Workshop delivered at SIMO Educación 2013 in Madrid. Trending boxes uses the PBL and TBL approach and it helps develop the 21st century skills.

15. THE TASK
Create an Aura around one picture with a video
where the character itself explains the more
relevant things about their life.
I was born in Badalona,
I´m 23 years old and
I love swimming.

16. THE ACTIVITIES
• In the box you will find some pictures, choose
your favourite or …you can draw a face in the
blank faces sheets.
• Talk to your partner and decide what´s more
relevant about them. If you need more
information search it on wikipedia (who they are,
where and when they were born, why are they
relevant…)
• Write four lines about them (first person!)
• Now it´s time to give the picture a voice!, we will
use the app called Morfo to animate it and create
a video. Save the video afterwards in the library.

17. Animating with Morfo. Helping Guide
• Tap on this Icon
to activate the app
• Tap on “Create a new face”.
• Tap on “Choose here to take a picture”
• Take a picture of the sheet you have chosen, clic
on “Use photo”

18. Animating with Morfo. Helping Guide
• Frame the head, eyes, nose and mouth.
• Clic “Finish” A page with animals pops out,
cancel it.
• Now you can record your voice! Clic on start and
say what you want your character to say. Stop
when you finish your message.
• Clic play and listen. If you are happy with the
result clic on Share and clic on Save Video.
• Great! You have animated your character! Save
your video.

19. Activities
• Now, let´s add Augmented Reality to the
picture with Aurasma, link the video that you
have just created with the picture so when
anyone focuses the picture, the video that you
have made will appear. (Internet required)
• When you finish, explain your experience to the
Journalist or (in case the Journalist is busy)
record a video explaining it and upload it to
Dropbox (TB1.Learning about others)

20. Create AR with Aurasma.
• First open the app called Aurasma
• Tap on the menu
• Touch the + sign
• Touch on “Device” and touch the + sign
• Choose Photo Album and choose the Morfo
video that you have recorded before

21. Create AR with Aurasma.
• Touch Use and write a name for your Aura, clic
on Finish
• Now, clic on it again and clic Select.
• Focus on the worksheet with the picture, wait
until the pointer turns green! And then tap the
camera icon.
• Great! Now hang it on the wall! Everytime that
you´ll focus that picture with the Aurasma App
the video that you made will pop-out bringing the
picture to live!

22. Albert Einstein

23. Frida Kahlo

24. Cleopatra

25. Steve Jobs

29. Android

30. Macaca silenus

31. Hillary Clinton

32. Barack Obama

33. Beethoven

34. Kilian Jornet

35. Mireia Belmonte

36. Rafael Nadal

37. Dog

38. Miley Cirus

39. Justin Bieber

40. Twitter

41. Facebook Thumb

42. Darth Vader

43. + ideas for an augmented class
• Place the student’s compositions on the walls
and add and aura to each writen composition
with the student oral exposition.
• Add auras to the wall displays and to the
flashcards.
• Hide Auras in the class with “The question of the
week” or “The word of the week”
• Invite your students to add Auras to different
objects of the class, so as to have an
Augmented speaking class!

44. 2
Travelling around
the world

45. In this box you will find…
Headphones
Tablet IOS/Android

46. In this box you will use…
+ info about Street View
StreetView in Google Maps App
to find your dreamed place
+ info about Tellagami
Tellagami app to present
the place

47. THE BIG QUESTION
What is your dreamed trip? Why?
The Eiffel Tower, the
liberty statue, the
colosseum in Rome, the
Big Ben in London, or
Chamonix in France,
what´s your dreamed
destination? and why
would you like to go
there?

48. THE TASK
Create a video with an avatar in front of a
landscape of your dreamed place
explaining where it is located and why
have you chosen it.

49. THE ACTIVITIES
• Discuss and decide your destination
with your partner
• Open Google Maps App
and write the direction in the box.

50. THE ACTIVITIES
• Touch longer on the spot where your
destination is so as to activate Street
view.

51. THE ACTIVITIES
Make a screenshot of the image
(press
) and it will
be saved in library/screenshot

52. THE ACTIVITIES
• Think carefully the reasons why you would
like to go there and write them down (Who
are you, where are you, why it is your
dreamed place)
• Open the tellagami app
• Choose a character
• and costumize it

53. THE ACTIVITIES
Finally record or write why you would
like to visit that place so the avatar
will say it. Save the video. Upload it to
share it with
the class

55. If you read this, it means that the
wi-fi is not working…you will
always need a Plan B (analogic or
offline)
You can create a similar activity
with a laptop with wired connection
using a voki (www.voki.com)
instead of a tellagami or with Crazy
talk (offline).

