Alba's webmix 4 Kids

@albadpl has started building a web mix with resources for her e-project for kids, and she has chosen Symbaloo.
Stay tuned for her updates!

Mario's webmix

Mario, @shhakar, student at URJC, explains why he has chosen Symbaloo to create his professional webmix:

'Hi! this is my webmix made in Symbaloo, I chose Symbaloo because I think it is the most suitable for me and the most visual I found, I like to create a desktop with everything you want or you like.
My Webmix is divided in four groups, News (Red), Personal(Blue), Games for Kids (Orange) and Experiments, Science and a lot of webpages related to help in class (Green).
I hope you like it!
Mario'

What Song Is the Most Meaningful to You?

Image: Bob Dylan and Joan Baez during the civil rights “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom” 

From Wikimedia Commons

You are invited to take part in Do Now: Art And Popular Culture this week, from Wed 26 Feb until Mo 10 March, twittering about the article entitled 'What Song Is the Most Meaningful to You?'
Read the post carefully, watch the video clip and draw your own conclusions. When you are ready to post your impressions, opinions, comments and so forth on Twitter, please start twittering all along the week about this topic.

Start all your tweets with @KQEDedspace and end them with our hashtag #DoNow_urjc. Respond to your peers, and retweet all those posts that you regard worthwhile. Illustrate your tweets with multimedia elements, be creative.

Lots of other students from all over the world are also twittering about this week Do Now and they will be using #DoNowSong, so it would be nice if you focused on that hashtag too, apart from our own. In order to manage that, you may use a tool for real time tracking and organizing your Twitter, such as Tweetdeck.

Let's have fun reading!

How Nuria organises her resources to encourage Primary students to read and have fun through a Symbaloo.

Un PLE en 7 semanas

Llego al final de #eduPLEmooc con las ilusiones intactas que había puesto en este curso allá por enero; las expectativas más que cumplidas, y con ganas de seguir aprendiendo y de seguir enganchada a la colaboración.

"¿Por qué se acaba?, ¿no podemos seguir otras 7 semanitas más?", me pregunto a ratos. Pues sí podemos, porque gracias a esta iniciativa de formación hemos establecido lazos entre personas que seguro perduran en las redes y fuera de ellas.

Haciendo un recorrido por todo lo que he compartido en esta iniciativa que me ha tenido completamente entusiasmada durante algo más de 7 semanas de mi vida, me parece mentira que hayamos producido tanto en tan poco tiempo: nubes de intereses, diagramas, presentaciones, infografías, tableros colaborativos, blogs, entradas, comunidades virtuales y hasta un #MOOCafé multiplicado.

Desde aquella primera nube de intereses, aquel primer diagrama que esbozaba un tímido PLE, he ido reflexionando sobre el análisis de cuentas Twitter; he estado infoxicada de información entre flyers, espacios de debate, boletines de noticias y un planeta eduPLE; he colgado chinchetas en tableros colaborativos y a veces he ejercido de #mentoresPLE para acompañar a miembros de #latribudelPLE de los que he aprendido mucho; he aterrizado sobre la curación de contenidos en una infografía, mientras observaba con humilde orgullo cómo otros compañeros seleccionaban mi cuenta en Twitter, juzgando el uso que hago a diario del microblogging, algo que me pareció sorprendente entonces y que sigue pareciéndomelo ahora que estoy a punto de concluir este primer MOOC INTEF.

Y mientras, no sé muy bien cómo, he ingresado en 7 nuevas comunidades virtuales de aprendizaje en Google+ y en 2 nuevos grupos de Facebook (¡ay, acabo de darme cuenta que es 1 comunidad por semana MOOC ...!) donde nos "afanamos" por contribuir a que Afania mejore su calidad educativa, y poco a poco, poco a poco, llegó el día en el que el MOOC se convirtió en presencial durante unas horas, gracias a los #MOOCafé simultáneos celebrados en tantas y tantas sedes, y también gracias a los vídeo #MOOCafé virtuales.

Así, casi sin ser completamente consciente de ello, me he ido adentrando más y más en el reto de EduPLEmooc, sintiéndome parte de una red tejida por docentes que ahora se apoyan en Facebook, ahora EduPLEviajan, ahora escuchan la radio, ahora debaten sobre educación, ahora toman café, y ahora, sobre todo, ahora, son docentes conectados.

