Entrevista a Jordi Adell

después de participar en las jornadas de WebQuest en Barcelona, me gustaría, además de comentar que ha sido una experiencia muy enriquecedora, enlazar la entrevista a Jordi Adell, un experto en el tema, aunque no sólo en este tema. hay algunas dificultades para escucharla a veces pero merece la pena,
http://www.educahistoria.com/tv/adell/adell.php

los premios de la modalidad A

Aparte del premio mencionado en la entrada anterior que correspondía a una modalidad B distinta y con uno solo premio. En la presente edición del premio Sello se ha premiado a los siguientes proyectos, siendo el 4º de Andalucía.

1. Proyecto de enseñanza integrada de lengua inglesa y contenidos de medio ambiente–Environmental Education from Awareness to Life- Style, coordinado por María Franco Cabré, centro Zona Escolar Rural «Baix Camp Nord», Alforja, Tarragona (Cataluña).

2. Física de 2.º de Bachillerato en Inglés, coordinado por Enrique J. Garralaga Robres, Instituto de Educación Secundaria «Hermanos D’Elhuyar» de Logroño (La Rioja).

3. Content Learning Through Projects, coordinado por Ángela Álvarez-Cofiño, Colegio Público «Ventanielles» Oviedo (Asturias)

4. El Programa Bilingüe en la Comunidad Autónoma de Andalucía en los idiomas alemán y francés, coordinado por Elia Vila Romero, Dirección General de Ordenación y Evaluación Educativa, Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Andalucía, Sevilla (Andalucía).

5. Centro de Recursos para la Comunidad Sorda «Juan Luis Marroquín» coordinado por Emilio Ferreiro Lago, Fundación Confederación Nacional de Sordos de España (CNSE) para la Supresión de Barreras de Comunicación de Madrid.

6. Introducción temprana de la lengua inglesa en un entorno bilingüe– Ingelesaren Sarrera Goiztiarra egoera elebidunean, coordinado por Rosa Aliaga Ugarte, Programa Multilingüe–Servicio de Innovación Pedagógica del Departamento de Educación, Universidades e Investigación del Gobierno Vasco en San Sebastián (Guipúzcoa).

Podéis verlo en la resolución

Enhorabuena a todos ellos

Isabel

The European Label for innovative projects in language teaching and learning

Yesterday was a very special day for me as I was given the The European Label for innovative projects in language teaching and learning 2005 in the modality B, by the European agency and the Spanish Ministry of Education. This modality is kind of recognition for a professional trajectory. I was nominated by the "Centro de Profesorado de Málaga" and the "Centro de Profesorado de Bollullos/ Valverde de Huelva".

I would like to thank them all for the nomination and also everybody that appreciates my site. This, of course, keeps me going with this site and other activities related to the use of ICT in education,

Thanks
isabel

Conferencia sobre CLIL en Granada por Hugh Baldry

Sacramento Jaimez, coordinadora de plurilingüísmo de Granada y Juan Manuel Criado, director de la EOI de Granada, me cuentan que el próximo jueves, 16 de febrero, a las 19 horas, tendrá lugar en el Salón de Actos de ese centro una charla en inglés ofrecida por Hugh Baldry, máximo responsable de Innovación Educativa y Formación del Profesorado en Gran Bretaña y un experto en Aprendizaje integrado de lengua y contenido. Su intervención versará sobre la formación del profesorado que participa en programas CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning). Para más información podéis visitar la web de la eoi. http://granada.eeooii.org/

Have a look at this wonderful project “Daring Reporters” from IES Ronda in Lleida, Catalonia. It has won the Young Digital Poland Award for best use of ICT in the eLearning Awards.
It is a really great example of imagination and enthusiastic work with the students. Congrats!
http://www.xtec.net/~jjordan/tecno/cts/daring/index.htm

Isabel

some news

Hi everyone,

Manuel López asked me to link a geographic game that it is also an annual contest for students of Secondary Education. You can find it here
http://www.tmundo.com/.

I also would like to suggest you answer a questionnaire developed within a European project called Detecting and Removing Obstacles to Foreign Language Teaching Abroad (DROFoLTA). The aim is to find out the obstacles to teacher mobility in the Union.
It can be done in different European languages:
http://www.uoc.edu/in3/mobility/

Last, but not least I have included a link to a site called "The Human Being and The Affective Element". It's been developed by a working group on that topic and teaching English. It includes lot of useful material to work in the classroom. http://www.humanb.org/


Isabel

cuestionario de selectividad

Miguel Fernández Álvarez que está realizando una tesis sobre los tests de selectividad, me ha pedido incluir un enlace a un cuestionario sobre este tema en la página de selectividad, invitando a todos aquellos profesores que queráis colaborar a rellenarlo. Podéis encontrarlo enlazado desde la página de selectividad o en http://www.hostedsurvey.com/takesurvey.asp?c=PAU

isabel

new year, new look

You may have noticed that I have introduced some changes in my site. I spent part of our "fiestas" doing that. The most relevant novelty is what I called "The Web Learning Tube". I still have to developed many of the lines and routes, but at least I have finished the design of the idea and I have selected many of the resources. I have been planning this since September and I hope it is helpful for the classroom.
I also took advantage of Google to put a "search this site" form. I have some more plans, but unfortunately I do not have much more time.

