The Digital Teacher: December 2015

Thursday, December 31, 2015

The Most-Read Blog Posts of 2015 : semester #2

Looking back at 2015 I've come up with a roundup of what's been most-read on my blog G-Souto's Blog.

Below you’ll see the top posts along the second semester 2015 containing a very powerful number of good resources. The themes: games in school, chidren's books, arts, music, sicence, social,

The selection is based on page views but also based on pedagogical relevance of the most-read posts.

I kept the order of the most viewed, but eliminated the posts that seemed less relevant. The main reason is that sometimes certain posts acquire too much visibility, not for their value but for the keywords that the search engines "like" indexing.

Comme tous les ans, je reprends le Top des posts les plus lus du 2e semestre 2015, encore plus intéresssant que le premier.
Vous êtes de plus en plus nombreux à me suivre au quotidien. Je me rends compte que les étudiants aussi me visitent.

Je vous remercie, chers enseignants, chers lecteurs, de votre intérêt et m’efforce d’être toujours au plus proche des événements concernant des idées pédagogiques pour vous présenter les dernières ressources éducatives, numériques et pas numériqueses. Le numérique prend de plus en plus la place. Les technologies donnent aux jeunes et à leurs professeurs des possibilités que les générations précédentes ne pouvaient pas avoir au même âge.

Des ressources aux grandes thématiques historiques, linguistiques, culturelles et sociales, des ressources en ligne, et de nombreuses observations personnelles sur la pédagogie et la pratique éducative de façon à faciliter à tous des chances de réussite.

Here are the 2nd semester's most popular posts of 2015 :

Le Top des posts du 2e semestre 2015 :

ICT2015 : (im)possible report

Schools : Let's talk Star Wars !

Coding at school : Piecefall, a game by students

English & French :The hotest animated movies & video games to explore in school

The Magic Blue Moon in Sciences Education

Music Education: Happy Birthday Beethoven !

Schools : Bicentenary of George Boole

Éducation : la fête de la Bastille

Education : Daisy Chain, movie & app anti-bullying

Ensino: Guerra das Estrelas, um recurso digital a explorar

Science education : Don't miss New Horizons fly-by Pluto

Escolas : Visitas de Estudo : O Principezinho, filme animação

Schools : Harry Potter books again ? Yes, by magic !

Educational App 4 Science : DNA Play

Ensino: Guerra das Estrelas, um recurso digital a explorar

Le Mont Blanc et 1ere ascension : lectures BD

Teaching Arts : Lygia Clark, the presage of modern digital information era

Sciences education : here comes the 1st Supermoon

Education & sports : Special Olympics World Games 2015

Code Week EU, let's go again !

Civics education : World Humanitarian Day 2015

Education & science : Catching the Falling Stars, the Perseids

Teachers ! Join the World's Largest Lesson

Education : European Reseachers' Night is Wonder-ful !

Education for a different world : International Day of Peace

International Human Rights Day in Education

Schools : International Literacy Day 2015

Oh la ! La rentrée 2015 et les nouveautés

The Little Prince, Mark Osborne, 2015

http://www.imdb.com/

My crush of the #2nd semester? Le Petit Prince: visitas de estudo, filme animado a explorar nas escolas.

Dans ce long-métrage animé, Osborne oppose deux intrigues enchassées: celle du Petit Prince associée à une autre relatant les aventures d'une petite fille solitaire, pleine de vie et très curieuse, malheureusement enfermée dans un monde d'adultes et qui, au détour de cette rencontre inattendue, va s'ouvrir aux mondes de l'imaginaire.

O filme adapta a história The Little Prince, tendo como protagonista uma menina e o seu vizinho Aviador, que lhe conta as histórias das suas viagens e de como conhece um dia O Principezinho.

Hoping to have inspired you in your lessons all over the year.

May 2016 be a successful year for all those educators who love teach. Preparing learners for the future should therefore be a prime function of all us.

G-Souto

31.12.2015

The Most-Read Blog Posts of 2015 : semester #2 by G-Souto is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

The Most-Read Blog Posts of 2015 : semester #1

Looking back at 2015 I've come up with a roundup of what's been most-read on my blog G-Souto's Blog.

