Chef of volume

 Check this awesome CLIL e-publication for eight year old learners by Marta Plaza, a Primary Bilingual teacher who has just finished her Master's Degree Module on The Use of ICT and Web Resources for Primary Bilingual Education at University Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid.

Marta is providing full objectives, learning outcomes and what visitors to her Chef of Volume might expect, in a simple but visually engaging infographic which she has designed for the @infoEdugrafias collaborative blogging project.

Besides, if you are not into deep reading but would rather have a quick glimpse at what Chef of Volume has to offer you, the author has also mindmapped her whole e-publication for a quick overview:

My advice is that you land on the e-publication augmented cover and meet cute Holly and Phoebe, who are willing to unveil the surprises Chef of Volume is hiding behind the wide range of learning missions CLIL young learners will love completing.

This open educational resource is inspired by a task where students have to make sandwiches of different geometric shapes. The goal is that CLIL young kids learn about some mathematic content throughout a cross curricular approach. Its main objective is to make students make a difference between the concepts of area and volume while doing web searches in small groups and using online tools for presentations and a video creation.

And, if you are a CLIL teacher yourself, you might also find it useful for your own lessons. Check the e-publication skeleton and decide for yourself. Morevover, if you are into open e-publications, you may find Marta's evaluation of digital ebooks interesting, as it was her prior step to designing her own showcase, inspired by what participants in the ebookEVO 2015 session did in that field. But, if your issue is that you cannot see the PBL approach when teaching Maths to young learners, the storyboard and its video challenge can change your viewpoint regarding learning Maths forever:

Maths lessons could be fun! by martuki_pdm on GoAnimate

Next recommended stop is at the 3 missions Marta is challenging learners with: Creating a presentation, Writing creative recipes and Producing short animated videos.

And, after surfing all around the epublication, you must not miss the collaborative connected challenges and projects Marta has engaged herself in, so as to be aware of the importance of e-connections but also to be able to put that teamwork approach into the e-publication itself and into online learning. First of all, teamwork started with her closest peers and so she developed and audio-challenge together with her colleague Elena Benito aimed at combining Maths, Multiplying and Fun.

Then, she went nationwide and collaborated with a wider range of peers and students in Spain, through contributing to InfoEdugrafias. Finally, she took a step ahead and turned internationally e-connected, thanks to mentoring at the Student Blogging Challenge 2015, dreaming and interpreting others' dreams at #twima2, and taking part in Moodle MOOC 6 with her first live co-presented session ever.

If you would like to know more about Marta's own feelings about her achievements while designing her e-publication, view the clip below, or even better, join her on 10 June 2015 for her free live YLTSIG Webinar, when she will be explaining the whole adventure herself. Do not miss it; it is bound to be worth it!

3,2,1 Time To Be Healthy

 3,2,1 ... Time to be healthy! is the CLIL e-publication for Primary Education that Nora Lomas has been designing for the last 3 months at her Master's Degree Module for The Use of ICT and Web Resources for Primary Bilingual Education at URJC in Madrid.

Her cover already proves innovative, as she has come up with an augmented front page that you can scan with your free Aurasma app from your mobile device and, if you follow NoraLomas there, it will surely surprise you and give you a glimpse of what Nora is offering inside her e-publication.

After thinking of the target audience, goals, missions, timing, competencies and assessment of her e-publication, Nora evaluated several ebooks from the Crafting the e- perfect Textbook EbookEVO 2015 Session, and taking visual principles into account, she was able to design a mindmap and a skeleton that showed her intentions when e-publishing, while she started to curate resources, tips and so forth in order to have them ready when the time for opening her showcase would be close.

But e-publications nowadays must not under any circumstance be a mere reflection of what you would have published in paper format, so the first step for that requirement to be met is to choose a digital tool where to showcase the digital outcome and to choose it because it meets the target audience needs, not just for the sake of choosing a digital tool. That is why Nora has gone for blogging as her digital showcase, since bloogging allows her to design a dynamic e-publication, which at the same time works as a journal and it is easy to update, but which is also useful for interaction with her readers and can be turned into a collaborative showcase any time.

Of course, an e- publication cannot be empty; blog-goers expect to be challenged and to find missions and various proposals to carry out online, and as a Nora is a connected CLIL educator, she has begun to establish her e-connections with collaborative projects worldwide, where she has both found and given inspiration.
One of those collaborative projects is @infoEdugrafias, an educational blogging project itself that feeds on teachers and students' work with infographics, where Nora visually explained what 3,2,1 Time To Be Healthy! was like. Click on the image below and check for yourself:

Following the same thread of e-collaboration, Nora has also engaged her e-publication in The Twima Project, an internationally collaborative writing project in two stages: writing your own dream and building a digital artifact for somebody else's dream. This second stage is maybe the most interesting part of the whole project, as you are requested to interpret a dream by a kid from the other part of the world, whom you don't even know, and build a multimedia outcome about how you see that dream. Being a Primary pre-service teacher herself, #twima2 also gave Nora the chance to be in touch with the way kids write, their interests and ambitions, judging from their dreams, which is a nice first approach to the target audience of her-epublication too, apart from being able to be in touch with teachers coming mainly from USA and Canada, and to have one's first iBook at iTunes.

