Saint Patrick's Day

Today, we share Saint Patrick's Day celebration from IES Jaime Gil de Biedma in Nava de la Asunción (Segovia). 

Thanks to Inmaculada Cuéllar, the English teacher and Sara García Pardo that tells us in this post. 

Last Tuesday, we celebrated Saint Patrick’s Day during the break time. It is a festivity that takes place on 17th March in Ireland to commemorate the death of Saint Patrick, but each year it is celebrated in more cities around the world.

It took place in the “Salon de Actos” which was decorated with shamrocks, balloons and main symbols of the country as the harp, the Celtic cross and the Claddagh, the pot of gold that appears at the end of the rainbow and the Irish flag.
Moreover, the students of 1st and 2nd course of ESO could send drinks and food. Teachers and students could buy drinks as orange juice, kiwi juice, milk and tea which represent the Irish culture and their colours; and food as biscuits with the colours of Irish flag (green, orange and white), green and orange cupcakes, Guinness cake, Sponge with snakes, chocolate coins and bars.
The students collaborated doing a presentation of the story of Saint Patrick’s Day and of a legend called “the farmer and the leprechaun”. They also gave shamrocks as presents to wish good luck, and we have the opportunity of enjoying with the company of an authentic leprechaun.
It was short but complete break time.


By Sara García Pardo.

Safer Internet Day 2015 in Nava de la Asunción

From IES Jaime Gil de Biedma in Nava de la Asunción (Segovia), we share a excellent work that they have done while were celebrating "The safer Internet Day 2015".

It's a book with the title "Super Dylan, an Internet heroe". I hope you like it.

http://storybird.com/books/super-dylan-an-internet-heroe/embed/?token=hnbuj6n3vu

InteRActive Map

From IES Jaime Gil de Biedma in Nava de la Asunción (Segovia), Inmaculada Cuellar, the English teacher show us an interesting experience in class with students at 2nd ESO. They were working with AR (Augmented Reality).

This is a map of the British Isles which decorates the walls of our classroom. But it is not a simple map, it has got a lot of information: culture, geography, literature, history, tourism.... Use your mobile phone to scan the codes or images and you will find out.

We use the following apps: QR-droid and Aurasma in our mobile phones and Unitag and Aurasma Studio in our laptops.

If you look at this map of the UK and the Republic of Ireland you can see QR codes and images; if you scan the codes and the images you can see more than that:

- the green QR codes hide the name of a city and the population of this city.

- the red QR codes hide the name of the capitals and their population.

- the biggest QR codes hide audios telling the experience of some of my students in UK last summer.

- the images hide videos about the monuments, culture, music etc.

And also we have a book of the most important writers in English language, we used Calaméo to transform a powerpoint into a digital book.

Scan this QR and the image with your mobile phone and you find out what is in each one, you will be surprised:

Scan the code with QR-droid. You can see the biography of important writers like: Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Orwell, J.R. Tolkien and J.K. Rowling. 

Scan the image with Aurasma. This is a video of London Tourist Office to promote the London Eye.

We recorded the experience in a  video that has been published in the Revista Digital de la Junta de Castilla y León.

Revista digital

Have a look at the video:

Two storybirds for children

Storybird is a platform for writers, readers, and artists of all ages. Storybird is one of the world´s largest storytelling communities. This webpage allows your students to have fun reading and creating their own story. It is easy, very easy to write a story or a poem and you can get very nice pictures. Everything is free you have to sign up as a student or as a teacher. Other people can write comments on your story. It is awesome!! 

Here you can see two beautiful examples: "The Mermaid became a fairy" written by Diana Scripcariu and "Christmas Time" by Javier García Pardo, they are students in 4th ESO at IES Jaime Gil de Biedma School in Nava de la Asunción.

We hope you like them!

Interactive book

From IES Jaime Gil de Viedma in Nava de la Asunción (Segovia), the English teacher show us an interesting tool to create an interactive book. She had been trying it in class with the students.

Thanks Inma! An excellent job!

"Didapages" is a very useful tool to create your own interactive book. You have to download it on your computer then you can design your book and finally you can upload  it into google sites and get an url to insert in your blog. 

My students of 4th of ESO have designed it to commemorate the International Women´s Day on 8th March. 

I´m sure you will like it. It was a really hard job!!!

Click on the picture and the book will open then read the texts about famous important English and American Women and drag your mouse on the answer to find out if you are right or wrong.

YOU AREN'T ALONE

Título: You aren´t alone.

Centro: IES Jaime Gil de Biedma (Nava de la Asunción. Segovia)

Sección:Storytelling

Etapa educativa: 4º ESO

Autores: Rialta Castán Marigómez