A collection of e-books for young learners

@jdtearse and his peers from the Book ME-Library team from the URJC group of future CLIL Primary teachers, have created a really wonderful collection of colourful ebooks that young learners are bound to enjoy!

I am sure teachers are also going to regard them as a good source of ESL material for young readers to be encouraged to e-read. If you like them and ever use them in your lessons, the Book ME-Library team will love to hear from you.

Just click on the images below, and start reading!

Crossposted from Book ME-Library.

Is Celebrity Obsession Bad for Us?

You are invited to take part in our final Do Now: Art And Popular Culture before summer break, twittering about the article entitled Is Celebrity Obsession Bad for Us?

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 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 

#DoNowCelebrity, 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.

Photo at the top, by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images

The Mission: linking Platero & El Greco

From URJC, the Enjoy learning: Art & Music team have a mission for you.

If you are a CLIL Primary teacher or student and would like to contribute, here you are the video by @enjoymusicandart that explains it all.

Are you ready for the mission?

Cross-posted from Enjoy learning: Art & Music. 

If you'd like to learn more about this project, what about scanning the image below with your Aurasma app? Follow their public channel, artandmusic, and get ready to discover what these talented future CLIL Primary teachers have to offer you.

Ready to dance Samba?

A nice energetic way to start any Physical Education lesson, get ready for the rest of the day, practise English and link to the world traditions.

This is the proposal by @Coonchaaa from the Arts & Music Around The World team at URJC, aimed at getting CLIL Primary students on the dance floor! Just watch the video clip below and learn to dance samba in one minute.

The Arts & Music Around The World team will love to see you all showing your dancing talent!

Cross-posted from Arts & Music Around The World

Egyptian hieroglyphs

Are you ready for the challenge?

@Cristina_RubioC from the Arts & Music Around the World team at the URJC is challenging CLIL students with an Egyptian adventure: writing like in Ancient Egypt, using hieroglyphs.

Watch the video clip below, and learn how:

If you are a CLIL teacher or student and ever rise to the challenge, the Arts and Music Around The World team will love to hear from you. Comments welcome!

Mad about pencils and music?

Get ready to go even crazier using these two tools the team from Art and Music in Jars at URJC have explained to help you design the funniest sketches and the most shaking music!

First, Pencil Madness, a free online sketching and drawing tool. Here you are a fine video tutorial to get started:






And, if you are more into songs, Musicshake is the tool for you to start becoming an online composer: Learn about more tutorials on Music and Art at Art and Music in Jars.

Follow the team on Google+ and leave them a comment if you ever create a song or sketch a drawing with the help of these tutorials. They'll love to hear from you!

#DoNowGreen Round Up

Time for #DoNowGreen is up now, and so the team from @KQEDedspace have published the corresponding Round Up: Green Spaces Brighten up Communities.

Within the past fortnight, students around the world discussed the importance of creating and preserving green spaces using Twitter and the #DoNowGreen post. Besides, at URJC, we also used #DoNow_urjc to connect with the rest of the students and join the debate.

Students all over the world were presented with prompts such as the ones below:

• 'Are there areas in your neighborhood that could or should be transformed into green spaces?'
• 'Are there existing green spaces that should be preserved?' 
• 'Take a picture of one of these spaces or simply take a picture of plant life growing in an unexpected area'.

Our work at URJC has been highlighted once again by @KQEDedspace, for which we are humbly honoured and thankful!

Congratulations to @Cristina_RubioC, @EvaGarciaPaton, @TheRealJWelk, @ngonzalezba and @sanmiblanco21! Proud of your work!