CLICKONENGLISH TURNS 16!

 Adding another year to the blog, adding another course, not at school but still posting (at least once a month, sometimes more)... keep in touch & search for what you want to learn in the archive or with the labels... 

"CLICKONENGLISH" FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY!

It's 15 years from the first day we started publishing the first post on this blog and here we are still counting, although this time with a difference... 

This year I won't be working at Rafael Dieste school, I won't be following the day by day activities that may be happening... but I'll keep on publishing anything that I might find useful or interesting to learn and practice English. At least, every Wednesday there will be a new post... 

Good luck to all students and teachers that start the new school year!

 

 

COUNTDOWN-0. IT'S NOT THE SAME AS IT WAS...

This is the end, it's time to retire because it's not the same as it was... things change and... this is my final post as a working teacher...  

Tune in to follow the posts on the second part of the German Exchange in March 2024.

I'll keep the blog open for people interested to come and browse because there's a lot on it... 

But otherwise, I don't know if I'll keep on posting so often... maybe from time to time... you'll see...

It's been great to be an English teacher... Good luck to everyone!!

This is the reminder of the last exam I placed and corrected, the last exam of my 36-year teaching career. (Done & corrected on Friday, November 24th)

ClickOnEnglish 14th ANNIVERSARY. STARTING ANOTHER SCHOOL YEAR

 The second time that this blog's anniversary is celebrated already starting classes. Another school year begins... good luck for the course! 

GOODBYE TO SCHOOL YEAR 2022-23

 Another school year has come to an end. Classes and exams are over and summer holidays are about to begin. So time to enjoy your spare time until September. Have a good time and see you then!

ClickOnEnglish 13th ANNIVERSARY

 This year, for the first time, we celebrate the blog's anniversary having started the classes already. We celebrate its 13th birthday, having begun on a 13th of September 13 years back. 13 is known to be an "unlucky" number, but it definitely hasn't been for this blog. 13 courses to help learn & practice English and collecting information and compiling our activities. So here we are again... to continue.

By the way here's some info about where the unlucky tradition of number 13 comes from:

WHAT'S SO UNLUCKY ABOUT THE NUMBER 13?

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KICKING OFF 2022-23 SCHOOL YEAR

 Today is the first day of the 2022-23 school year. We've never begun so early in September as it's the first course without resit exams. So here we are back to what seems to be a "normal" course without rules or restrictions.

Welcome back and lots of luck to all!

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL YEAR 2021-22, ENJOY THE HOLIDAYS!

Today's is the last day of school for the 2021-22 school year.

Hard work is over, and it's time to enjoy and relax in our well-deserved summer holidays. Enjoy them, have a good time and we'll be back in September!

 

2021-22 SCHOOL YEARS STARTS TODAY

 Today we're back to school. Classes begin again, with more students in them and the rest of COVID19 rules still in use: masks, open windows, set entries, classrooms for each group...

This year I'll personally be teaching 2ºESO, 4ºESO and 1ºBAC and each of my groups will have their own virtual online classroom with links to posts on this blog.

Welcome back and good luck for everybody.

12 YEARS OF ClickOnEnglish

 

Two days before we kick off another school year, ClickOnEnglish is 12 years old. Twelve course compiling information to learn and practice English and collecting interesting news and curiosities. We keep going...

2020-21 SCHOOL YEAR ENDS, ENJOY THE SUMMER!

 The classes of another school year come to an end. 2020-21 course ends with all its specific rules due to the COVID pandemic, but in the end everything has turned out well and we've been able to complete it without many big difficulties. So now it's time to relax and enjoy the summer holidays...

So put on your summer clothes!

Let it be so, take care and enjoy! 

GETTING READY FOR GOING BACK TO COVID TIME SCHOOLS

 Finally this weeks sees us all going back to school. Here's a video with some tips to prepare for this year's weird comeback. After the video you have a questionnaire to answer with your opinions about studying during quarantine, this year's school comeback and your views about what you need to do in English. I'd like all my students to take part in the questionnaire and send it back to me, so I can see how things are. Thanks. The results of the questionnaire will be shown on another post.

