"Animals around the World": our point of view.

This is our point of view on "Animals around the World".

-When we watched the telling-story for the first time we said "It's just great !" We really like the story. They are no many things to change. Let's begin by the positive points:

   *First, through the story children can learn many vocabularies about animals, colors and continents.

   *Then, we think that the combination between pictures, the writing of animals names and the pronunciation is really  good; it permits to the children to memorize more easily.

   *An other positive point is that the pronunciation is really clear and understandable for children. We want to add  that  the voice is really catchy.

-There are not many things to say about the negatives aspects. For us the only negative point is the length of story: 

   *The story is too long: 25 slides!

   * We think also that the beginning of story is unnecessary. Indeed there are 8 slides to present the story, but just two or three slides can be enough. (For example: Saying that it's the story of a little girl (first slide), she is at her grandparents' home and she is bored (second slide), and she finds a book (third slide). You see ?

-To conclude we think that the story and the narration are just perfect! You have done a  great work ! :) The only thing which can be changed is to shrink the beginning of story. 

The last problem we had!

There is one thing we didn't talk about: our last problem the day when we had to give our final story!
I'm just going to write a little article to explain what happened.

Yes, actually, we had a problem! In our story, we had recorded "black" bear whereas our drawings represented brown bear. We thought to say "ours brun" we had to say "black bear", but it was stupid to not check, actually we had a lot of work and we didn't pay attention. A big mistake and a big problem for us and our story! 
So, we had three solutions: 
1. To change the color in our drawings with an application but it was not pretty.
2. To change the color in our drawings with pencil, to scan them again but if we did that, we had to record again all our voice to tell the story and it was not possible in a very short moment.
3. Just record again 2 slides, saying "brown" instead "black". We choose that because our general  topic in the story is the difference, so instead to have 2 differences (black and white) he have three (black, white and brown).

Honestly, i was scared to give our story with that problem because it would be very confused for the children, and it really was a stupid mistake! But i think we found a good solution, no?

My mood:

(because today it's my birthday hahaha)

If I must to sum up this experience in just one word , I will say: FUNNY !


-What I have liked?
  *My partners ♥
  *Working in team
  *Recording our voices (it was really funny!!)

-What I have liked less?
 *Speaking  in English !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
   My level is just poor so there is only one thing to do:

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                                                   ┓┓┓┓┓┃　ヽ○ノ
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                                                   ┓┓┓┓┓┃ ノ)　
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                                  (hum hum)

Positive points:
-My team is just excellent, funny and nice... all the components was present  for a very good harmony between us !
-The atmosphere in the class was nice too!
-More important, it's confirm my wish of being teacher !

Negative points:
-No...really....I don't see any negative points....

-What I have learnt ?
I have learnt lots of things...
  *how to create a video and use Voicethread
  *how to draw a panda and a bear ^^
  *how to use Wordle
  *vocabulary (I had to search words when I wrote artciles on the blog)
  *teaching methods
  *learning methods

Last things... To answer to your question Marie I would like to say something:  the propability that Théo writes an article on the blog is as high as France wons the FIFA World Cup 2014:  very very low but I keep hope! Aha :D

This project has permitted me to make new friends (let's write a new story: Marie and her new friends ahaha:). It revealed me that Maylis and Theo are very nice and very funny (things that I already knew about Selin)
If I was one of the child who will see our story, I would really enjoy it, really.
But it's my own point of view ;)

I really like working in groups and this story has confirmed that: with the ideas of everyone we can make something really good :)

We are all creatives and imaginatives (making brown and white bears live together... strange idea isn't it?)

but I think our world needs this imagination, no?


Here is my little bilan... I don't need a long article to tell you that I like you and our work.


I've got a question. Is Theo gonna write his FIRST article this week?

                                  a) Yes

                                  b) No

                                  c) Keep hope

                                  d) Joker

The end!

Hello everyone!

This week is the last one! Sunday we have to give our finished story. But since last time when i wrote a summary on the blog, a lot thing happened!

We have decided to draw our story, because the story will show to students, so we wanted to do like if it was children who drew them. And we have also tried to make cute drawings.

We have shown our story in class. And there was a big problem: the recording of our voices is very bad! We couldn't hear! So, since monday, i tried on my computer to record my voice to see if there was a difference with the computer of Selin. And actually, there is a big difference, my voice is totally clear, so tomorrow i'll see Mary and Selin (Theo can't) to record our voices and we will see Theo friday to record his voice because he makes the voice of Teddy and Romeo (because Teddy and Romeo are boys). 

But there was also another problem: We have shared the work. So we have all done some drawings. Selin, Mary and I have done drawings who look like same, i mean we used the same colors and the same models to draw bears and the panda and also the landscape. But the drawing of Theo don't look like ours. So, today i drew again four drawings to replace those of Theo.

Selin have written the pedagogic sheet. 
So, for our fun activity, we decided to do the one i mentioned in an article of the blog before. And we have found the others activities (educative) about our story. We have made a cross word of five words who are in our story. Then, there are two memory games. One, for example, where it has three pictures and one question, the students will have to circle the good answer. And the second one, (like in our story there is a little dialogue) there is some sentences of the dialogue and students will have to find who said that.

What i think of this experience: I think it was a good experience because of the team work, the sharing of our ideas, the organization and the imagination to create our story.
I hope that students will enjoy it and will understand our story and also learn some new vocabulary. ;)

Hey guys, what do you think about this experience?

See you tomorrow. :)

Arghhhhhhh !!!!!!

Hi !
For hours and hours I tried to draw our cute pandas and bears for the story... But I must confess to you something...

Confession Number 1:  I am (very very very very very) bad at drawings !

 When my little sister heard my swearwords (!!!), she came in my room, looked at my drawings and said: "Oh my God Selin! Stop this massacre" I hate her! But in a moment of affection and genorosity she gave me help! I love her!

Confession Number 2: My 11 years old sister draws better than me !

Confession Number 3: I hate drawing....

Technology and its problems

We need computers this semester to create our story, but what happens when computer decide to not work? GGGGGRRHHH!

Last Monday, Selin's computer decided to not open the different files. It was horrible because we really needed the word document where we wrote our story: the base of our work.
Moreover, Theo was unfortunately absent this day so we didn't have any solution except waiting ... and praying that it wiil works.

We were so happy when we saw that the computer was working again :D

A big thanks to our teacher who told Selin that Google Chrome was very good ;)

So, to conclude, technologies are good but only when they work.