WEEK 12

I am not a teacher; only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead–ahead of myself as well as of you.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British dramatist, critic, writer.



In the last week in my Internet and Multimedia class I learned about Web 2.0. According to this web site http://www.maestrosdelweb.com/editorial/web2/ Web 2.0 is the representation of the evolution of traditional applications to web applications focused on the end user. Therefore, I understood that Web 2.0 are tools that are available in Internet to share some applications. I think that these tools are very important to use the Interner in a better way. Also, I appreciate all these applications because these help us to share information around the world and to develop new knowledge because it makes our life easier.

Additionally, the teacher explained us about Google Docs, it is use to create and edit documents. We shared some advantages and disadvantages of the use of it. For examples some advantages are: you can see and edit wherever you are, share your information and control who can access it. And a disadvantage of the use of it is that not everybody has acess to Internet.

In the classroom we develop an activity using Google Docs. It was very useful, because we can understand about how include Google Docs into our lesson plans. The activity was develop in pairs, and we had fun doing this activity. I think that without our theacher guide it would be so difficult to understand how it works. In my future life as a teacher This new program will help me to share my lesson plan and to send to my students their grades.

In conclusion, my last week was very useful because the teacher also explained us how to work on our digital portfolios. She gave us the installador of Cuadernia, and we were practicing the use of it. At the end of our class, the teacher explained us Prezi, she gave us an example of how to teach using this program. I will create a class using Prezi program. In my opinion using this program I will help my students to learn in an easy way about a topic.

WEEK 11

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
George Savile, Marquis of Halifax (1633-1695) English statesman and author.

Have a lesson plan could be great, but applicated it was difficult. This week I have to present my class in just 15 minutes, but unfortunately it wasn't. First, I prepared with my partener our lesson plan with the use of technology for students of English of fifth year of basic education. Obviously, we prepared a PPT, too. We expected to use the time that the teacher gave us, but we had some problems during the class with the speakers. Second, the use of technology was a good idea but sometimes it could fail, like in my situation. Besides, we completed our lesson plan. The aim of our lesson was achieved for our students. Third, we made some activities for our students to have a free strees environment. At the end, we follow our lesson plan, so now we appreciate how important is prepare a class. In conclusion, this practice was good for us, because in the future we will be able to create a lesson plan using technology and applicated it in the class hour.

WEEK 10

"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail."
Unknown

In this last week I learned about how a lesson plan can be develop with the use of technology. Also during the class we uplated our second PPT and some classmates presented their PPT about the four skills focused on the process of teaching.

First, we learned about Lesson plan basic components: General information, Lesson objectives, Materials, technology resources and web addresses, Alternative activity, Adaptations for Special Learners, Instructional Procedures, Assessment and Homework. Lesson objectives must be based on ABCD Method, some experts suggest clearly objective helps teachers and students to comprehend and evaluate the class. So "A" is for audience; "B" is for behavior, "C" for conditions and "D" for degree of mastery needed.

Second, the PPt should be interactive for the students and it should follow the process of the class. We had to include the use of technology to create our PPT, it was a little difficult, because we have to do a lot of reserach to find all the activities and information to create a good lesson plan.

Third, the teacher checked our lesson plan. Then she gave as feedback to improve it. The ideas that the teacher gave us were very important to develop our objectives of the class. My class was about emotions and feelings. In order to learnt about the topic I have done some researches on the net.

In conclusion, learnt about how make a good lesson plan using technology will help me in the future to prepare a lesson following all the steps and use information clear and appropiate to the topic. Also, the teacher gave us some examples of bad lesson plans in order to learn of those errors and don't commit them again.

WEEK 9

"The way to be nothing is to do nothing."
Nathaniel Howe

The last week in my class of Internet and Multimedia we talked about how made a lesson plan using technology. Then with the teacher's explanation we research more about teaching the four main skills. So, after that we try to make a better PPT based on our new research. Because we have to improve the last PPT. At the end, we made like a discussion about all our interrogates about What is a lesson plan and how create one.

Basically, the teacher gave us some examples about lesson plans, then she explained us that we have to create a similar using a 45 minutes class. With my parter we worked first in improve our PPT focused on the process of teaching. After, we select the topic for our lesson plan and we started to make our PPT for our microteching presentation.

Similarly, the last classes we learnt all these topics with my teacher's explanation. She gave us some easy instructions about how we should make our presentations. Also, the use of technology was very important in the class, because we are learning how to introduce technology in our lesson plans.

As well all the knowledge that I have received in my Internet and Multimedia class. I think that all these new knowledge will help me in my future profession as a teacher. Addionally, create a lesson plan with all the steps that it requires is very important to have a goal for each class and achieved with my future students.

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.