Picaa vs Nuestra biblioteca

Picaa: Interactive and Cooperative Mobile Learning. Important: The application is in English (as well as in Spanish) although sample activities provided are in Spanish. You can customize or create new ones with the pictures and sounds you want, including synthesized sounds (Text-To-Speech) in English. Picaa aims to bring flexibility and adaptability in the education of children with special needs (autism, PDD, Down Syndrome, etc). The app allows defining five kinds of activities fully customizable to be performed by the users: - Exploration: this activity can be used like an augmentative and alternative communicator (AAC) system. Exploration activities also can be used like navigation-based histories that let students learn concepts through the navigation of a hypermedia system with components. - Association: the student must indicate relationships between elements that belong to several sets. - Puzzle: a decomposed image must be rebuilt from multiple pieces. Number, size and shape of pieces can be configured. - Sorting/selection: a list of elements that must be ordered in a sequence or where the user must find a particular item. - Memory (Memory-Match). Create activities for working memory, can use images and text. More innovating factors of the platform are: - It is designed like a mobile platform, following an approach where activities run on entertainment mobile devices that turn out to be more attractive to users. - It provides support for group work, fostering integration and interaction with other users. - It has the capability of user adaptation and content customization. - It provides functions to synthesize sounds (requires WiFi/3G connection). - Activities can be shared via email or can be imported/exported via iTunes sharing files feature. (*) Sample pictures given by the DiverTIC Association (www.divertic.org).

ComunicARTE es nuestro sistema de enseñanza-aprendizaje de Lengua Castellana y Literatura para Educación Primaria y Secundaria. A través del trabajo por proyectos de comprensión y de la integración de metodologías emergentes (aprendizaje cooperativo, cultura de pensamiento, inteligencias múltiples...), los alumnos/as desarrollan su competencia comunicativa, investigan el funcionamiento de la lengua, practican la producción guiada de textos escritos, orales y gráficos, y los emiten y comparten en el contexto social de la escuela. "Nuestra biblioteca" es el tercer y último proyecto que forma el curso de 4º de Primaria. En este caso, cada equipo creará un repertorio de recomendaciones de lecturas para niños y niñas de distintas edades, mediante sinopsis escritas y grabadas en vídeo en las que invitarán a leer presentando los libros, sus autores, argumentos, personajes y valores, y argumentando por qué les han gustado. El producto final individual de cada alumno/a consistirá en la auto-grabación de un vídeo donde encarnará a un autor/a o un personaje de un libro quien, contextualizado en nuestra época, hablará de sus gustos, el oficio que quisiera desempeñar, cuáles serían sus costumbres…