Mobile apps for education

Although not yet as ubiquitous yet as conventional computer programs, countless mobile apps have made their way into the classrooms. There are even companies that help schools and educators create their own mobile apps customized to meet explicit needs or achieve specific objectives.

One of them is App Inventor for Android, that is a free web application provided by Google. It uses a graphical interface which allows users to drag-and-drop visual objects to create an application that can run on Android devices.

Using it, I have programmed one Android app to help students to revise the vocabulary related to tools (and it would be easy to modify it to add new vocabulary) You can download and install it on your android mobile. Just click here.

The origin of Santa Claus

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2015

During this term, our students of the first year of E.S.O. have been studying wood and paper. They have also made some Christmas trees using recycled paper. This year has been the second time we do this activity and we are proud of them, because they are beautiful (as you can see in the pictures below):