2.4 Gestiona los Lectores

Gestiona los lectores

So, I met this groups of singer/songwriters and they all wanted to take out a book. I had to make them members first and screencapture the process. I thought maybe it was nice to have the students alphabetically interesting so I started with

A for Adele
B for Bruce Springsteen
C for Cher
D for David Bowie
E for Ed Sheeran
F for Freddy Mercury
G for George Michael
H for Hugh Laurie (apart from being House, he also sings and plays instruments)

I wish I had time to do 26, but this is quite enough for our purpose. I saw that there's room for a picture in AbiesWeb (also in Abies2, by the way), so I asked for their photographs and they all made selfies! It's a nice bunch, what?

The pictures aren't really important, I gues, but it makes the website so much more interesting, doesn't it? I thought that the process was really easy and straightforward. For the moment I'm quite happy with the way this program or database works. Here's what I did:

I created some groups that I called Bliek1, Bliek2 and Bliek3 and made 4 of my students members of Bliek1 and the other four went to Bliek3. Bliek2, therefore, remained empty for the moment. We had to show the 3 groups, but the "empty groups" don't appear, so in my Screencapture you can see groups 1 and 3. Later I promoted 3 of the 4 students in Bliek1 so that they appeared in Bliek2. Result:

1 Reader (Lector) in Bliek1 (Bruce, poor guy)

3 Readers in Bliek2 (Adèle, Ed Sheeran and Hugh Laurie, all three recently promoted)

And 4 Readers in Bliek3 who had been there right from the beginning (Cher, David Bowie, Freddy Mercury and George Michael).

Here's the ScreenCapture Video that I shot with VSSCap and then edited in Pinnacle Studio so I could add a bit of music and some comments (and fireworks to celebrate the Also press on the button for a full screen as in this Picture promotion of some of the Readers/Students/Singers.) I aslo added a bit of music (a fragment of Strange Boat by The Waterboys) so don't forget to turn up the Volume.

Comments

Jenny's Bear

I'm a student in 2nbE and I've read the book Jenny's Bear by Michael Ratnett ¬ June Goulding) It's a book for little children, but I liked it because I like bears and the language is quite simple (my English isn't very good) The book is not very big and has many pictures. It's about a girl who loves bears and meets a real bear. They become friends I won't tell you how it finishes but there are surprises. The language wan't very difficult but I had to look up a few words like: cosy den shook (from the verb shake) I read the book in 20 minutes I recommend it and I hope you enjoy it José Mª González (Group 2nbE)

Superlectores

Agatha Christie read about 200 books every year, so she could be considered a superlectora . Theodore Roosevelt, the American President read at least a book every day and sometimes two or three. I had not heard about Badges (Insignias) as a kind of reward for students. The concept is new to me. First I didn't take it very seriously, especially in connection with reading: it seems to me that the reward for reading a book is... Reading the book! The pleasure we derive from this input of information and imagination is reward in itself. At any rate, I started checking out the badge-making sites and the first one our course recommended was MakeBadges . It's an easy little program and I created badges for the above-mentioned Superlectores. I saw that under Icon you can upload any image you like and it will appear inside the badge. You can even adjust the size of the image. Together with the old look of the photographs you immediately get a pretty cool badge! Then, of course, I consi...

3.3 Leer e investigar en entornos digitales

I liked the idea of the Booktrailer. I hadn't heard of it so I went HERE to find out about it. I have made quite a lot of video clips for my Troubadour Song & Patter shows for High Schools (IESs) in Spain . For this I often use Green Screen effects (Chroma keying) to insert objects or people into other videos and I thought the experience of this technique might be useful for the creation of a booktrailer. If the book has illustrations I might try putting myself on its pages and use the illustrations for some extra action, walk around some of them a bit, showing it to the viewer and, in a fun way, inviting them to open that particular book and read it. Saturday 14 October 2017 at 10:34. I'm writing this text: When my son was around 10 we started buying a collection of books called Horrible Science, Horrible History and Horrible Geography. These are books designed with the intention to make the often tedious subjects at school more attractive to teen-aged students. I ...

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