New Podcasts

Doesn't your esnips work? :-( sniff, sniff... but...
Listen to this interview: Who are the actors playing Ronaldihno and the journalist?
Have a guess...

Podcasts are fun and ... Easy, yes! :-)

HOW TO MAKE THE NEW PODCAST- Option 1

Step 1- Create your podcast with audacity. Include sound effects from findsounds
or add some music: free mp3
Step 2- Archivo>Exportar como mp3>aceptar
Step 3- Save your file on your computer or pendrive
Step 4- Upload your file in one of these webs:
blip.tv
divshare ( Tutorial )
goear
imeem
Step 5- Share and Embed in your blog

HOW TO MAKE a PODCAST- Option 2

Jornades de bones pràctiques

Hi, there! :-)

We have been invited by the Serveis Territorials to present our project to other Highschools and teachers.

Showing our students’ hard work is a source of pride and pleasure and we hope we can inspire other teachers to work in this direction and also learn from their comments, ideas and projects in the class.

Sarah Hannity from Belfast

Within our project, native speakers from different English speaking countries are invited to give a talk to our students and so we have an opportunity to chat together and get to know another culture, another accent and some common interests and values as well.

Here is Sarah Hannity, a 20 year old young woman from Belfast. Thank you, Sarah, for the
interesting, personalized and lively talk.

Mercè's summer

Mercè talks about her summer in Oxford.

Joke time

Well, in 2nd batxillerat students have to learn some jokes in English and put at least one on their portfolios... Here we'll have some and select the best for the final contest: the funniest joke in 2 bat!

Doctor, doctor.......

2007-2008 students at batxillerat

Presentation of the academic year. Students working at the language room.

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Award ceremony June 2007

The Award ceremony 2007

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Dialogue: parents and teenagers

Sara de la Higuera, Angels Bagué and Sara López interacting

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Volunteer work

Carla Sagué explains a wonderful way to learn English

Good News

Acrostic for Saint George Contest

C reamy or

Hot, it makes my mouth scream
On and on
Chocolate, chocolate
Oh, yum
Luscious chocolate, I can't believe I
Ate it all. It
Tickles my throat
Each time I eat it, mmm oh I love chocolate.

Rebecca S.

chocolate.mp3

A landscape description

Pascal's description...

Pascal Straube describes a landscape he likes.

A Description: My friend

Puignou's descript...

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Oral presentation

This is Jenny and Claudia's presentation about Australia

Mail to my teacher

Hi teacher, this is the first mail I sent you!
cheers! :-)

laia's mail.doc

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How can I do my Portfolio?

Well, you have three basic options:

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• Paper-support: a traditional school dossier

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Digital support: a CD Rom

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Digital online support: a blog





We encourage you to use the blog. Why? We live in the digital era and knowledge is constructed in and with the help of the Net. We have to face the challenge of learning and learning to learn digitally, not just having fun (MSN, playstations, netmeetings, youtube etc...) with digital means... Ready ?

1- Open a new blog at blogger
2- Call it "Yourname's Portfolio". Eg: Marti Riera's Portfolio.
3- The first post should be a little welcome to the visitors of your portfolio with an image/sound or video that you like and identify with and you should explain why.
4- Your personal blog and your language passport should be on the side of your portfolio with a link (elementos de página)
5- Each new post should include one task: e-mail, horror story, first oral presentation... you can organize it by terms or in order: first composition, first oral presentation, first speaking....
In the Moodle of your class you will find all the tutorials to do this.
6- At the end of each term write a "REFLECTION" post.
7- Make your portfolio your own style!! :-)

Contents of my Portfolio

What should my Portfolio include?

Official site document (in Catalan)

1- My language passport
2- All the tasks that I have done every term:

• Writings: First mail to the teacher, narrative text (Halloween story), description (of a friend), dialogues and argumentative text, summaries of news you have read (Catalonia today, BBC...) and other written documents you have produced.
  
• A link to your personal blog
  
• Speakings: descriptions ( of a place), short talks on different topics , dialogues, the class presentations videos and other oral documents you have produced.
  
• A REFLECTION: At the end of every term, you should look back on all the tasks you have produced and write about which activity best represents your level of English and what you have learnt and why.
  

Why a Portfolio?

Why so much fuss about Portfolios now? well...
here are a number of reasons.
1- Common European Framework for Languages
2- My mentor: Olga Esteve
3- Previous experiences: Scrapbooks, School Dossiers...

What's the best evidence of learning? Looking backwards and forwards and showing at all times where you are in your learning path.

New Technologies now allow us to display our Portfolios online and open. Let's have a look! ;-)

Welcome to your portfolio space

This blog seeks to display your portfolios, what you have learnt in the English Class in IES Castelló d'Empúries.
Within our Innovation project 2006-2009 we aim to improve our English and reach B1 level of the Common European Framework. Thanks for your interest and engagement!
We sincerely hope this project encourages you to learn English with the support of new technologies and to eventually become an autonomous, critical and cooperative learner.
A warm welcome! :-)