Encouraging digital reading and writing with a Pearltree by Pablo A.

Pablo A., from URJC, is organising the resources for his Primary Bilingual e-project. ICT to promote reading and writing, in a Pearltree.
Check it for some fine material!

Me, myself and I. By Elena

Elena, a Master's Degree student from URJC, is introducing herself in 3 steps.

View full comic.

Go 2 Site 2 Learn English

Check this useful Symbaloo by @somar0209 from URJC.

The yellow tiles are for games, activities and so forth to use in the classroom on a whiteboard. The pink tiles are for teacher resources and the red tiles are for CAE prep material.

Go 2 Site 2 learn English

A Mobile Library for @blogmaniacos

Billy, Jacob, John and Jose Luis are setting up a mobile library for Primary Bilingual Students, as part of their Master's Degree for The Use of ICT and Digital Resources for Primary Bilingual Education at URJC.

To know what Primary kids would like to have in their m-library, they are asking @blogmaniacos for help through this set of initial questions.

Looking forward to learning with you, @blogmaniacos!

Thanks ever so much for your collaboration!

Ana's story

#MAMOOCafé, el #MOOCafé de #eduPLEmooc en Madrid

El pasado 20 de febrero de 2014, como parte de las actividades de #eduPLEmooc, el MOOC de INTEF que estamos siguiendo online desde el mes de enero, unos 30 docentes y personas interesadas en Educación, nos reunimos en el Starbucks de C/Princesa 5, Madrid, para charlar en torno a una improvisada cata de café y chocolate, cortesía del establecimiento, y celebrar un MOOCafé que compartimos en las redes sociales con el hashtag #MAMOOCafé.

Las preguntas planteadas en la convocatoria del #MOOCafé eran claras:

• ¿Cómo te gustaría que fuese tu Escuela o centro educativo?
• ¿Cómo debería ser la Educación del siglo XXI?¿En qué tendría que cambiar?
• ¿Qué se puede hacer desde la Escuela para que la Educación sea un asunto importante para toda la comunidad, y no sólo de los docentes o de padres y madres?

Como en todos estos encuentros informales entre compañeros con los que colaboramos, trabajamos y que sirven, bien para vernos las caras por primera vez y desvirtualizarnos, bien para reencontrarnos, lo más importante es la calidad humana que de allí se destila y el entusiasmo que se respira; las ganas de trabajar por y para la educación, que llevan a un grupo de personas a alargar su jornada laboral un jueves de 6 a 8 de la tarde para seguir hablando de su trabajo y de su pasión: la docencia, la educación.

Esto, creo yo, debe significar algo, puesto que este tipo de encuentros, como muchas otras iniciativas informales que sin duda contribuyen a la mejora de la calidad educativa, a los docentes "no les dan puntos"; son voluntarias, las hacemos porque nos apetece, lo cual es bastante indicativo, en mi opinión, de la profesionalidad de los que nos dedicamos a la educación en este país; de las ganas de ser parte de nuevas modalidades de formación, de mantenernos actualizados, de pertenecer a comunidades virtuales y presenciales de aprendizaje continuo, y de seguir avanzando hacia una meta común: dotar a nuestros alumnos de medios actualizados y colaborativos para aprender a aprender, que les permitan convertirse en ciudadanos digitales críticos, conectados, gracias a que sus profesores también lo son.

Esperamos conseguirlo, y que en este #MOOCafé de Madrid, #MAMOOCafé, hayamos contribuido a mejorar la Educación del S. XXI con nuestras aportaciones.
Para mi ha sido un placer formar parte del encuentro y conversar con todos los allí presentes, a los cuales agradezco su asistencia, y aprovecho igualmente para felicitar a INTEF por poner en marcha este tipo de cursos masivos abiertos que nos dan la oportunidad de aprender a aprender.

A continuación dejo una selección de tweets con las reflexiones y conclusiones más relevantes del encuentro, algunas de las cuales dan respuesta a las preguntas, así como el álbum de fotos del evento y un vídeo con el que Fernando Cuevas inmortalizó el momento.