Below you’ll see the top posts along the first semester 2015 containing several themes: edtech, languages, arts, science, history, environment, literature, e-safety, sports, dance, children's rights among other.

The selection is based on page views but also based on pedagogical relevance of the most-read posts.

Je suis ravie de partager avec vous le Top des posts les plus lus du 1er semestre 2015. Vous êtes de plus en plus nombreux à me suivre au quotidien. Je me rends compte que les étudiants aussi me visitent.

Je vous remercie, chers enseignants, chers lecteurs, de votre intérêt et m’efforce d’être toujours au plus proche des événements concernant des idées pédagogiques pour vous présenter les dernières ressources éducatives , numériques et pas numériqueses. Le numérique prend de plus en plus la place. Les technologies donnent aux jeunes et à leurs professeurs des possibilités que les générations précédentes ne pouvaient pas avoir au même âge.

Here are the 1st semester's most-read Blog posts of 2015 :

Le Top des posts du 1er semestre 2015 :

School Curricula: Valentine's Day

Education : International Year of Light 2015

Schools: Gerardus Mercator the carthographer of world atlas

Schools : Alessandro Volta 270th anniversary

Intl Children's Book Day in School

Escolas : Leituras em Língua Portuguesa, Manuel A. Pina

Talking about Freedom of Expression in school

Et voilà le Bac: on bachotte?

Education: Solar Eclipse, Supermoon, Spring equinox?

Teaching the Holocaust : digital resources

Education: Let's celebrate Poetry Day

Applis éducation: on visite la Tour Eiffel?

Intl Day of Sport for Development & Peace

Éducation: Rimbaud pour les ados ?

Education: Anna Atkins, botannist and the 1st woman photographer

Schools: Explore Google Street Art

On parle Angoulême 2015?

Apps in Education. Depth a game to explore the oceans

Education: It's Earth Day 2015

Education: Bartolomeo Cristofori, the piano inventor

Children's rights & social justice? Let's end child labour & slavery!

Apprendre les langues: et voilà Larousse & Petit Robert 2016

Education: Asteroid to Fly By Earth Safely

Education: It's Earth Day 2015

Intl Missing Children's Day: The Captive, explore the film

Schools: Safer Internet Day 2015

La Fête du Muguet au collège?

Education: Don't miss Venus & Jupiter tonight!

Games in school: Treme-treme, learning about seismic risk

Nepal: talking science & solidarity in schools

Parlons d'enfants victimes d'exclusion sociale

Artes & Educação: Visitas de Estudo

Music at school: app for students with visual disabilities

Intl Mother Language Day: Languages matter!

Circling Birdies by Cheko, Granada Spain

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

My crush of the #1st semester? Schools: Explore Google Street Art. Absolutely!

Google Street Art added 5,000 images of street art in June 2014, and last March 17, 2015 has announced that it will doubling the number of street artworks available in high resolution to over 10.000, working in tandem with 86 art organizations from 34 countries.

Hoping to have inspired you in your lessons all over the year.

May 2016 be a successful year for all those educators who love teach. Preparing learners for the future should therefore be a prime function of all us.

G-Souto

30.12.2015

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Monday, December 28, 2015

Home Alone ? Illustrated StoryBook & eBook for Christmas Season !

Home Alone, storybook

illustrator : Kim Smith

https://kimillustration.com/

Just as Home Alone made a comeback in theaters on November and in honor of the 25th Anniversary of Home Alone, from 20th Century Fox and Quirk books is a new release for the Home Alone franchise with Home Alone: The Classic Illustrated Storybook.

Home Alone, storybook

illustrator : Kim Smith

https://www.amazon.com/

Now, illustrator Kim Smith has reimagined the story as a classic Christmas fable—complete with bumbling burglars, brilliant booby-traps, and a little boy named Kevin who’s forced to fend for himself.

"It was such a pleasure to work on something that was so iconic from my childhood."

Kim Smith

Home Alone, storybook

illustrator : Kim Smith

https://kimillustration.com/

Through a series of comic adventures, Kevin learns lessons about responsibility and the importance of family.

screenshot Home Alone for iPad

illustrator : Kim Smith

https://itunes.apple.com/

Synopsis:

Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister wished his family would disappear. He never thought his wish would come true!

