Saint Patrick's day history

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TEXTO EN LÍNEA para la actividad del curso 

 

• The learning objectives of the activity are the following:

            - to learn the history of the Irish festivity of Saint Patrick's day

            - to promote collaborative learning

            - to implement the use of new technologies

            - to look for, find and read about important facts

• The advantages of using TimeToast for this activity is that it is very easy and vidual for the children to add and see the information.

• The steps I followed to set up the activity: 

        - First of all, we all decided on the topic of the students interest

        - Second, we looked for texts, presentations and information in general about the 

           topic.

        - Then, we decided what information to include in our timeline

        - We tried Timetoast and realised it was easy to add information so we used it.

Since it was the first time for me and the students using Timetoast, lots of problems arose: how to save it, how to upload the images... When all the groups had finished their timeline, we created the final one deciding what information we were going to include. At this point, we encountered a chronological order and we needed to change the order in our timeline. Checking at the different options Timetoast offers, we found one that solved the problem without having to rewrite everything all over again.

We also encountered an additional problem that, due to the lack of time, we could not solve and it was regarding the images. I do not know if it is due to the fact that we are using the free version, but we could not add more images to our project.

However, the students loved the use of this tool and we are satisfied with the final product since it is very easy to see and find the information.