October rundown of the most read posts

https://twitter.com/disneystudios

Today, 5 November, many countries are celebrating Cinema Day. I am a big fan of this wonderful art. 

"We are the Hollyood generation."

Roberto Viola, Director-General said on the Plenary session "Innovation Potential in the Digital Age" at ICT 2015, on October 21, the Back to the Future Day.

Indeed, we are the Hollyood generation. Movies are part of our digital culture.

And today, Cinema Day, on Twitter @WaltDisneyStudios the first peek at Alice Through the Looking Glass by Tim Burton.

Tim Burton is one of my favorite directors. I love his creativity. Alice in Wonderland was brutal enough to taint any possible sequel. I wrote about Alice in Wonderland in the classroom.

Burton published the first look of Alice Through the Looking Glass on his Facebook. Wow! Brutal to celebrate Cinema Day, don't you think?

Wonder on October! So many good things I shared with my usual readers!

Here are the most popular posts of the last month:

OECD Poster Competition for Youth 

ICT 2015 : (im)possible report 

Code Week : Let's go again ! #CodeEU 

World Teacher's Day : Education is our goal 

Education : International Music Day 2015  

Schools ! Let's celebrate School Librairies Month 

Escolas : Visitas de Estudo Exposição off-site ICT 2015

Schools : Bicentenary of George Boole 

Schools : International Day for Disaster Reduction 

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

Out on worlk : ICT 2015 Lisbon 

Hope you are enjoying your classes. And of course you have new ideas to digital digital resources as video games, animated short movies, apps and social media to enhance the curriculum you are teaching. 

October is World Teacher's Day! So feel happy, wherever you are, you have a challenging job. Be creative! Don't lose your joy and spontaneity of teaching. 

Teaching is a challenging work with many unique frustrations, but the rewards of are numerable. Keep that in mind. 

I'm back to posting the normal roundup every week. 

G-Souto 

05.11.2015

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Schools : Let's celebrate School Libraries Month !

credits : Chris OBrien

http://www.chrisobrion.com/

"Without libraries what do we have? We have not past and no future."

Ray Bradbury

No it's not about public libraries. However they very important in our city. It's about school libraries.

School Library Day US

http://www.ala.org/aasl/slm/2015

Every October school librarians - United States is in April - are encouraged to create activities to help their school and local community celebrate the essential role that strong school library programs play in a students education and career.

International School Library Month

http://iasl-online.mlanet.org/

Throughout October, every year, the world celebrates International School Library Month, the perfect time for students to visit their own school library and browse through the hundreds of books and e-books available.

October is the International School Libraries Month. In Portugal, schools celebrate SLM on 26 October 2015. This is the reason I am writing today about the SLM, thinking in all students and school libraries that will be celebrating it on the next Monday.

The SLM theme 2015 is "The School Library Rocks"

credits : Peter H. Reynolds

http://www.peterhreynolds.com/

International School Library Month allows those in charge of school libraries around the world to choose a day, week, or the entire month of October to celebrate the importance of school libraries.

The first International School Library Day was celebrated on 18 October 1999, with the theme, "A Day in the Life..."

The change to International School Library Month was approved by the IASL Board in December 2007.

Kids reading at school library, Canada

http://img.radio-canada.ca/

Education:

"There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing."

Isaac D'Israeli

Activities :

You will find some suggestions to celebrate this day on my post International School Libraries Day 2015 (my blog to Portuguese students and teachers)

However the ISLM is organizing special activities. There is information on the ISLM website to help you. Take part in one of the special activities :

• ISLM Bookmark Project

The ISLM Bookmark Project involves matched schools making homemade bookmarks - be creative - to exchange with each other.

This year Marie O’Brien of Australia and a team of her school colleagues will co-ordinate the 2015 Bookmark Exchange Project and Skype Project.

Aim:

The Bookmark Exchange Project is a simple, fun way of sharing the pleasure and delights of books and libraries and of making new friends through school libraries worldwide. If you and your students did not get involved last year perhaps you will this year.

You might wish your students to communicate with each other as you make your bookmarks so that they can learn something about another culture and a different way of life. 

