Student Blogging Challenge 2015 - Week 2 Mission

 Connecting 2015 #ictclil_urjc and 2015 Student Blogging Challenge is reaching its second week.

After Mentors and Students have set up their first e-connections through introductions and first comments, this second week the Student Blogging Challenge goes into commenting and so do our Mentors.

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Participants at #stubc15 have a range of seven activities to tackle this second week and our Mentors will be there for them to keep on commenting.

So, Let's comment!

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Celebrate Digital Learning Day

13 March is Digital Learning Day. Do not miss the chance to celebrate it in your class, with your students, in your lessons, through your own teaching, for your own learning too!

Why not targetting at fostering digital skills among your learners? Not only on Digital Learning Day, but everyday, because after all, your learners are already digital learners and they are bound to be digital citizens, if they are not yet so.

To help you rise to the challenge, Edutopia has compiled a very recommendable selection of tips, ideas, resources and so forth that will do wonders for your Digital Teaching and Learning.

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Check their Resource RoundUp, go digital, and celebrate!

Black Wolf Blogger Award

 My peer colleague, Esther Martínez, has kindly nominated this blog for the Black Wolf Blogger Award, for which I sincerely thank her.

This symbolic award has no financial recognition as you may have guessed by now, but it stands for really emotional value, and it is the fact that some fellow blogger has thought of you for the nomination, which from my viewpoint, is the most important recognition of all.

Just imagining that some hectic teacher, pressed for time as we are all, has found a minute to stop and give a thought for this site, is valuable as it is, so double and tripple thanks, Esther. I know what it is like to survive lessons these days and find some time to sit and blog.

However, the award has its own rules to follow up, which I am abiding to below:

1. Thanking publicly the blogger who nominated you, so, once more, many many thanks, Esther.

2. Answering 5 questions about yourself:

     1. Which was the first book you have read?

          The first that I remember were The Famous Five, but I might have read some others earlier which I can't remember so clearly.

     2. Why do you blog?

           Now that I come to think of it, is there a reason for blogging?

     3. What inspires you?

           The Internet does quite often, and the loads of generous educators who so often share knowledge there, but what really inspires me are my own principles and my enthusiasm for teaching and learning.

     4.  Do you write what you live or live what you write?

            Passionate for writing, passionate for living.

     5.  Who/What has been/is your great love?

            The first people I loved and still do are my dad and mum. Then came along my brother, and later my husband, dearest of all. 

My two kids are my best outcomes, I hope, and I motherly love them without conditions.

3. Nominating  15 other awesome bloggers. Oh, this is so difficult! Well, let's go for it.

My nominees are:

Book ME-Library

EuroRobotics Week Education

The ESL Times

CPI Tino Grandío Bilingual Sections

AporTICs

Proyecto InfoEDUgrafías

MasterChef Auseva

El mundillo de las TIC

VeoQuijote

Día del Libro 2015

Apreciando Arrugas

Educando al futuro espectador

La Tropa de Trapo en la Selva del Arcoiris

Plasticoff

Platero que ni pintado

Letting them know they are nominated and invite them to accept the deserved award.

Right on it now.

Thanks a bunch for stopping by

Connecting 2015 #ictclil_urjc and 2015 Student Blogging Challenge

2015 Student Blogging Challenge is back in business, from 1 March to 10 May 2015, that is 10 weeks, and the future Primary CLIL teachers at 2015 #ictclil_urjc will be helping the #stubc15 participants as Mentors.

What is Student Blogging Challenge?
For those of you who have never heard of this challenge that takes place twice a year before, I encourage you to read all about it at the EduBlogs About Page.

What is your job as a Mentor?
As trainee teachers, you are allocated a group of blogs designed by students and/or full classes who have registered to take part in the challenge.

This is the bunch of 10-year-old students you have been assigned. Find your name next to your mentee.

Each week, those students will be rising up to tasks which are posted at the Challenge Blog, and your duties as their Mentor will be to:

• Visit your allocated student blogs at least three times throughout the challenge. Please check who you are mentoring. Your name will be above your allocated student blogs.

• Leave comments on posts written by the students.

• Continue conversations in the comments.

• Remind them about visiting the main blogging challenge page each week.

• Contact me if having concerns or problems so that I can contact Miss W., the organiser of the Student Blogging Challenge.

• Spread the word at Twitter using our hashtags: #stubc15 and #ictclil_urjc.

In a nutshell, Mentors are there to give challenged students some clues about blogging, reminding them of the challenge as well as carrying on conversations in their posts.

So, welcome to the 14th Student Blogging Challenge, good luck to you all, keep the conversations up and don't forget to grab your 2015 Badge!

Have fun!

Spring Blog Festival 2015

Write down 21 March 2015 on your agendas. The Spring Blog Festival is back!

During 13 hours non stop, the same amount of speakers from all over the world will be going live to showcase their experiences on a wide range of topics, which cover from transformational blogging and reflective blogging to connectivity, history, evolution, teaching tools, multi-media, thinking & creativity, families, schools, and content curation.

Please join us live from 11 am GMT to 23 pm GMT at the Festival Conference Area and spread the word at Twitter using our event hashtag #springblogfestival.