#TWIMA8

Hello everyone!

Today I want to share with you a great, fantastic and wonderful experience I had with this educational tool.
Its name is "#TWIMA8" and means The World Is My Audience, the 8th Edition. It is worlwide project which uses Flipgrid where you can share your own or story with other teachers around the world and exchange with them your experiences.
The purpose written by the creator of this grid is the following:
"For the last 6 years I have been working with students to create and share digital stories with the world. Our students have a global following from an early age except in one place...school. Writing and publishing those books with students has changed their audience from a single teacher to the whole world. It has made all the difference. Instead of writing a book, this grid will focus on oral stories. I hope you join me in this adventure! #twima"

Our grid called #twima8 - We All Have A Story!

Here you can find a tweet of mine about this amazing project!

Being part of #twima8 with #ictclil_urjc. What a nice bunch of people! loving your stories! pic.twitter.com/gUe6kHnnu8

— Peter the teacher (@peter_teachs) 5 June 2018

What I liked the most of this application is how safe it is thanks to what they call “Grids”. The Grids are safe spaces where only the people who know the code of the Grid can enter to the sharing space. For example, a teacher can create a Grid and share the code only with their students, so them will be the only ones that are able to see what their classmates or the teacher had uploaded.

Here you can find my story:

I loved being part of such a wonderful sharing experience and I will remember using it in my future for personal purposes with my students. It is not only about sharing, but also learning from others' experiences. This application made me feel part of a worldwide community of teachers and close to people from far away places, so I could imagine the possibilities these platform gives me to communicate and meet people with the same interests I have. It is also a good tool to flip a classroom when you have to ask students to give oral presentations, they can attend to the lesson at home and answer with the presentation all at home. Finally, I could be used as an E-Twinning tool in which every school could add the materials created in a project and so on.

Teacher Peter.