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.

WIKI UPDATES

Remember to check out the updates in our Virtual Classroom. It is VIRTUALLY REAL!

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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

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Projecte LingüíStic De Catalunya 2007

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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.

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CURRENT PROJECTS

This image shows the current projects of the English Department.

CLIL PROJECT 2009-2010

Icaria's CLIL project started in 2002 with an ORATOR grant, and continued with several Orator grants and PELE projects. With little changes over the years, the project is now consolidated. The mind map shows the current topics taught in English.

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).

MERRY X-MAS

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.

INNOVATION CONFERENCE: CONGRÉS DE PRÀCTIQUES INNOVADORES

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.

XAVIER KIRCHNER'S LECTURE ON 1X1 PROJECT AT THE 2009 ITWORLD CONFERENCE

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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!

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

THE GIBSON DESERT by Da & Ferran.ESO 1

The Gibson Desert

View more presentations from DaFerran.

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 !!

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.