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Good afternoon, everyone! I am Alicia, and I have had the pleasure of being the translator throughout this week. As we have been focusing on the three activities we will be performing at the "Un Día en el Cole de mi Maestro" event, I believe we should dig in deeper into these three concepts: storytelling, robots, (Codey Rocky), and Augmented Reality (AR), knowing a bit more about their creators and the most innovative models that have been designed. Last week's translator wrote everything down on the same post the former translator used for the first time, but as we have been working on this task for these two weeks, I believe that it will be better to implement there here as well. Without further ado, let us begin!

Task 3: Preparing "Un día en el cole de mi maestro".

- getting to know various ways to use technology in class.

- forming groups for each activity: robots, augmented reality, storytelling

- reading about theories.

- practicing the activity from the students' perspective.

- preparing the lesson.

Task 4: Preparing "Un día en el cole de mi maestro" (Part 2).

Storytelling: it consists of creating a story, creating an ideal environment of learning through creativity, imagination, and original ideas.

• An appealing idea is needed.
• It must be adequate for watchers or listeners' needs and skills.
• It can be used in a wide range of contexts and settings, whether they are marketing-related or education-related, and it can be portrayed in a lot of different ways, such as in a theatre-like space or by using stop-motion.

Stop-motion: it is one way of presenting a story through the motion of its elements, no matter if they are drawings or even 3D models, with the help of a camera, as the creators will be taking pictures of the elements each time they are moved.

• All the props must be done by the time the stop-motion will be taking place, as it is a complex task to do and no time can be investing in getting things done, other than taking pictures.
• The person or the people who will be moving the props will need to be extremely cautious, as the point of stop-motion is to make them seem as if they were moving naturally, thus no sudden movements must be produced.
• An edition software is needed, as the pictures will have to be put together, as well as the voice that will be narrating the story or the music that will be playing as the story itself progresses.

Robots: technology has come to have made huge progress throughout these last years, making people question whether there will be an extent to which sci-fi films will become real. The future is uncertain, and we cannot imagine how different life will be in a matter of years, as devices that have not even be created yet will be used all the time.

• While an immense amount of knowledge about robotics is needed to actually create and code complex ones, learning about code and coding at school serves as a great idea.
• Programs such as scratch work perfectly well, as they are easy to handle and work with, without requiring input and without writing actual code either.

Codey Rocky: it is a robot which was designed for children to start programming in an easy and dynamic way, learning what to do in order to make a small cat or panda-like robot move, make noises, or faces, allowing them to draw its expressions or even words or sentences into its face without all the code that would be needed in other kinds of robots.

• It was designed by Makeblock and the "Codey Rocky" set includes Codey, the robot, the information manuals and the color cards that it will be able to identify.
• Two programs will be needed to play with Codey: the computer one, which will allow us to input which actions it will be doing when we press a button; and the smartphone app, which allows us to make him move, and draw new expressions on its face. However, it is also possible to program it by using another app that is mention in it, making it quite easy and accessible.

Augmented Reality (AR): is a kind of technology that allows the user to incorporate a computer-generated image into the real world through a program. It can make the difference when teaching students, as they would be able to create their own materials, as there are a lot of apps that provide customizable templates; making the learning process way more interactive and appealing.

• More complex and expensive materials, such as AR glasses are not required to perform this activity.

Thank you so much for your time, see you next time!