Video:

At the beginning of another school year with many doubts and questions, what we surely know for certain is that until things get back to normal, if they ever do, we won't have subject classrooms any more. The students of a group will stay in their classrooms and the teachers will be going to them.

The picture shows what my subject classroom (ING3) had on the wall board with projects my students had done over the years. As this won't be my only classroom, the works have been all taken down and this post is a way to remember them.

Hope we'll be able to go back to this classroom system again some day.

This year I'll be teaching two 4th ESO groups, two 1st BAC groups and two 2nd BAC groups. Hopefully I'll already know a majority of students as we've worked together last year, so I'll already know how you are in English, which will help a lot when dealing with the new course.

Due to last term's lockdown, there will be changes in the order of lessons in some courses (1st BAC) to make sure we study things we didn't do in the last course. In 2nd BAC the book already puts in earlier lessons things that weren't seen in 1st BAC this last course.

Email contact: ramoneirateaching@gmail.com

Link to online videosessions: https://eduxunta.webex.com/meet/neirten

"ClickOnEnglish" TURNS 11!

Another September 13th. It's the eleventh September we continue clicking on English. 

END OF 2019-20 SCHOOL YEAR

Today's the end of this strange crazy 2019-20 school year, although real classes have been off since March 13th. But that doesn't mean we haven't been busy. Most of us have been working a lot and adapting to a new way of learning via emails, online meetings...

You'll all get your marks soon and depending on what you get, you'll have to consider what needs to be done to face next year with possibilities. It's going to be another course with adaptations. We finish this one not knowing for sure what the next one will really be like... Everything is uncertain at the moment. But it won't be like before, that's true.

Meanwhile, enjoy the summer holidays and take care keeping safe.

BASIC BLOGGING TERMINOLOGY

[Info taken from: freetech4teachers.com/a-glossary-of-blogging-terminology.]

Post: “Post” can refer to an entry on your blog as in “a blog post.” “Post” can also be used as a verb as in “I am going to post a new entry on my blog.”

Page: A page on a blog is different than a post because a page is designed for static content. Pages are good for posting information that you want visitors to your blog to be able to quickly access. For example, my classroom blog had pages for curriculum outlines and review guides.

Theme: WordPress (Wordpress is open-source software that powers many blogging tools) and many other blogging platforms use “themes” to describe the look of a blog. The theme can include the color scheme and the placement of elements like calendars and margins on a blog. Changing the theme does not change the content of your blog posts.

Template: Blogger and some other blogging platforms use the term “template” to describe the look of a blog. The template can include the color scheme and the layout of elements on the blog. Changing your template does not change the content of your blog posts.

Tag: Tags are applied to WordPress (Kidblog, Edublogs) blog posts to identify the key ideas or purpose of a post. Tags make it easier for people to search and find older posts on your blog. For example, if you write a post about your Revolutionary War lesson, tag it with “revolution” or “revolutionary war” so that at the end of the school year when you have 150 posts on your blog your students can quickly click on the “revolution” tag and jump to the post that have that label. It’s a lot easier to locate older posts by tag than it is to click through archives by date.

Label: Labels are applied to Blogger blog posts to identify the key ideas or purpose of a post. For example, if you write a blog post about your Revolutionary War lesson plan, label it with “revolution” or “revolutionary war” so that at the end of the school year when you have 150 posts on your blog your students can quickly click on the “revolution” label and jump to the posts that have that label. It’s a lot easier to locate older posts by label than it is to click through archives by date.

Tag Cloud and Label Cloud: Tag and Label clouds can be added to your blog’s homepage to make it easy for visitors to see the tags or labels that you use, click on one of them, and jump to a list of all of the posts that have that particular label.

