In the blog of research group DIM-UAB, Dr.Pere Marqués explores the half truths and half lies of the use of ICT in learning environments. An essential real.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
HALF TRUTHS ABOUT ICT
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
OLP: One Laptop Per Child
OLP One Laptop Per Child, a non profit organization tha strives to empower the world's poorest children through education.
THE FUTURE OF LEARNING- A lecture by Professor Cavallo, MIT researcher
A summary of Mr.Cavallo's inspiring lecture at ITWorld Edu Conference:
-We are still teaching people for a world that belongs to the past. To change it, the biggest obstacle is our fear of change.
-We are designing learning materials for the world that WAS, not for the world that WILL BE
-The paradigm has shifted
-How can we use technology to raise the level of students?
-Does school teach what people need to know?
-School and learning must engage, it must not tell the answer; it must help students find the solution.
-Projects must engage.
-Many things that are done in schools are just historical remnants.
-Schools should be learning environemnts instead of places where information is taught.
-We are underserving our children and our community
-The idea is to make learning FUN. It may be HARD, but HARD FUN.
Friday, February 25, 2011
WHY TECHNOLOGY?
This presentation gives us reasons to use technology...and it's SO right!
Why technology?
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Què pot oferir l'escola plurilingüe? L'aprenentatge significatiu en el món digital
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Saturday, February 5, 2011
SHAOGUAN EFL TEACHERS ATTEND NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Some of the teachers from Shaoguan, Guandong Province, People's Republic of China, with whom we have a working realtionship, attented a national conference in Beijin. EFL teachers and researchers in China are really active!
Friday, January 28, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
ITWORLD EDU 2009: THE VIDEO
The video -summary of the venue ITWORLD EDU 2009 where our school was awarded a prize for the wiki Virtually Real (watch the end!)
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Watch live video from UOC 100 on Justin.tv
Segona sessió de formació ReacTICva't UOC - Espiral: Nova societat mòbil i educació transmèdia. Dia 19-1-2011 de 18h a 20h
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
ASSESSMENT AND FEEDBACK
An interesting video on the topics of assessment and feedback by Professor David Boud
Friday, October 15, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
HOW TO LEARN A LANGUAGE
A very interesting presentation by an Australian teacher on tips and tricks to learn a language.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
THE BIG CHALLENGE by Eduard González
On May the 6th. students of E1A and E1B participated in an English contest where over 640,000 students from Germany, France and Spain had to answer 350 multiple-choice questions.
Big Challenge was created in France in 1999 by a group of English teachers, its main purpose is to motivate students learning languages with an educational yet fun experience.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
STUDENT EXCHANGE WITH GERMANY by Carme Cemeli
This school year the English Department has started an exchange program with a school in Schwerin,Germany. 20 students of ESO 3 travelled to Germany with 2 teachers to spend an intense week in this northern town.
The school prepared a warm welcome: they were ready with a whole week of activities, outings and trips, including a one-day trip to Berlin.
Students had the opportunity to communicate in English with their German friends, thus reinforcing the importance of learning and using English. This kind of experience gives students a real opportunity to learn and expand what they learn in the classroom and gives them an insight into a different culture.
Our German counterparts will visit us in early autumn. We are already looking forward to meeting them again!
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
XIP:Xarxa d'Innovació Pedagògica
On friday 9th we held the first meeting to constitute a new association of people involved in Education to foster debate around the current and future situation of education in Catalonia. The meeting was followed b a formal dinner which was attended by the Conseller d'Educació , Mr.Ernest Maragall.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
PELE ICARIA 2009-2010
We are in our second year of the PELE (Pla Experimental de Llengües Estrangeres) and working hard to improve our students' communicative skills.
View the updates on the BLOG of the PELE
COMPUTERS MADE EASY
A reminder of my other blog about the elective subject I teach: Computers Made Easy I & II
for Secondary Education students. Enjoy!
Projecte LingüíStic De Catalunya 2007
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Projecte LingüíStic De Catalunya 2007
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
GLOGGING THE PELE
This virtual poster shows some (not all!) the actions we have taken and are taking to carry out the innovation project to improve students' communicative skills.