If you don’t want to do either of these things you can simply just swap bookmarks or devise your own activity.

You will be able to register your interest by entering your details into a Google Spreadsheet

If you are unable to use the spreadsheet you can email Marie O'Brien. Register for the project, using either the Google spreadsheet or by email, as soon as possible. For detailed information, visit the ISLM Bookmark Project.

ISLM Skype Project

• ISLM Skype Project

Would your students like to talk to others in a far away country during ISLM2015? 

Join in the fun! If you would like to be part of the Skype Skype Project, complete the Survey Monkey form to receive a possible match for your school.

If you experience difficulties completing the form or have any queries please contact Marie for assistance.

• What people are doing for ISLM 2015:

You want to submit your school activities for the ISLM ? Send in your submissions for What people are doing for ISLM 2015 by email to the IASL Secretariat.

For detailed information, visit the ISLM's activities page

Deadline : November 15th 2015

By country : 

You would like to know what other schools from you country are doing? After the deadline, the ISLM website will publish.

Other activities:

In Portugal we have a different activity using social networks. I like it a lot.

Tweeting in SLD

Teachers invite students, parents, other teachers, and school staff to write a #tweet (140 characters) about the importance of school libraries. They will be published at the Twitter school/class account using the hashtag #IMSL15

The best tweets of each class/ group will be delivered to the school librarian. The school librarian choose the most creative to publish on the school library website.

My thoughts:

School libraries in the XXI century must have the books, e-books, e-readers and tablets in order to motivate the new generations.

School libraries meet the needs of all kind of learners. Never forget children's preparation to use e-books, especially the students from disadvantaged social backgrounds or having special needs.

Integrating digital literacy as critical elements for education (all levels) is essential to keep our students happy and captivated at the school libraries.

As I already wrote on this blog, implementing these new digital books is about more than just jumping on the latest technological bandwagon or attempting to reinvent the library and printed books in order to stay relevant.

Le Petit Nicolas pop-up

http://www.babelio.com/

School libraries must be prepared to introduce innovative devices without forget the enchantment of printed books. The smell of paper, the illustrations, some pop-up for the younger readers, the pleasure to touch or turn the page. Just beautiful gestures that we must keep.

Teachers must be innovative of course. So printed books and e-books are both welcome.

School libraries are integrating learning spaces that values connections between home, school, community, and the world.

Encourage students to be creative and never let them lose their sense of wonder. So let's keep reading all over the year in the classroom, encouraging our students to become lifelong avid readers.

"To build up a library is to create a life. It’s never just a random collection of books."

Carlos María Domínguez

G-Souto 

25.10.2015

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World Book and Copyright Day at school : resources

credits : Unesco

http://www.unesco.org/

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” 

Madeleine L’Engle

World Book and Copyright Day is an opportunity to recognise the power of books to change our lives for the better and to support books and those who produce them.

As global symbols of social progress, books – learning and reading - have become targets for those who denigrate culture and education, who reject dialogue and tolerance. 

In recent months, we have seen attacks on children at school and the public burning of books. In this context, our duty is clear – we must redouble efforts to promote the book, the pen, the computer, along with all forms of reading and writing, in order to fight illiteracy and poverty, to build sustainable societies, to strengthen the foundations of peace."

Irina Bokova, Director-General Unesco

UNESCO is celebrating World Book and Copyright Day on 23 April for 19 years now. 

World Book Day and Copyright takes place today, as organised by UNESCO, with festivities such as the Catalan Sant Jordi – to mark Saint George's day, in honour of Catalonia's patron saint. 

This "day of the book and the rose" is a Valentine's day of sorts in which streets are packed with stalls, and couples demonstrate their love by exchanging roses and books – giving publishers a massive boost along the way.

http://wa1.www.unesco.org/

UNESCO is leading the fight against illiteracy, to be included as a crucial ingredient of the Sustainable Development Goals to follow 2015. 

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here. 

