity.

Here you can see a video that explains how to create an avatar with Bitmoji



Moreover, an avatar could be used to communicate with your students through internet in a different way, so the lesson can be continued outdoors the classroom. There are some types of avatars like Vokis that can talk, so you can use them to teach a virtual lesson or to create virtual tours to your students. Apart from that they are used in distance education to create virtual lessons for the students.

I hope this information is useful for you and you like my post.