Stay tuned for its final launch! Just 20 more days to go and it will be available for free downloads!

But for a blogger to be connected with blogging, the best option is to surf around ways other bloggers work, and if they are kids, that's added value for an author like Nora, who is seeking for a teaching career among infants. That is why she jumped into mentoring young bloggers for Ms Wyatt's Student Blogging Challenge, another international project through which teachers who foster blogging skills among their young learners in Australia, USA and so on, connect with teaching blogging mentors that help these young blogging learners to see the benefits of educational blogging.

Of course, collaboration does not only take place out of class and online, but also inside the classroom and through team work with your closest peers, and that is why Nora's e-publication cross overs with other e-publications by her pre-service teacher colleagues with whom she has created great support material, such as this storybird that proves that health is not only a personal matter but a global one too. Click on the image below and read 'Living in Cleanly':

And, last but not least, when one is putting into practice a project based learning orientation, wrapping all the learning process up and disseminating it is part of it all, and an excellent way for others to understand one's work and outcomes too. So, her participation in live online sessions such as the Spring Blog Festival and Moodle MOOC 6 were the window for this pre-service teacher to show her e-publication to the world, as well as to go back in time to her starting point at the beginning of the Master's Degree, realize about what she had accomplished by doing it and reflect on her learning process.

Here you go her own thoughts and final conclusions about her ICT CLIL cruise around creating an open e-publication for Bilingual Primary teaching and learning:

And, do not forget to check 3,2,1, Time To Be Healthy! Do not miss all the missions Nora's e-publication has ready for you!

Llueven cambios metodológicos en #ABPmooc_INTEF

Nuestro memorable #ictclil_urjcrucero

En una Universidad de Madrid cuyo real nombre no quisiera olvidar, me topé una vez con un grupo de valientes grumetes decididos a surcar los desafiantes mares del digital océano bilingüea bordo de ocho balsas, y me apunté al crucero.

Pero resulta que los grumetes se convierten en capitanes, planifican el crucero como una única tripulación antes de partir y diseñan sus hojas de ruta: contexto del viaje, duración, búsqueda de provisiones, escalas a realizar, puerto de destino, compañeros de aventura. 

¿Y yo ...? ¡De polizón!

Era allá por febrero de 2014 cuando zarpaban las ocho naves con toda la tripulación a los remos. Casi tres meses más tarde, y varias escalas en Puerto Licencias, Cayo PLE, Golfo Redes, Península Investigación, Bahía Recursos e Isla Digital, continúan viaje, no sin ticsobresaltos, hacia un continente por descubrir, el Continente Blog, que deciden poblar.

Allí hacen experimentos científicos , selfies y papiroflexia; híbridos imposibles entre Plateros y Grecos , cantan, bailan, tocan instrumentos , leen , aumentan la realidad, y hasta emiten por radio y televisión .

¿Y yo ...? ¡Sigo de polizón! 

Pero se sentían solos, necesitaban nuevos compañeros de viaje; así que casi al final de la aventura, o al principio de una nueva, ¡quién sabe!, le cuentan al mundo dónde están y qué hacen en el Continente Blog: conectan.

Y de todas partes llegan unos marineritos, pequeñitos, hablando una lengua diferente, acompañados de otros capitanes inquietos, y se quedan también en Continente Blog.

Ahora, a finales de abril de 2014, los habitantes del Continente Blog crecemos sin parar y ya han venido de Jacarilla, de Avilés, de Gijón, de Almagro, de Capileira, de Aguilar de Campoo, de Las Rozas, de Toronto, de Texas ...

¿Quieres venir al Continente Blog? ¡Eres bienvenido! Puedes unirte al crucero aquí: #ictclil_urjc.

LuARca, una aventura AR. Análisis para #ABPmooc_INTEF

LuARca, una aventura AR. Análisis para #ABPmooc_INTEF from M. Jesus Garcia

ABP/PBL Pros & Cons

Presentación en 3 pasos para #ABPmooc_INTEF

MOOC on PBL coming soon

A brand new Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) by @educaINTEF starting on 31 March 2014 has just been launched: Project Based Learning.

The MOOC, whose enrolment has just opened at MOOC INTEF Platform, is in Spanish, absolutely free, and aimed at any teacher interested in this kind of educational approach. You can follow it at your own pace up to 26 May 2014, with the help of curators who will accompany you all along the process of setting up your own collaborative educational project.

This online MOOC consists of seven units that introduce good PBL referenced experiences, link you with other peers looking for collaboration when designing their school projects, guide you into reflection about this teaching/learning approach and promote interaction and connected online work.

I invite you to be part of this innovative learning experience which I'm sure will be beneficial for your teaching practice as well as fun and entertaining. Besides, you will have the chance to gain three professional badges as you overcome various challenges and become a fully PBL teacher.

Do not miss the chance and enrol today!!!!