Congratulations on your performance! I know it's not easy to produce these changes in our own teaching, but with COMMITMENT, RESPONSIBILTY and TEAM WORK everything is possible!.

 This blog will remain open, I will go on adding new things. Feel free to go on updating your own blogs, finding and sharing new stuff with your colleagues.

 Hope to see you soon.

 stella :-)

ONLY THOSE TEACHERS WHO HAVE TO REFRAME THEIR TEACHING SEQUENCES HAVE NOT FINISHED THE COURSE YET. If I haven't sent you a mail asking you to correct your teaching sequence, it's bec it's all right.


**CERTIFICATES WILL BE READY SOON**

E ECHEVERRIA TEACHERS: PLS, DOWNLOAD YOUR BLOGS SO THAT WE CAN SEE THEM OFF-LINE IN CLASS stella :-)

LAST BUT NO LEAST!

For those teachers who have already taken class #3:

 CLASS #4>>>FINAL EVALUATION: 

 PART# 1:

• Written evaluation, F2F (face to face) & individual. Topics: discussed in class >>>pay SPECIAL attention to 1@1 model. Check the tools seen during the course. Check tools & programs in your netbooks. 

PART #2

• TO HAND IN: Design  a teaching sequence (individually or in pairs) and include AT LEAST three tools discussed in this course. The teaching sequence should be designed for a REAL course & school, within a project, include tasks, etc, etc, etc>>>see first handout. Remember we are working within the CURRICULUM  DESIGN and it is a prescriptive doc. Of course you can include your teaching sequence on your blog, but a PAPER VERSION should be handed in (with links available from blog): regulations :-)
• Your BLOG: it should include several tools. See your mates' blogs for "inspiration".
• Bring your CD (Curriculum Designs). Pay attention to the CONTENT you are going to teach>>> according to your group.

FEEL FREE TO POST YOUR QUERIES IN THE COMMENTS SECTION.




stella :-)

A nice quote.

The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.

Alvin Toffler.

What have we been doing so far?

Tools in out netbooks

• DICTIONARY: Babiloo
• CMAP TOOLS
• MOVIE MAKER
• LEARNING ESSENTIALS
• MICROSOFT TOOLS: WORD, EXCEL, POWER POINT
• PAINT
• WEBCAM
• E-LEARNING CLASS>>>share docs, open a virtual class - INTRANET-, show a video, make quizzes, see ss' screen, etc

Web 2.0 tools & programmes

• PHOTOVISI: to make picture collages
• FLICKR: to find pictures without any licence (copyright)
• YOUTUBE: to find or upload videos
• YOUTUBE  ACCOUNT: to save videos in your "favourite videos" folder
• A-TUBE CATCHER: to download and save videos>>very light! 
• WORDLE: to create word clouds
• HTTRACK: to download websites for offline use
• ANIMOTO: to make videos (from pictures)
• DROPBOX: to share documents
• SLIDESHARE: to upload slide shows (Power point) to upload later to webpage or blog
• JIGSAW PLANET: to create jigsaws
• CROSSWORD FORGE: to create word puzzles

How-to...

• HOW TO DOWNLOAD WEBSITES
• HOW TO SAVE PICTURES
• HOW TO SAVE VIDEOS
• HOW TO OPEN A YOUTUBE ACCOUNT to save videos in favourites
• HOW TO TAKE A SCREEN-SHOT PRINT
• HOW TO SAVE A DOCUMENT
• HOW TO SAVE A WEBSITE FOR OFF-LINE USE
• HOW TO DOWNLOAD A VIDEO TO OUR COMPUTER
• HOW TO REMOVE A PENDRIVE 
• HOW TO LINK OR EMBED IN A BLOG
• HOW TO MAKE A BLOG with Blogger
• HOW TO PASTE A PICTURE ON YOUR BLOG
• HOW TO POST COMMENTS TO OTHERS' BLOGS
• HOW TO CREATE A VOKI
• HOW TO INCLUDE GADGETS IN BLOG

HOW MANY CAN YOU USE??

NB: ALL THE LINKS TO THESE CAN BE FOUND IN THIS BLOG. 

stella :-)

Lower thinking skills and Higher thinking skills

When you design TASKS you have to take into account the thinking skills involved (see 4Cs  & COGNITION in the CLIL handout).

 Benjamin Bloom (1956) and a group of colleagues divided thinking skills into LOTS and HOTS and identified three domains of educational activities. In the nineties Lorin Anderson, a former student of Bloom, revisited the cognitive domain and made some changes>>>he changed the names in the six categories from noun to verb forms and rearranged them (see the highest thimking skills).

You can read more here: BLOM'S TAXONOMY OF LEARNING DOMAINS. The verbs in each level can be useful in the design of tasks. Anothe r very interesting source if you HERE

More on BLOOM'S TAXONOMY REVISED (you may use these verbs to create TASKS!)

Source: EDUCATIONAL ORIGAMI

stella :-)

Dalton, J. & Smith, D. (1986) “Extending Children’s Special Abilities – Strategies for primary classrooms”  pp36-7

you can us these fonts to catch your students' attention: