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Friday, December 29, 2017

Education : Best of 2017 : Semester #1





credits: unknow

Looking back 2017 I've come up with a roundup of what's been the best of my blog The Digital Teacher G-Souto. 

As I do during this week every year, I am taking some time off to relax with family and prepare for the new year. 

 I will be featuring the most popular blog posts of the year. This was some of the most popular posts semester 1.

 Below you’ll read the top posts along the first semester 2017 containing different themes: education & technology, 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.

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.

Je suis ravie de partager avec vous le Top des posts les plus lus du 1er semestre 2017. Vous êtes de plus en plus nombreux à me suivre au jour e jour. 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 pédagogiques, numérique ou pas. Le numérique prend de plus en plus la place. Les technologies donnent aux jeunes et à leurs professeurs des possibilités qu'il faut profiter en les introduisant dans les cours.
Des ressources aux grandes thématiques: histoire, lanques, science, culture et arts. Des ressources en ligne, et des adaptations personnelles à l'enseignement de façon à permetter à tous les élèves la chances de réussite dans leur parcours scolaire.


Here are the 1st semester's most popular posts of 2017 :

Le Top des posts du 1er semestre 2017:






Education & gender : Talking about International Women's Day

 Books : The 20th Anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone : resources

 Education : Earth Day 2017 : Environmental & Climate Literacy

World Book & Copyright Day : Blind & visually impaired

Visual Music in education : Let your students give a try on visual music : Oskar Fischinger

 Education for Peace : Intl day for Development and Peace

History : World War II : 73rd Anniversary of D-Day in Normandie

 Education : Mother's Day, history & books
Ma vie de Courgette
My crush of the #1st semester? Ma Vie de Courgette. Ovationné à Cannes, Annecy ou Angoulême, parmi beaucoup d'autres, Ma vie de Courgette, film d'animation, dépeint avec poésie le quotidien des enfants en orphelinat.

 Le film est une adaptation du roman de l'écrivain français Gilles Paris paru en 2001 (Plon) et intitulé Autobiographie d'une courgette (Poche, 2003).  

Le livre raconte le chemin vers la résilience d'un petit garçon qui perd sa mère, de sa nouvelle vie au foyer pour enfants à sa première histoire d'amour. So touching!
Hoping to have inspired you in your lessons all over the year.

May 2018 be a successful year for all those teachers who teach with passion! Guiding our students for the future should be a function from the heart of all us

G-Souto

29.12.2017
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Thursday, December 29, 2016

The Most-Read Blog Posts of 2016 : semester #1






credits: Elyx Yak


Looking back at 2016 I've come up with a roundup of what's been most-read on my blog The Digital Teacher G-Souto. 

Below you’ll see the top posts along the first semester 2016 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.

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.

crédits: Fabrice Erre

Je suis ravie de partager avec vous le Top des posts les plus lus du 1er semestre 2016. 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 1st semester's most-read Blog posts of 2016 :

Le Top des posts du 1er semestre 2016 :












 #SID2016  at school :  Let's play our part for a better internet 

 Schools : Talking about International Women's Day 

 Schools : Let's talk about World Water Day ! 

 Education : Talking about Daylight Saving Time 

Schools : UNESCO International Photo Contest #Words0fTolerance 


Schools : Art & Pop Music at Musée du Louvre 

 Schools: 150th Anniversary Alice in Wonderland at the British Library 

 Education : Women in Science, Caroline Herschel, astronomer 

 Schools : Let's Play Music on Google Chrome 

 Schools : Earth Hour ! Let's do it!

 Schools : Barack Obama first book of children's literature

 Étudiants francophones : Concours littéraire à participer! 

 Education : It's World Poetry Day! 

 Schools : Messy Mia : ebook on Ancient Technology 

Education : World Book and Copyright Day 2016 

 Schools, participate ! Girls in ICT Day 2016 

Shools : International Day for Biological Diversity 2016 

 Schools : Let's talk about Europe Day 2016 

Schools : It's Intl Dance Day ? Let's Dance! 

 Science education : Don't miss Eta Aquarid meteor shower 



My crush of the #1st semester? Schools : Art & Pop Music at Musée du Louvre. Why? Because I loved the project. So creative! This is the kind of projects that inpires and captivate students. 
The artist expounds on parallels between technological inventions, the cult of celebrity, and the social media of today and tomorrow. 



This is a remarkable and unprecedented collaboration, the fruit of many years of work. 

 Using multimedia, history, arts and pop music is awesome to learn is amazing. This is XXI century learning. 

