WEEK 10

Well, hello every body I can’t believe that we’ve finished our class, they were 10 great weeks where I learnt many but many new things in order to improve my English class, it was really great , but to be honest they were really hard , too. During this week we talked about the Levels of Technology Implementation (LoTi) that according Dr. Christopher Moersch we can find 6 levels of Levels Technology Implementation which help us as teachers to focus on the slight balance between instruction, assessment, and the effective use of tools and resources to promote better results with student's practices in the classrooms get an effective learning process.
So I consider that if we want to do an effective process we have to develop level by level to get better results. For me it was really helpful because using the technology the students can get an effective learning, so our target is to be more effective and innovative using new tools.

Another difficult but interesting activity that we did was the final project where all of my colleges and me made a big effort to do an excellent job. It was really great to create one for me was the first time, I had to read a lot but I did it, I feel really happy about it.

Something that was very important since my point of view was the advices to the future participants that will take the course in advance, so I consider that for me it was an incredible experience to take this kind of courses, it was a big challenge to have contact with new tools and techniques to increase our classes.

And finally I have to say thank you very much to Robert, because he really helped me to some ideas, some comments to develop my skills, so now I can tell you that I'm a completed teacher, because I have new ideas, new tools to face my classes but I don't have to forget that I have to prepare my self every day in order to give the best to my students.

And also thanks to Eduardo Moreira for helping me and be my partner during my final project.

Bye,
Take care 
Thanks for every thing

Estanislao

WEEK 9

Well. it awas another difficult week but we  are close to the objective , during this week we had to present our final project when I think every body dedicated our best.

Another fine topic was the learning styles whre in my personal opinion all of us learn something new to our class

so we had to our best effort to get the objective, don't give up we can do it

WEEK 8

Hi, Partners

Well, it was a really amazing week, little by little we are advancing to our final goal, to pass the course and overall the satisfaction of learning something new and interesting in this week.

In this week we had to post our first draft about our final project, so to do this activity we had to choose a partner in my case I chose Eduardo Moreira, he’s a nice person, so he accepted my invitation to work together in the final project, thanks for that.

A new technological tool that we checked in this week was the ANVILL a great a and fantastic toll to develop our students’ skills  and overall to practice in our classes , so in that case the process of teaching learning can have more advances. Another great tool is VOICEBOARDS. Here students have the opportunity to practice their pronunciation at home, so they can repeat and repeat the activities, so they won’t be ashamed anymore.

We also had to do an online course site or an exercise in  this activity I used these websites:

http://bogglesworldesl.com/superhero_flashcards.htm

 http://bogglesworldesl.com/irregular_verbs.htm

The activities that you can find here are really fantastic and great, especially in my case because as everybody knows I work with teenagers, so now I can have more opportunities to teach in a better way.

I really like about the heroes, the students love heroes so I’m planning my new classes to try to use all the material that I learnt in this week.

WEEK 7

Well, This week was really amazing I had the change to watch some videos about how use the power point, how to use them in an interactive way, they very helpful for me for my future class so definitely my students are going to be really happy using these new and innovative ideas, so the “typical” power point presentations are not going to be same.

We also talk a fantastic topic discussion about learner autonomy where every body gives excellent comments and ideas about to get that our students have a great advance in autonomy learning because as I said ion my discussion place We as teachers we’re only a guide, so the students have to be more independent and confident about creating their own knowledge.

Besides we created a sample lesson for one computer classroom activities where all the teachers that don’t have a computer lab share some strategies ideas and application how to work in class with these amazing tools.

The first thing that I did was choosing a partner for the final project in n my case I chose my friend Eduardo Moreira, He’s a nice person he gave some ideas about my final project, to thanks a lot.

But something that I really like and I consider that I can work in the classroom is about VIRTUAL WORLD http://www.my.kidscom.com/jsp_a01_mkc/jsp_a01_b04_mis/jsp_a01_b04_c03_walktalk/wt_landing.jsp?to=Jardim+Forest

This was a really nice experience because in this place you can create a virtual word, virtual names, have a really interesting experience playing with your students don’t forget that playing is another option to learn don't you think so?

week 6

WEEK 6

This week was really amazing I really like watching some videos about power point presentation , so I learnt how to be more creative and interactive with my students so as I said before they really like to use new technology to learn English, besides I was really impressed about the VOICEBOARD because it’s a fantastic tool for the students and even teacher to practice the pronunciation especially not to be afraid about recording your voice o listen to your self to improve the pronunciation level , I really like it

Another fantastic tool is about the BLACKBOARD I, I think that this technological advances most of students will have no excuse to practice and improve their level to be excellent English Learners don’t you think that?

Another great tool is the POWER POINT PRESENTATION it’s a great tool to practice and create with your students a dynamic and interactive class where the students are the “stars” because they like to be independent, original and above all they can create their homework and projects without problems using all their imagination and nice ideas.

Week 5

Hello everybody,

Well, I start let me tell that it was a really hard and interesting week I learnt some new technological things to increase my English class, I learnt what’s the correct use of a rubric and how to use them to try to evaluate my students in a really original and better way not to criticize them, the idea is to help them to develop their skills and get better their learning process.

To be it was the first time that I create my Rubrics I believe that I created more than one, it was very nice o do this activity. One of my rubrics is listening exercise with the topic “Edward story". It talks about listening to story and learn moral values about the story with pupples.

Besides I created a Web Quest that talk about “how to protect our world” because I think and consider that is necessary to share experiences with the students to try to stop this problem. To be honest it was really difficult at the beginning but later with the practice I tried a good job so I hope that you like it because I did with much passion and love.

Besides we share some ideas and changes about our class now using technological tools , so as I said in my discussion I was really nice and interesting experience to work with your students in the class applying some technological tool as such as cell phone, projector, and different thing that I’m learning in this course, so I’m very anxious to start classes again to use them, and change my class definitely  

So this the fifth week it was very hard but I learnt a lot

Thanks for that

New week

Well to be honest I have to tell you that it wasn't a good week for me but I learnt many things I really like the idea to share with other teachers the problems that we have during the class besides I konw how to use the delicious web page how to create a new project and other web pages that really help as teachers because when we share experiences with other people we can grow better .

Besides I'd like to share with you these web pages that really like teenagers.

www.tourism.wales.gov.uk. 

www.breakingnewsenglish.com

Greetins Estanislao