ICT Primary Bilingual Teacher Badge

We wanted to thank Dr. García for all her help on this project. It wouldn't have been possible without her guidance and expertise. Not only was the class very useful, we also got to learn about blogging, creating e-stories, sharing our work through various social platforms, working with each other and fostering reading in English. After all this hard work, we have each received an ICT Primary Bilingual Teacher badge.

Where are all the green spaces? Here you are some of @pablomaster89's favourites

Book ME-Library Storified

7th Virtual Round Table Web Conference

Book ME-Library wants to say thanks to Dr. Mª Jesús García San Martín for her invitation to present and take part in the 7th Virtual Round Table Web Conference that was held from the 25th to 27th of April. We were given the opportunity, along with the others in the online teaching community and students from Rey Juan Carlos University to present our semester projects in hopes that the greater community might take notice and advantage of what we have to offer. The Book ME-Library was proud to have Billy Joel Ramos present on its behalf the jist of what our project encompasses and aims to accomplish. Thanks to webtools and web resources like StoryJumper, Storybird, ZooBurst, SoundCloud, Aurasma, and of course Blogger, we were able to create our current library. Our specific portion will be posted here at a later date, when available. In the meantime the entire URJC's portion can be found by clicking on the link provided. 

We all found the Virtual Round Table Web Conference to be an incredible experience, something completely new to the entire group. The fact that we were able to share our experience from our own homes with others all over the world was amazing. We hope that this is only the first of many such experiences and that sometime maybe even we will be those that other teaches look to headline future events. If you haven't already, take a peek at the rest of our blog and if you have some extra time to read some other really great blogs provided by our classmates, click on their links found on the right-hand side of our blog with other widgets, or by clicking on the links below:

• 
  Art and Music in Jars

  Art and music in jars! new activities!
• 
  Arts & music around the world

  Virtual Conference: Art & Music Around The World e-project has been shared with the world !!!!
• 
  Enjoy learning: Art and Music
• 
  Heal the world with stories

  7th Round Table Web Conference
• 
  ICT for reading and writing promotion

  Our pageviews data over the world!
• 
  Open Voices
• 
  Science E-Project

  MARIA Professional Badges
• 
  Stop and Learn English

  Article: e-Project Art and Music in Jars in the Virtual Round Table Web Conference

Article: e-Project Art and Music in Jars in the Virtual Round Table Web Conference

Art and Music in Jars. Challenging future e-Teachers to blog e-Projects 7^th Virtual Round Table Web Conference

We had the chance to present our e-project in the web conference 25-27 April 2014 Language Learning Technologies. In particular, our presentation was on Sunday 27^th. At the beginning of the conference, the coordinator Angelika was checking that the audio was working properly for every co-presenter. Apart from that, the previous day, the co-presenters took part in a sound test to ensure that their sound devices were fully functional.

At first, Angelika presented our teacher, Mª Jesus, who later on introduced a few students of the Master’s Course called Bilingual Education in Primary School and English Language Immersion. On the top we could see the videos of the presenters who were explaining their e-Projects and under them, there was a Power Point presentation related to the subject The use of ICT and Digital Resources in Primary Bilingual Education, which has lasted three months and during this period we have acquired useful digital competences that enable us to apply many resources on the Internet that we hadn’t known yet.

PRESENTING OUR OUTCOMES: OUR E-PROJECTS

All of us explored and designed different resources to develop our e-Projects such as: trailers, mind maps to organize our aims, webmixes, podcasts, logos and so on. 

Jorge presented our e-Project: Art and Music in Jars. We were all very pleased to spread our e-Project to the world because we spent a lot of time in this project and it was a challenge for us to achieve our goals. Being honest, we are not experts in technologies and when we started we found different troubles hard to solve. However, with the help of Mª Jesús we could manage them. 

Below you can check our Storify in Twitter.

Virtual Conference: Art & Music Around The World e-project has been shared with the world !!!!

On Sunday 27th, we were in the Virtual Round Table Web Conference sharing our e-projects with the world, it was an amazing experience because we could share our projects with international teachers and they were glad to hear us. Also some teachers said that they are going to put in practice some activities that we have posted in our blogs.

