RSY EBooks

It is an easy to use tool that allows us to create ebooks in the form of workbooks full of multimedia and educational activities to learn through play in a visual way. In Cuadernia you can play videos and sounds; also you can create activities so that the student can interact. It is an innovative development made in Castilla-La Mancha with big expectations for the future as it has completed all of the National and European standards as a digital educational resource maker.

CUADERNIA 1. THE INSTRUMENT FAMILY.

In this activity we are going to use an e-book (a digital resource made in Cuadernia) to explain the different instruments in an orchestra and the instrument families such as: string family, brass family, woodwind family and the percussion family which include the pitched and unpitched instruments.

In this Cuadernia we can find useful and didactic multimedia tools to teach the main characteristics of the instruments of the orchestra, also our students can learn by doing different exercises, watching interesting videos of the orchestra or listening to the sound of the different instruments to be able to recognize them. So this is an attractive and interactive resource for learning. First the students will look at the presentation that has the form of an eBook but the appearance of a power point, from this the students will be able to identify all of the important information that they will later need to carry out the activities at the end.

CUADERNIA 2: HUMAN VOICES.

 In this activity we are going to use an e-book (cuadernia) to explain the main characteristics of the human voice.

The main concepts and theory of this unit are:

• The main characteristics of the human voice.
• The mechanism and parts for generating the human voice.
• Human Respiratory System
• Voice type.
• The classification of human voice.
• Famous singers of opera (female and male voices).
• Choral Music.

In this Cuadernia we can find useful and didactic media tools to teach the main characteristics of the human voice. Also our students can learn with different exercises, watching interesting videos or listening to the sound of the different voices to can recognize them so this is an attractive and interactive resource to learn. After viewing the different pages from the e-book about the different concepts and the theory behind the human voice, the students will do various exercises to go over the vocabulary about the human voice un an interactive and lucid way, creating more interest. The teacher needs to divide the class into various groups to conduct the following activities. The activity has been designed for the second year of Secondary School (13-14 year olds).