56. 3
Bee-Bot Town

57. In this box you will find…
I´m a serious toy!
Bee-Bot
CardBoard,
Sticks, plasticine
and wooden shapes

58. About Bee-Bot…
• Bee-Bot is a Bee and a robot
• If you want him to move…you have to
program it!
• Press the correct commands to direct him
• It´s great to work spacial skills.
• Here you can see a real use of it:
• It also has an app for IOS

59. THE BIG QUESTION
How does Bee-Bot Town looks like?

60. THE TASK
Bee-Bot needs a town where to live.
In the Box there is a cardboard with 15x15
squares drawn.
This is Bee-Bot town….but…it´s empty!
Decide what buildings are there and where
they are placed.

61. THE ACTIVITIES
• Decide the buildings that “Bee-Bot Town” needs
• Create a little sign for each building. Use sticks,
paper, wooden figures and plasticine.
• Great! You have designed the town!
• Now show it to Bee-bot by giving him directions. One
member of the team decides the place and the other
one gives directions to Bee-Bot.
• Explain your results. (written or spoken through
videos, podcasts or writings)

62. 4
This alphabet is alive!

63. In this box you will find…
s
Headphone
Tablet IOS/Android
AR Flashcards

64. In this box you will use…
+ info about AR Flashcards
AR Flashcards APP

65. THE BIG QUESTION
• What animal is hidden on each letter?

66. THE TASK
Welcome to the
virtual safari!
Discover the
animals hidden in
each card, listen to
their names and
take a picture of
each one them!

67. THE ACTIVITIES
•
•
•
•
Place the letters on the table
Open the AR Flashcards app
Focus on each letter and wait a second…
Discover the animal. Touch the animal
and listen.
• Take a picture of it! (screenshot)
• Upload the pictures to TB4 on Dropbox.

68. 5
Phonic Tricksters
Challenge

69. In this box you will find…
Smartphone
(IOS)
e
phon
Head

70. THE BIG QUESTION
Have you ever seen a
trickster phonic? Can
you imagine how they
might look like? They
are nearer than you
think…

71. THE TASK
Participate on a collaborative phonics board
on Facebook or on Pinterest

72. THE ACTIVITIES
Look for a folder called Pearson
Apps and touch the app called
Phonic Tricks

73. THE ACTIVITIES
Look around through your mobile…find and
chase a Trickster. Answer the phonic question
Afterwards, if your answer is not correct,
he will scape again!

74. THE ACTIVITIES
Ok, now that you know
How it works…
let´s give it a Twist!
Welcome to the
#TRICKSTERCHALLENGE

75. THE ACTIVITIES
Clic on the app again. Choose a Trickster.
Catch the trickster in front of a place whose
name contains the sound you are chasing.
(For example, if you are chasing the sound “ch” chase it on a “chair”)
While you are chasing it
screenshoot the picture
and save it in the library

76. THE ACTIVITIES
Now let´s open another app called InstaFonts
(Same Folder as before)
Open the screenshot you did before

77. THE ACTIVITIES
Label the picture. “I caugh this trickster on a ___”
Save it into the gallery
Share it in Facebook or PinIt with the
#tricksterchallenge
Let´s create a collaborative phonics board!

78. 6
StoryTech

79. In this box you will find…
Headphones
Tablet
IOS
Pencils

80. In this box you will use…
The camera allows you to take
pictures, record videos and save
them.
Puppet Pals allows you to animate
a story and record it as a video, you
can choose or create the characters
and the setting and then record
the movement and your voices for
a puppet show!

81. THE BIG QUESTION
Do you know how to
create a story?

82. THE TASK
Create a story and make a movie out of
it, the story has to contain the five
elements (theme, setting, characters,
conflict and plot) and upload it to
Dropbox TB6

83. THE ACTIVITIES
• Talk with your partners and think of
a theme for the story. What is it
about? (Environment, Emotions,
Sports…)
Write it here:
Our book talks about…
______________________________________________________________

84. THE ACTIVITIES
Who is in the story?
• Talk with your partners and decide
the characters.
Draw them as detailed as you can
(next page) and take a picture of
each one
One character for each team member.

85. THE ACTIVITIES
The characters of the story are…

86. THE ACTIVITIES
The characters of our story are…

87. THE ACTIVITIES
Where does it happen?
• Talk with your partners and decide
the setting
Draw it as detailed as you can (next
page) and take a picture of it.
You can have three different settings

88. THE ACTIVITIES
My story happens in…

89. THE ACTIVITIES
What´s the problem?
How do they solve it?
• Talk with your partners and
decide the conflict between the
characters and how they solve it
(plot)
Write the story script it in the
next page.

