WEEK 3: Skill-building Websites for Oral/Aural Skills and Saving Bookmarks with Delicious

Hello penpals:

Too hard this week, but to  productive. During this week we have learn how to have all our webpages or better our directory organized using the fantastic tool DELICIOUS.

I add  my delicious to my blog so can you observe it clicking on the FLYING BOOKS. 

In the discussion that was about ORAL AND AURAL SKILL BUILDING,  we've  learned so much about many interesting pages that or friends recommend us to use in the classroom,all the adress that they posted are amazing and too useful. I post some of my address as for example:

http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Listening/

http://www.mansioningles.com/listening00.htm

http://www.esl-lab.com/

http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/grammar_topics.php

http://a4esl.org/q/h/grammar.html

http://managementhelp.org/trng_dev/lrn_objs.htm

http://managementhelp.org/trng_dev/lrn_objs.htm

http://managementhelp.org/trng_dev/lrn_objs.htm

http://managementhelp.org/trng_dev/lrn_objs.htm

http://www.bestresumewriting.com/http://kimberlychapman.com/essay/essay.html. 

Another interesting information was the links that gave us Maria del Carmen as for example:

Http://www.sai200.org

http:www.helping.com , http://esl.about.com , www.englishcom.com

www.mansionenglesh.com www.aprender ingles.com www.helping-you-learn-english.com

Well we were learning all the time during this week, a lot of material that we can use with our students in order to motivate our students and have signicants knowledge. 

Adding and complementing our process we had to review some of the project that Robert post for us, It was really complicated but so interesting this project and more because I imagine that we are going to make one similar to them, so I choose one that was written by  Camelia Pagila, School with Classes I-VIII, Academician Marin Voiceless, Giurgiu, Romania.

The mail goal of the project is "Plan and implement a change related to technology use in your classroom." This project was applied with 30 students (18 girls and 12 boys).

Something that really impressed me was how technified are the classrooms on that institution, because she said that there is a laptop with an Internet connection, a projector, speakers, a multifunctional printer, a screen, a whiteboard and 2 CD-players (one is used in the other English class which takes place simultaneously). There are also two cabinets with English literature, tapes, CDs, DVDs, English literature, dictionaries, posters, flashcards and other additional materials. They have posters about culture and civilization in England and the USA as well as the maps of these countries.

In adittion they focus their main objectives using the A B C D method so It's how they organize their plans: The teacher (A) will address to all learning styles (B) given technology (with focus on class blog) and web tools help (C) within the first semester of the coming school year, for a period of 13 weeks (D). On the other hand in order to know the students needs , she decided to create an analyze about them focusing on the SWOT analysis. It is a strategic planning method used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture.

Well If you are interested in this  project visit

 http://umbc.uoregon.edu/eteacher/projects/200904_E-Teacher_Pagila_Romania.pdf.

To conclude I would like to say that this week was full of knowledge, but too interesting, we had to read a lot; however we learn too, so let's continue tomorrow we begin with the 4 week. 

Good bless you. 


Nori 
Quito- Ecuador

PSD: I post a video in which we can observe the wonderful classrooms at the University. I dream with this technology in my country in all the Universities specially in mine UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DEL ECUADOR.