#DoNowRealityTV

Do Now is a new series of activities for students to respond to current issues through the use of KQED's award-winning online media resources and social media tools like Twitter.

We have been invited to take part in the Do Now Art and Popular Culture this semester.

You will notice that for Art & Popular culture, these posts are published every other Tuesday of the month. We will be twittering about each post for the whole week once the post for our working group is published.

If you feel that Civics or Science Do Now topics are easier to connect with your interests, I encourage you to explore them.

The hashtag we will be using for these assignments is #DoNow_urjc

Aims:

Read, listen and watch the corresponding Do Now contents. Then, for every Do Now week, tweet to respond to the Do Now.

Be sure to begin your tweet with @KQEDedspace and end it with the hashtag on the blog and our #DoNow_urjc. Retweet the most interesting tweets by others, respond to your peers, include multimedia elements in your tweets such as pictures, videoclips, memes or any other resource you regard it is going to enrich your contributions.

At the end of each Twittering Week, we will storify the Do Now Round up.

If you still do not have a Twitter account, you can now open one and start.

When you are done with the weekly Do Now, write your Twitter URL (you can write it here, as a comment and/or in our online classroom) so I can see your activity for the #DoNow_urjc assignment.

Do not forget to save your Twitter URL to your portfolio, as you are going to need it more than once along the Do Now semester.

Here you are this week #DoNow for our Art and Popular Culture Group: Does Reality TV Make Us More Comfortable with Surveillance?

Photo by Beverly News/REX

Remember your tweets must begin with @KQEDedspace and end with #DoNowRealityTV plus our own hashtag #DoNow_urjc

Sobrecarga informativa. ¿Tú te las arreglas?

Sobrecarga informativa. ¿Tú te las arreglas?

#eduPLEmooc

@isabelbp surfs my Twitter account

Thanks a bunch to @isabelbp for surfing my Twitter account and doing such a deep analysis of all my microblogging activity.

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Preparing for the Journey

Let's become designers of learning, rather than deliverers of worksheets. 

Let's create opportunities for learning which simultaneously inspire, challenge and deepen students’ innate love of learning.

Quoted from Mindshift

Ready to set off!!!!!

@EstherMartinez unveils my Twitter account

Thanks ever so much to @EstherMartinez for unveiling what I am doing on Twitter. Humbly honoured that another ESL teacher has thought of my sharing through microblogging.

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@Phoenixbird_Jon analyses my Twitter account for #eduPLEmooc

My most sincere thanks to @Phoenixbird_Jon for his awesome analysis of my Twitter account.

It's been a real pleasure to read it and a great source of inspiration for self-reflection.

If interested, just click on the image below and surf the presentation. It's in Spanish.

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#ebookEVO Mindmap

The Twitter Life of @idocente

Recommended Twitter Lists for one's PLE & PLN / Listas recomendadas en Twitter para tu PLE & PLN

Listas públicas de profesores que no te puedes perder si acabas de aterrizar en Twitter / Awesome public Twitter lists of interesting teachers to follow if you have just landed on Twitter:

Lengua y Literatura

INTEF Staff

Plan Audiovisual

Docentes, a list by Diverdidácticas

Docentes, a list by @julisanzmamolar

ESL Ideas

Teaching English

ESL Teachers

ICT Education

English Teachers

ETLWN. English Teaching Learning work net. Exclusively for work posts

ESL Group

ELT

Docentes, a public list by @Edudesarrollo

Portales educativos

Kioskeros 2.0

Educación 2.0

Docentes en Twitter

EduTwitter

Teachers

Docentes, a public list by @carlosjmedina

Would you like to start a TEDEd Club at your school?

Famous TED launches TEDEd Club, a school-based program that supports students in discussing, pursuing and presenting their big ideas in the form of short TED-style talks. 

If you would like to set up a club at your school, have a look at the step-by-step guide at the TED-Ed Blog and find all about it!