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

May 2017 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

29.12.2016
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Saturday, December 24, 2016

'Tis the Season : Tales, books & other resources






Santa Tracker
https://www.gearthblog.com/

As we end the trimester, moving through winter solstice toward the returning light, may the Holiday Spirit of the educational community help ease December’s chill but so bright! The sun continues to illuminate my days in my country.
Here some cute digital resources that will cheer kids around the world now that they are enjoying the holiday season.





Holidays 2016, day 2 
doodler: Gerben Steenks
https://www.google.com/doodles/

Google has begun some time ago the countdown to Christmas with its popular festive Doodles. Today you will find the second one. Let's see the third on 24 December.

The festive ’Tis the season! Doodle, which gets a new incarnation each year, is the search giant’s way of celebrating the start of the Christmas holiday season for its users across the globe.

Santa Tracker
http://www.gearthblog.com/

Ho Ho Ho ! Santa's fans have again this Christmas a choice between two Santa trackers: Santa Tracker (Google) and Norad Santa Tracker (Microsoft). 

At this moment. Santa is visiting Australia (Alice Springs). It's so fun to watch his interactive travel around the world

Children and tech fan can explore some of the very best holiday light displays from around the world on +Google Maps.



Santa Tracker
https://www.gearthblog.com/

This year Google's Santa Tracker has an interesting feature about Christmas traditions around the world. The Christmas Traditions map features the traditions of seventeen locations spread across Europe, North America, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Africa and Asia. 

Click the placemark on the map to read a short summary of a tradition in each location.

Google, meanwhile, has built an interactive Santa Village, which also offers games, videos and a scrolling sled-ride. 

Both sites feature a countdown to all-important Christmas Eve and features which will become unlocked nearer to the day. 



Norad Santa
https://www.noradsanta.org/

Education:

There is so much fun! Both are so creative! However there is some learning too. Traditions, geography, local music, languages (it will depend of the language kids decide to interact). And coding. Google hopes to teach kids to code as part of a short Christmas project written in basic Javascript. 
  • Books : Christmas Carol



Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
page 1st edition 1843
And now the last beautiful surprises. Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. When Charles Dickens passed away in 1870, a young girl in London asked a question that demonstrated just how strongly Dickens' writings were associated with the holiday season and modern Christmas traditions. She asked, "Mr. Dickens dead? Then will Father Christmas die, too?"

Indeed. After the arrival of the Christmas tree into the British parlour, Dickens, with A Christmas Carol, institutionalised what one could call the modern 'spirit of Christmas’. 

Dickens subtitled his story ‘A Ghost Story for Christmas’. The ghosts are imported from folklore and legend, not the Christian gospels. The famous spirit of Christmas designed by the artist John Leech for the first edition of A Christmas Carol clearly draws on classic pagan iconography. 

Professor John Sutherland




First edition of Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens

The British Library has a wonderful digital resource The origins of A Christmas Carol. 

 After Christmas festive pause, teachers must not underestimate this fantastic resource to be explored online with students. After, during, before reading the tale.



  • Animated films:

Sing an animated movie with the incredible voice of Matthew McConaughey.

Sing, 2016

"A koala named Buster Moon has one final chance to restore his theater to its former glory by producing the world's greatest singing competition."

Kids love sing and dream about participating in singing contests. We see that all over the world with The Voice competition.


  • Fun & pedagogical videos:

 By the way you have these fantastic videos of Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show starring Matthew McConaughey and Denzel Washington.

On the 1st video Jimmy and Matthew read texts written by kids around 10 years-old. 

Kids theater can be a lovely resource to include into your curriculum. Because thy love it. 

 Invite students to write some little theater texts - give them a title or theme - after students will read their texts in the classroom following the example.

Matthew McConaughey and Jimmy read scenes written by elementary school kids who were given the title 'Gold,' and they had to write the rest.

The 2nd one, students can learn to make a little drama exercises listening Jimmy and Denzel.
Denzel Washington and Jimmy take turns giving extremely dramatic readings of standard greeting cards.

Finally, a beloved video. A cappella rendition of "Wonderful Christmas time" with so much good singers and actors.

Jimmy and The Roots join Paul McCartney, Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson, Seth MacFarlane and Tori Kelly for an a cappella rendition of "Wonderful Christmastime."
It is the magical night of the year, but for children waiting for Santa, Christmas Eve can seems an endless day.
Wishing everyone a Bright Holiday Season! And  a special hug to all the children in the world.

I'm off to continue celebrating Christmas at home with my family.
G-Souto

24.12.2016
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