Cristina was the co-presenter of our team, she did a professional work and so great; the rest of us 
were twittering and attending the conference. In addittion, we gave people who were talking in the
conference chat links to our blogs, our activities and our trailer.
Moreover our classmate Pablo did a Storify with all our tweets that we have posted during the 
conference. Here is the link if someone wants to take a look.

Heal the World with Stories and the 7th Round Table Web Conference

Last Sunday 27th of April, our Master Degree classroom was invited to participate in the 7th Round Table Web Conference in order to present our e-projects.

During the subject ICT in the Primary Classroom, our teacher, Mª Jesús, invited us to accept the challenge of designing an e-project for primary classrooms according to different topics. Therefore, eight teams were created to face this challenge.

After three intensive months of work, we finished our projects and we had the chance of presenting them to the world. This conference, presented by Angelika Güttel-Stahlhofer, started with a presentation of our teacher giving a brief summary of the aims she established. Afterwards, one member of each team presented their e-project with the main goals they wanted to achieve or activities and resources people will be able to find on each blog.

According to our e-project, Heal the world with stories, was our partner Laura, the one that presented it. She explained the design of our blog, the aims we wanted to achieve and the activities we have proposed to be carried out. 

At the end of her speech she pointed out the aspects we should improve and the difficulties we found learning how to use these technologies, most of them new for us. Despite that, she mentioned that we were very proud of our results because we reached our goals and learned a lot.

To sum up, we want to thank the Virutal Round Table and Angelika Güttel-Stahlhofer for the opportunity to let us participate in this wonderful activity and give us the possibility to share our blog with the rest of the world. We also thank our ICT teacher, Mª Jesús, for all her work, patience and teachings during these months and for showing us another way of seeing ICT and how we can use them in a real primary classroom.

7th Virtual Round Table Web Conference

Today our class has presented the e-project, in which we have been working during three months, in the 7th Virtual RoundTable Web Conference.

Our teacher, Mª Jesus, had asked us to participate in TheVirtual Round Table Conference, and all of us were a little confused about what this will consist of.  This kind of site is an annual web conference for language learning technologies, where teachers and experts share with the world their projects.

We have to own up that at the beginning we were a little afraid to share our e-project in such a huge way but we are now very pleased to have taken part in this conference for several reasons. Firstly, it was a new experience for us and secondly, because we could see how amazed the people were about our work and some of them said that they will try these tools with other students.

Although the performance took place today, the first checking sound was yesterday and the second one today just before starting. Once that we were on live, Angelika Güttel- Strahlhofer  let our teacher, Mª Jesus, give a brief introduction about our presentation, and after that, all our mates introduced their projects and explained them with more detail.

All of us were very nervous, but finally it came out in a brilliant way in spite of some sound problems in some of the presentations. Still, we are really proud of the final results and we have not enough words to thank all the people who made this project come true.

Our group has relied on our brilliant partner Eva GarciaPaton (by the way she did it great!), who has explained our e-project called “Enjoy learning: Music and art”, which was created to celebrate the anniversary of The Greco and Platero and I. We have used different tools and apps in order to make this e-project come true. You can have more information in our Wix.

To finish up, thank to the Virtual Round Table team to give us the opportunity to present our e-project which we have made with effort and a lot of enthusiasm. Thanks to Angelika Güttel- Strahlhofer also for giving us some extra time to be able to present all of the e-projects. And last but not least, thanks so much to our wonderful teacher to challenge us with such amazing work. We really have learnt a lot from you, as you would say, thanks a bunch! ;P

Virtual Round Table Web Conference, Breaking Science sharing the project!

Hello everyone! This weekend we had the opportunity to attend to one of the most important and recognised Web Conferences worldwide: The Virtual Round Table Web Conference.

We want you to know about it! The idea was thought by our ICT teacher Mª Jesús but we want to thank every member and organizer of the Conference as well.

We had to present our E-project and share it with the world! Teachers and  people involved in  the Education field from all over the world were prepared to hear us, so...we chose a co-presenter member of the team in order to show and explain our e-project.

