Interaction in class

In my opinion, Technology Teachers have more advantages to create an interactive environment than others. According to the syllabus of the subject we have to spend a lot of hours in the workshop in order to develop a project. So, why don't we make the most of it? Encouraging students is not an easy task, interaction could be the key for it. Let's list some learning and teaching strategies that can promote the interaction in the workshop: Work in...

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Useful Tools: Wordle

Wordle Very Visual tool to create glossaries of words presented in a word map or cloud. An example: Fuel: Material (such as coal, oil, or gas) that is burned to produce heat or power. Organic: Grown or made without the use of artificial chemicals. Source: Someone or something that provides what is wanted or needed. Coal: Black hard substance within the earth that is used as a fuel. Wind: Natural movement of air outside. Water: The clear...

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Useful Tools: Thesaurus and Corpora

Today we have found out two interesting educational tools! Thesaurus Thesaurus could be defined as a reference work that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning. In other words, a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms. As you can see in the picture, Thesaurus gives you a long list of synonyms and antonyms. However, its usefulness is based on how the advanced searching tools allow you to organize the list. By: Relevance...

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Useful Tools: Dictionaries

My adventure searching new ICT material continues! Today I'm going to speak about the best tool a CLIL teacher can have: The Dictionary. I've tested some of the most important online dictionaries emphasizing their good and bad points. The main purpose of that review is helping you to choose one, among all of them, depending on which features fit better with your objectives. I've looked up the word "source" and these are my results: Oxford...

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Students' Needs

In order to become a good technology teacher I've to study and identify in advance some of the problems that I'll probably encounter in my future job. The first problem I found is how to adapt the syllabus of the Technology subject.  The ECI/2220/2007 establishes the goals and the contents that are required for a student in order to pass. Due to the fact that we have to teach the subject trough a non mother tongue language but reaching the...

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ICT Special Videos

I have found some useful videos that can help us to improve the level of our Art sessions. I recommend the first one to those who are trying to inspire pupils with something more than conventional painting methods. They give us some resources as webpages, software and even reviews of the latest Art devices. This second video shows the evaluation of three ICT resources that you may consider: Image manipulation software. Online picture community. Video editing software. The last but not least, some useful resources focused on Design...

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What's a Blog?

In global terms a blog is considered a public webpage filled with entries, also called posts, organized in reverse chronological order. Normally managed by a single author. However, its popularity is based on the way people uses that tool. On internet there are over 100 million blogs. Among them, you can find several purposes: to express your thoughts and opinion, to promote something, to help people, to establish yourself as an expert, to connect with people like you, to make a difference or to stay connected with friends and family. Furthermore,...

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Introducing Myself

Hi everybody, I'm Pedro, a 30 years old Technical Architect. I've been working on building site for several years but due to the current situation I'm heading towards to Education. That's why I opened this Blog for the ICT subject in the "Qualification in English Teaching Course". My level of English is officially B2+ (FCE) but I'm working hard to improve it and maybe someday I'll try to pass the C1 (ACE). Anyway, It's supposed that my english level...

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