Happy New Year

Twitter apparently is not working, and further more, I won't have an internet connection tonight, so as far as I will not be able to message all (any) of you, I will take advantage of the blog to wish you all a Happy New Year. I hope you enjoy tonight, have fun, drive carefully and mind the grapes' seeds!

Spanish History and Culture Grades

Eloy has already published the grades. You can check them on your site MiPortal.

Good luck!

Asociación de Competencias Bilingües URJC

As most of you know, some of us have created a new association. It is called "Asociación de Competencias Bilingües" and all of you can join whenever you want.

Sadly, we will not be able to perfom many activities until next year, for it needs to be ...

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Curso: Organización y gestión de eventos

As you may already know, there is a department in the University (CUESA) which offers courses during the term. These days I will post some of them that might fit your interests in our campus.

The first one is "Organización y gestión de eventos". ...

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School Organisation grades

Hello mates,

Jesús has just updated the grades for School Organisation, you can now check them on engrade.

Good luck!

Social History of Education grades

I have just received an e-mail from Gijs saying that he has already corrected the exams. Although grades are not very high, I thought you might like to take a look at them. You can check here.

He will update MiPortal in January.

Good luck!

Theory of Education grades

Hello mates,

Jesús is uploading the grades for the exam and the missing assignments. Some of you have already notice. Just log on to engrade and check, although I would not do it until this afternoon/evening, in case there are any mistakes, so that you don't needlessly freak out.

Good luck!

Ethics grades

Hello mates,

First of all, I hope you are all enjoying these holidays.

I wanted to let you know that you can already check your marks in Ethics on MiPortal. I hope you are all happy with them.

Have fun, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Reflexión sobre 20blogs

En primer lugar, pido disculpas por romper la tónica de este blog, que normalmente se actualiza en inglés, y por lo general, con materia relacionada con la carrera a la que va destinado.

Como bien es sabido, me presento al concurso 20blogs de ...

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20minutos contest

Hello fellas,

I want to let you know that the voting phase has just started today, and we are leading our category! Not just leading, but quadrupling #2's votes! And we are in the 2nd position in overall ranking. This is simply great, actually, the ...

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Level of English Complaint's Response.

Our mates from 2nd course finally delivered THEIR complaint, and this is the answer they got from the Defensor Universitario.

OURS is following another path, I'm in touch with the degree coordinator and the vice dean, and we are trying to dialogue in order to improve the situation.

Informe Defensor Universitario

Reconocimiento académico de créditos

I just got an e-mail from the degree coordinator with information about "Reconocimiento Académico de Créditos". Students enrolled in that subject (4th year) and are entitled with the documents needed to proof those credits, may present it from 1st ...

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Jornadas sobre Derecho Penal Económico

El Departamento de Derecho Público II y la Cátedra de Investigación Financiera y Forense URJC-KPMG organizan una Jornada sobre Derecho Penal Económico para el próximo día 17 de enero, en Vicálvaro, en horario de tarde, de 16 a 20 horas.

 

El ...

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SHE Essay Grades

You can check your grades here

7 habits summary

Our mate Carlos has shared this with us:

Be Proactive

Being proactive is the key to unlocking the other habits. Help your teen take control and responsibility for her life. Proactive people understand that they are responsible for their own ...

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Ethics

Hi there,

Remember, those who want to get higher grades in Ethics, you need to come to class at 3 p.m. today, in order to hand in the assignment.

As I have said before, Gabriela told me she would come to pick them up, play some videos and say ...

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Rw: Important Fact of the Spanish Independence War

Our classmate Javier Horcajada has sent us an e-mail pointing out that from then [The Spanish Independence War] on the Iberian Peninsula is officially known as SPAIN, which is not int the presentation, but it is quite remarkable.

Charles III

This is the PowerPoint Presentation for Charles III

The Spanish Transition to Democracy

This is, finally, the presentation about The Spanish Transition to Decmocracy

History Exam

Hello mates,

You do not need to panic. Eloy has explained today how the exam will be organised.

It will be just as the previous exam. The only difference will be regarding the presentations. He will place some questions about them, but they will be ...

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Charles III

As promised, I am posting the scripts I requested you as they arrive. The first one is from Patricia Baños' team. This is Charles III

12/12/2011

These are the notes for today in Theory of Education.

Jesús has given an assignment (due to tomorrow at 10 p.m., and needs to be uploaded by the first member of each team):

HM 10.3 PROBLEM-SOLVING FORM

· It was developed to assist an off-task ...

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More transcribed presentations.

Our classmate María has just handed me a few more transcribed presentations:

Al-Andalus

Habsburgs in the XVIth Century

The Catholic Kings

Spain in America

Downloads

Good morning,

In order to speed up the blog (for many of you have had troubles with loading the page), I have disabled the embedded pdfs and presentations, and I have introduced a Page shortening link for each.

Don't panic, you only have to wait 5 seconds or so, and then you have to click on the top-right button 'Saltar Publicidad', and it will directly show you the page.

Transcribed presentations

Hi there,

Our dear Ana has transcribed some of the presentations into word. You can download them from here:

The War of Spanish Sucession

The Spanish Independence War

The dictatorship of Franco

The dictatorship of Franco

Here you go the slide presentation (I reckon this is the last one).