The member chosen was our beautiful Ana and she had to be online with her Webcam speaking and explaining the project during 5-10 minutes! Then, other mates in our ICT module of the master's course had the turn to speak as well.

During the broadcast of our class, there were some difficulties because of the internet connection, Pablo Almansa and Billy Joel Ramos (two of our classmates) lost their connection but they could explaine their e-project properly in the end.

Meanwhile, Mario and Maria had to write and comment all what Ana was saying on our Twitters accounts and the Science project account too.

If you want to take a look the comments and tweets you only have to follow us and read them!

https://twitter.com/Maria7bf

https://twitter.com/shhakar

and the account of our project that you already know! (@BreakingScience)

The hashtags used were: #ictclil_urjc and #vrtwebcon


We are very proud of our project, experiments, podcast, news, ideas, etc....

But we are also proud of the support received from all of you...On one hand, students of Primary Education who did the experiments and participated with us through the blog and on the other hand, teachers and educators. Thanks a lot!

Finally, special thanks to our ICT teacher, Mª Jesus... without your help nothing would have been possible!
You can also follow her on twitter. She is a great tweep and has a lot of followers!


We are in touch, see you soon and have a nice Sunday.

Sharing our e-project, Open Voices, with the world

Today we have shared our Open Voices project with the world at the 7th Virtual Round Table Web Conference! As you can check in our blog, we want our students to become brave journalists! We want them to keep in touch with the news, to debate, to make interviews or to create a newspaper with interesting things for them. In our project we will explain the students how to conduct a good interview, how to create a newspaper online, how to work with headlines every day...
Our idea is the teacher to use Factmonster to challenge the students and catch up with current events and also talk in class about different news. We want the students to watch the news or read newspaper the way they can and propose every week three or four interesting topics for them they want to discuss about. The teacher will create a doodle every week and the most voted topic of that week will be debated the following week.
As they are 5th graders, the teacher can use the session of Civics/citizenship to discuss. We think it is very important for our students to keep in touch with news and events around them, especially in this society in which everything is happening so fast. And, as Spain has students from different countries, it is a very good idea to share what's happening there and connect experiences.
We'll try to encourage our kids to OPEN their VOICES and tell what things they are interested in and enjoy with news and events.
Thank you very much to Mª Jesús García San Martín for giving us the opportunity to share our project and to the Virtual Round Table Web Conference for being the stage!

#DoNowGraffiti #DoNow_urjc

Storifying the fifth twittering participation of the students at URJC Master's Degree for The Use of ICT and Digital Resources in Primary Bilingual Education in #DoNowGraffiti.

Related posts: What Does Graffiti Look Like in Your Neighborhood?

Where Are All the Green Spaces?

Sidewalk flower in Oakland, CA
photo by Joel Wanek

You are invited to take part in Do Now: Art And Popular Culture from Thu 24 until Wed 30 April, twittering about the article entitled 'Where are all the green spaces?' for a late celebration of Earth Day.

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 this coming week, on a regular basis, 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.

Be creative, illustrate your tweets, include multimedia content, use your imagination!

Lots of other students from all over the world are also twittering about this Do Now and they will be using #DoNowGreen, 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.

For teaching and learning Webmix, recommended by Symbaloo España

Thanks ever so much to Symbaloo España for their kind paragraph about "For teaching and learning", a webmix thata I originally compiled for my own use and that has spread out for peers now.

I am really grateful for the mention and glad to see that the webmix can be useful to others.

Sunday 27 April 2014: Sharing our e-projects with the world

This 2013/2014 school year is proving as a wonderfully surprising one, full of new teaching experiences for me and loads of impressive evidences of learning by the group of awesome Master's Degree students I have had the lucky chance to meet and share knowledge with at URJC.

After a whole term overcoming learning challenges while crafting ICT teaching outcomes, these thirty future CLIL teachers, divided in various teams, have developed brave e-projects with a range of proposals that some Primary students have already tested across Spain.

Now, we are given the chance to share those e-projects with the world, thanks to Shelly Terrell's kind invitation to be presenters at the 7th Virtual Round Table Web Conference on Su 27 April at 14:30, Spanish time.

