Ligas de mi interés

 Socrative
Un recurso muy bueno para utilizar recursos móviles (laps, tablets, androids, etc.) conectados a la web. Sin tener un aula virtual como tal, es útil para obtener respuestas en tiempo real.

Lyrics Training
Un excelente lugar en donde practicar comprensión auditiva con diferentes grados de dificultad y utilizando canciones de hoy en día (especialmente útil para mí, que no conozco lo que están oyendo los jóvenes).

Rúbricas... y una nota de frustración

Estuve buscando un sitio para crear diálogos con voces digitales. Anteriormente, estuve trabajando con Xtranormal, un sitio interesante por la variedad de idiomas y de acentos regionales con los que contaba. Desfortunadamente, este sitio desapareció y encontré como substituto sugerido Plotagon en
https://plotagon.com/ de donde tuve que bajar el programa para crear el video.
Escribí la entrevista en español, pero luego me di cuenta de que solamente digitaliza voces en inglés. La traduje y simplifiqué de este modo:

DEAR FRIENDS OF “NEW WAYS IN EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION”, TODAY’S PROGRAM GUEST IS LAURA FRADE RUBIO, DOCTOR IN EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY AND EXPERT IN EVALUATION BY COMPETENCIES. SHE WILL GIVE US AN OVERVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL RUBRICS, THEIR USE AND RELEVANCE FOR EVALUATION. WELCOME, LAURA!

Thank you. I am honored. To begin with, I can say that rubrics are ways to spell out as clearly as possible what we evaluate and how we are doing that. For that purpose, we define what the relevant criteria are and the description of three or four different levels of performance.

WHO GET THE BENEFITS OF DESIGNING A RUBRIC?

Everybody involved in the educational process, from stake holders to heads of department, teachers and students. When learners know what is expected from them and how they can recognise how well they have achieved it, they take more control of their own learning and so their motivation improves. Hence, they also learn to be better critics of their own and others’ work.

WITH A GOOD RUBRIC, THEN, IT IS NOT A MYSTERY ANYMORE WHAT COUNTS TO GET GOOD MARKINGS.

That’s right, and that knowledge empowers the learners.

HOW DO YOU DESIGN A RUBRIC?

Initially, I decide what I want to evaluate: whether it is a learning process or an outcome in which case I use formative or summative evaluation. Rubrics will change accordingly, since generally they are holistic for the former and analytical latter. This is not a hard rule, just a tendency.

Either holistic or analytical rubrics, they have to distinguish between different degrees of achievement and to clearly describe the difference between them. Each degree will correspond to a specific score. So students can have a pretty accurate idea of what exactly they have to do perform better.

ARE THERE ONLINE TOOLS TO DESIGN EDUCATIONAL RUBRICS?

I am happy you ask that! Yes, there is a site I can recommend: the tool net Rubi Star.

WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR COMING, DOCTOR LAURA FRADE RUBIO, TO TODAY’S PROGRAM OF “NEW WAYS IN EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION”. GOOD BYE.

Bye.

 Posteriormente, hice que los personajes se movieran y hablaran en el escenario elegido (una cafetería). Al final, hice clic en "share" y supuestamente empezó a descargar el video en YouTube. Tardó horas y finalmente no supe si lo hizo o no. Lo cierto es que no encontré este video en mi cuenta YouTube. 

En vista de las colosales cantidades de tiempo perdido en el intento, ahora voy a embeber una entrevista sobre el tema que encontré en el mencionado sitio:

Rethinking Rubrics: An interview with Maja Wilson