WEEK 8 : FILMING A VIDEO

Well I'm very happy this week because my students went on friday to film the practice class, during all the last week we work on the interactive power point with the grammar learned and related with the video which they filmed and we were writing the essay but friday was the great day because my dear students put in practice all that they learned so until today I received the video of two groups and These are very interesting so I fell so exciting and these kind of activities make to feel proud of be teacher.
I attach  a video for all my friends.
Nori Morales

Teacher

WEEK 7: Learner Autonomy and the One-computer Classroom

Hello everybody


This week was fantastic and special for me because I'm working with my project and on friday we made the interactive power points and the presentations are very nice, so this monday they are going to present and post in the blog. 
Another files that we analizes  was  what "autonomous learning" is. According to Holec, "autonomy" is defined as "the ability to take charge of one's own learning". Furthermore, Dickinson accepts the definition of autonomy as a "situation in which the learner is totally for all of the decisions concerned with his or her learning and implementation of those decisions." From these two definitions, we can see that the learners must be independent thinkers, and should have a clear view of the whole learning process, including the purpose of learning, the aim of learning, the way of learning, the choice of materials in learning, etc. In another words, it includes everything concerned with learning.
In this process, the teacher's role has changed. We have to admit that the teachers' privileged and centered position in teaching is being challenged. Yes, teachers are no longer the only experts in imparting knowledge, but just organizers in classroom teaching activities.

Secondly we made a plan with ine computer into the class and my plan was about The students will write an essay according with the topic that they chose so they have to read the essay I'm going to give to each group an essay in order that they analyze it. When they finish to read it I present power point slides showing them the main parts in an essay and how to write it, with them to I write at that moment an essay so they have the example. 

 The students have to interchange each other discusse every topic , they choose one according with their likes and make a brainstorm, with all the ideas about the topic they write an essay with minimum 250 and maximum 300 words.

Well this week was fantastic but I'm a little tired because I'm taking a post grade program every saturday and sunday It's about Linguistic but the curriculum is to hard so I'm worried but at the same time too excited because I want to learn a lot. 

Nori 

Ecuador

MID WEEK 7: MY PROJECT

I want to tell you my friends the develop of my project. Well I began yesterday that I plan with my class the time for each step.

Tuesday 17: I divide the class in groups as I have 41 students I have 8 groups the fice students each one and 1 the six students.

Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19: All the group including me we will develope the content, the idea is to develop first the cognitive part, using the web quest that I send yesterday to each leader, durong this two weeks I'm going to apply the power points made during the week 6, and  the touchstone book, because it's a unit in my book for this level.

Friday  20: The students are going to work in groups preparing their own material, in this part the students will prapare interactive power points with the knowledge learned in the previous days.

Monday 23: This day the students will write the essay in which they have to tell the experience that they had preparing the interactive power point and what they learned , and they will relate about the film that that they have to do, the idea to make a film it is because they have to apply all they learned in real situations, so they are going to choose a place in Quito an make a roleplay simulating that they are asking and givivng directions.
In order to show our beautiful Ecuador each group choose a touristic place.

Tuesday 24: They post in a blog the essay and the interactive power points.

Wednesday 25: They comment their jobs in the blog.

Thusrday 26: All the groups are going to go to different  places to make the film.

Friday 27: Holiday in ecuador but the groups have to edit the videos.

Monday 28: Evaluate the project.


I'm to excited for this project and the students are motivated so please wish me luck.............


Nori
Ecuador

Week 6: Creating Student-centered Classes and Interactive PowerPoint

Hello everybody

This week was nice and I fell a little more relax, well I believe that all the teachers must created power points once in their lifes so this time we had to interact with technology so it was so nice. 

I 'm going to apply my project with my students during this week so I send them to prepare material just as a brainstorm of the new topic. so I'm finishing on tuesday a unit that I began so since wednesday I'll be working with my webquest and my blog. 

I will post my video so I hope you enjoy it. 

Nori. 

Ecuador 

WEEK 5: Project-based Learning, WebQuests, and rubrics

早上好(zao shang hao) (Good morning)

Another week that finished and as every week I feel to amazing when i notice how much information and how many tool we can find in the web. 

Well during this week I learned all about Rubrics and Alternative Assessment , I used http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ and !gosh!!!!!!!! this tool surprised me because a time before when I had to prepare and assessment I always had to prepare a word or exel table in which I used to write some aspects that according with my opinion I had to evaluate or them most of the time I used some assessment that all the books have, but hardly ever  they have all the aspects that I needed, but with the use of rubistar.4teachers, I con prepare  my assessment in just five munutes and taking into consideration the aspects that I need. 

In the discussion we talked about Assessment, rubric and project bases learning in which I wrote about how I involved my students with the assessment in this form they participate and enjoy been evaluated. 

We had an extra task for this week and this consisted in prepare a webquest in which we develop the project presented on week 4, this took me extra time for extra points ja ja ja ja ja, but it was a very nice tool because we can assembling a project step by step and in a simple form to undestand for them. My address webquest is 

http://www.zunal.com/webquest.php?w=99654  VISIT IT. 

And the last task was about: describe a potential change. It was about how to use a technology in the process in order to change a reallity, so I 'm plannig to make a virtual class in order to use with my students. 

In my opinion this week was exausted but very interesting because I learned a lot. 

Nori 
Ecuador

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

Week 4: Skill-building Websites for Reading/Writing Skills and Technology-enhanced Lesson Plans

SURFING BY THE WEB

This week I learned a lot, I had visited the web-pages that our teacher sent us while I was surfing by the net the time passed and passed because all of them were very interesting and I want to use with my students as soon as possible. Some of these pages are: 

• Lauri's ESL Website - grammar, vocabulary, listening exercises. The Flash ones are especially interesting.
  http://fog.ccsf.edu/~lfried/ 
  
• ESL Independent Study Lab - Michael Krauss
  http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html 
  
• Activities for Students (be selective about what you choose)
  http://a4esl.org/
  
• Many Interesting Things for ESL Students
  http://www.manythings.org/

Despite I checked all the pages that Robert post for us in the Discussion I talked about Lauri's ESL Website - grammar, vocabulary, listening exercises. Into this page we have lot of tools as for example. I found it new and cool for them, at the moment that the students open the web page they feel that this page is for teens for the colors and the presentation, every topic written into motivate the students and the reading are graduated according with their necessities, we can find grammar, esl classes, students writing, reading and listening, and to complete all this information we have extra material. 

Other activity that we have to checked and did, It was a class plan based taking in count these files 

• "Lesson plans" from the Innovative Technology Center at the University of Tennessee:
  http://edtech.tennessee.edu/~bobannon/lesson_plan.html
  
• Lesson Plan with Technology Template (Word .doc file)

 In these web pages I had the opportunity to know exactly How to make a class plan It's very long and I believe that we can use this form when we want to make a project, if we follow this steps we know that, when, where, why, to who, the class is going to be given. so I LEARNED A LOT AND IT'S VERY 

USEFUL.Thanks Robert. 

On the other hand in the task project 3 we had to describe some Issues, it was about we had to remember  class and students that you described in Week 2, and how technology might help us in the class,

As you can read we had a hard job but very educative so while the time is running I feel that I learn more and more Issues that I want to use with my pupils. 

Let's wait the week 5 

Hugs and Kisses . 

Nori

Ecuador