Please join us in this event on Language Learning Technologies. The web conference starts on Friday, 25 April 2014 at 6pm GMT and goes through to 12pm midnight on Sunday, 27 April 2014 with some 61 presenters and a 38 hours of program.

Click to see a detailed program with the list of all of the sessions. A program overview with a printable pdf version can be found under this address.

The steps to join our presentation are easy:

1. Sign up at http://www.virtual-round-table.com/ and then sign in, once approved.
2. Surf for our event: Challenging Future e-Teachers to blog e-projects Click 'Will Attend'.
3. Enter our room for the virtual round table web conference on Sunday 27 April,14:30, Spanish time.

All of us from the #ictclil_urjc Blog Roll thank the Virtual Round Table organisers for their generous invitation to be able to spread the word about our e-projects and hope you enjoy our presentation and the whole web conference. 

Looking forward to meeting you all at the Virtual Round Table!
Best wishes,

 

 

The timeline of an e-connected story

I think by now, all of you must already have read the posts about how @javiramossancha and his Primary CLIL students at Colegio San Gregorio have e-connected with my students, Primary CLIL teachers, at URJC.

Well, today we have a new episode, or rather, the episode that rounds it all up thanks to Javier's great post:

WRITING STORIES an e-connection with students of #ictclil_URJC

There you will be able to follow the full timeline of this e-connected story that has helped an eproject crafted by future CLIL teachers in Madrid become a real classroom project, tested by real CLIL Primary students in Palencia.

Thanks ever so much to Javier for his wonderful availability, to his students and their awesome storybooks, and to Emily, Pablo and Nuria for their sweet CLIL proposals to foster reading and writing skills while using ICT.

Related entries:

Extending our e-connections

URJC and SGAguilar foster reading and writing skills

#DoNowVenn RoundUp

After the #DoNowVenn posts are done, the team of @KQEDedspace are bringing now this new DoNow Roundup, in which  the students at the URJC Master's Degree for The Use of ICT and Digital Resources in Primary Bilingual Education have been taking part, as usual.

Once again, as recently posted here regarding former DoNow initiatives within the Arts and Pop Culture, our participation has been quoted as outstanding, for which we are humbly honoured, very proud, and thankful!

Photo by @joserro_ge

A Venn Diagram Can Be Art Depending On How You See It

Linked posts:

Can a Venn Diagram Become Art?#DoNowVenn #DoNow_urjc Storify

Supporting students to interview

Have a look at our tutorial explaining children how to conduct an interview!




Cross-posted from Open Voices

Art and music in jars! new activities!

Full information at Art and Music in Jars

Art and music in jars tutorial and activity

Art and Music

Full info at Art and Music in Jars.

Art and Music in Jars has new tutorials for you!

New tutorials of Art and Music in Jars!!!!

Full information at Art and Music in Jars

MUSICSHAKE

PENCIL MADNESS

A new tutorial and some activities of Art and Music in Jars

Hi guys!

We have created a tutorial about how to make presentations using Google Drive and two activities about musical instruments.

We hope you enjoy them!

Full info at Art & Music in Jars


Making presentations in Google Drive Activities about musical instruments

New tutorials of Art and Music in Jars

Hi everybody! We have two new tutorials ready for you!

Incredibox
In this tutorial that we have created using Screencast Matic and YouTube to upload the video, we teach you how to use a human-beat-box music making application online where you can create awsome songs!





PsykoPaint
We have made this tutorial using PowToon in which we show you how to use PsykoPaint, an online tool in which you can modify pictures in many different ways. 

We hope you enjoy it and try to become a great digital artist!




Full info at Art & Music in Jars.

Arts&music around the world project. Activities.

Hello everybody!

In this post we want to show you all the activities we have designed for our project. They are very interesting and varied! Have a look!

About Italy...

In this activity, the students will solve a treasure puzzle that has been made with a fantastic tool called jigsawplanet. This interesting application allows us to create our own puzzle. We expect you enjoy!
jigsaw puzzle world treasure : http://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=32530c3e3f8e

If you click on the link below, you will find an amazing tutorial about how to create your own sculpture just with a mirror and few materials. Take a look!

Tutorial art & music around the world

Let’s discover Egypt!

Here you are two interesting activities about Egypt!

