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.