Isabel

new URL for this blog

I had to move this blog to another server because I was having problems with the FTP in my personal site, so now the the URL is different,

isabel

New Song

I have added a new song "you're so beautiful" by James Blunt, a colleague from Palma de Mallorca sent the lyrics and an exercise to complete the blanks. It put me on the way to finish what I had thought I could do with this song. I'm sure young students are listening to it on the radio on these days. I hope you can use it, too.

http://www.isabelperez.com/songs/yourebeautiful.htm

surveys

I was creating a submission form for the Call for papers for the Eurocall conference 2006 and, by chance, I realised the surveys I had on my website were not working http://www.isabelperez.com/quest.htm and that, in fact, it's a long time since I haven't recieved any answers. I have solved the problem and now they are working again. I really need a sabbatical to check everything and do some other interesting things,

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Tim Berners-Lee

have a look at this interview with the creator of the WWW. Tim Berners-Lee.
I have kind of admiration for this man.
BBC Interview
Here, among other things, he talks about the opportunities that the Blogs offer to creativity avoiding all the technical problem of editing web pages,

Isabel

Eurocall 2005/2006 and GRETA 2005

Eurocall 2005 is taken place next week 24-27 in Crakow, Poland. http://www.eurocall-languages.org/.

Next year Granada will be hosting it and I have enjoyed part of my holidays designing the web. Still have to add lot of content, but at least the design is ready for the presentation in Crakow http://www.ugr.es/~eurocall/index.html. By the way the XXI GRETA Conference is taking place next September. http://www.infogreta.org/jornadas/xxiconference_info.htm.

updating

Somehow I'm updating my page, revising links and again I've found wonderful pages in the BBC. I wonder how many people work in their projects. I wouldn't mind being part of the team. Have a look at this list of findings:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/panoramics/360_list.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/world/onyourstreet/thestreet/index.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4720000/newsid_4725100/4725181.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sex/index_cookie.shtml

and of course, the classical
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/subjects/english.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/index.shtml

have some fun!

Blog de la Comunitat Catalana de WebQuest

Carme Barba has started a new blog of the WebQuest Community. http://webquestcat.zoomblog.com/ , another excellent initiative of this group to which I'm proud to belong to. The blog is open to everyone subscribed to zoomblog.

Isabel

June

He estado actualizando un poco algunos enlaces. Trataba de encontrar algo bueno e informativo para selectividad y especialmente de inglés, pero parece que este tema no es fácil. La mayoría de los enlaces fallan o no están actualizados.
Al final he podido actualizar poco, pero al menos he quitado los enlaces que no funcionaban.
I have also updated some links in the news section, one very good from the BBC, a friend sent it to me. The BBC is really amazing.

And that's all. i know i don't write much on the Blog. I must confess I do not like expressing much on the Web. I feel anybody can read it and I feel shy.


;-)
isabel

webnote

Hi everyone!

Have a look at Webnote, Paco from Aula 21 has shown it to me and it is really amazing and fun.I think it could be useful to take notes in a meeting or to post your own reminders. Have a look at some of them:

mine
Paco's
Bee's

Here you can read about this new tool here

Isabel

Student List Project

I received a message from Thomas Robb, a guru in the world of e-mail exchanges, http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~trobb/index.html. He leads an email project called "The Student List Project". It uses Moodle and seems to me a great experience. I copy part of his message below:

"Essentially, the SL Project provides a way for your students to discuss topics of mutual interest in a 1-to-many situation rather than the normal penpal 1-on-1. Your students can join any of the forums listed below, read what has already been posted and reply to whatever postings stir their imagination. They receive copies of all
postings for the forums that they subscribe to by e-mail, but can also view all previous postings via the web interface.

Recent discussions, all student initiated, include topics such as the
use of mobile phones, smoking in public, one's ideal partner, blind
dates, baseball, current movie hits, and more!

The project uses Moodle, an innovative student management system.
This allows you, as an instructor, to view all of your own students'
postings so that you can give timely advice to them as needed."

To take part in this project You can contact Tom for the "enrollment key" on this page: http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~trobb/#sl

Isabel

Comunicado del departamento de Filología Inglesa

El departamento de Filología Inglesa, ha preparado un comunicado junto con otros departamentos de 40 universidades españolas para reivindicar que el futuro catálogo de titulaciones incluya un título oficial en "Estudios Ingleses".
El comunicado podéis leerlo en esta página de la asociación GRETA, al final de la misma se encuentra el documento de adhesión para ser enviado por correo electrónico o carta lo más pronto posible.

Isabel

March, a hectic time

March has been a hectic time for me. i've moved to a new job in my home town, Granada. For some time I'll be working in the virtual learning centre at Granada University http://cevug.ugr.es. A place that suits me a lot, but I miss my students and colleagues. I'm in charge of European projects and so will be in contact with other universities, but I don't mean to leave my interest in Secondary education or stop updating my website. This is my way of life, always involved in different things and at different levels. Most of all I like learning and researching. I thank life for being generous to me and give me the chance to do so many different things.

Isabel