Seminar in Arrigorriaga School on November 26th

On November 26th our seminar will be held in Arrigorriaga School. First of all, we have to thank the English Department and the whole school for allowing us to use their computer room! We might also have a look at the English Room if that's possible and get explained how English is taught there.

In addition to that, there are two web 2.0 resources we may have a look at : Issuu and quizlet. The first one is a site where you can upload your documents (or students') in order to publish them. Quizlet is an application to create and/or use vocabulary sets and play with them. I think it may be very useful!

If we've got time we may have a look a textivate or we'll leave it for next seminar.

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Movie Maker and mind maps

 

This is just another attempt to edit videos with Movie Maker, not very successful, I'm afraid. Anyway, we'll discuss advantages and drawbacks tomorrow. I've uploaded the video to you tube for you all to see the results but I'll delete it tomorrow!!

Other than that, here is a mind map with bubbl.us. We may have a look at digital mind maps and another digital poster called wallwisher.

Reading strategies: Anticipating content

The video shows us how children's prior knowledge may be activated before reading a text. Go inside Cathy Doyle's second grade classroom in Evanston, Illinois to observe how Cathy uses the anticipation guide strategy to pique her students' interest in the book they are about to read together, Jin Woo by Eve Bunting. Cathy asks questions designed to activate the kids' prior knowledge and to encourage them to make predictions about what they think will happen in the story. More information on this specific strategy may be found at Reading Rockets: Anticipation guide

A new webquest with google sites

We'll start reviewing how to develop a digital sequence of work for our students with  google sites.
Do you remember last year's Planning Christmas?

Happy New School Year!

Next  Monday, October 1st, we'll have our first seminar this school year. I'm looking forward to seeing you all!  Obviously we'll have to discuss our work plan -even if we decide to make changes later on- Last year some of you suggested that this course we might start reviewing  what we had been working so far (google sites, e.g.) so that we could feel more at ease when using those resources.  Anyay, feel free to suggest/ put forward what you really are interested in/ would like to learn or practice in order to use ICT in your everyday lessons.

Online Song Repository

 SongRepo is  an online repository of songs.

You simply have to look for the song you wish to listen to and click on it!  In addition to that, by clicking on the + symbol, you can  download the song (you must have a Facebook account), find a video version and sometimes you can also get the lyrics.

Trying trying

Another try with audacity!