Monday, January 20, 2014

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




Docentes, a public list by @Edudesarrollo







Docentes, a public list by @carlosjmedina

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

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!





Monday, January 13, 2014

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.


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.







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.

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

PLE Woven Hat

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


Part of #eduPLEmooc Digital Prints.

Saturday, January 4, 2014

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.


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.