These ten wesbsites will make you think a little.
Visit them and tell me, please.
As seen on The Online Learning Blog from Study 2 U
Ten websites to make you think
ICT for ENGLISH Teachers
Monday, 20 June 2011
Sunday, 19 June 2011
YouTube - 10 ways to use Edublogs to teach
YouTube - 10 ways to use Edublogs to teach
The best way to use Edublogs to teach. There are more than ten, but these are the beginning...
Thursday, 2 June 2011
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Saturday, 27 November 2010
Happy teacher's day!
Yesterday, November 26th the educative administration on Murcia gave teachers a free day to celebrate our TEACHER'S DAY. All the week we've been making a different sort of activities in our centres intended to be a special day for the appreciation of teachers.
As read on Wikipedia, the idea of celebrating this day happened independently in many countries during the XX Century. In most cases, each county celebrates a local educator or an important milestone in education.
In Spain, we still have a difference between the grades we teach in. So, Pre-Primary and Primary teachers celebrate their teacher's day on November 27th, the day of Saint Joseph Calasanctius de Calasanz (the founder of the Pious Schools in Rome) [so, we got free this day as a prize of the "Consejería de Educación"]; professors on Secondary celebrate the day of Saint Thomas of Aquino (considered the model teacher for those studying for priesthood on January 28th.
The majority of countries all over the world takes October 5th as the date to celebrate this day, because this day the UNESCO with the support of OIT adoptd the Recommendation concerning the status of Teachers.
Why does Spain, a secular country since the Spanish Constituion of December 29th, 1978, keep on celebrating teachers' or professors' days related to the lives of saints?
Why does not Spain, a member of the UNESCO, unify October 5th as the TEACHING DAY?
I'm waiting for your comments.
Monday, 22 November 2010
Learning Foreign Languages with YOUTUBE
We formerly studied listening to a "radio-cassette" or using a microphon or a tape recorder in order to improve our "foreign" language. I can remember the pronunciation of several words after having listened to one of those already dead tapes.
Now you can learn with a CD player if you buy a language learning method or if you download it from the internet (from several pages we're going to visit in proper posts).
But nowadays one of the most important and popular system to learn a language is watching and listening to videos on YouTube. You can find a varied sort of educative videos from universities or from high schools around the world, but you can also use the musical videos or the personal videos, uploaded by people like you and me, to improve your learning.
For instance, I am attending to a course on French for non-French teachers in Murcia and our teacher used YouTube to work our imagination and vocabulary. That's why we had to start giving words that the tittle of the song suggested us, before watching it.
Afterwards, we got ashamed because none of the words told by us were any kind of relation to the video we watched.
Our teacher played and stopped it every time we wanted or needed and then she asked: "What is that?", "What has she said?", "What is she wearing?", "Where is she?" or "What's the weather like?".
This is one of the things you can do, but not the only one. You have the opportunity of finding some subtittled videos or with a karaoke version, so you can use them to reinforce the acquisition of vocabulary and the perfection of you understanding on your listening.
The video is in French but I think it's worth watching it. Its tittle is: "Le poisson rouge". What would the tittle "The red fish" suggest you?
Now you can learn with a CD player if you buy a language learning method or if you download it from the internet (from several pages we're going to visit in proper posts).
But nowadays one of the most important and popular system to learn a language is watching and listening to videos on YouTube. You can find a varied sort of educative videos from universities or from high schools around the world, but you can also use the musical videos or the personal videos, uploaded by people like you and me, to improve your learning.
For instance, I am attending to a course on French for non-French teachers in Murcia and our teacher used YouTube to work our imagination and vocabulary. That's why we had to start giving words that the tittle of the song suggested us, before watching it.
Afterwards, we got ashamed because none of the words told by us were any kind of relation to the video we watched.
Our teacher played and stopped it every time we wanted or needed and then she asked: "What is that?", "What has she said?", "What is she wearing?", "Where is she?" or "What's the weather like?".
This is one of the things you can do, but not the only one. You have the opportunity of finding some subtittled videos or with a karaoke version, so you can use them to reinforce the acquisition of vocabulary and the perfection of you understanding on your listening.
The video is in French but I think it's worth watching it. Its tittle is: "Le poisson rouge". What would the tittle "The red fish" suggest you?
Saturday, 20 November 2010
Modern society and web 2.0: FLASH MOB
This is how people use the social nets to get in touch and to organize shows in the middle of a railway station or in malls: they are FLASH MOB.
I think that the most
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