Why Starting with Symbaloo

Emily from URJC, is starting to organise her resources to have them ready for the eproject she is crafting along her Master's Degree for The Use of ICT and Digital Resources in Primary Bilingual Education. She is also explaining why she has chosen Symbaloo.

'I chose Symbaloo because I think it is easy to use and also a user-friendly-designed interface.

It allows logo changing of every resource you add, you can add simple text for every tile, and also users can upload their own background as personalized service too.

I like its free-style a lot.'

Mindmap of toolkits in jars

Thanks to Andrea R. for her mindmap.

#DoNow_urjc #DoNowArtist Storify

On 12 February 2014 the students at URJC Master's Degree for The use of  ICT and Digital Resources for Primary Bilingual Education started taking part in the worldwide Do Now initiative with their tweets about 'Can we separate the Artwork from the Artist?'

After regularly diving into Twitter for a week, first time ever for some, we are now storifying the Twitter experience.

Thanks to KQED Edspace for inviting us to be part of this great #DoNowArtist. Stay tuned for our next Do Now.

Art and Music around the world

Pablo V., Concha and Cristina are mindmapping an eproject about Arts and Music for a Primary Education CLIL e-project at URJC.
Stay tuned for their next episodes!

A mindmap to flood a school with Art and Music

@albertorre3 and @PatriciaGgut have designed this full mindmap for their ongoing e-project at URJC.
Stay tuned for their next episode!

A PLE for stories to educate

The PLE for the e-project entitled ' Stories to educate' by @lauga91, @Maria91bm, @ruthggf and @alcalop14 at URJC.
This is the first step for their e-project design.

Stay tuned for their next episodes!

Why is content curation important when doing assignments?

A pearltree for mindmapping a m-Library e-project

By John, Jacob, José Luis and Billy at URJC.
Stay tuned!

A mindmap of an Arts and Music e-project

@leyre_cuervo, @EvaGarciaPaton and @sanmiblanco21 are starting to design an e-project in order to flood URJC with Arts and Music. Their first step has been to design a mindmap and get the PLE of their e-project.

Stay tuned for their coming chapters!

See full mind map.

Mindmapping Stories to warm hearts

@Pablo_alber, @ngonzalezba and @priestying are creating an e-project at URJC about stories to warm hearts, but first of all they have designed the PLE for their e-project, and they have decided to use Mindomo. Here's the result of their first mindmap.
Stay tuned for their next episodes!

See full mindmap.

A story by @albadpl

Thanks to Alba at URJC for introducing herself in 3 steps:

Eva introduces herself

Thanks a lot to Eva from URJC for her introduction in 3 steps:

Nuria G. introduces herself in 3 steps

Thanks to Nuria G. for her introduction for the Master's Degree on the use of ICT and Digital Resources at Bilingual Primary Education.

Ana's Story

Alvaro himself

Thanks, Alvaro, for sharing this Western portrait of yourself

A story by Pablo R.

Thanks to Pablo R., one of my students at URJC for sharing a bit of his life with us.

They call me Mr. T

Thanks ever so much, Mr. T, for such a great introduction in 3 steps

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Can We Separate the Artwork from the Artist?

Image by @justinbieber/Instagram

You are invited to take part in Do Now: Art And Popular Culture this week, from Wed 12 Feb until Tu 18 Feb, twittering about the article entitled 'Can We Separate the Artwork from the Artist?'

Read the post carefully, listen to radio show and draw your own conclusions. When you are ready to post your impressions, opinions, comments and so forth on Twitter, please start twittering all along the week about this topic.

Start all your tweets with @KQEDedspace and end them with our hashtag #DoNow_urjc. Respond to your peers, and retweet all those posts that you regard worthwhile.

Lots of other students from all over the world are also twittering about this week Do Now and they will be using #DoNowArtist, so it would be nice if you focused on that hashtag too, apart from our own. In order to manage that, you may use a tool for real time tracking and organizing your Twitter, such as Tweetdeck.

First chapter of the life of Pablo V

Pablo V. is handing the first chapter of his life in comics. If you enjoy it, he promises new chapters will be handed, so here you go:

Life and dreams of a teacher

Thanks a bunch to José Luis, one of my students at URJC, for sharing his secrets and dreams with all of us!

