New application added to my growing collection: Canva

I've just known Canva, a free application for basic graphic design, and I think I will use it a lot.

Thanks to Color in my Piano for sharing.

Our special guest: Celtia

As we were finishing our activities related to musical instruments, I asked Celtia to bring her flute to one of our lessons. Not only she presented her instrument (in English, of course), but she also played some well known tunes (she even challenged her classmates to raise their hands if they were able to recognise the tune)

Thank you, Celtia, for sharing your talents with us.

Introduction to the Baroque

In 2 ESO, we have just started talking about the Baroque. After a quick brainstorm about the concept, we used this video as a "fast and friendly" introduction to the period.

Before watching the video students tried to match numbers and letters on the following activity: click to download. They were able to match some of them without any help but it was much easier once they, first, listened to the video and then watched it.

Once they understood all the concepts properly they were able to explain and relate most of the terms that appear on this word cloud (it was created with Tagxedo from the key words used on the video) and that's how we started the second lesson.

Thank you to Classic FM for this series of videos (even though Monteverdi's Orfeo was first performed in 1607 and not in 1609)

eTwinning eSafety Online Seminar

Esta tarde he podido disfrutar de una nueva y enriquecedora experiencia eTwinning. Se trataba de un webinar en relación con el uso seguro de Internet.
Durante la sesión he tenido la oportunidad de familiarizarme con el "Safer Internet Day" (SID) y las múltiples posibilidades que ofrece, incluida la existencia de una Agencia Nacional.
Muy interesante me ha resultado la información relativa a la eSafety Label, una web que permiete evaluar la infraestructura, el reglamento y las prácticas del centro en relación con la normativa de seguridad digital.

Presentación Erasmus+

Durante la tarde de ayer tuve la oportunidad de presentar el Proyecto Erasmus+ KA1 que coordino en el IES Emilio Alarcos. El acto, enmarcado dentro del curso Programas europeos y otras iniciativas internacionales, tuvo lugar en el Centro de Profesorado y de Recursos (CPR) de Gijón-Oriente.

Aquí podéis acceder a la presentación. Más información sobre el Proyecto Erasmus+ en nuestro Centro en el blog creado al efecto: http://blogs.iesealarcos.es/erasmus/

Presentacion Erasmus+ (CPR Gijón, 3 de febrero de 2015) from IES Emilio Alarcos

eTwinning Project: The Rhythm Speaks

Here you have our first video for the eTwinning Project. We have introduced ourselves with a quite basic two beat pattern:

Renaissance Music Activities