With 175 million adolescents in the world - mostly girls and young women - unable to read a single sentence, UNESCO is committed to harnessing information and communication technologies, especially mobile technology, to support literacy and to reach the unreached with quality learning.

credits; UNESCO

https://www.facebook.com/unesco

"Books are invaluable platforms for freedom of expression and the free flow of information – these are essential for all societies today. 

The future of the book as a cultural object is inseparable from the role of culture in promoting more inclusive and sustainable pathways to development. 

UNESCO is seeking to promote reading among young people and marginalised groups. "

Irina Bokova, message (excerpts)

Education:

April is a month full of good things to celebrate about literature.

Not only is April 23 Shakespeare's death and April 22 Cervantes' death. It's a day when books are the centre of activities in schools and events all around the world. 

April 2nd is Christian Andersen's birthday and International Children's Book Day

Reading a book is in our days a large concept. All formats are available for those who love to read.

• Activities:

A range of activities to promote reading and the cultural aspects of books are held in schools all over the world. 

Many of these emphasize international cooperation or friendships between schools.

My usual readers knows that I write so often on G-Souto's Blog about the importance of reading in school. I have a Master in Literature and Linguistic. So, Humanities are my priority and the love of books is enormous. No matter the format. However I prefer printed books. What can I say?

You wii find so many posts about books, reading, literature! If you search you will find a great number of authors and books in different languages and to different ages.

From Harry Potter digital to classical author Leo Tolstoi, science-fiction  or comics, educators will find interesting resources.

And some good apps, animated movies and games that help students to read. 

Almeida Garrett : A Viagem e o Património,

nos 160 anos da morte

http://patrimoniocultural.pt/

Last post, April 17 I wrote about Almeida Garrett, one of the greatest Portuguese writers who consecrate the theatre in Portugal. He is the herald of the Portuguese literary movement Romanticism.

Arthur Rimbaud

illustrations : Fabien Montes

http://fabienmontes.canalblog.com/

On April 14, I wrote about the French poet Arthur Rimbaud who has been the herald of the French literary movement Surrealism.

But if you continue to search you will find a great list of writers, resources and activities on on this blog along the years. 

You will find different ideas and some funny activities to motivate your students to read and to love books.

You can also organize different events at your school: relay readings of books and plays; the distribution of bookmarks; the announcement of the winners of school literary competitions; 

If your students are kids, don't forget some actions to promote the understanding of laws on copyright and the protection of authors' intellectual property if your students are younger.

http://wa1.www.unesco.org/

Incheon, Republic of Korea, has been designated World Book Capital 2015, in recognition of its programme to promote reading among people and underprivileged sections of the population. 

This designation takes effect on World Book and Copyright Day and will be celebrated with participants from the previous title-holder, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

"With Incheon and the entire international community, let us join together to celebrate books as the embodiment of creativity, the desire to share ideas and knowledge, to inspire understanding, dialogue and tolerance."

UNESCO’s message on World Book and Copyright Day

• Other activities:
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Reading in the mobile era infographics
credits: UNESCO

http://www.unesco.org/

• Take this opportunity to discover something new from what you're used to read and share it with your students;

• Share your passion for an author and offer his book to the best reader among your students;

• Write a note in a book saying “Happy Book Day!” drag one bookmark in it, and leave it on a park bench or a metro seat;

• Ask your students to give a book that they are no longer using to disavanteged school libraries;

• Print out some Unesco campaign materials and organize a book fair at your school library. Students love this activity;

• Plan local reading events at your school and visit the national library in your city or go to a bookstore with students;

• Encourage famous guest writers to get involved in a workshop on creativity with students. They love to talk and share their thoughts with writers they have read.

• Finally, Register your celebration for World Book and Copyright Day 2015 and share your plans with the world! 

 https://www.ilab.org/

• Alternative Activities : Pop up Book Fairs

From Sydney to Tokyo to Cape Town, from Moscow, London and all the major European capitals to New York, Washington, Chicago and the Pacific Northwest of the United States ILAB Pop Up Book Fairs, organized by the world’s expert antiquarian booksellers, will appear on 23 April, 2015. 

"We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”

Philip Pullman

G-Souto

23.04.2015

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