WEEK 6 POWER POINT

Hi, Partners

A very productive week full of interesting things that we can apply in our daily work inside the academic curriculum, so engaging students and teachers as well, in the use and tech class production, the use of the different kind of tool are so wide, of course all of it in benefit of our students, the use of, Blackboard, anvill, voice boards, power points etc.

this week, we are learning about how the power point can help us in the classroom to show a topic in a very friendly, colorful, nice and attractive way.

Creating presentations in power point is an interactive way of teaching and also of motivating the students. The first benefit is because this program is very easy to use… because it is an application of Microsoft office and almost everybody has access to it. Another benefit is that we can introduce whatever we need in order to create an interesting presentation. In other words in each slide we can include texts, charts, pictures, graphs, animations, sounds. This PPP make it more visual for the students to understand the lesson and for the teachers this kind of presentation saves time in class that could be use for the students to produce the language…

Power Point Presentations also demand time from teachers, because we have to find, analyze and select the materials we are using in advance… this is also an advantage because we are actually planning the lesson.

For students this is another way of studying. During class they will not be worry about copying the class, because they already have the information… during class they will be worry about understanding it…

WEEK 5 Rubrics and PBL

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A loaded work this week, so much but very interesting and useful, the idea to use technology in class envolving the students in a new way of learning, day by day encourage and cheer them to use their internet knowledge in an academic pourpose for the class, it`s amazing. 

The teachers, students and parents focus the students’ process based on a number. For example in my work we grade our students over 10 and if they have less than 7 they simply fail. And sometimes we do not care about the students’ emotions, or problems they might have gone though at the moment of giving a test, quiz or lesson. We have to remember that assessment of student learning is the process of evaluating the extent to which the students have developed their knowledge, understanding and abilities and a simple score does not give us that. Therefore, it is necessary to focus on a continue assessment; on other words, to assess our students in a daily basis, assess the students in their daily accomplishments, a reading task, a conversation practice, on their communication skills.... Rubrics are also the key for a good performance students have to know exactly what they are going to be graded on so they can do their best on the different tasks they are asked to do.

WEEK 4 READING AND WRITING SKILLS

Hi, partners

Week 4, hard but very interesting week of work, the ideas, the liks posted by our partners are so great in order to have a better idea about the correct use of reading and writing skills, as when we worked on listening and speaking, the study of the second group of the language skills so amazing in order to work with students for example: http://marlothomas.aol.com/category/my-books/  a great page to introduce students to read, because introduce some information that students want to read and then is the best way to encourage them to write.

Talk about the (Laurie’s ESL website) web-site http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~lfried/   another fun and friendly page, the students feel very comfortable to use it, because you can practice reading and writing, and learn as well, the possibilities about the internet in the education is no limit , we as a teachers think every moment how we can come students in order to practice (English), the answer is very easy, a mix of education, technology and funny activities, you can cover all the class concerns having a motivated students, in a relax and confident environment.

The class plan using technology made my students and me the real confidence to work with tech, improve our classes, of course it`s a little complicated try to match our program in order to time, but the result at the end of this process will be fantastic, the class motivation is up and we need to take in advance it, to get better.

Work with delicious and listenins speaking skills

Hi, partners

The work assignments for this week were really complex and interesting of course. I have learned a lot, first of all I am very worried and happy too use the delicious tool, my class and I had a discussion about the delicious and in what way we can apply in the current course, because it’s a great tool in order to keep the students very active and be ready to up as many web sites as they can in order to class needs.

I think to talk about skills, we necessarily need to mention listening and speaking in order to develop oral-aural skills, the activities which works best are those where we can use lively activities and some very useful ideas for example the use of the radio, TV, video, songs and games, some repetitions of stories,  tongue twisters, including in the activities the TPR total physical response in order to motivate all the class and obviously create the perfect environment, becoming students self-confident and cheer up their participation.

WEEK 2

Hi, everybody

very happy to end week 2, learning a lot day by day with the help of all your comments and ideas, very hard work also, but so interesting because the use of the tech.

Our first task was creating a blog… I was quiet an experience. I never knew that there were different types of blogs for example Tutor Blog, Class Blog or Learner Blog as we could read on the Blogging for ELF.  We also learned a new method of developing objectives for our classes, in which we have to take into account: the Audience, Behavior, Condition and Degree.  This method is called ABCD. We also learned to use delicious. It was really interesting to know that there is a way you can get your favorite sites any where you are, without using your own computer.

There were also other interesting things, for instance how to help learners develop effective listening skills bringing attention to the methods we use and the type of materials we introduce our learners to. Creating presentations in power point was an interactive way of teaching and also of motivating the students. The first benefit of it is that this program is very easy to use because it is an application of Microsoft office and almost everybody has access to it. Another benefit is that we can introduce whatever we need in order to create an interesting presentation.