WEEK 10 FINAL COMMENT

Bye, Partners

10 weeks of full work, but with a huge satisfaction in order to finish this process, that is just the beginning of a complex plan to follow in our daily journey in class.

Week by week with the right help, support and guide of our coordinator Robert and the tips and comments of all the e-course partners, we finish this interesting, useful, course.  

I feel so pleased to end the course with the enough knowledge to put in practice in my class with my students, trying to integrate them in a new move, a new way to introduce technology in our class activities, they are so motivate in order to start using the technology in class put in practice all the introductions that I`ve mentioned them during this course, now we are going to begin with this process, taking in count that we are ready to use the new multimedia laboratory, and of course the students’ knowledge, they are so smart in the use of internet so, we need to, and have to take that situation in advance to cheer up them, encouraging them to introduce tech in class, and become a traditional class into a happy, modern, new, smart, active, autonomous, free to express ideas, show problems, give and ask for solutions, class.

Thanks to all of my partners, your ideas and comments will be use and put in practice in my job,

Bye, take care and see you around very soon.

Edu.  

WEEK 9 Multiple Intelligences

Week 9, what a week!!!!!!!! Full of good, nice and useful information in order to put in practice in class.

A good and better resource is to apply in class is the use of technology and multiple intelligences, the students are able to learn but using another methods, not only the classic ones that includes the teacher as the protagonist of the class and students like simple spectators, using music, or music videos , internet tools, acting, roll plays, debates, conferences, expositions, etc, we can improve the level of language that we are going to learn, the example; I like the part when the author mention that we have to let the students do their own tasks, let them free to talk and explore and exploit their knowledge is really nice to put in practice such as; "Ask them to choose appropriate music to go with a slide show, artwork, or poem. Create and record hand-made instruments. Add other intelligences such as drawing patterns of music or writing about music and sounds."

We as teachers have to be ready to use and in some cases experiment in our classes. We are very clear that the use of the technology in class, in the academic process motivate, cheer up, get easy class, improve the knowledge, create a nice environment in class, promote the autonomy in learning etc.

We have to learn as teachers to analyze the class behavior and act depending on the class situation, because students like to move around, they want to share their knowledge and information that they collect, talking about benefits about the use of  multiple intelligences in the daily class work, the answer is really simple; endless, the students can create the work, I mean the knowledge, the students can work more on their strengths and become more experts and independents in the moment that they show the problem, also they can develop all their a skills to try to solve problems in a real life context, and of course they will be prepare for future tasks and challenges.  

WEEK 8 On-Line Tools

Hi, Partners

Definitely another hard week, plenty of good effort and of course, a lot of satisfaction, the first part of our final project has been up in Wiki, also the check list, it`s very important the opinion of our project partner in order to correct, modify, clarify or change some things, a good partner can help you a lot in order to conclude your job.

In order to develop improve a better class environment we can use a lot of internet help pages to create puzzles, quizzes, some tasks for example I use very often PUZZLEMAKER.COM it`s a nice and friendly page in order to do some vocabulary and grammar tasks.

 There are a lot of activities that we can choose from in order to do our class more dynamic and motivating for the students. One of the most impressive tools is VOICEBOARDS. Here students are able to practice their pronunciation at home on their own. There are also other tools which students can keep in touch with their mates and with the teacher such as the forums and chat...

We as teachers have to take advantage of these interesting tools in benefit of our students get the most benefits in order to put in practice oral – aural tasks, the way to involve students into technology in education is so nice and students are ready to use them, the audio, video, images task encourage students to get to practice and we need to be prepared for this challenge and cheer the students motivation up in order to develop and improve our skills by working together as a school team.

WEEK 7 learner Autonomy

Hi, Partners.

definetelly a hard week, but as always full of great things to learn and put in practice in class.

During this week we talked about the use of computer in class and about autonomous learning. The use of computer can make the class more effective considering that we do not lose any time… if the teacher is well prepared … we can use the time to focus on the students performance….

It is important that the students know in advance what they are expected to do … and you’re the goal of the class, or lesson is… In that way they can do their best… of we want autonomous learners we as teacher have to guide them.. Lead them in all the activities we want them to do…

 When we talk about interactive class… we refer to speaking or listening but… using it for writing seems very exciting. and even more when they writing is about something they can relate to. This is a very nice web in order to introduce students to practice skills.

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