The War of Spanish Sucession

Here you go the slide presentation

The 80 years war

Hello mates,

I am afraid some of you are having trouble entering the blog. This is due to the embedded presentations, from now on I will only embed documents if the post is long enough to hide them with the excerpt. Documents shared in shorter ...

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The Baroque art in the Spanish monarchy

The Baroque Art in the Spanish Monarchy slide presentation

The Catholic Kings

The Catholic Kings slide presentation

Spain in America

Spain in America slide presentation

Al-Andalus

Al-Andalus slide presentation

The Spanish War of Independence 1808-1812

The Spanish War of Independence 1808-1812 slide presentation

Music from the Dance Classes

These are the files from the WebCT. Eva has handed them to me after writing an e-mail to Gijs:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/41738456/RV%253a_archivos_m%C3%BAsica.zip

2nd Republic

2nd Republic slide presentation

Social History of Education notes

Jean Piaget

2. education in the liberal period

3. the restoration

4. from the second republic to franco

5. the pedagogical missions
Plan Pidal

Ley Villar

Social History of Education Presentations

Hello mates,

Social History of Education Presentations are starting tomorrow, so we will have classes on wednesday and Friday. Besides, remember we all have to hand in the assignments tomorrow.

Jornadas sobre Franquismo

Estimados alumnos,

Les recordamos que ya pueden inscribirse en las III Jornadas sobre el  
franquismo que tendrán lugar los días 13 y 14 de Diciembre en el  
campus de Vicálvaro. Para cursar la inscripción deben enviar un ...

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Theatre in the Spanish Golden Age

Theatre in the Spanish Golden Age slide presentation

The loss of Cuba and Philipines

The loss of cuba%2c the philippines and

View more presentations from Richard Taylor Pleite.

Texts for History

Hi mates, Eloy just sent us yesterday the texts from which he will choose one for the exam:


Texts Second Exam

School Organisation Exam

There was a source missing on yesterday's post. Sections 1,2 and 4 are from:
- 6.2.3. EURYDICE
- 6.2.3.1. Organization of the Education System in Spain 2009-2010

Greek and Roman art in the Iberian Peninsula

Greek and Roman Art in the Iberian Peninsula. on Prezi

12/01/2011

Today in School Organisation, Jesús has told us to take a look to the WebCT. We are supposed to have an e-mail about the tutorials.

He has informed us that attendance is no longer mandatory.

The syllabus for the exam is:

Sections 1, 2 and 4
...

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Social History of Education Exam

The pages we are to read from the book of Puelles are 353 - 363 and 411 - 436, according to what Gijs has said to our classmate Paloma.

I have to add a previous post here, so that you don't think those are the only pages to read.

139-149
159-170
...

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The coexistence of the three cultures in the Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages

THE COEXISTENCE OF THE THREE CULTURES IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA IN THE MIDDLE AGES on Prezi

Spanish Inquisition

Spanish Inquisition slide presentation

Library Self-Issue Service

For those who might be interested, I'll transcript a triptych from the library:

OBJETIVOS


1. El usuario obtiene los libros en préstamo directamente, sin intervención del bibliotecario.

2. El usuario obtiene un recibo de los libros que se lleva en ...

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Seminario Permanente

This is the poster for the Seminario Permanente, and these are the indications given by them:

AQUELLOS ALUMNOS QUE DE FORMA ASIDUA ASISTAN A LAS DIFERENTES SESIONES RECIBIRÁN  UN CERTIFICADO DE ASISTENCIA PARA EL RECONOCIMIENTO POSTERIOR DE UN ...

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Final Presentation Schedule

Jesús has just sent us the final schedule for School Organisation Presentations:

School Presentations (Primary Education)

December 13, 2011

Team  6

Team 11

Team 5

Team 13

Team 20

Team 19

Team 1

Team 9

Team 30

December 15, 2011

Team 23

Team 4

Team 3

Team 12

Team 17

December 22, 2011

Team 15

Team 8

Team 7

Team 16

Team 18

Ethics

Hello again mates (seems I live in here...)

I have spoken to Gabriela this evening, and she has told me that the assignment for those who want to raise their grades, is due to December, 16th.

She wants all of us to attend that class in order to say farewell and wish each other a Merry Christmas, for there will not be further classes. She will also play a film or elsewhat.

Free USB device

Hello mates,

There is a survey going on this week. It only takes 15 minutes and you get a free USB device.

If you are interested, they are going to be in Sótano 2 (Aulario) this Friday at 11am, 12.30pm and 2pm.

11/29/2011

Today we have started School Organisation watching this video:



This is the transcription (extracted from: http://blog.ted.com)

Good morning. How are you? It’s been great, hasn’t it? I’ve been blown away by the whole thing. In fact, I’m leaving.

...

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Case 26 Early Childhood

Here you go, case 26 from Case studies in Early Childhood Education:

Eduroam

As you may have noticed, URJC's Wi-Fi has become really useless and annoying.

What you may not know is that we have a Wi-Fi system shared with most of Spanish and some European Universities, so if you go to another campus, even if it's for another ...

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11/27/2011

Today we have watched the following video:



And we have also watched another part of Freedom Writers, the last one. Therefore, there is a new open discussion on the WebCT (Diary Entry Activity 3). Besides, we need to answer the following questions, ...

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