Andrea's Introduction in 3 steps

Welcome to Andrea's life from her very first day in this world!
Now she is at URJC studying a Master's Degree for the use of ICT and Digital Resources in Primary Bilingual Education and she has started to make very good use of a tool she's just discovered. Congratulations, Andrea!

Alberto's life

Thanks, Alberto, for sharing a bit of your life with us!

Something about Laura

Nice presentation by Laura, one of my students at URJC.

Something about Silvia

A very sweet introduction by one of my students from the Master's Degree for the use of ICT and Digital Resources in Bilingual Primary Education at URJC.
Thanks, Silvia, for sharing!

Leire's Life

Thanks a bunch to Leire, one of the students from the Master's Degree at URJC for her sweet book:

Click on the cover to open it or go straight to the book from this link.

Who is Jacob Welcker?

Cool presentation by one of my students at URJC for the use of ICT and Digital Resources at Primary Bilingual Education.

Congrats, Jacob, just awesome!

A Pearltree on Comics by @inmitacs

Thanks to my colleague @inmitacs for sharing this pearltree!

Jorge introduces himself in 3 steps

Thank you to Jorge, one of my students from the Master's Degree at URJC for his comic introduction.

Me, as an atypical Chinese girl

Thanks ever so much to Emily for her sweet introduction in 3 steps:

Teaching tomorrow's leaders, today!

A great flyer by Billy, one of my Master's Degree students at URJC, just after two sessions.
I'm really proud. Congratulations Billy, awesome job! I'm sure you are already up to the challenge!

And do not miss his English backpack, a very sweet blog.

Un PLE para el aula de idiomas

Normalmente escribo en inglés en este blog, que utilizo regularmente en colaboración con mis alumnos, pero hoy es diferente, ya que el artículo de hoy está enfocado a la realización de la actividad final de la Unidad 4 del MOOC de INTEF "Entornos Personales de Aprendizaje (PLE) para el Desarrollo Profesional Docente".

Como me defino en mi cuenta de Twitter, soy "Profe de inglés a la que le gustan mucho las TIC", así que los motivos para la elección del tema de trabajo y la relación con mi profesión son claros, no necesitan mucha más explicación, especialmente porque soy profe por vocación y creo que convertirme en fan de las TIC también ha sido algo vocacional, ya que el descubrimiento del valor añadido de su uso en mis aulas me ha llevado a colaborar en red con entusiasmo, a invitar a mis alumnos a descubrir las TIC y las redes para convertirse en aprendices de inglés conectados, a trabajar en entornos virtuales colaborativos porque: ¿alguien puede negar el abanico de posibilidades que la red y las redes le abren a una persona que desee aprender y practicar inglés hoy en día, o la oportunidad de contar con escenarios digitales de aprendizaje prácticamente a nivel auténtico que pone la red a disposición de todas las personas en general?

Aunque ya pertenecía a varias comunidades de Google+ antes de comenzar este MOOC, para afrontar el reto que se nos plantea me he unido a la comunidad PLE para la clase de idiomas donde varios docentes de idiomas hemos empezado a compartir ideas, recursos, materiales y herramientas que encajan con las necesidades de mejora de la enseñanza de idiomas en las EEOOII, partiendo de un escenario ilustrado meidante un mapa conceptual diseñado con Mindomo, que identifica esas necesidades.

La comunidad la ha abierto Paola Iasci, profesora de italiano en EEOOII, y en torno a la misma estamos construyendo un tablero colaborativo en Pinterest, un grupo en Diigo, y una lista en Twitter. Compartimos todo en Twitter bajo el hashtag #pleparaidiomas y claro está, también con el hashtag del MOOC #eduPLEmooc.

Todos los docentes que se han unido a la comunidad PLE para la clase de idiomas son sin duda referentes en su campo, ya que se trata de docentes que intentan innovar en sus aulas, sacarle el mayor provecho a su PLE con sus alumnos y utilizar las TIC de forma creativa y efectiva en la clase, y por tanto, no es necesario ir a buscar estupendos teóricos sobre idiomas; los tenemos en las clases, en las redes, profesorado a pie de aula que se reinventa todos los días.

Desde aquí, agradezco a Paola Iasci que me haya invitado a unirme a esta comunidad, y animo a todos los que os dediquéis a la enseñanza de lenguas a uniros también para seguir ampliando nuestro #pleparaidiomas.

