Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

I wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year!!
I've had to change the date of the 1st seminar on January so our new year seminar will be held on January 16th! Remember to check the seminars calendar (top page) in case you are not sure about dates.

Songs for children

Here you have this site with lots of songs and lyrics for young children.

A Christmas Carol

Editing images with google docs

Listening resources to improve our English

Here you are a list of sites to improve our listening skill!

Ideas from Learning Teaching Scotland

 

This is a video from  Learning Teaching Scotland. The teacher uses dried beans to make sure all students participate and to assess each other's work. It a simple but very useful idea, don't you think so? There are other resources and samples on that site.

Planning Christmas webquest

Here you have Planning Christmas webquest created with google sites. Do you think you could use it with your students? How are you going on with your own webquest? We'll carry on google siting tomorrow!

Agrega site

Agrega is a huge site where there are lots of resources for both primary and secondary students. As a sample, here is You are a reporter, a resource in the Agrega site. There are plenty of digital objects and work sequences ready to be used.

Learning to learn

Here you've got B06 Jardunaldien bloga.  so that you may get some info about the talks and good practice presentations that have taken place. Particularly I'd like to thank  Ana and Marivi for sharing their experience with all of us.

Education Scotland also offer interesting ideas and resources in his Approaches to Learning site.

In addition to that, this Resource Guide for Secondary Foreign Language Educators may be downloaded clicking on the link! Even if it reads "secondary" it may be also used with primary school students.  It is really interesting and practical!

W2.0 tutorialak euskaraz

Here you are Albiztutorialak. 
Our thanks to all these people who are ready to share their knowledge with us!

Seminar on Monday 17th: Ready, steady, go!

Here you are B06 Jardunaldiak 2011 so that you may get all available information about the Learning to Learn workshop that will take place on October 20th and 21st.

Next seminar we'll go on with our webquest. I have been developing my own proposal too! I have called it Christmas planning. I will present it to you and we will go on learning how we may insert/ attach other files.
I don't know how far my proposal is a bit too ambitious. Anyway, we'll discuss about it.

Planning our webquest

There we go! Here is  a wequest course in Spanish created by Irene Gonzalez (B06 Berritzegune), Adela Fernández  (B07 Berritzegune) and Mª Mar Pérez (Berritzegune Nagusia) that will serve us as a reference.

Before we start google sites we'll have to decide who the webquest is for and think about/ write the objectives we intend to fulfill with that project.  In order to do that we may discuss the assessment criteria and descriptors for primary education. Next we'll plan the basic sections of the webquest: the introduction, the task, the process and the evaluation. Other parts, such as the conclusion or the teacher's page may be dealt with later. Here is a Christmas webquest draft for you to start planning it!

A new school year ahead!

Next Monday we'll start our English and ICT seminars. We'll discuss this year's work plan and we'll get down to work straight away.
Last year we agreed to work on tasks / projects that we may use to enhance students' learning processes. I've thought we may learn to use googe sites and create a webquest for our students. Perhanps something much easier than the webquests we examined last February and inserting resources we can already use, such as  google docs forms , videos, songs, etc.

Sample

ICT in our everyday lessons: Next year's contents

IKASBLOGAK 2011

 

Here you are this year's Ikasblogak program.  This short course or workshop is usually very interesting. An ICT expert will present something new or quite new for most of us and primary and secondary schools will present their ICT experiences or projects. 

BBC World Class

Click on the image and you'll get to BBC World Class. Here you may get information on how to get a twin school to work with as well as other resources, such as radio news programmes for children with their scripts (News bulletin for kinds)

Learning Strategies

This is a resource presented at Getxotlinguae 2011 that may be very useful!

Spring according to Botticelli!

Seminar on Monday, May 9th

Next seminar we'll discuss the new Prestakuntza eta Berrikuntza proiektuak call. Here you are a ppt presentation with the main details:

Prestakuntza eta Berrikuntza proiektuak 2011-2012

Other than that, we'll edit pictures using google docs:

Learning to edit pictures with google docs!

How do you like this picture edited with google docs?
We'll practice doing it next seminar!

Seminar on Monday 4th

Next Monday we'll have our next seminar meeting. First I'd like to have a look at our learning to learn document and check how far it has been completed, your ideas and suggestions. In addition to that, I have thought about engaging ourselves in mind mapping and ICT. I'll show you some resources and your task will be to create a mind map related to the genres and text types you work with your students. Here is a site, Kids learning is fun, where we can get some info about different genres and the way suggested to approach them.

More mind mapping and text types

These mind maps have been created with  MAPMyself and bubbl.us

Text types

Here you are this mind map about text types!

Plastic or paper

Hi friends! I have been watching this webquest: "Plastic or paper, a webquest on recycling".
http://chalk.richmond.edu/education/projects/webquests/paper/index.htmlI think it could be useful for my school if we get a Comenius project next year. In my opinion this webquest is very interesting. The tasks are good for our pupils . They could manage on their own, with teacher's help, of course . Anyway, sometimes my students could  get lost, looking for information , I  mean, I think some of the links could be a little bit confused.

Writing projects

Tricks to improve our blog

Picture from Flickrcc

Here is a site that may be very useful to help us improve our blogger blog!  For example, there you can read what to do to to have a new window open when you click on a link inserted in a post.

Seminar on March 14th

Next seminar we'll deal with learning to learn strategies and how we can help students develop this competence using ICT resources.


We'll review how to use google docs and how to embed a questionnaire. In addition to that, we'll review how to design our blog so that students can get resources to work on their own.

Webquests for kids

From Flickrcc

We haven't delt with webquests lately but as they  may be very useful tools to boost the  learning to learn competence I've decided to bring them back so to say. Here   are some webquests for English speaking kids that could also be used with our English learning children.

Video converter: from you tube to an mp3 file

Do you remember that we wanted to get some music to insert it into our audacity files? Here is a tutorial to convert a video into a sound file

Howtoconvertavideointoanmp3

Our favourite composer's biography

We are going to read and get the main facts of our favourite composer's life and main works in order to write and record his biography using audacity. This time we'll also insert a piece of music, created by this composer, into our recording.
Finally, we'll create our own glog, our favourite composers, including all audios created + pictures + videos. We'll use these resources:

• Website to learn how to write a biography, and a  brainpop video
• Website to download free classical music mp3s
• Websites to get information about great composers' lives and works:

•                        Classics for kids
•                        Arts alive
•                        Enchanted learning
• Audacity + glogster

We could start using a mind map and a graphic organizer

Developing the listening skill with Caillou

Watch the first part of the video without sound. What do we know about Caillou?

How old do you think he is?

Is he lively or boring?

Now listen to the song and answer the questions:




When you finish you may do the questionnaire at Orozko School bloog

Cartoon with dvolver moviemaker

And a happy new year!

Here we are again, ready to go on!
Have you made any new year's resolutions? I haven't- yet

Our next seminar will be held on Monday, January 10th. We'll go on with our ICT learning- sharing tasks.
I'm looking forward to seeing you all!