90. THE ACTIVITIES
My story script…
Character1:
Character2:
Character1:
…
…

91. How to use Puppet Pals. Helping Guide
1. Switch on the tablet. The code is…..
2. Look for a folder called “StoryTech”. Touch it.
3. Look for an app called “Puppet Pals”. Touch it.
This is the first screen.
Touch on “Press start”
This is the second screen. Here you
can choose the characters
Choose the characters you have drawn
before. Adding actor from picture.

92. How to use Puppet Pals. Helping Guide
This is the third screen.
Choose the setting you have
drawn before.
You can choose up to three.
This is the movie set.
Touch the red button.
It records everything that´s
happening in front of
the background…and your
voice too!

93. How to use Puppet Pals. Helping Guide
Touch here
It will change
the setting
You can rotate the characters
and change their size with your
fingers.

94. How to use Puppet Pals. Helping Guide
Touch the square button to
Stop the recording.
Touch the triangle
to play it.
You can save it
or share it.

95. 8
Emotions book

96. In this box you will find…
Three pens
Book
Cardboards

97. THE BIG QUESTION
Are you aware of your
emotions?
Do you react in the same way as
your friends or differently?

98. THE TASK
Create a collaborative “Emotions Book”
to learn about your and your classmates
emotions and reactions so as to know them
better and improve your class climate.

99. How to create a collaborative “Emotions Book”
THE TASK
Choose an emotion: Hapinness, Sadness,
Excitement, Anger…
Think. What your reactions are
to this emotions?
My name is…………………………..
- I feel happy/sad/angry/excited when I…
- When I feel happy/sad/angry/excited I...
Write it down in the little cardboards

100. How to create a collaborative “Emotions Book”
THE TASK
Open the talking book and place each cardboard
in a plastic holder.
Look at the number of the page.(yellow sticker on
the top)
Record the sentence that you have written in the
correct button.
To record your voice press the number and the
black button at the same time.
When the red light flashes you can talk.

101. How to create a collaborative “Emotions Book”
THE TASK
If you want to listen, just press the button
with the number.
Listen to your friends recordings.
Compare their reaction with yours. Do you
react the same way or differently?

102. 9
Solar System

103. In this box you will find…
Tablet
Headphones

104. In this box you will use…
I-nigma App is a great QR code reading.
Works both for IOS and Android

105. THE BIG QUESTION
What do you know about the Solar
System?

106. TASK
Discover facts from Our Solar System
and recall the information you have
listened.

107. THE ACTIVITIES
Let´s find the information
Switch on the tablet
Look for the i-nigma icon
Touch the app. Focus this QR code with
the tablet and listen.

108. THE ACTIVITIES
Complete
I am the _______.
I’m a burning ball of fire.
I’m very _____ indeed.
Life on earth depends on me.
I am the ______.
I am _________.
I’m the ________ planet to the ______.
I’m a ball of iron — I have no ______.
I am _______.
I am Venus.
I’m the same size as the Earth
but I spin the other way and much more _________.
I have no _________ — I am _______
Check the answer here!!
I am the Earth.
The place where we all live.
There is land and lots of _______ so I _______ blue.
I have a ________
I am the Earth.

109. Extended
Extended information information
Do you want to create your own QR?
And what about a voice QR?
This is a great site!
Try it here!

110. 10
Forces and motion

112. THE BIG QUESTION
What a magnet atracts?

113. THE TASK
Experiment, think, discover,
elaborate a report and
explain what a magnet
atracts.

114. THE ACTIVITIES
Place the objects on the table
Bring the magnet close to the objects.
Observe which objects move.
Bring a magnet close to another magnet.
Bring it close to different parts of the magnet.
Observe what happens.

115. THE ACTIVITIES
Write the results
List
List
Objects Atracted
Objects Not Atracted Objects Repelled
by the magnet
by the Magnet
List
by the Magnet
________________ _____________
_____________
________________ _____________
_____________
________________ _____________
_____________
________________ _____________
_____________
________________ _____________
_____________

116. THE ACTIVITIES
Compare the results.
What do the objects that were atracted have in
common?________________
What do the objects that were not atracted have in
common?_____________
When you finish explain your conclusions to the rest
(you can record it in a video or podcast)

117. Extended reading
The end that points in the North is called the North Pole of the magnet
and the end that points South is called the South Pole of the magnet.

118. Extended information about Flipped sessions
Read here the results of the latest research
done by Stanford University.
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/july/flipped-learning-model-071613.html

119. Any doubts?…contact me!
Marta Cervera Moliner
Marta.cervera@pearson.com
@martacervera
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