Student Blogging Challenge 2015 - Week 7

Connecting 2015 #ictclil_urjc and 2015 Student Blogging Challenge is landing on week 7, which is Game Week, a real fun mission all about visiting other blogs

Please check the Student Blogging Challenge 2015 main page and surf the activities your mentees should be accomplishing.

Help them with comment starters, encourage them to connect and comment and play the Count Out Three Game, you won't regret it!

And I do recommend you to read this range of clues to take into account when commenting about fellow bloggers' posts and entries. I think they are bound to be useful both for your mentorship and your own blogging activity.

Illustration from Clue: a space

Student Blogging 2015 Challenge - Week 6

Connecting 2015 #ictclil_urjc and 2015 Student Blogging Challenge is landing on week 6. The activities for this mission are about working and then playing.

Please check the Student Blogging Challenge 2015 main page and surf the activities your mentees should be accomplishing.

Read the flipboard magazine to visit bloggers who are writing great posts and are then leaving comments on Miss W’s challenge posts. Students with Edublogs free blogs can’t have posts flipped into the magazine, so they are being mentioned on each week’s posts instead.

View my Flipboard Magazine.

A potential cover 4 #twima2

As you are bound to have guessed by now, the ictclil_urjc bunch of pre-service teachers attending the Master's Degree Module for The use of ICT & Digital Resources in Primary Bilingual Ed. URJC. 2015 Edition, are connecting with collaborative projects worldwide, and one of them is our much appreciated #twima2.

Stage 1 is finished and we are now diving deeply into Stage 2 to build multimedia artifacts while interpreting other collaborators' dreams.

On top of that, the collaborative iBook we are all helping to produce and publish is so far, 25 chapters and 630 pages of brilliant dreams written/illustrated by over 90 classes worldwide, and it needs a cover, doesn't it?

Well, our talented @MartaLFabero28 has come up with a sweet potential cover for #twima2 which we are proudly presenting right now:

Everybody in class and myself are keeping our fingers crossed for Marta's cover to be singled out as the final one.

Good luck, Marta!

CLIL e-Publications for Bilingual Primary Education

After facing challenges, going on learning missions, sorting out new teaching scenarios brought up by a tornado blowing textbooks away, and 3 months of amazing hands-on work at the Master's Degree Module for The use of ICT & Digital Resources in Primary Bilingual URJC - 2015 Edition, now it is time to proudly introduce the CLIL showcases this bunch of 26 pre-service e-teachers have just designed and opened up to the world, their e-publications for Primary Bilingual kids:

This is just the visual tip of a full schedule of missions that they have had to craft in order to reach this turning point, which will soon be hopefully extended into an open challenging engaging digital publication for Primary Education learners and teachers.

To land on this creative stage after the tornado, the pre-service teachers, now turned into e-authors, have climbed up quite a wide variety of stepping stones. They have:

• brainstormed together about how to rise to the challenge of teaching with no paper textbooks; 

• surfed other ebooks, designed by other teachers worldwide who have already made the decision of designing their own digital teaching materials,  and evaluated them;

• learned about the importance of licencing, citing and attributing;

• improved their digital literacy by attending the Spring Blog Festival 2015 live sessions, where over a dozen educational leaders inspired them to go ahead in their ordeal;

• started curating their own resources, ideas and tips so as to gather information, ready to include if necessary when publishing their digital outcomes;

• gone collaborative and taken part in worldwide educational projects: #twima2 has given them the chance to dream internationally. #stubc15 has opened the door towards blogging and becoming international blogging mentors. @infoEDUgrafias has taught them how to draft visual outlines of their e-publications, which later evolved into mindmaps.

Of course, their outcomes are in progress, but I wanted to share their work with you all, as I think their effort is worth it and they all deserve your staying tuned for upcoming episodes, as there are more challenges knocking on their doors which will sooner than later be real, and that make, from my viewpoint, nice evidence that innovating is a must when educating.

Meanwhile, suscribe to #ictclil_urjc and don't miss it!

Mindmapping CLIL e-publications

Mindmapping CLIL e-publications for Bilingual Primary Education

Mapping out ideas and presentations online and on pieces of papers, notebooks and so forth are good ways to visualise an ebook or any other kind of project up to the end.

This board gathers the collection of mindmaps a group of 27 pre-service teachers at URJC in Madrid have designed as outlines of their open e-publications for CLIL teaching in Primary Education.

Suscribe to their Twitter list and stay tuned for #ictclil_urjc news and outcomes!


Follow Mª Jesús's board Mindmapping CLIL e-publications for Bilingual Primary Education on Pinterest.

Infographics 4 CLIL e-Publications

Before designing any kind of ebook, it should be outlined and drafted. Building an infographic is a visual way to draft a skeleton.

This board gathers the educational infographics designed by the pre-service CLIL Primary teachers at #ictclil_urjc 2015 Edition, to be turned into CLIL e-publications for Primary Teaching.


Follow Mª Jesús's board Infographics 4 CLIL e-Publications on Pinterest.

Student Blogging Challenge - Week 5 Mission

Connecting 2015 #ictclil_urjc and 2015 Student Blogging Challenge is landing on week 5. The activities for this mission will go on until 19 April and t heir topic is Favourites.

Please check the Student Blogging Challenge 2015 main page and surf the activities your mentees should be accomplishing.

Please get in touch with me if:

• you have been allocated blogs where you can't leave a comment,
• your mentees are not replying to any of your comments  especially when you have asked a question,
• your mentees have written no posts at all relating to the challenge,
• your mentees still have the basic Hello World post.