Read at http://ed.ted.com/clubs

3,2,1 Introduction. For Crafting the ePerfect eTextbook

Starting off at #eduPLEmooc - Mi comienzo en #eduPLEmooc

Esta mañana he saltado a una nueva aventura de formación online, un MOOC sobre PLE, en el que toca reflexionar sobre la propia identidad y la huella digital que uno ha ido dejando a lo largo de estos años en los que uno ha estado navegando por estos mares virtuales.

El caso es que tengo que admitir que realmente a mi hasta ahora no me había dado por ponerme a pensar en esto de las huellas digitales, y resulta que gracias a #eduPLEmooc, donde una de las primeras actividades consiste a realizar una presentación en la que uno ha de hablar de su experiencia profesional previa, de sus áreas de interés y de sus expectativas ante el curso, he descubierto que llevo más de una década dejando por ahí huellas digitales.

"Y, ¿cómo puede ser?", me he preguntado al navegar por tantos entornos y comunidades virtuales en las que he visto mi perfil, así que he pensado: "Uufff, esto me va a llevar mucho tiempo, voy a ir a Google".

He tecleado mi nombre y ahí está plasmado el lado más público de mi identidad digital, o eso creo yo. Curioso, ¿no? Pues éstas son mis huellas digitales más frescas, los primeros resultados que Google arroja sobre mi.

Creo que no me va a quedar más remedio ahora que he visto mis huellas, que analizarlas con detenimiento, pero eso será otro día. Mientras tanto, es hora de hacer esta entrada en inglés, que es la lengua vehicular principal de este blog, que siempre ha estado enfocado a mis alumnos, cuyas huellas digitales seguro que también andan por aquí.

My PLE Woven Hat

Today I have dashed into a new online training adventure, a MOOC about Personal Learning Environments where I am starting to deeply think about my digital identity and the digital prints I have been spreading all over the net for the last decade, or even earlier, and suddenly I have become aware that I have one, yes, I have a digital print.

I must admit that I had not really spent much giving that digital print of mine a single thought up to know, when #eduPLEmooc invited me, as a participant in the MOOC, to share my professional experience and areas of interest as well as my expectations about the course. Then, I have come to realize that for the last sixteen years, approximately, I have left a digital trail behind me.

'How come!' I kept on wondering as I was surfing virtual communities where my profile supposedly turned up out of the blue. And so, in a rush, as usual, foreseeing a long tedious coming and going among tabs and windows, I just made up my mind and searched for myself on Google.

'Voila!', just one click on the Intro key, and there you are, your most fresh digital prints in one go.

Startling, isn't it? Now it is time to analise why those prints come before others in the search engine, but not today. After all, tomorrow is another day. Meanwhile there you go my current digital identity, or so I believe, and a glimpse of my humble PLE.

About me /Sobre mi

KQED Do Now Update: Zero Tolerance?

This week's Do Now focuses on the Obama administration's take on the zero tolerance policy for schools. 

Do you think that schools, teachers and administrators should change the way they discipline because of the new report on zero tolerance and new suggested guidelines? 
How might they punish differently? 
Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

You can view the Do Now here:

http://blogs.kqed.org/education/2014/01/10/are-school-discipline-policies-to-severe/

Photo by Erin Scott

The hashtag for this week's conversation is #DoNowDiscipline. To respond to the Do Now, you can tweet your response. Be sure to begin your tweet with @KQEDEdspace and end it with the hashtag.

PLE Woven Hat

Here you are my wizard hat, woven with the cloud that shapes my Personal Learning Environment.

Part of #eduPLEmooc Digital Prints.

New year, new challenge

We have just entered a brand new year and The Three Holy Kings are about to come to Spain, but they have brought this blog a very special present: the chance to be part of this awesome challenge and try to make the difference!

Image source: Sus majestades los Reyes Magos de Oriente, by Esti Álvarez.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.es

I am really looking forward to actively fulfilling the goals challenge with you all and hope I will be up to it, but surely with all your help we will do our best to make a humble contribution to such a wonderful project.

Stay tuned; the trip is starting in January 2014 and will be soon landing here!

I'd also like to warmly thank Shelly Sanchez Terrell and her Facebook group for welcoming us on board, it's a great honour.

Find out all about the challenge at 30goals.com.