Save your Scrached projects

The following two procedures should be done in all learning and practicing sessions. The "Save now" procedure is to be executed every two to three minutes, in order to prevent loosing too much progress in case of a Internet connection problem or similar. The "Download" procedure is to be executed before the end of each all learning and practicing sessions.

Save now...

Saving your scratch project in the cloud is easy as to click twice ! Just click on the file menu and then on "Save Now". The only requirement is that you should sign in first.

Download

Downloading a Scratch 2.0 project is done from the project editor. There is an option under the File menu, "Download to your computer". Upon clicking, the user will be prompted to choose a name and location for the file. It will be a .sb2 file.

The "Save as..." dialog box will open and you should select the network disk, as shown in the picture above. The network disk is named Y: and / or \\birdman\Alumnos.

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Gmail language configuration

You can change the display language for all your Google Apps. The display language is the language used in all text and menus for the Google interface.

Remember, your Gmail's display language doesn't affect the language in which your messages are sent and received.

		Access your account settings by clicking on your image, located on the right top corner. Click on "Account"
		Once in your account settings, search for the Language configuration menu. Click on it.
		Finally, use the pencil icon to access a list of all available languages. Select English, EE.UU.

Information sources: Web query, Google Support Page. "Languages Image", Flickr royalty free stock photo.

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Amazing word clouds

I wonder if you knew this on-line app. Last weekend I was browsing around and found a typical Top-10-websites-you-should-visit list. This kind of lists are not big deal, most of the times, but in this case one link stood out.
The link directed my browsing to tagxedo.com.

Would you like to try it out with your favorite song lyrics?

Tag cloud definition: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/word+cloud

Video, How to use Tagxedo.com: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf3IOS5fhi4

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Blogging rubric

A rubric is typically an evaluation tool or set of guidelines used to promote the consistent application of learning expectations, learning objectives, or learning standards in the classroom, or to measure their attainment against a consistent set of criteria. In instructional settings, rubrics clearly define academic expectations for students and help to ensure consistency in the evaluation of academic work from student to student, assignment to assignment, or course to course. Rubrics are also used as scoring instruments to determine grades or the degree to which learning standards have been demonstrated or attained by students. From: http://edglossary.org/rubric/

The following rubric will be used to grade all posts exactly one week before the end of the term. Check the topic list to see the precise deadline for your class. 

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Student´s Blogs

Why should we encourage our students to blog in a regular basis? Authentic student´s work, blogs give a voice, comments are genuine feedback, posts make progress recognizable, develop writing skills, multimedia integration into posts, and many other advisable benefits.

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