Categories: In WordPress-powered blogs you can use categories for broad descriptions of posts in addition to using tags. For example, on iPadApps4School.com I use the categories “pre-K,” “elementary school,” “middle school,” and “high school.” I assign each post to a category and use tags for describing the academic topic of the post. This way if someone visits my blog looking for math apps appropriate for elementary school he or she can click on the “math” tag then click on the “elementary school” category to find all of my posts meeting that search criteria.

Embed: To display a video, slideshow, audio recording, Google Calendar, Google Map, game, and many other multimedia elements in a blog post you will use an embed code provided by service hosting that media. Embedding media into a blog post does not make you the owner of it and as long as you follow the guidelines set forth by the hosting service you are not violating copyright by embedding something you didn’t create. For example, when you find a video on YouTube that you want your students to watch you can embed it into a blog post and ask students to comment on the blog post. If the owner of that video decides to take it offline the video will no longer play through your blog post.

Embed Codes: An embed code is a piece of code, often HTML, that media hosting services like YouTube provide so that you can easily display the media that they host in your own blog posts. On some services like SlideShare.net an embed code will be clearly labeled as such next to the media you’re viewing. On other services the embed code will be one of the options that appears when you click on the “share” option. YouTube, for example, currently requires you to open the “share” menu before you see the embed code option.

Widget: A widget is a small application that you can include in the posts and or pages of your blog. A widget could be a game, a display of Tweets, a display of RSS feeds, a tag cloud, a calendar, or any other application that offers an embed code.

Gadget: Gadget is the term that Blogger uses for a widget. A gadget and a widget do the same things.

Plug-in: A plug-in (sometimes plugin) is a small application that you can add to the software that powers your blog. Unlike widgets and gadgets plug-ins operate in the background and visitors to your blog will not see them working. A plug-in can add functions to your blog such as suggesting related posts to your visitors or detecting the type of device a visitor is using to view your blog then automatically displaying the mobile or desktop version of your blog’s layout.

Permalink: Each blog post is assigned its own separate URL this is known as a permalink (permanent link). This URL is the one that you would share if you wanted someone to directly access a post rather than going to your blog’s homepage then searching for the post.

WELCOME BACK! SCHOOL YEAR 2019-20

Another school year of classes kicks off today... Day to meet old friends, new class mates, some known and some unknown teachers... New books, new timetable... New possibilities...

Good luck to you all!

CELEBRATING CLICKONENGLISH's 10th ANNIVERSARY!

On another September 13th, we're celebrating another anniversary of this blog, but this year it's a special one: it's the tenth anniversary of 'ClickOnEnglish'. 

Ten years posting information on English learning, English-speaking countries, English related culture together with our school activities: projects, works and exchange trips.

Hope we can keep on with the job and that you'll follow.
This is how it all started, the first post:

STARTING OFF A NEW COURSE: 2009-2010

We're about to start a new course. This course 2009-2010, we want to make this blog be a relevant teaching tool. A place where you will be able to find help, practice, and an opportunity to use, see, read, listen to English in context in a meaningful way. It starts as an experiment... let's see where we get to. Good luck to all!

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL! ENJOY THE HOLIDAYS! (EUROPEAN HOLIDAY MAPS)

Today's our last day of school this course. Congratulations to all who have done well in the exams! Good luck for those who have to resit in September! Meanwhile, enjoy the summer holidays!

We close down for this season.

Holiday maps: how many weeks do school holidays last throughout Europe?
Check this map to see Summer Holiday duration in each European country:

The following map shows the total week holidays of the whole school year in each country:

BANNING MOBILE PHONE USAGE @ "RAFAEL DIESTE"

This course has started with new rules and regulations at "Rafael Dieste".

The use of mobile phones has been banned in all the school venues during all times, both classes and breaks. Mobile phones cannot be seen at any moment of the school schedule. If phones are brought to school, they must always be disconnected and kept in the school bags. Phones are not necessary at school. If there's an emergency, school phones can be used.

Another new regulation is that no ESO students can leave school if there's no class in the last session. Only BAC students can.

Galician version @ RafaelDiesteBlog.