READY-STUDY-GO-AHEAD!

The use of a Learning Management System could help this page and it would be more clear and you could easily find the information sought, as long as changes the page so it is more complicated to make a search there.

Besides that, the structure of the page would have a simple and clear format so you would understand all the structure of the page better.

Ready-Study-Go-Ahead!

Content Management System

After visiting the links, which I like are those that are made with drupal. I have found that they have the easiest way to find the information you are looking for and they have a clear and concise format.

Besides this I think that the simplicity of these pages make them better in the visual aspects. I have decided the school page of the Salesians of Alicante as my favorite web site.

Salesianos Alicante

Joomla

Joomla is a content management system (CMS) which enables you to build web sites and online publications.
I have chosen the extension called Youtube Gallery because I find it so useful and helpful to look for an special video in an easy wasy, also you can have a collection of your favorite videos.

From my point of view, this program gives you the option of create your own web sites easily. It is a free program, so you can use without any problem


Joomla

Newsletter

I have decided as a good newsletter this page

Discover Magazine

It's a magazine about the environment and science. I find it very interesting to people who like science and would like to be informed.

APPS TOOLS and aplications

This time we are going to talk about interesting apps, ebooks and lesson plans that I think that they are useful.

Apps for tablets

•          Science Microcosmos 3D http://www.appsta.com/science-microcosm-3d-for-android
•          Frog dissection http://sciencenetlinks.com/tools/virtual-frog-dissection-app/
•          3D Brain App http://sciencenetlinks.com/tools/3d-brain/
•          Project Noah http://sciencenetlinks.com/tools/project-noah/
•          Gene screen App  http://sciencenetlinks.com/tools/gene-screen-app/

I have found curious the application called Project Noah. With this application, the children can identify different kinds of animals and plants only with a photograph, so they can explore the environment and learn new things about it.   

Apps for Computers

•          The weather channel desktop  http://the-weather-channel-desktop.softonic.com/
•          Genomics digital lab http://www.vivetechnologies.com/gdl/home.html
•          Animals 360 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/animals-360/id339158840?mt=8
•          KAtomic http://games.kde.org/game.php?game=katomic
•          Google Earth http://www.google.com/earth/

The application for computers that I think is very useful is Animal 360, where you can find a lot of information and games about different animals.

Lesson plans for printing

•          How green are you? https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/how-green-are-you
•          Carnivores vs herbivores https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/carnivores-vs-herbivores
•          The fastest and the slowest https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/fastest-slowest
•          Climate change overview https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/climate-change-overview
•          Life on other planets https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/life-other-planets

The best lesson plan I have found is how green are you? It is a great lesson plan with information about our impact in the earth.

Lesson plans for whiteboard

• Hearth http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=eafe30be-099a-4da3-9220-237ee1212d13
• Savage Sun http://www.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/free-lesson-plans/savage-sun.cfm#mat
• The water cycle http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=2372b3a3-95c8-487a-9449-e0896dae351e
• Planet Earth http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=323cf3de-3011-4ab8-b49a-74167f871ec7
•  Respiratory system http://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=f10fe5c5-4281-41b6-9422-63bb58d716a8

From these lesson plans I have decided respiratory system; it’s about all the respiratory system, lungs and muscles, inhalation and exhalation, etc.

E-books

• Scholastic Discover more. Planets http://store.scholastic.com/eBooks/Enriched-eBooks/Scholastic-Discover-More8482-Planets
• I am Albert Einstein http://store.scholastic.com/eBooks/Enriched-eBooks/I-Am-Albert-Einstein
•   Rocks and minerals http://store.scholastic.com/eBooks/Enriched-eBooks/Smart-Words-Science-Reader-Rocks--Minerals-Enriched-EBK
• Bones: Skeletons and How They Work http://store.scholastic.com/eBooks/Reading-Challenge/Bones-Skeletons-and-How-They-Work-EBK
• Insects and Spiders http://store.scholastic.com/Books/eBooks/Smart-Words-Science-Reader-Insects-and-Spiders-EBK

The e-book I think is the more useful is Insects and spiders, where you can find a lot of information about insects, an important group of animals that is not sufficiently valued.

This is the link of my linoit document.

apps

http://linoit.com/users/asikokobe/canvases/apps

CLOUD

Cloud or cloud computing, is a term that refers to the virtual space where computing resources such as networks, servers, applications, data files, etc. are stored. Computer companies such as microsoft , apple and google are prime examples of companies charged with this service.

