Places in the UK

Here we published an interesting activity from IES Vicente Medina in Archena (Murcia). It's a great work about some cities of UK, using Google Maps.

by liverpuliana

Music has been an important part of our subject this term, so I thought it would be nice to start this post with a track by The Jam, one of the most emblematic British bands from the 70s. Why this song? Check out these lyrics:

“In the city there’s a thousand faces all shining bright
And those golden faces are under 25
They wanna say, they gonna tell ya
About the young idea
You better listen now you’ve said your bit-a”

“In the city, in the city, in the city there’s thousand things I want to say to you”…. as it happens it’s 1º Bachillerato C who have been telling me lots of interesting facts about different cities in the UK. Here is the work they created. Thanks a lot, guys:

Oxford by María García, Lidia and Pilar.

Oxford by Nuria, Patricia, Selena and Celia.

York by Selena, Nuria, Celia and Patricia.

Manchester by Otmán, Aurora, Estela, Fran and Alicia.

Liverpool by María Atenza, Natacha, Isabel, Mª Carmen and Paula.

My name, my address, my PLE

This post is a tribute to #EDUPLEMOOC, the online course organized by the INTEF  which is being followed by a few thousand people, most of them teachers, but also students and other people interested in reflecting about the way we learn in a connected environment.
Last year, students at IES "La Zafra" in Motril had the opportunity to learn about PLEs and PLNs as well as make a first draft of their PLE which they would keep filling in as they found new ways to learn and/or to connect themselves through the Internet.
HERE is the link to the task where you can check that a PLE is not just for adults or university students, but is perfectly suitable for the young ones.
As a result of that research, debate and reflection, and after having had a look at the teacher's PLE, we have some prototypes of what some day will be  complete and well developed students' Personal learning Environments.
-Marta's PLE
-Elvira's PLE
-Javi's PLE
-Mase's PLE
-Lucía's PLE
-Mike's PLE
-Andrea's PLE
-Antonio's PLE
-Migue's PLE

What about you? Have you already started your PLE?



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Hard Rock Cafe II

Today, some reporters of ESO4 at IES La Zafra in Motril, present a second post about the "HRC Project" they did a few weeks ago. The post was meant to be a radio program including some interviews to some of the people who took part in the project, but finally they have decided to include some pictures and turn it into a video. Here's the result. We hope you like it:



And just to better understand the development of this activity, here's another video that this same group included in their official presentation:



Thank you, HOMOBE Inc.

Playing to be wikipedia editors

Elvira, a student of 4ESOB at IES "La Zafra" invites us to take part in the Project they are currently doing in their English classes:

This term, my class is editing  Motril's Wikipedia article as part of a class project.
We are improving the older entry by looking for information about several topics, the ones we consider the most relevant about our town and this way, getting to know a bit more about it too. We're also trying to spread the word of this project on the net and get some help from our readers.
We have already got a lot of information and we've searched the web in order to get references. We've also learnt how to edit a Wikipedia article and have practiced editing in the sandbox.
Now, we're asking for help on the net: if you want to help us, you can visit the page and edit it by yourself, or  maybe you prefer contacting us via twitter. If you choose editing by yourself, you just have to sign up on Wikipedia and once you reach our page, click on the tab 'edit'.
You can play with us to be a Wikipedia editor. Are you gonna miss this opportunity??
                                                       Elvira Jiménez. May, 23, 2013