Are you up to the challenge?

On Monday February 3, I started a new adventure at URJC. I met an incredible group of future Primary Bilingual Teachers that joined the module I will be teaching over the next two months for the use of ICT and Digital Resources in Primary Bilingual Education, as part of the Master's Degree in English about CLIL for that educational level at the aforesaid University.

Are you up to the challenge? from M. Jesus Garcia

The champion challenge was 'Let's flood the school with Music and Art', chosen by three four member teams. 'Stories to warm hearts' turned the runner-up, and three people in three different teams will be tackling it from now until the end of April 2014. 'Audiovisual Science', 'Setting up a mobile library' and 'Turn Journalists into Brave Reporters' are the other best liked challenges.

As you may have realized by now, the choices are varied and may be overcome with a wide range of interactive activities which we will be accomplishing over these two months we have ahead of you.

Stay tuned for news about our e-projects, which we will be regularly tweeting under #ictclil_urjc

Guiding these future teachers successfully to rising to the challenges of their choice and accomplishing their aims will also be part of my mission for The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators in 2014 at supporting e-teachers.

Let's keep our fingers crossed! Good luck to all!

e-Encouraging to e-Read

 e-Reading is Fun!!!!

Welcome! ¡Hola, Bienvenidos! 

This year the 30 Goals Challenge for Educators is on a world tour and I am happy to be your Inspire Leader for this part of the journey. 

So where in the world is the 30 goals? We are visiting Spain. 

I invite you to accomplish the following goal: ‘e-Encouraging to e-Read’.

Accomplish This Goal

Make a video/audio recording giving a self-portrait of yourself as an e-reader or interview other e-readers and ask them to shape themselves when talking about e-reading.

• Brief definition of the e-reading features of the student
• Places and times where they read
• Devices they use for their e-reading
• Types of e-books they read
• The e-book of their lifetime

Students can accomplish this goal by planning their recordings together sharing a Google draft doc. Then, they can record their self-portraits or interviews using a mobile phone or tablet and uploading them to a podcasting service, or stream record them straight away (that will depend on the students’ skills).

If you go for video clips instead, then they can use their mobile devices any way and upload their outcomes to a video channel.

My Reflection

Reflecting about oneself’s e-reading habits and being able to paint a self-portrait may encourage both us as teachers and our students to enjoy e-reading better.

Gaining more knowledge about our students’ e-reading preferences will make it easier for teachers to single out the most adequate ebooks to keep on promoting reading among our students.

Finding out about what their peers read, when and where they do so, undoubtedly will encourage students to go e-reading. Exchanging book recommendations is always a natural way to arise interest for new books to read, and by doing so through mobile devices and ICT gadgets we are improving digital skills, too.

Here you are the final outcomes of some C1 ESL students’ video self-portraits recorded with the iMovie app for IOS and then uploaded to our classroom Youtube channel: Self- portraits. We did this to celebrate World Book Day in April 2013, and in order to share it with the rest of the community, we also created an Augmented Reality Poster that announced the coming self-portraits. We used Aurasma to do so. If you’d like to find out what the poster hides, just follow the instructions in this blog post: Celebrating World Book Day.

Resources

Google Drive

TinyVox

SoundCloud

iMovie

Youtube

Aurasma

About my country

I am happy to introduce you to my country, Spain.

I come from Avilés, a town in Asturias, Northern Spain, but at the moment I’m living and working in Madrid.

You are all invited to come and have a taste of Spain when you drop by. I will be happy to treat you to Sidra, Fabada and Casadielles, the specialties in my area that you can’t miss!

Of course, the one and only song you are bound to listen when you are in Asturias is our Anthem, Asturias Patria Querida.

Thank you for dropping by! I hope you enjoyed your stay.

Find out more about The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators at 30Goals.com and join our 30 Goals Facebook community!

Creating an outline for the first chapters of an ebook

The 30 Goals Challenge World Tour

Stay tuned for the stop of this world tour in Spain! Our turn is coming soon!

@MestraPrimaria analyses interaction in social networks

Thanks ever so much to @MestraPrimaria for choosing my Twitter profile for her activity in #eduPLEmooc.
I'm humbly honoured!

See full presentation.

Crossposted from Anaquiños e xoaniñas.