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

More on CLIL

Ana Maria wants to share this:

How does CLIL work?
The basis of CLIL is that content subjects are taught and learnt in a language which is not the mother tongue of the learners.

Knowledge of the language becomes the means of learning content

Language is integrated into the broad curriculum

Learning is improved through increased motivation and the study of natural language seen in context. When learners are interested in a topic they are motivated to acquire language to communicate

CLIL is based on language acquisition rather than enforced learning

Language is seen in real-life situations in which students can acquire the language. This is natural language development which builds on other forms of learning

CLIL is long-term learning. Students become academically proficient in English after 5-7 years in a good bilingual programme

Fluency is more important than accuracy and errors are a natural part of language learning. Learners develop fluency in English by using English to communicate for a variety of purposes

Reading is the essential skill.




SOURCE: http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/articles/content-language-integrated-learning. 
Retrieved October 4, 2011.


Remeber that as Marsh, Frigols and Mehisto (2008) say: "thera are many faces of CLIL" and we cannot expect an English teacher AND a specilaist in class, can we?


go on reading and sharing


stella :-)

Critical thinking & CLIL

Karina wants to share with the group the following slide show. It looks interesting!

Nuevas Tendencias Educativas

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And Lilia found this video on CLIL, by David Marsh (writer of both books we
 saw in the first meeting)





thanx for sharing

stella :-)

Go to ESCRITORIO DEL DOCENTE to find many tools and ideas (though nothing special for English!)

Technology VS teachers?

TECHNOLOGY DOES NOT MAKE THE CLASSROOM   SUCCESSFUL

-THE TEACHER DOES!*

So far you have had some time to reflect upon this quote. What do you think? Do you consider your students different from you, in terms of learning abilities? Have you ever realized that they are "digital natives" (Prensky, 2001)? 

Teaching AND learning: are they the same for you?

* taken from the blog: Blogging through the Fourth Dimension

Let's share our thoughts. POST YOUR COMMENTS TO THIS BLOG!

stella :-)

Sir Ken Robinson: Changing Education Paradigms.

How is this scenario similar to ours?
Feel free to share your comments with your mates.



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What do you think? Has my student been creative?

Ezequiel: Profe, no tengo la fotocopia.
ME: Ay Ezequiel. It's your problem, you know. You never have the material! :-(
Ezequiel: ¿Me prestás la tuya?
ME: I'm using my book and...

10 seconds later (literally) he had taken a PHOTOGRAPH of the page and he had it in his netbook, ready to work.

Epilogue:
Ezequiel: Gracias, profe!
ME: :-0

Moral: ???????

Has he been creative? what do you think?

stella :-)

Sir Ken Robinson: Schools kill Creativity- TED CONFERENCE

TED -Ideas worth spreading is an incredible place where you can find ONLY GRET IDEAS , ONLY GREAT ENTREPENEURS, ONLY GREAT POETS, ONLY GREAT SCIENTISTS, ONLY GREAT ARTISTS, ONLY GREAT IDEAS WORTH SPREADING...
TEDx is pretty similar but the lectures take place outside the US. Here you can visit TEDx Buenos Aires

TIP: it's great for our students because the lecture can be watched in different languages. Simply click on the OTHER LANGUAGES key and you'll find the lecture and the subtitles in the language chosen.


Do you agree with Sir Ken Robinson? Is school killing creativity? If so, what can teachers do to avoid it?
FEEL FREE TO POST YOUR COMMENTS BELOW.

stella :-)

MIND MAP

You are supposed to create a mind map with the theory discussed in class >>> CLIL, project work,  tasks, etc. (see handout).

For those who DO NOT have the netbook yet, click here to download CMap Tools

TIPS:  

• When you draw a mind map, it is better to write down all the key concepts first, and then join them with arrows. 
• Remember the arrows establish the hierarchy between and among concepts, therefore they have "names":, i.e. verbs, linkers, etc.
• Every single concept should be included in your mind map, namely NOUN PHRASES..
• You can also enhance coherence in your mind map by playing with colours and fonts.
• You have to include different issues in your mind map. Which is the most important concept? ( i.e. the "umbrella concept"?)
• Do you still need help? Google TUTORIALS for CMap Tools and you'll find tons!
• LAST: Do you feel like sharing your mind map with another colleague and work collaboratively? GO AHEAD!

A VERY EASY COURSE: HOW TO MAKE MIND MAPS available HERE.

stella :-)

TIPS

How can I embed a video in a blog? How can I share it with FACEBOOK or TWITTER? 
Simply get the code from YOUTUBE!

1. Get the EMBED CODE (go to compartir)
2. then go to your blog
3. Click on the HTML label, you'll see that tha bar above is not so complete now.
4. paste the code that you have taken from Youtube.
5. guardar& publicar
6. ver blog>>>IT SHOULD BE THERE!!

How to get the EMBED CODE:

stella :-)

TIPS

HOW DO I LOOK UP VIDEOS?

1. You can go to YOUTUBE
2. Type the name of the video or key words on the box above.
3. You will be directed to a video (the closest to your search) and to a set of videos, on the right.

One that I like: The benefits of being bilingual

Do you know any other site with videos to share with the group? Feel free to post your suggestions.

stella :-)

TIPS

WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE THESE (or other ) VIDEOS IN YOUR COMPUTER? (Click on the names of the programmes>>>there are links)

STEP 1:

1. Download: REAL PLAYER.
2. Choose the FREE version (Descargar la Versión Gratuita de Real Player). You simply have to follow instructions.

STEP 2:

1. Once you've downloaded the programme, go to the video below and click on the YOUTUBE button (below the pic, on the right).
2. you will be directed to the same video in Youtube.
3. A label will appear on the right top corner: DESCARGAR VIDEO.
4. Download it and it will go to MIS DOCUMENTOS>>>MIS VIDEOS.

Other options:

VDOWNLOADER:

1. Download: VDOWNLOADER
2. Choose the FREE version (Descargar la Versión Gratuita de Real Player). You simply have to follow instructions.

YOUTUBE DOWNLOADER

1. Download: YOUTUBE DOWNLOADER
2. Choose the FREE version (Descargar la Versión Gratuita de Real Player). You simply have to follow instructions.

Chose ONE of the three options. I use Real Player and it's really easy and user-friendly.

A TUBE CATCHER

This is a a very simple tool that CONVERTS VIDEOS and gives them an .avl extension>>>it's a LIGHT version of the video. It runs in our nets. MIND YOU: videos do not run smoothly with e-learning Class>>>try downloading the video first and then show it to your students.

1. Download ATUBECATCHER 

Here a videoo that explains how it runs in approx 1 minute.





 Try it out. It cannot be that hard!

stella :-)

How can we change something that we do not know? Or that I'm not aware of?

How do our students learn?



Our students are different. But how can we change if  we haven't realized they learn in another way? Being DIGITAL NATIVES (Prensky, 2001)* does make the difference, doesn't it?
Have you ever thought about these issues? FEEL FREE TO POST COMMENTS!

* Are you interested in these articles? Simply google them! It's very easy.

• "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants" by Marc Prensky (2001)
• "Do They Really Think Differently?" by Marc Prensky (2001)

stella :-)