WEEK 20

 

WEEK 19

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During this week I learnt how to use slideshare presentation.  It is a website that offers users the ability to upload and share, in public or private, slide shows in PowerPoint, Word documents, OpenOffice, PDF Portfolios. If you want to upload your presentation you need to create  an account  to be a member and can to use it. If you want to know more  visit this web site www.slideshare.net where you can find  information about this useful tool for  education and learning.

In order to learn  about this useful tool the teacher asked us to make  a presentation of our student portfolio using it. As you can see in this presentation we covered five elements in this module, in each element I learnt a lot practical and interesting things about internet and multimedia which allowed me to enrich my knowledge and develop my  computer skills and the most important  how to use  this set of technologies in education to create more active classes that help students in their process of learning. Thanks, I really appreciate her help and dedication in each of her teachings.

WEEK 18

During this week I learnt the application of some different web 2.0 tools for example: Wikispaces, Twitter, Dokeos, Authorsteam, Podomatic, Podcasts, Nicenet, Edmodo,etc. The teacher asked us to put the knowledge into practice by creating our own Virtual Learning Environment. For this assignment  I created  my VLE in nicenet. So I have know  how to manage  it as  a teacher and as a student. In order to use it  as a teacher I need to create an account. This is easy you only go to www.nicenet.net  and follow the different  steps in order to have access as a teacher. I created my cooperative platform in order to provide my students the key to join my class.

            Integrating technology in the IFL has many purposes, it can be used to provide more in depth information on a specific topic, access to authentic target language materials, it facilitates higher thinking skills and knowledge construction and students can learn to find, analyze, and synthesize information. In conclusion, the net in classrooms is a powerful  tool  that helps not only  teachers but also students to develop their skills in listening, reading, writing and speaking  in an active form.

According  the schedule this week was appointed to defend the interdisciplinary project. This experience was really good for us  as students because we had to defend our proposal. Work in which all groups worked hard  to give the best.

Another important thing that I have to  made is to create a VLE  in Edmodo. This is one of the best tools of  web 2.0 that  provides teachers and students a secure place to connect and collaborate, as well as to  share content and educational applications, and access homework, grades, class discussions and notifications.

In order to learn about edmodo,  I watched some tutorial videos that help me to understand  its  use  and applications.

In my virtual learning environment I included  different activities  to give then a great opportunity to put in practice their  previous knowledge  acquired in last class such as: a video, PPT, questions an d answers and a quiz to test students their knowledge.

The net offers powerful resources for teachers such as:  warm up, lesson plans, songs, games, flash cards, videos, etc. These resources help teachers to understand the use of technology  and how to use them according learner´s needs. In conclusion, the use of  tech can change the learner environment in place where teachers work, but  has to be  resource gathering, understanding the way in which technology changes the teaching and learning process.

The use of technology can change the learning landscape in the place where teachers work, but there has to be  resource gathering, and understanding  the way in which technology changes teaching and learning.

WEEK 17

Well, the oral presentations about Web 2.0 tools started on Tuesday and they were pretty interesting for me. I am going to explain briefly some of the tools learned in the classroom. The first group explained about Twitter.  If you want to learn about these tools,watch the following  tutorial videos. 
                                                                           

TWITTER

 

GOOGLE MAPS  

PODCAST

  

 

 FLICKR

  

 

WEEK 16

This  week unfortunately there is not internet. So the teacher decided to talk about some aspects about education and how to create good relationship  between teacher and students . This was analyzed in three levels such as: school,  high-school and university. Furthermore, the teacher gave good advices to understand students and how to help them to solve their problems. If you want to know about  the strengths that an effective teacher should has, please watch this video.   

WEEK 15

This week we did not have class, I take this time to relax me and prepare my presentation for  next week.

WEEK 14

This week was useful for me because I learned about web 2.0 and some kind of blogs I order to use  EFL. Well,  Web 2.0  is the popular term for advanced Internet technology and applications including blogs, wikis,  RSS,  and social bookmarking . For instance nicenet,  twtter, dokeos, blogger, youtube, edmodo wikispaces, etc.  Web 2.0 is more than a set of  new technologies and services, it provides teachers several  powerful tools to perform their classes in an active and creative way.

Another important thing that I learnt during classes was about Google Docs. It is a collaborate tool of Web 2.0 that permits create, store and share documents in a real time. Your work is stored online and you can access. In order to learnt about this tool each student created his or her Google Docs and work on them in a collaborative way and participate in the process actively.  Definitely, I liked this way of working because everybody can participated without interrupting the presentation.