Friday, January 22, 2010
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CURRENT PROJECTS
This image shows the current projects of the English Department.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
CLIL PROJECT 2009-2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
CENTRE FORMADOR-EFL TEACHER TRAINING SCHOOL
We have been appointed as a teacher training school by the Catalan Department of Education. This means that we are going to tutor students who will be doing their practicum to work for their Masters Degree in EFL Teacher Training in our school. We will collaborate with UAB (Universtitat Autònoma), UB (Universitat de Barcelona) and UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
VIRTUALLY REAL in EDUCAT
EDUCAT, a virtual newsletter about ICT and education has published a piece of news about VirtuallyReal and the ITWorldEDU awards. View it here.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
VIRTUALLY REAL IN THE CRP LES CORTS DATABASE
The CRP Les Corts features resources for teachers and has asked to include the wiki VirtuallyReal.
View all the resources here.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
The wiki VirtuallyReal has been awarded the IT WORLD EDU award at the 2009 conference held in ESADE on 28, 29 and 30th of October.
The award consists of an interactive whiteboard and software and licences for several applications and programs.
Catalunya Radio interviewed me about the project and I was thrilled to explain what we do.
I would like to thank the board for this award which just will keep me going for more!
Friday, October 23, 2009
ENGLISH WITH ROSETTA STONE
Our school has been chosen by the Department of Education to pilot a three-month test trial of the online English learning toll Rosetta Stone. The students get free licenses and we will evaluate the impact of this tool in their learning process. View the tool here
Monday, October 19, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
BYE-BYE BUBBLESHARE
Bubbleshare has left us( sigh!) The ongoing economic crisis has forced the close down of this free software... so we are now experimenting with other software to create slideshows... here is a first try by a group of ESO 2 students.
2009-2010
We are starting a new schoolyear with some new things: new teachers, a language assistant from Scotland, a new interactive whiteboard... and we will continue with last year's projects: the Pla Experimental to improve communicative skills, the program to coordinate all the schools in the district... To teachers and students, both old and new...WELCOME !!
Friday, May 22, 2009
CLIL ATTITUDE: CLIL AS A CATALYST FOR LANGUAGE CHANGE
CLIL "guru" David Mash gave a lecture on CLIL: "Clil as a catalyst for language change". It was an impressive yet funny 80 minute lecture where Doctor Marsh reviewed the principles of CLIL and the result of world surveys which show how useful CLIL is not only in terms of language learning, but in terms of improving students' thinking skills.
The venue took place at Pati Maning, on May 21st at 18 p.m.and it was sponsored jointly by Linguamon, the Department of Education and Diputació de Barcelona.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
SHAOGUAN SCHOOLS (GUANGDONG PROVINCE-PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA)
Xishui village school class pupils. Ruyuan County.
Our English Department has collaborated with
Mr. John Wu for some years now. Mr John Wu is a teacher of english, teacher trainer and ICT specialist, trainer and consultant for the schools of Shaouguan district, near Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA
South Africa and Apartheid as seen by 12-year-old students
Presentacio Sud Africa
THE NAZI REGIME- as seen by 12-year-old students
12-year-old students investigated the racist issues of the nazi regime.
The Nazi Regim
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ETHICS FOR THE MILLENNIUM
A power point presentation of two 12-year-old students on the Civil Rights Movement of the USA.
Segregation Laws
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
SASS CONFERENCE: WATER AND THE AMERICAN LITERARY HERITAGE
The highlight of the 3-day conference on Water and the American Literary Heritage hosted at Barcelona University was Louise Erdrich's lecture on April 1st.
She lectured on her work, the importance of water in the Native American tradition, specially in the Chippewa tradition she comes from, about the role of women as preservers and carriers of water, about spirituality and about the future of the planet in terms of control of the water supplies and water pollution. It was a deep, moving lecture for which we only have three words: Thank you, Thank you and Thank you!
She lectured on her work, the importance of water in the Native American tradition, specially in the Chippewa tradition she comes from, about the role of women as preservers and carriers of water, about spirituality and about the future of the planet in terms of control of the water supplies and water pollution. It was a deep, moving lecture for which we only have three words: Thank you, Thank you and Thank you!
Monday, March 9, 2009
BE BLOGGER MY FRIEND ! : STUDENTS' BLOGS
Links to the blogs of the students of ESO 1E. They serve as a portfolio for their work and as a platform where to publish their projects, assignments etc.
http://boltfraser.blogia.com
http://nadalsharapova.blogia.com
http://casillasvaldes.blogia.com
http://gasolrubio.blogia.com
http://mengualphelps.blogia.com
http://messibojan.blogia.com
The blogs are named after sportspeople because they were created by Arnau Roig as a support for the students' team work in creating sports magazines. They are proving an excellent platform to show and share their projects. The most recent one is about global warming, what we can do to stop it and what we mustn't do to make it worse.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
2008 - 2009 AICLE - CLIL PROJECT
This mind map shows the current state of the CLIL Project (Content and Language Integrated Learning) of our school. These topics are taught in English either as optional subjects or as part of the yearly subject. Click on the image to enlarge.
