Alba's blog: ICT AND CLASSROOM DYNAMICS FOR CLIL

   Here you have my public notice-board created with Padlet. I have posted the links to the materials and apps I found interesting for learning and teaching purposes, especially for teaching the English language. https://padlet.com/albarco95/ejzbpc281mq5    First of all, I share three useful apps for learning English (Beelingo, Babbel and Memrise) that offer the users very different services.    Secondly, I share three apps not just for teaching or learning English but as a support for controlling the students (Classdojo), for helping students to assimilate some contents (Memory trainer) or for creating video material with our students' works (iMovie).    Furthermore, I have included different lesson plans ready for printing and use in class provided by popular websites as onestopenglish, busyteacher and theteachercorner.   Finally, I have include different interesting article related to the teaching of En...

                   I have chosen as a good blog in my field the one of an English teacher that works in a high school in Los Barrios (Cádiz):   https://mercigd.wordpress.com/                       This is a perfect tool that helps every student regardless of his/her abilities. It offers a lot of activities with their solutions so students can practice their weakness at home. Moreover, this teacher uses the blog to communicate with the family of the students.                          Furthermore, the teacher uses the blog as a platform to share information and material with those students who are going to take the TRINITY EXAMS. Also, the teacher encourages the students not to use a translator but a dictionary and provides them a list of useful ones.

          There are many different Content Management  Systems (CMS): Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, PHP-Nuke, SPIP, Zikula, Moodle and VLE.           I have checked all the links from the different software site creators the teacher provides me and I prefer the ones created using  Joomla  http://iesleonardoalacant.edu.gva.es/web/   and Mestre a casa  http://mestreacasa.gva.es/web/ieshaygon.                       I prefer them because they present a clear distribution as well as they are visually attractive, browsing on them is a natural way and very easy because their different items are well classified.

  Joomla is a Content Management System (CMS), that is to say, a software that enables you to build, organize, manage and publish content for websites, blogs, Intranets and mobile applications. A relevant characteristic of it is that is totally freely available to everyone.     Among the core features, we find that Joomla is a multilingual platform that offers more than 70 languages. Moreover, the uploads are just installed in a click and it has some tools to manage and organise files and folders, to add advertisements and contacts. If you are designer or developer it has more features adapted to those roles. Finally, what marks a milestone is that it gives its users the chance to edit content without any knowledge of code. https://extensions.joomla.org/category/ads-a-affiliates/jobs-a-recruitment/     I have chosen the extension of jobs and recruitment since it supposes a great tool for Human Resources teams helping busin...

     The cloud ,   a general term for the delivery of hosted services over the internet, enables companies to consume a compute resource, such as a virtual machine, storage or an application, as a utility -- just like electricity -- rather than having to build and maintain computing infrastructures in-house.      The cloud utilities I use every day are Google Drive Documents to work in group with my classmates that do not live in my city and when I was at the high school,   I used Dropbox since a teacher shared all the handouts of his subject on this platform.       On the one hand, the cloud presents many advantages , but the main ones are convenience and reliability. Saving a file to the cloud ensures that you'll be able to access it with any computer that has an internet connection. The cloud also makes it much easier to share a file with other people, making it possible to collaborate over the inter...

           I would like to teach the English language in Secondary Education using different methodologies with the aim that  every student would be successful in the subject as well as identify himself/ herself as a competent speaker of the language, a good learner or even just a learner since I have witnessed frequently how the needs of the students have not been taking into consideration.            One of the methodologies I think that can be more adaptable to the different needs of the students is TBL (Task-based learning) since the  language will be studied is not  pre-determined by the teacher but  by what happens as the students complete a central task, in which the lesson is based. This approach, apart from  arises from the students' needs, is a strong communicative and it is enjoyable and motivating.           There is a huge variety of ways ...