As advantages of this cloud we have the ability to access any type of data we need from any computer, mobile phone or tablet, making easier to work with computer equipment from anywhere. The main disadvantage is the fact that access your data without your permission possible. Hackers could try to get  into your files violating the security of your password and the encryption cloud.

I use daily for work documents that, on my academy, teachers have in Google Drive. I also attach in Google Drive the photos I do when I have a meeting with my family or friends, so you can share easily.

With Google Drive and Carbonite we have important examples of companies that offer cloud services

Classroom interaction

When I was at the school new technologies were starting to be used in the daily lessons, only a few teachers taught using computers, web pages or videos

My speciality is science and I will teach it in ESO and Bachillerato. In these courses you always need a special material to catch the attention of a group of children with a subject that can be abstract for them.

I think a video that shows in the classroom a experiment and evidences a theory or a special program where the children may practice and prove something that, for them, is not real are two examples of strategies that could be interesting in a science classroom where the new technologies start to be essential.

In my science lessons I would like to use some strategies to bring closer science to children that are discovering it, videos with experiments, applications to put into practice a theory are examples of the strategies I will promote with my lessons.

English and ITC 2

My favourite dictionary is http://merriam-webster.com I have not use it before, but from my point of view, in this web page you can find more than a definition about any word. I have looked for chromosome and in it I have found illustrations about the chromosome and different definitions. I think that this option gives you more information and different links where you can find more information about the definition and about connected words.

                The webpage http://www.learnersdictionary.com has a good definition but is simpler than the others dictionaries.

                In thesaurus.com you can find synonyms of words. The word I have chosen to look for is vegetal. I have found four options, and the webpage gives you the option of decide according to the length, the relevance and the complexity of the word you have looking for.

                As an expression with preposition I have chosen in early June, a simple expression to talk about the first days of a month in Spanish is “a principios de junio”.

•        http://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles?query=in+early+june&source=english    
•        http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/x.asp?r1=&w=1024&h=600

English and ITC

I have chosen biology as a subject, and the level is 4º ESO. From my point of view the children will need a good control of the speaking skills to avoid problems in presentations. Talking about writing, the children should have knowlegde of the present tenses, past simple and will, the comparatives and superlatives and first condicional. For the reading they should have the hability to understand simple texts no longer than 100 words.

The linguistic exchange that they have to know are definitions and descriptions, presentations, answer questions with ten words or more and describe ideas or thesis with images or schemes.

ITC and Science

ITC and Science

This is a video where we can find all the differents advantages that work with ITC in your science class can help you. I really like it because is clear and straight and it describes all the possibilities that ITC gives to you. It's a company advertisment, but I find it useful

What's a Blog?

On internet we have a lot of differents definitions about what is a blog, and the characteristics of it. For me a blog is a web page where you can find information about something. For example, in a blog of healthy food you have information about the qualities of differents aliments like fruits, vegetables, etc. There are opinion blogs too, where you find the opinion of someone about the current affairs or blogs of the daily journal, where the blogger write his/her daily experience.

The use of a blog in the class could give us a lot of posibilities to have more participation of ours students in the daily work of the class. A blog of the subject should be controled by the teacher, dedicating it to the progress of the lessons. 

We have differents blogs attached on the the course web:

• The first blog is about the ICT and the use of it in a class of pre-nursery education.  http://patricianaiara12345.blogspot.com.es/ 
• The second blog is a blog dedicated to give information and resources to English teachers. http://oupeltglobalblog.com/ 
• The third blog is a blog dedicated for teachers of bilingual programs, in it we have information of CLIL skills, experiences, resources and researches. http://clilforsuccess.blogspot.com.es/
• The fourth blog is about literature, exactly about  poems, riddles and songs dedicated to children and young. http://bibliopoemes.blogspot.com.es/

http://www.imsglobal.org/community/forum/help/english/What_is_a_Blog.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/02/05/what-is-a-blog/

Something About Me

My name is Jorge Culiáñez. I studied Environmental Science at university Miguel Hernández in Elche. Currently I am an extra-curricular English teacher from three to twelve year-old children.

My level of English is B2, I have a FCE diploma. I have done other online courses and I usually visit news and scientific websites. I like new technologies, I have a laptop and a smartphone and my next purchase is going to be a tablet.