The first one is an online game in which pupils have to match different pictures about some traditional Egyptian aspects with their name. The game has been created with a tool called “purposegames”, in which you can create different games about the topic you prefer. Just click on the link and start to have fun while learning!

Let's discover Egypt game

In the second activity, we challenge kids to write like in Ancient Egypt, using hieroglyphs.

It  is explained in this video:

Let's write like people in Ancient Egypt did!

The video has been created with Camtasia, the tool we used to create the trailer of our project some weeks ago. 

From New Zealand to the world!

We have created a crossword with an online tool, with simply vocabulary about New Zealand. They will have support for guessing those words.

















Then children can learn how to dance "haka" as maori's warriors step by step, is super easy for them and they will enjoy imitating maoris.

Learn Haka Step by Step

About Brazil...

We have created two different and interesting activities.

In the first one, everyone will become dancers of Samba.
How to do it?
Here you can find a tutorial about how to dance Samba. I hope you like it and you want to do it!!
THIS IS A CHALLENGE. GOOD LUCK!
Click here:
Are you ready to dance Samba?

And in the other activity, you can do an interesting quiz in order to check how much you know about Brazil.
Enjoy it!

Let's Know about Brazil!


We hope you like all the activities we have created! :)

Full info at our Arts & Music Around The World e-project Blog.

Interactively Breaking Science

Hello kids! Today we are going to show you some apps and tools we have found for you.

Hello teachers! As you have read, you can also see the multimedia content in order to take information for your future lessons or activitites.

We hope you enjoy with our ideas!

Have a nice Easter holiday and break the science...

1.SEED GERMINATION

The tool we use in this activity is Blendspace. It is a project about the Seed Germination


Blendspace, is one of our new favorite presentation platform, this makes presentations incrementally more engaging!

Participants will need to login to participate in a presentation, but fear not!  You can use your Google Account to login.

You can choose varied layouts, be colorful and sequence your presentation the way you want it!  Here's what's awesome about the layout:  Not only can the participant play the slideshow in the order you sequence, they can also from the layout view, choose their own order.



 http://blnds.co/1itG53M




The rubric that teachers can use in order to assess their students in this activity is the following one:

2. HOW DOES A TORNADO FORM?
This activity is called "How does a tornado form"? The task has to be done in pairwork. The children will do step by step the different slides. They can look for the information when is needed in the Internet (for example, in the case of searching what are the most frequent places where a tornado occurs).

The  instructions are given through voice comments. Voicethread is a tool you can store as a iPhone or Android app. Also, it allows you combinationing visual and recorded media which is perfect for creating multimedia presentations in a relatively short time frame using simple tools. It also prompts students to think carefully about what they are going to say before recording themselves These are the main characterisitics of the VoiceThread. It is only an example how you as teacher can use this tool. The objective is that the children will make a VoiceThread themselves with the guidance of the teacher. It is easy to use, and the pupils find it motivating because they have to record their voices.

RUBRIC

3. EARTH DAY DEBATE

The app we have used is Voxopop. It is a useful tool for creating oral debates where students can develop opinion by debates with mates and teachers. We have created a talkgroup with the name of "Breaking Science Group" and you can discuss about our next project: Earth's Day.

The rubric teacher can use is the next one:

4. PINTEREST ACTIVITY

Pinterest is a fantastic tool where everybody can "Pin" whatever you want. You can use it properly where you create folders or spaces with different information, pics, videos, etc. Students can research and add if they want!Use it and enjoy!

The model of an assessment for students is this one:

5. PURPOSE GAMES
In this activity the kids will answer to a test about the countries in Europe, a regular test usually made with a worksheet but this time we use the ICT adventages. This way, the activity is more attractive for the students. This test appears on the Spanish test CDI and this contents are quite important.
To solve the activity they have to press 'start' and the timer will start and they will have to press the dot related to the country appearing on the screen.
Countries activity - http://www.purposegames.com/game/552a656d45
 Rubric - https://twitter.com/shhakar/status/455424489409765376


6. Quiz Beans

Rubri - https://twitter.com/shhakar/status/455424718410383360

This activity is done to review some contents they have acquired.
It is an alternative way to check the unit knowledge using ICT.
The pupil will answer with YES or NO if the affirmation is true or not.

