Hello, and welcome to our collaborative science blog! We are the 4º ESO Biology-Geology bilingual class from IES A Pobra do Caramiñal. This blog is a work-in-progress and contains posts about important scientific topics that we find interesting. This activity combines science and English, as well as computing skills for both students and teachers!
As this is the second year of the blog, students from last year´s bilingual classes are encouraged to continue contributing.
This year, we are attempting to add audio recording of some of the posts so the students can practise speaking. This is in its early stages, so please bear with us!
Andrew Hammond, the !NEW! language assistant, was responsible for correcting the posts which the students handed in. He highlighted the mistakes and returned the posts for correction by the students, once corrected they were then published on the blog. After this, if the students wanted to record their post as an audio upload, he helped with pronounciation and recording.
We hope you enjoy our posts!
Ola, benvidos a noso blogue colaborativo de ciencia!. Somos o grupo bilingüe de Bioloxía-Xeoloxía de 4º de ESO, do IES A Pobra do Caramiñal. Este espazo, que se vai desenvolvendo ao longo do curso, contén artigos sobre temas científicos que consideramos interesante compartilos. Esta actividade mestura ciencia e inglés, e tamén contribúe ao desenvolvemento da competencia dixital, tanto no alumnado como no profesorado.
Como este é o noso segundo ano, os protagonistas do curso pasado poden seguir facendo achegas, enriquecendose aínda máis esta experiencia.
Outra novidade, neste ano escolar, é que estamos tentando engadir grabacións de audio nos post, e así amplificar o espectro das destrezas traballadas con POBRALOGY. Aínda estamos escomenzando, así que rogamos pacencia.
Andrew Hammond, o novo asistente de inglés, é o responsable da corrección lingüística. El sinala os erros cometidos nos post enviados, e estes traballos son devoltos aos autores. Unha vez correxidos e enviados de novo, son publicados no blog. Despois disto, se o alumno ou alumna quere realizar un audio que complemente o seu post, Andrew lle axuda coa pronuncia e coa grabación.
Esperamos que disfrutes co noso traballo¡
Here is a picture of our class:
Estos somos nós:
Here last year protagonists
Os protagonistas do ano pasado:
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Alberto Sacido Romero
11 March, 2012 at 9:29 (UTC 1) Link to this comment
It’s a great pleasure to see a project that takes a group of students out of the textbook and into the world. A world full of interesting news that make using English as an enjoyable and effective tool to really communicate and share your views about Science with the world.
Congratulations to everyone involved in this project, both students and teachers. I wish you the best of luck and I hope you keep up the great and intense work you have been doing so far.
Alberto Sacido
Cristina
24 May, 2012 at 11:56 (UTC 1) Link to this comment
I would like to congratulate everybody involved in this initiative. I have been reading through the articles posted and they are very impressive!
It’s great to see initiatives like this where people take interest in biology and english and I’m sure there are lots of people like me who are enjoying your work.
Well done everybody!
Cristina
Reagents Development Scientist
Scotland
Loís
24 May, 2012 at 23:52 (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Hello from the United Kingdom
For someone who enjoyed Biology from early age and is now fortunate enough to work as a Scientist, it is great to see initiatives like this one that encourage young people to proactively get involved in several scientific fields and to tackle those fascinating subjects in English.
I have read some of the posts and they are very interesting, well written and some of them extremely relevant. As one of my professors use to say “Science is also culture” like History or other subjects and I love seeing some youngsters experiencing it and spreading the word! I hope many of you can also see it as a possible career so that there are more and more Scientists and Engineers in Spain in the future that can perhaps help changing the perception of this wonderful profession as well as change the economy of the country.
But at the moment, just enjoy and congratulations for the effort. I´ll add your blog to my favourites bar.
Good luck
Loís Bello Fernández de Sanmamed
Development Scientist (Microvisk Technologies, Wales)
Fran Rivadulla
30 May, 2012 at 19:07 (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Congratulations! as a former student of IES-Pobra and now a scientist myself, I feel very proud of you guys. The posts are very well written, very professional. I really enjoyed reading many of them.
Good luck and I hope this blog will have a long life.
Regards from Los Alamos National Lab (USA)