Monday, February 16, 2009
JOYFUL LEARNING
This picture from the official blog of the e-twinning conference in Prague impressed me and I have borrowed it from them. Heartfelt thanks!
Monday, February 9, 2009
THE GERMANIC BRANCH OF LANGUAGES BY A GROUP OF ESO 3 STUDENTS
This is the powerpoint that a group of 14-year-olds prepared on the Germanic Branch of languages.
Germanic Branch
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THE WORLD OF ENGLISH
In the optional subject The World of English we are nw studying the origins of the English language and the branches of the Indo-European family of languages. Here are some students' powerpoints.
Baltic Branch
Thursday, February 5, 2009
SPORTS MAGAZINES
As an activity about sports, ESO1 E students worked in groups to prepare a sports magazine. They worked under the supervision of Arnau Roig, who was doing his teacher training practicum.The students had a lot of fun and they also learnt a lot! ESO 1E students and myself are indebted to Arnau for his teaching skills, patience and great ideas. Arnau, we miss you!!
GOOD ATHLETISM: THE DEFINITE MAGAZINE OF THE ATHLETICS WORLD
Check out the interviews to Usian Bolt and Shelley Ann Fraser. Take the surveys to find out if you lead a healthy lifestyle and much more in GOOD ATHLETISM.
athletism
AIJACHILURO: A FOOTBALL MAGAZINE
View another magazine about football with incredible interviews to young football stars!
aijachiluro
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SPORTS MAGAZINE: FOOTBALL
Check out the sports magazine on football, with amazing interviews to football stars!By Frederic Porta, Aaron Lloveras, Clara Gregorio, Oscar Larios, David Saez and Roger Gassull.
huevofrito
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SPORTS MAGAZINE:TENNIS BOOM
A group of 12-year-olds of 1 E prepared this magazine about tennis. Check out the interviews with tennis champions Roger Federer, Maria Sharapova and the gossip column about Rafa Nadal! By Joana Marturià, Laura Madrenas, Marina Prieto, Jana Raventós and Aida Tirvió.
Tennis Boom
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SPORTS MAGAZINE: ORANGE BALLS
Another group of students prepared this magazine on basketball. Don't miss the health recipes for healthy people and the interview with Ricky Rubio! By Laura Fernández de Sevilla, Alicia Castaño, Joel Benavides, Sara Avila & Violeta Cabeza from ESO 1 E
Orange Balls
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
SPORTS MAGAZINES
12-year-old ESO 1 E students worked in small groups to prepare a Sports Magazine. Each group chose a sport. Here you can see the product of the group who chose Swimming. They produced an amazing magazine complete with gossip columns and horoscopes. Find out the latest gossip of the swimming world that involves champions Michael Phelps and Gemma Mengual By Manel Paret, Irene Tineo, Clara Gimenez, Jana Rius and Marta García. !
MY GREEN ID
We did this activity with ESO1 students (12 years old). We discussed our recycling and transportation habits in order to decide how we could make the planet greener.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
RAINFORESTS: THE YANOMAMI
Video made by three 12-year-old students on the topic of the Yanomami of the Amazon Rainforest.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
AN IMAGINARY TRIP TO SYDNEY - Teacher: Mireia Solé
Check out the blog of Mireia Solé's two 13-year-old students, Maria and Claudia, where they recorded the experiences of their (imaginary) trip to Sydney.
Friday, October 24, 2008
ORAL PRESENTATION: THE ARABIAN DESERT
Video of a 12-year-old student explaining the main features of the Arabian Desert
Thursday, October 23, 2008
THE INUIT CREATION MYTH
This video summarizes the creation myth of the Inuit of Canada. It is highlighted by the amazing throat singing of Inuit artist Sainkho Namtchylak.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
THE BIG BANG?
In the Optional Subject of Geography in English we studied the origins of the Universe through the theory of the Big Bang. But then we explored how the creation or origin of our planet and humankind was explained by ancient cultures all over the world. Here are some of them.
Friday, October 10, 2008
ENGLISH TODAY
This video shows the experience of two 14-year-old students in London. Enjoy the sights!
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Saturday, September 20, 2008
A FORCE MORE POWERFUL...
Highly recommended: a series of lectures about the power of non-violence... a much needed tool in our troubled world.
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