Week 4: Dotsub and Story Jumper

(21/9/15-25/9/15)

This week we´ve been introduce on different online resources such as: Dotsub, Story Jumper, Pow toons, Voki etc. 

Dotsub is an online platform where you can subtitle videos in an easy way. I didn´t knew any platform like this before, and I find it really interesting for our future work. As english teachers, we will need use a lot of times videos in our classes, but these videos may have difficult vocabulary or may be difficult for our students to understand. To solve that problem, we can use a platform like Dotsub and add subtitles to the videos, so the students can understand them more easily. 

At first I thought it would be quite tricky to use, but once you understand how it works it is really easy. However, subtitling a video is an activity that requires a lot of time (depending on the duration of the video) and a little patience. 

But the resource I´ve found even more interesting than Dotsub is Story Jumper. It is a website that allows us to create stories online. We can use it as teachers to create stories for our students related to the contents we are working on. However, a more interesting way of introducing it into our classes is letting the students create their own stories. They will develop their imagination and creativity, at the same time they develop their lenguage and digital skills. 

Here I add the example of the Story that I created in class with my peer Beatriz Armendariz: 

Finally, the reading of this week was The effect of electronic books on enhancing emergent literacy skills of pre-school children. 

The resource I´ve found the most useful, and the one that I´ve liked the most is Story Jumper, as is a really interesting platform to use with the students and develop their creativity and other skills. 

Read this free book made on StoryJumper