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:

ASSIGNMENT FOR CLASS #3

Remember you have to:

1. Open a blog (use Blogger)>>>see tutorial in labels above.
2. Improve 2 or 3 tasks from any of the teaching sequences discussed in class #2. Go to your notes & mind map>>>> include 4 Cs, add other texts (oral, written or multimedia), use authentic material if possible (or adapt the material), etc. Pls, pay attention to LANGUAGE IN USE: include functions. Steps: pre-task, core task and follow up. 
3. REMEMBER: you are planning for a REAL group of students. Choose any Diseño Curricular (see right column) to check CONTENT corresponding to that year (1st to 5th ES and 3rd Polimodal).

EXTRA CREDITS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Use this blog as your sandbox (or e-portfolio).

• download a video
• embed the video in this blog
• link sources: Wikipedia or other web-sites
• make a slideshow presentation (Power Point) , upload it to Slideshare and embed it in your blog 
• copy pictures and paste them on your blog
• create a Wordle doc and paste it on your blog

Send me the URL to blog so that I can link it to our class blog and it can be visited by your colleagues. 

(e.g.URL: http://englishandictregion5.blogspot.com/)

IF YOU NEED HELP: DON'T HESITATE >>>SEND A BIG S.O.S SIGN TO THE COMMENTS SECTION AND ANY COLLEAGUE WILL HELP YOU ASAP (As Soon As Possible)!!!!

stella :-)

Save the Children.

TASK#1
Are secondary school students legally considered children?
 SOURCE: AGE OF MAJORITY-WIKIPEDIA

 TASK #2: Children’s Rights in Argentina
 1. In 2005 a national Law for the Integral Protection of Children and Adolescents was enacted.
2. Argentina ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1994.
3. In 2010, Argentina established a National Plan of Action against the Commercial
SOURCE: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS .

 TIP: How to download a page to use offline MAKE USE OF.

TASK 3: JIGSAW.
Teacher wants to activate prior knowledge through this game/jigsaw. (It's our turn to play)
What is the topic of the poster/brochure?

 TASK 4: WATCH THE VIDEO  and answer:
What rights are being neglected?
 Make a vocabulary bank: use word, excell, power point

 TASK 5: ss make a thematic collage
Choose pictures from:
PICS4LEARNING:
FLICKR
MORGUEFILE
OPENLIPART
Make a collage with PHOTOVISI:

TASK 6:
ss work with CD 5, Berni for children, and write captions for each picture, invent new titles to each picture, describes them, take photographs of similar situations in their neighbourhood and upload them to a class blog.


TASK 7:
T makes a  Class Blog for ss to write, broadcast their ideas on children's rights in our country.

FRENCH  REVOLUTION


TASK 1:
Let's create a word cloud using WORDLE.Include words that are connected to this revolution. Make your own glossary.

TASK 2:
Watch the video. If you read your Wordle again, can you recognize any of these words in the video?

TASK 3:


What is your opinion?

•  I'm in favour of/ against revolutions because...

TASK 4:


Tick the right option


★There was a motto that described the revolution.

★There were favours for the nobles.

★There were a lot of taxes to pay.

★The nobles were angry about the taxes.

★There was little food for the peasants.

★There were 6 coups d’état in 12 years

TASK 5:
Look up more info about the causes of the French Revolution and make a video with MOVIE MAKER. Be creative. Be careful to choose good pictures.

TASK 6:
Now using a spreadsheet try to make a time line with the most important events during this revolution. Use words from your word bank, and Simple Past to express past finished actions or Past Continuous to express long actions or interrupted actions in the past.

Teaching sequences slightly adapted; authors L. Simón & G. Rosetti


stella :-)

e-learning class

E learning class

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Do we HAVE TO use technology?

I came across thsi checklist. Interesting...

Can you answer these questions when you design a teaching sequence using ICT tools?

stella :-)

Just for fun: GOMAESPUMINGLIS