Susanna's Erasmus+ Experience in Malta

Kinemaster is a fun way to produce a video. It offers many possibilities to include texts, emojis, audience-gabbing transitions and so much more! Nevertheless, it takes a bit of effort as you can see on my rather concerned face while working on it 😂! I made a video of my Valetta trips. In the afternoon it was pouring quite heavily for hours 💦😵! It looked literally like small rivers running through the town. In the evening I grabbed a Maltese pizza, that consisted mainly of cheese. After that I went to Point Beach  and watched the beautiful moon over the sea.

 Today we went to Valetta with Alpha School. The Malta 5D Experience was a highlight. It is like a 3D cinema, but with moving chairs, air flowing and shooting at you, light spectacles and so much more, on top of the 3D movie. The movie was about Malta's eventful history.   In the afternoon I finally managed to get into St. John's cathedral. That much much splendor I haven't seen outside of Versailles and the St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Everything is golden and magnificent, one doesn't know where to look first. I learned that Caravaggio, whose paintings I already admired in Italy, has lived in Malta and contributed to the beauty of St. John's. 

 This week, in school we focus on videos. I get to know many useful applications. EdPuzzle I like especially, because it "forces" students to pay attention and offers lots of possibilities to moderate  video watching activities. Also we took a shoot a stop-motion-videos, which was so much fun, since we used Play-Doh and could be creative in our story-telling. Adobe Express is a great website to produce visually very pleasing presentations.

Today I made the rather long trip to the "Three Cities" of Malta.  Senglea and Birgu are both peninsulas offering long walks at the sea around their harbours. Since it was a Sunday, streets were very quiet, which was such an unusual experience after the busy streets of the other places I visited before that. St. Angelo fortress    harbor between Senglea and Birgu     center of Birgu, decorated for the Feast of St. Lawrence

On Saturday I went back to Valetta and used the free day to stroll around the capital. 

Today I put all my new learned skills to the test and planned a lesson at the interactive whiteboard. I challenged myself to plan some activities that go without any written words for them to be suitable for first-graders. In the evening we celebrated our successful presentation with a night out and hab much fun, obviously 😁😁!!