Quiz activity - http://www.quizbean.com/#/breaking-science-question-time-2/qbBM3t


 

Full info at Breaking Science Blog.

Two New Storybird Books

Book ME-Library's two newest books for kids. Still Learning and A Typical Tuesday are two fun and easy to read books designed for younger kids (ages 6-9). With wonderful pictures provided using the Storybird tool and illustrations by HedgehogsandCo and nidhiart (respectively), these books are meant to educate young readers using repetition, key phrases, and both past and present tenses. As always, comments are appreciated. Hope you enjoy!

Still Learning

(Click on either of the book covers to head straight to the E-book!)

Typical Tuesday

Online game and activities design for our eproject

Hi everybody!

After the soundcloud channel and the story mix, 
we moved on to design some online games and activities of our storytelling.

So far we have done a crossword game, a hangman flashgame, a jeopardy competition, a Quiz and a poetry writing.

Now we have these original online activities in the post of our blog,
Share it or leave a comment in our blog if you found it useful for you!





1. Crossword

2. Jeopardy


(By Pablo)

Hi there, this is a Jeopardy board I did to work on teams and generate discussion between students. This game promotes reading comprehension and it is useful to work on how to do questions in English. You can use this Jeopardy at any level, although you might need to do some scaffolding first, especially with young learnes. You will access to the link here.

You can create your own one at www.jeopardylabs.com




3. DON’T LET THE DUCK SINK!





(By Nuria)

This game is for the first cycle of Primary Education.

It is a kind of hangman, so the game consists of guessing the hidden word from saying the letter of the alphabet. Concretely, the words of this game are related to “Goldilocks and the three bears”.

If it is not avalible to see directly, please visit http://www.wordduck.com and click on "play hangman",then input "NNGG"

4. Quiz of the "Legend of Nian"



(By Emily)

This is an online quiz designed on the website Quizbean

It is easy for teachers to make a quiz of any content and share it easily.

This quiz is depended on the Chinese story "the legend of Nian", suitable for the second cycle.

5. WHAT ARE THESE STORIES? (By Nuria)
*You need to download the file to play.

This game is for the second cycle of Primary Education.

It consists of guessing the title of the tale that a given text (extracted from a fairy tale) is talking about.

To do this activity is necessary to work first on all the tales we have been posted in our blog because some of these stories are fairy tales but others are invented stories.

The tales this game work on are: “Mulan and Hercules”, “Goldilocks and the three bears”, “The three little pigs”, “Little Red Riding Hood”, “The naughty moon”, “The Penguin who felt cold a lot”, “Cinderella”, “Jack and the magic beans”, “The penguin” and “The ugly duckling”.

Here there are some sources, where you can find the stories to work on them. Especially, it is necessary to work on those which are not fairy tales, such as: “The naughty moon”, “the Penguin who felt cold a lot”, “Mulan and Hercules” and “The Penguin”.

This last one, “The penguin” is thanks to Ángela González and Carla Martin, two students from Colegio San Gregorio in Aguilar de Campoo (Palencia, Spain), who wrote and recorded this story, and also thanks to their teacher, @javiramossancha, who made it possible.

·        You can see “Mulan and Hercules”, “The naughty moon” and “The Penguin who felt cold a lot” on our blog: 

http://ictforreadingandwriting.blogspot.com.es/

·         You can see “Goldilocks and the three bears”, “Little Red Riding Hood” and “Jack and the magic beans” on: 

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/es/short-stories

·         You can see the fairy tale of “The three little pigs” on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fsZKWaso9A

·         You can see the fairy tale of “Cinderella” on http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks1/english/story_telling/cinderella/cinderella1.htm

   5. Writing poetry. Get inspiration from an image. (By Pablo)

      Encourage your students to find a picture that means something to them and tell them to write a poem about it. You can tell them to work in groups and if they are very young it does not need to rhyme at all. This technique is really useful to help children to find a topic to write about.

      You can use paint or more sophisticated softwares like photoshop or gimp to tell them to write the text on the image as in the example you will find bellow.