BACK TO SCHOOL 2020: QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS

 Here are the results of the questionnaire "BACK TO SCHOOL 2020" that was asked in a previous post on this blog at the beginning of this year's course.

-  HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT COMING BACK TO SCHOOL AGAIN?

27 feel happy and good

11 feel strange

8 wanted to start school again

6 nervous

6 scared

4 insecure

4 needed to have a routine again

- HOW DID YOU FEEL DURING THE QUARANTINE?

20 stressed and bad

17 well

8 had difficulty to concentrate

8 lost routine & study habits

7 found it complicated to work from home

6 found it easier to work from home

5 bored

- USEFUL TIPS FROM THE COVID ADVICE VIDEO

39 to set a routine and schedule to work at home

6 follow the safety regulations

4 clean a lot

- WHAT ARE YOUR NEEDS IN ENGLISH NOW?

19 improve speaking & pronunciation

13 revise grammar

11 practice writing

7 review everything

6 revise verb tenses

4 improve vocabulary

- WHAT ARE YOUR HOPES IN ENGLISH?

28 to improve

8 to get good marks

5 to learn more

5 to pass

JOAQUÍN, SOUL OF "RAFAEL DIESTE" IN MEMORIAM

 So sad to announce that Joaquín, the all-time caretaker of our school, has passed away today. The historical member of our community had been the caretaker from the very first day the school opened and also lived at the school. He will be missed. RIP.

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.

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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. 

STAY SAFE AVOIDING THE 3 C's

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.

STOP THE SPREAD. SOCIAL DISTANCING WORKS

BOOK DAY 2020 IN LOCKDOWN

"THE GREATEST", A SONG FOR THE LOCKDOWN HEROES

This song "THE GREATEST", by British singer-songwriter James Blunt, whose profits will be donated to Britain's NHS (National Health System) and worldwide to WHO (World Health Organization).

Lyric video:

Video:

EASTER 2020: LOCKED IN HOLIDAYS

REMOTE WORKING FROM HOME DURING LOCKDOWN (MARCH-APRIL 2020) + GOOGLE CLASSROOM

I've been working and still am to provide the best ways to keep connected through this lockdown.

Apart from this blog ClickOnEnglish, which I've been using for over 10 years now, I have set up new Google Classroom groups for each of my classes to keep in touch with my students and share all the information with them. Any of my students who haven't registered and joined their group yet, can still get their class-code emailing me at:

ramoneirateaching@gmail.com

At this email address you can also ask me any question or doubt you may have throughout the lockdown.

I'm also updating the school's online pages (blog & webpage): RafaelDiesteBlog & RafaelDiesteWeb with all the general information of our school.

Google Classroom view for students:

MORE BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT CORONAVIRUS

What is coronavirus?
 


10 key Coronavirus vocabulary you need to understand:
- SOCIAL DISTANCING
- SELF-ISOLATION
- HERD IMMUNITY
- HIGH-RISK INDIVIDUALS
- FLATTENING THE CURVE
- STOCKPILING & PANIC BUYING
- ZOONOTIC
- VACCINE
- CORONAVIRUS vs COVID-19
- BEST PRACTICE

[12th CW] CORONAVIRUS PREVENTION

Watch this video from the BBC with instruction to prevent Coronavirus or any other virus diseases. The telephone numbers mentioned in the video are for the UK only. In Galicia there's a free-phone information number 900 400 116 or 061.

Video:

At the peak of the coronavirus histeria, it's worth reminding that the best way to prevent the spreading and protect ourselves is a correct personal hygiene, which includes washing your hands. Because hands are the main gateway to the widespread of germs and viruses. Are we washing our hands correctly? Watch the video below to check.

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"SO MUCH IN THIRTY (YEARS)": 'RAFAEL DIESTE' 30th ANNIVERSARY

This school year sees our school become 30. 

There hasn't been an official celebration like 5 years ago when we celebrated its 25th anniversary. You can remember what happened back then on our previous posts about RD25Years.

But our school's Dinamización Lingüística team has released a bookmark with a commemorative design by Victoria García-Rebull Cuiñas with this year's calendar on the reverse side. The slogan "TANTO EN TRINTA" ("SO MUCH IN THIRTY [YEARS]") was an idea by one of our Galician teachers Dores Castro Villar.

[12th CW] WHAT IS THE CORONAVIRUS?

Photo: Wikipedia

All international media is full of news about the incidence of the Coronavirus. here's a video with some basic information about it.
To know more about how to prevent it, click HERE.

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14-FEB, VALENTINE 2020: WHY WE LOVE & THE SCIENCE OF ATTRACTION

Photo: Ted-Ed

On February 14th, Valentine's Day, we bring you philosophical and scientifical approaches on why we love and how we are attracted to others.

Video:

For all the previous posts on Valentine's Day LINK HERE.

GIVING DIRECTIONS 2

+ ON GIVING DIRECTIONS ON PREVIOUS POST HERE

TODAY'S PALINDROME DATE + SOME PALINDROME WORDS

Today's date is quite peculiar. It's a palindrome date, that is, the group of numbers of today's date can be read the same from left to right and viceversa.

It's an uncommon phenomenon which depends on the calendar's numerical combinations. It happens three times in a decade. It will happen again next year and the following and then won't occur again until ten-year-and-a-day's time (03/02/2030).

Apart from all this, it's the 33rd day of this year and there's 333 days left to the end of it. The most supersticious people associate these kinds of dates with good luck and often choose them for special celebrations.

WRITING: FOR & AGAINST ESSAY BASICS

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.