Home Alone, storybook
illustrator : Kim Smith
https://kimillustration.com/

The classic movie you know and love is now an illustrated storybook for the whole family—complete with bumbling burglars, brilliant booby traps, and a little boy named Kevin who’s forced to fend for himself. Can he keep the crooks from entering his house? And will his family return in time for Christmas?

Home Alone

Chris Columbus,1990

https://www.imdb.com/

The hit 1990 John Hughes film, which will forever be identified with Macaulay Culkin’s cheek-slapping scream, gets the picture book treatment. When eight-year-old Kevin McCallister is accidentally left behind as his family embarks on a Christmas trip, the boy gleefully embraces solo run of the house; oddly, the book never explains where his family has actually gone, simply allowing Kevin - and readers unfamiliar with the film - to think that he’s made them disappear overnight.)

Home Alone, storybook
illustrator : Kim Smith

https://www.amazon.com/

Following the film’s plot points, Kevin attends Christmas Eve church services, sets elaborate booby traps to thwart would-be burglars, and makes a connection with scary “Old Man Marley” who lives next door.

Home Alone, storybook

illustrator : Kim Smith

https://www.amazon.com/

Following the film’s plot points, Kevin attends Christmas Eve church services, sets elaborate booby traps to thwart would-be burglars, and makes a connection with scary “Old Man Marley” who lives next door.

Education:

The illustrations of the book are amazing with artful, energetic illustrations by Kim Smith, is a kinder, gentler version of the movie.

Kim Smith brings the whole story of Home Alone from the screen to the printed page. Beautifully!

This adaptation does a fantastic work of reducing a full-length movie into a picture book while still retaining the overall spirit of the movie and the messages of holiday togetherness.

Of course, you can watch the movie with the kids before or after reading the storybook.

screenshot Home Alone for iPad

illustrator : Kim Smith

https://itunes.apple.com/

The story might still be a little long for some the youngest, though, and some might be scared by the very idea of burglars.

Illustrations by Kim Smith are adorable, and fit nicely with the comedic theme of the story. This is a great one for the Christmas collection.

Home Alone, storybook

illustrator : Kim Smith

https://itunes.apple.com/

Fans of the movie will enjoy Smith’s comic renderings of Kevin’s antics, though lines like “Marv and Henry slipped on the toy cars and were knocked over by paint cans” don’t live up to the mayhem of the source material.

Level: Primary education

Language: English

Target: Ages 4–8

Reading aloud:

With an amusing read-aloud story and enchanting, immersive illustrations, this charming adaptation can be enjoyed year after year alongside Christmas Carol, Le Petit Prince, and other Christmas storybook classics.

screenshot Home Alone for iPad

illustrator : Kim Smith

https://itunes.apple.com/

If you love the movie Home Alone, you will also love this companion book! Home Alone, a Classic Illustrated Storybook that offers all the fun of the original movie.

The book was on sale October 6, 2015. You have also a digital edition.

Digital edition:

Available : iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac
Language: English

Target: 4–8 years-old

“You must never feel badly about making mistakes … as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

G-Souto

28.12.2015

update 28.12.2023

Home Alone ? Ilustrated StoryBook & eBook for Christmas Season : Children's Books by G-Souto is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Recent Publications

Souto, G. (2013) Time for Action: New Challenges in Secondary Education. At Conference Proceedings, International Conference The Future of Education, Florence, Italy.

Souto, G. (2013) Visionary Learning for 2030: Secondary Education. In Booklet online "Vision on Open Education 2030 Part 2: School Education", European Commission and The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS).

Souto, G. (2013) Approach to Attractive Learning at Digital Age: Bridging formal to informal learning in Secondary Education. European Forum Learning Futures and Innovation, Brussels.

TEDxKids Brussels 2011

Gina Souto was guest tweeting from TEDxKids in Brussels on June 1st 2011.
"48 kids, all of them born in 2000, are going get their hands dirty, soldering, tinkering, hacking and composing. A series of hands-on workshops will introduce the kids to a range of skills and methods.

At the same time 400 adults will be treated to an all day program of leading thinkers, experts and makers."

The twitter address was @TEDxKidsEU and there was a fantastic live stream from the event.

I enjoyed very much to take part on it!

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