WEEK 8

"If you think education is expensensive, try ignorance"
Derek Bok

Hello my friends!In the last week we learned about the four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.In the classroom we saw some PPT about each skill, the presentations explaned us about the process to teach each skill. For example in the listening skill we have to made the pre-listening, while-listening and after-listening. As well as in reading skill we have the same process. For writing skill the process is planning, drafting, revising and editing. And for speaking skill first is the guided practice and later free oral practice.

First,for teaching any skill we have to follow a process,for Writing the steps are: 1. planning, 2. drafting, 3. revising, 4. editing. For speaking the steps are: guided practice and then free oral practice. For Listening and Reading we have the same process: pre...- while...- and post... In this way we can understand how important is to follow a process while we are teaching a skill.

Second, we learnt that a lesson plan is a document in which is explained all the steps and activities that the teacher will follow in his class. Also. it explain about what he/ she expects in the lesson and how they can achieve it. This topic is very important for me as a teacher, because now I really understand that prepare a class is the key to be a teacher.

Third, with my teacher's help and her explanaition all the class was clear. The teacher gaave as a class about a lesson plan she used a PPT to explain us about the content of the lesson plan. In my opinion her explanaition really helps me to achieve my goals during this class.

Finally, I think that have learned about the process to tecah the four skills will help me in the future to create a good lesson plan. Additionally, learned about how to do a lesson plan will help me in my future life as a teacher.

WEEK 7

"The use of PowerPoint presentation has beeb a disaster... It should be ditched"
John Sweller

Hi everyone! I am really happy because the last week I learned a lot of things in my Internet and Multimedia class.
We learned about the principal four learning skills (writing, listening, reading and speaking).

First, we looked a PPT about listening skill, it has some important information to make the listening learning process easy. After to see the presentation we talked about how should be a good PPT,it should look professional, and has excellent visual appeal, grammar, punctuation and spelling without errors, and finally effects and transitions. Additionally, we said that each slide of the PPT have to include just specific information using spidergrams and including some images according to the topic.

Second, the teacher explain us that wehave to create a PPT about one skill. I had to make about How to teach Listening Skill. Both my partner and I made a research about our skill, and we found that to teach Listening we have to follow a process. The process is pre-listening in that we prepare the materials to use in the listening and we have to socialize the topic in the classroom in order to create a hipothesis; while-listening we have to take notes and veryfy the hipothesis; and post-listening check our notes and create a similar situation.

Third, in this class to learn we use the communicative method, the teachers exchanges opinions with us and also we made a reseach about our topic. I think that it is important because we achived the goals of the class. In the future I will use my new knowledge to teach in a good way listening skill using a professional PPT.

Finally, this class was very interesting and the topic was useful to our program, because we are learning to be an english teacher and the use of technology to prepare our materials is the best way to find the way to transmite our knoledge to our students in the future.

WEEK 6

The main goal of education is to create men and women are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generation have done.
Jean Piaget


Hello my friends! In this last week in my Internet and Multimedia class, we received a seminar about Effective Use of Technology in the EFL Classroom. In that seminar my teachers explained about the topic in a very interesting way. I really appreciate the seminar, because we learned about: The Internet as a teaching & learning tool; Web sites for the EFL classroom; Bookmarking web sites; and Nicenet.

First, we learned about how we can use the Internet as a teaching & learning tool. So, we can use internet tools to active learning techniques, authentic materials, teaching resources, interaction outside the class and to prompt feedback. After that we reviewed some web pages about Authentic materials like: newspaper online and books, and some Podcasts; also we checked web sites to find Teaching resources such as: flashcards, Breaking news English, Lesson plans and ESLflashcards; Interaction outside the class, here we reviewed some sites like: facebook, edmodo (where we created an account as students), twiter and some google sites. Finally we reviewed some different ways of learning like: audio and video.

In another hand, we knew a Research tool called NoodleTools that helps us to create, organize and store, take and organize your notes, receive teacher and librarian comments, prepare a correctly and formatted bibliography. Also, here we watch a video to learn how it works. After that we talked about our learning reflective blogs and in which way it helps us to understand create our critical thinking. Blogs could have different educative purposes, it is very important for our reader understands in a better way our blog purpose. Finally, in that part of the seminar we checked about Active learning techniques such as: Online courses, Collaborative projects, Interactive exercises and Audio and video activities.

Second, we learned some Web sites for the EFL classroom. First, we checked some Web sites to develop the oral / aural skills like: teachingenglish.org and esl-lab.com. Second, we viewed some Web sites to develop reading and writing as for example: Online Newspapers - North America and UNC Writing Center. Consequently, these web sites are very important to include into our classroom.

Third, we studied about Bookmarking web sites. I had to create an account in Delicious, it is a social bookmarking web similar to "diigo". Then, we talked about NICENET. It is an Internet Classroom assistent for English teachers it helps them to revise students' assisgments easy. These are the main characteristics about NICENET: it is free, easy to use, no special support or hosting required and you can create as many classes as you want.

Finally, after to take the seminar we wrote our comments about what we learned during the seminar. The seminar was very interesting for me because it helps to create and share my knowledge in the classroom.

WEEK 5

"The limits of your language are the limits of your world"
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Hello my friends! I am really excited to share with you all my experiences during my last week in my Internet and Multimedia class.

First, the teacher explained us about a new site that we are going to use, it is called Dropbox. Dropbox is a free service that we can use to share any type of document like: PPT, Word documents, music, videos, etc. This site is simple to use it doesn't require be loaded or attached, you can just open in any computer with internet and your documents will be there. Then, the teacher had been send us an invitetion to our g-mail account to can create an account in Dropbox, It was really easier.

Second, we had to present our PPT about UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers that is in the next web site http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/themes/icts/teacher-education/unesco-ict-competency-framework-for-teachers/. I had to work with my partner, however we made our PPT based on chapter 2. It was about The Principles of this Organization has about the ICT reform in Edcucation. This topic was very interesting for me to learn how ICT has been included in our classes, UNESCO mantains that teachers has to be able to use technology in class to develop the economy grown of all world, Education is the based of economy's world.

Third, the teacher explained us that we have to participate in the Diigo forum and write a comment about the next web page ICT in Education | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. I included my paragraph here to give you my idea about this page: 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.. After I did that, I had to create my diigo forum I choose this web site: learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/...teachers and I invited some classmates to participate.

Finally, we took a quiz about Plagiarism and APA Style. After that we checked a new web site: www.teachingenglish.org.uk/ and we had to create a new account. Then the teacher asked for an oral lesson about our Diigo account. At the end, we cheched a web page about listening it was very interesting and I enjoyed to use it in my Multimedia class.