Flipped introduction

Ana Herrera

Picture by Carmen Olmedo

This is Ana Herrera, my classmate and friend at the Master in Bilingual Education at the Rey Juan Carlos University. 

Today it is time to know more about her, that is why I interviewed her. I recorded a video to show you the interview about Ana. 

Here you go the video:

PROCEDURE

Now that we have learnt some facts about Ana's interests and life, I will tell you how I did the 3, 2, 1 introduction:

- First, we found a relatively peaceful place where to interview Ana, since we were in class and it was too noisy.

- Secondly, I recorded the video using our laptops camera. I used the app Photo Booth included in my laptop.  

- Thirdly, I edited the video using the app iMovie since I have a MacBook and iMovie is included when you buy one of them. In my humble opinion, iMovie is a pretty good application to edit videos because it is easy to use and it offers many awesome effects to include in your video. I have never used this app before and I found it easy and useful when you get used to it. If you do not have iMovie or a MacBook, you can use Movie Maker for Window, which is so similar to the one that I used. 

I would like to add that I used in the video a free right song from the webpage http://freemusicarchive.org/ .
The song is called "Soltanto un attimo". In addition, the pictures are from the webpages https://www.pexels.com/, where it can found pictures with no copyright. 

REFLECTION

As I see it, I think this kinds of activities are useful to know more about ourselves. Ana and I are close friends but we were aware of new likes or facts for us. We live in hectic paces of life, and we do not stop to think and ask about our likes and past life. It was a nice activity to think about what I can ask Ana in order that people know fundamental aspects of her life. 

Furthermore, I have used for the first time this useful tool to edit videos. We can use iMovie with videos, pictures, photos... and you can include your favorite songs and include innovative transitions between pictures or videos, also write comments and etcetera. It offers a great range of options. So, finally I took advantage of my laptop!

Last but not least, I had to interview Ana because our teacher paired us with respect to our shoe sizes, which I had not seen before. I have to admit that it was funny! Useful way to pair children also!

Be clever, be greener!

Welcome!

Hello everyone! 

This is my first post and I want to welcome you and explain the purpose of this blog 'Rock the blue planet'. 

I know that the tittle might be quite confusing and that is what I like the most. This blog may be about making the planet a little bit crazy, about changing everything in the world, about rock music, or maybe about everything!

Apart from writing what I will learn in my ICT class, I want you to be conscious about global vital issues such as the global warming, the greenhouse effect, the amount of rubbish that we produce, and a large etcetera. From my point of view, this is one of the main values to teach at schools since we will run out of natural resources pretty soon. I am concerned about the fact that there are more important values to teach, but without a place where to live, we will not be able to love, to respect, to help, to care, etc.   

Today, a NASA telescope has discovered a solar system with seven planets similar to the Blue Planet, the Earth. We can think about moving to a similar planet when we destroy ours, but it might be too late and too difficult. 

If you are curious, here you go the pieces of news from the New York Times newspaper.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/science/trappist-1-exoplanets-nasa.html?_r=0

Be clever, be greener!