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Hello! I am Rocío and this week I have been the translator of teachers’ formation. I am going to explain some concepts that we have learnt while doing this task.

Textbook: it is a book that contains detailed information about a subject for people who are studying that subject book that contains detailed information about a subject for people who are studying that subject. Although most textbooks are only published in printed format, many are now available as online electronic books.

Infographic: infographics are visual representations of complex concepts and data in an easy to read graphic form. People use infographics to quickly communicate a message, to simplify the presentation of large amounts of data, to see data patterns and relationships, and to monitor changes in variables over time.

Bundling: bundling is a marketing strategy that joins products or services together in order to sell them as a single combined unit. For example we can make a "package" of three products and sell them at a certain price that is cheaper than the total cost. The products and services are usually related, but they can also consist of dissimilar products which appeal to one group of customers.

Open textbook: an open textbook is an openly-licensed textbook offered online by its author(s). The open license sets open textbooks apart from traditional textbooks by allowing users to read online, download, or print the book at no additional cost.

Visual thinking: visual thinking is a form of non-verbal thought that is most commonly used in musical, mathematical and kinaesthetic thinking. People tend to do most of their thinking in words, rather like a one-sided conversation. It is a visual processing using the part of the brain that is emotional and creative to organize information in an intuitive and simultaneous way.

ICT: "Information and Communication Technologies." ICT refers to technologies that provide access to information through telecommunications.

Genially: is an alternative app to create visual presentations, the information is transmitted through a link or url, making it more convenient and easier to share.

Fable: It is a fictional story where the characters are features animals and inanimate objects whose aim is to give a final moral lesson.

Twitter-Timeline: It is a list of tweets which are displayed chronologically.

Editorials: They are companies which collaborate with authors and publish their books with the aim to obtain benefits both of them.

Deprofessionalize: it is to make something non-professional. In this case, when teachers only use textbooks as a learning resource; the national curriculum says that all the information is in textbook, so teachers are like ‘’forced’’ to follow them, however it can be very frustrating to teacher because they can’t change anything, and also is very boring to kids. Consequently, teachers suffer from what is called burnout syndrome. Burnout Syndrome: Is the syndrome that some teachers suffer due to the effects that external agents cause in them to not performing well in the classroom. One of the main reasons is the lack of freedom some teachers feel when they have to teach only with the use of textbooks. This syndrome can have a hard effect on teachers, affecting their quality of performance. Biased: It means that something is not neutral because this is influence from other thing; related to textbooks, they are influenced by ideological issues. Broken Market: It the kind of market that makes very expensive the prize of books due to the competition and economic interests. Publishers: the people who who have the job of publish books, obtaining benefits from that.

Curriculum: the general educational project where are collected all the objectives of school education. We can find there important data for teachers such as when and how to teach something.