WEEK 19

Summary of the Portfolio

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This is my summary of the protfolio that I did for my Internet and Multimedia class. My portfolio reflects all the knowledge that I received during this semester. In this summary I included the most important topic that I consider in my learning process during this semester. As you can see I included some concepts that really helped me to understand about each topic and helped me to put into practice it.

I think that all the knowledge that I received during this semester will helped me in my studies and in my future life as teacher. All the technological tools that I learned helped me to improve my presentations in all subjects and to do my homework better. In my future life I will use some if these tools to put into practice technology in my lesson plans.

I am really happy to finish this homework because it was difficult and I spent a lot of time doing it. I hope that in the future all the things that I did using web 2.0 tools will be useful for other students in their learning process.

WEEK 18

     In this week I was a little bit busy because I had to present my  Interdiscilplinary project. The judge of my project was my teachers of three subjects. I feel so nervous about my presentation, but beside that I feel so prepare.

     Basically, my project was about the lack of communicative techniques in the time class. So, with my partners we propose some techniques to help the teacher improve his class. Also, we included a lesson plan explained him the techniques and  activities to use in the class. 

     On the othar hand, I had to continue particpate in the virtual environments of my classmates. So, I was leaening more about the tolls of web 2.0 like: Edmodo, K12 lesson plans and Nicenet. My classmates use a lot of interesting activities that really helped me to improve my English knowledge. 

      I think all the experience that I had in the last week will be useful for my teacher career. As for example when I will have to present a topic in fron of my students I will feel comfortable to teach and when I will have to make a presentation in my job I will be sucessful. My participation in the virtual learning environments will help me to in the future create one to teach my students.

WEEK 17

During this last week I had to prepare my virtual learning environment using the web 2.0 tools that I learned. So, my teacher asked us to prepare our virtual environment about a tool that she gave us. So I had to prepare a k12 lesson plan class.

My class environment was about Reading skill. First, I research some information in the Internet about the topic. As for example I put in my gallery a photo that explain the reading process. Second, I create a discussion forum with the question: Is reading skills least important than grammar skill?. So, my students aswered the questuion a short paragraph giving me their opnion. Third, I create a quiz using an article that I found on the net. The quiz had some easy questions about the content of the article.

The new virtual environment really helps me apply all the knowledge that I received from my teachers in class. As for example to write the objectives and to find the activities I had to research and practicing my knowledge about lesson plans.

I think that in my future this class will be really useful to develop communication in class. As we know in the future technology will be more important in the learning process, so students will have to study in a virtual environment and me as teacher will have to be able to create this virtual environment for my students.

WEEK 16

The last week we had or presentations about each of the tools that the teacher asked as to prepare the last week so we had to present a tool of Web 2.0 infron of the class. While some students were presenting their tool the rest of the class had to take note and fill a handout with the definition of the tool, the use of it, the problems that it has and solutions for this problem and finally provide an example besides my partner's examples about how to use that tool in the classroom.

We present the following tools:
Twitter: It is a social online service that is use to send and read text-based posts those are name tweets. People can communicate around the word because it is a web social that helps people to share ideas, comments and opinions.
Google Maps: It is a web site where we can observe and find some addresses and places in the world. It is an application that can be used to plan a route. Also, it provides pictures that are taken by a satellite.
Podcasts: this application helps to distribute multimedia files such as video or audio. People can download audios and videos to listen whenever they want without have a subscription. Also, users can include a text and notes as subtitles.
Authorstream: It is a free plugin for Microsoft Power Point 2007. It is used to upload and share pictures and videos from YouTube in your PPT. You can share your PPT online because it doesn’t work without internet connection.
Wikispaces: This is a web site that could be edited by some authors. In a class is very useful for teachers because they can provide for their students and their parents information related to the class like: send homework, create discussions and feedback for students.
Mappy Friends: It is a platform for people's social recommendations about places around the world. You can share and find places based on your friend’s recommendations.
http://www.flickr.com/ : It is an online photo management. It is use to keep, organize, find and share photos and videos online. You can create videos with your own photographs and edit them to create slides very organized.
http://www.jakesonline.org/using_flickrstorm.pdf

K12 Lesson plans: It is a website that enhances communication with students and parents with the teacher. You as teacher can create image galleries, online quizzes, parent e-mail list and event calendar. So, it serves as a very way to communicate.
Podomatic: It is a free service on the Internet that permits you to create your web/blog. Besides that you have the opportunity to join files and record or store new podcasts.
WebQuests: The Web Quest is a tool that forms part of an encyclopedia for educational work. The Internet promotes researches for students so this tool offers a lot of information about educational topics. It helps to encourage the use of cooperative work and autonomy of students and includes authentic assessment.
Dokeos: Dokeos is a Free Software for Enterprise Learning Management and Resource Management Education. It encourage communication because it offers a lot of options in its platform some of them like: forums, quizzes, messages, discussion groups, etc.
Edmodo: It is a free educational social platform which enables communication between students and teachers. It provides an easy and safe way to create a collaborative and connect classroom. Teachers can share content, homework and grades with their students.
Nicenet: It is website as a virtual course; that helps teachers to share their lesson plan, calendar of activities, also, it is use to send and receive messages. It promotes communication because students can participate in forums and read documents. Students can send homework and interchange opinions between teachers and partners.

WEEK 15

This last week the teacher had a discussion with us about how is the teacher's life. The things that a person as a teacher should know to teach in a primary school, high school or maybe at University. The teacher asked as about what we thing that a teacher must take into account to work in these places. We talked about each stage and the teacher gave us some important adivices to take into account, because she came up some of her experiences workin with teenagers and she retell us some of her experiences.

WEEK 14

During the last week the teacher can not come to class. Besides that the teacher explain us about the use of some tools of Web 2.0. So with my partner we have to find more information and prepare some examples to apply in the class using this tool. We had to prepare about Dokeos. This tool is really useful to create a platform in the class. Because teacher can send assessment and ask students to participate in forums or ask them to take a quiz.

WEEK 13

This week I learned about the use of Prezi in an EFL classroom. This program offers a different option to present a class. It was really important to learn because with this program you as teacher can innovate your classes using it. The teacher show us how use it and I have created an account in Prezi in which I posted some important information to use in demostrative classroom. Also, learned about the different kinds of blogs that teachers and students can use. So, I realize that each of tipes of blogs are really important in order to have a succesful class.