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

Murcia Workshop

Acabo de llegar a casa de una sesion de taller sobre herramientas online en Murcia. Hemos estado trabajando durante tres horas y media. La impresion? agotados al final, pero espero que no provoque rechazo. A veces es difícil encontrar la medida. Los compañeros muy amables, algo habitual pero que siempre se agradece. No es fácil mantener la atención tanto rato y conun tema asi.
Trato de no pasarme y también de ofrecer algo a cada uno pero no siempre lo consigo. br>

En fin, a ver mañana que tal. He venido pensando como enfocar la ultima sesion para que al final quede lo mas practico posible y voy a cambiar un poco el plan. Voy a hacer lo que he pensado lo mas rapido posible y a la cama.

Esta es la primera vez que me permito reflexionar en el blog sin mucho sentido, cosas que pienso para mi.Puede que lo borre mañana.

los lunis y el inglés

Esto parece una estupenda noticia para los profes de inglés, me la acaba de pasar mi amigo Dionisio de Murcia.

Los Lunnis se convertirán en profesores de inglés
http://servicios.laverdad.es/murcia/pg050108/prensa/noticias/Television/200501/08/MUR-TV-108.html

Good news. Yo diría más, la Televisión pública debería apostar por no doblar series y otros programas en inglés u otras lenguas, sería de gran ayuda para todos. Ya está claro que la televisión está enseñando de todo a nuestros niños y jovenes. Esto sería de lo mejor que podría transmitir. No hay más que ver cómo hablan los griegos inglés,

bibliography on WebQuest

I've just published the list of references I used in my Phd dissertation about the design of WebQuests. Just in case anyone is doing a research on WebQuests too.

You'll find it at
http://www.isabelperez.com/webquest/index.htm#biblio

back to school

We're back to school again after X-mast. I spent some time surfing the Web without any destinations and here you are some pearls I've found.
Among the e-learning awards 2004:

http://www.xtec.es/~epuig124/mates/geometria/seleccio.htm
http://www.irishpotatofamine.org/
http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/index.htm


And here is a great site with lots of interviews you never thought of listening to
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/interviews/

I suppose it's time to start working seriously again

isabel

Proyectos educalia

Espero que las vacaciones os estén sentando a todos estupendamente. Yo estoy aprendiendo a perder un poco el tiempo después de los duros años de tesis, y me sale regular, pero aprendo y llevo días que apenas hago nada de provecho.

Quería comentar que Nuria De Salvador de European Schoolnet http://www.eun.org/ me ha mandado una información sobre unos proyectos colaborativos de educalia desde internet. Necesitan profesores que les ayuden a probarlos y difundirlos.
Para verlos tenéis que ir ahttp://www.educalia.org/edujsp/secundaria/projectes/projectes.jsp?idioma=es

En principio están destinados a cualquier área y en español. Si a alguno de vosotros os interesa participar con vuestros alumnos poneros en contacto con ella (nuria.desalvador@eun.org) o conmigo (webmaster@isabelperez.com).


Feliz año 2005

Christmas song

It feels like Christmas is already here. We all are speeding up, getting ready to have a good time with the family and friends. I really need a rest now.

Today, Pilar Almendros, a colleague from Seville has sent me a CD with some of the songs I've got on my website. I've already got 3 CDs with almost all the songs. The first two CDs were collected by Dionisio (an "asesor" from Murcia). Many thanks to both of them.
In this last CD, Pilar included the Christmas son "jingle bell rock". I couldn't help preparing the activities. It's a lively song and I hope my students like it. We'll do it at the end of the week. Thanks Pilar.

I'm also very happy about the experience my students and I are having with the reading blog,
they are doing very well.

Another novelty is the WebQuest about AIDS I've prepared together with my friend Mercedes de la casa. And a reading exercise about AIDS, too.


that's all
isabel

educa online

I have spent a few days in Berlin at Educa online conference. Information about it and about former conferences can be found at this site.
There are some interviews and videos on this site (you have to be a member to have access to the site, but it's free).
isabel

Bernie Dodge in Barcelona

I had a good time in Barcelona with all the people from IEARN and WebQuest.Cat; I came back a week ago, but didn't have time to put some pictures on the Web till today. Have a look at them. I met Carme Barba, Sebastiá Capella, Jordi Adell, Moises, Ramón, and many others. I learnt some Catalán, too.
I also met some old friends from Valencia and Galicia and I met Bernie Dodge, the creator of the WebQuest.

I really enjoyed the weekend. Thanks a lot to everybody

Click here to see the pictures

profes de bachillerato en Andalucía

Esto va dirigido a aquellos que estáis dando o habéis dado recientemente bachillerato. Un compañero me ha pedido que lo ponga en contacto con profesores que quisieran participar en la investigación sobre la prueba de selectividad que está haciendo para su tesis. La colaboración consistiría en rellenar un cuestionario. Ya imagino que es un poco rollo pero la verdad es que no cuesta mucho y el chico estaría muy agradecido. Ahora mismo esta en Estados Unidos con una beca y la única forma que tiene de ponerse en contacto es a través del correo.
Si podéis colaborar y/o conocéis a más profes escribidle a miguelfer77@hotmail.com
se llama Miguel Ferrer.
thanks
isabel

Bernie Dodge

I'm flying to Barcelona this morning. Bernie Dodge, the creator of the WebQuest is coming to a conference. It's really exciting meeting someone you have follow for years. I'm meeting Carme Barba and all the others working with WebQuest for the first time, too.

I'm really looking forward to it