WEEK 4

"If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow"
Jonh Dewey.

Hello my friends! I want to share with you all the knowledge that I had learned in the last week in my Internet and Multimedia classes. First the teacher explain us about the site that we have to work in. It is called "Diigo", it is a bookmarking account to bookmark websites to teach english.In that web site we learned some things such as: how we can organize our web pages into files and we had to write a short description for each one including key words to help us to find the web pages that we have into our accounts. Second, for the next class we had to read this artcle: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/themes/icts,and read the three first sections (POLICY, LIFELONG LEARNING AND TEACHER EDUCATION) that are on the left part of this web site. Then,we had to write a paragraph (100 words max.) to give our comments about them. Finally, I wrote my paragraph with this information: UNESCO facilitates the initiatives of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in order to improve teacher's education. ICT strengths the planning of education and it studies in which way technology can be applied to improve quality and ensure inclusion about education. Also,this program integrate ICT in teacher's development by supporting communities , where the education takes place: at work, in the comminity, in the family and in social and civic life. Furthermore the quality of teacher has been passed some challenges in teaching approaches,so the world needs more teachers to reach internationally-agreed on education. UNESCO believes that all these problems can be solved including ICT in the standars of competences for teachers.

In another hand, I learned in this class reading a lot and with my teacher's help. Reading this article I develop my reading skills, becuase I had to infer the information in order to improve my knowledge. Also, to create my diigo account and work in my lists my teacher's explanation was very important because in this way I can develop my diigo account succesfully.

Consecuently, all the information that I received about ICT in education is very important to develop my teacher's roll because it helps me to understand in a better way how does technology should be include in our lesson plans. Also, my diigo account will help me to organize my web pages about different topics and it is important to share my knowledge in my forum classroom.

WEEK 3

"If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research."
-Wilson Mizner


Hi everyone,the last week was very intresting in my Internet and Multimedia classes. Because we took a quiz about how to evaluate a web site, it was difficult for me because I didn't undersatand well about that topic. However I got seven in that quiz. The quiz was in hot potatoes program, this program I studied in my last semesters, so I knew how it works.The quiz was just in eight minutes. After that, the teacher had to go out of the class, but in that time we had to participate in the forum about Plagiarism. The teacher gave us some interesting pages to read about this topic like: http://liblearn.osu.edu/tutor/les1/pg1.html. In order to complete that task we have to follow some questions such as: What is citing? Why is citing important? What is a citation? When should we cite? What does paraphrase mean? What does quotation mean?. With my partner we asked for that questions in a short paragraph that we uplate in Aula Virtual class. Our paragraph explain about those questions, so I included our paragraph here.Plagiarism is turning someone’s work as your own. In this way we have to know how to do to avoid it. Fist, we have to know what citing is. Citing is to mention the author’s ideas and to distinguish between your own ideas from other author’s. It is important because it helps to develop our critical thinking and it helps us to make a very original job, creating new ideas to share with others your own way to see the things. Second, we must do citations in our works. Citation is a way to tell the readers of the information comes from another source. It helps us to find more information about the author`s ideas to research something else. Consequently, we should cite in different situations. First, whenever you use quotes. These are short notes to recognize that a text come from another source. Second, whenever you paraphrase. It means to say something that is already said in other words. Also, whenever you use an idea that someone else has already expressed. Third, whenever you make specific reference to the work of another and whenever someone else's work has been critical in developing your own ideas.. In the class we exposed about APA Style (American Psychological Association). It is about the rules and conventions established for documenting sources used in a research paper. I think that is important to avoid plagiarism someone's else work.

Then, in this class I learned reading information and surfing in the net to get more ideas. Also I improve my knowledge with my partner's expositions. In that way we share our opinions about the topic with the class.

Finally, I am going to apply my new knowlege to use someone's else ideas from the internet in my homework. Because sometimes is very difficult use our words to explain something, but now I know that plagiarism is a very serious problem. In our society we should change the way of investigate to improve our critical thinking.

WEEK 2

Hi everyone, I am very happy because the last week was very interesting. I learned a lot of things about Multimedia classes are some difficult for me, because I don’t like to use the computer but I am happy because I am learned every day how to use technology in order to improve my English knowledge. This week, I learned to use the web page from the University “Aula Virtual”. In that, the teacher gave us a password but we changed it to security of our web pages. I had to edit my personal information in the prifile to show my personality and add my photograph. In that webpage, we have to do our assignments and tasks. We upload the first group work related about the URL that the teacher gave us. Also, in class we discuss about how we should participate in the Forum, in this way we have to add comments and analyze the ideas from the rest of he class. The forum is a very interesting tool to discuss about a topic that the teacher asks us, so we have to share our ideas and personal opinions. The teacher said rubrics should be used to write our personal comments in the forum. We read the guidelines of the class. Finally, we shared our blog’s URL to show or reflective blogs and the teacher explain how we are going to do our portfolio with all the evidence of our learning process. I learned all this things practicing in my computer and I have to research information to be able to do my assignments. It is a little difficult, because these kinds of classes are totally different. However, I want to learn all about technology because I think that the knowledge that I received in this class will be useful for the rest of my career. I will apply my new knowledge to do my assignments in a good way and to improve my other subjects, because always I have to be surfing in the net and finding information to my other classes and I think that the information that I get in this class will help me to do my my other assignments excellent. I want to share with you these web pages with more information about what is a forum and the importance about keep an reflective blog. http://www.teachandlearn.ca/blog/2008/02/04/towards-reflective-blogtalk/ https://sites.google.com/site/webskillsuo/home/refletive-blog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum

WEEK 1

In this week the teacher explained us about what we have to do in our learning reflective blogs in multimedia and internet class. So, in these classes we learned how to suscribe in the university page and the last class we read an article from the internet about how to know if a website is reliable. In that article we found information about some clues to know if the website is realible for example: if the URL is sure, how to know if the author is realiable, new terms about internet and web jargon,if is the page as credible and useful as the resources and a lot of questions that will help us to learn how use in a correct way the internet and multimedia. I think that this new information will be very important to work as a teacher because as a teacher we need almost always been conecting with the world and the internet is a very useful tool to been informating about some new techniques and methods to teach. I learned in this class using technology. The computer is most important tool to learn in this subject; We are working on pairs and we have to take turns to use the computer. When something was difficult for me to understand the teacher help me and she showed me in the proyector what we have to do to resolve any inconvennient that we can found using technology. I will apply all the things that I learned in my fist week to follow the plan of this class. After I create my new account in the Aula Virtual, I can check all the things that the teacher includes in this web page. I am sure that all the things that I did in this class I will apply during this semester.