This calls for celebration!

When activity started in this blog we probably didn’t know that it was going to receive so many visits. After less than a month this blog is listed as number 39 by the Departament d’ Educació. That means that, of all the 4972 blogs at xtec.cat, this is one of the most active!

I am very pleased. It probably confirms that, despite what many people think, the internet can really become a learning tool and an extension of what we do in the classroom.

Això s’ ha de celebrar!

Quan aquest bloc va començar probablement no ens podíem imaginar que rebria tantes visites. Després de menys d’ un mes, aquest bloc ha arribat a la posició número 39 segons el Departament d’ Educació. Això vol dir que, de tots els 4972 blogs a l’ xtec.cat, aquest és un dels més actius.

Estic molt content. Probablement això confirme que, malgrat el que molta gent pensa, la xarxa pot convertir-se en una eina més d’ aprenentatge i una extensió del que es fa a l’ aula.

I read this piece of news in avui.cat and I thought it could be interesting. It seems that Panama is going to change the foreign language they teach at schools. The new language is Chinese and the reason is the strong economic relationship between the two countries. Authorities say that in 10 years Panama must have found the necessary infrastructure for the teaching of Chinese, which basically means training new teachers.

If you want to read the piece of news in English, go to BBC news by clicking here

Another article from Vilaweb’s Diari d’ Escola in English. If you like football, you may want to read it.

Només cal que enviïs un e-mail a: iescubelles@gmail.com

Tan senzill com això. Ho pots fer ara mateix si vols opinar sobre quina és “la clau”.

The ‘Dacco‘ project (Diccionari Anglès-Català de Codi Obert) started the creation of a dictionary some years ago. The philosophy of this project is that everyone can participate and contribute with words and translations, similar to the way ‘wikipedia’ works.

It is not perfect, but it is getting better and better with time. If you want to look up a word, simply use the search function (‘ctrl + f’ or ‘ctrl + b’) and type the word you want.

The file is compressed to only 5.1 mb zip, but it may take a while to begin the download.

Check out this video from youtube. The TV programme is ‘Are you smarter than a 5th grader’ (Ets més llest que un alumne de primària?), and she is the winner of the American Pop Idol (Operació Triomf). The question is…

“Budapest is the capital of what European city?”

And of course she thinks this is a tricky questions because…

Europe is a country, isn’t it?

And then she adds…

well, at least I know they speak French there, don’t they? !!!