WEEK 3: “DELICIOUS” http://www.delicious.com/mejiapiedad

 

“You get more with honey than vinegar.”

This, as the other week have been just great! Personally I've learnt a lot! What about you?

My first time at Delicious!!!

I can’t deny  that I had some trouble  to create my delicious account, but now I get it.  I liked the idea of overusing your computer's memory or your web browsers there is this free space that can follow you wherever you are.  Delicious.com is a way for us to be able to see our saved web links (Favorites/Bookmarks) from any online computer and to share links with other people easily.

Here is my delicious URL:http:// www.delicious.com/mejiapiedad

Besides it is easily to learn. It is important to put the  "tags".

I will be expecting your feedback which is always welcome.

Huge hug,

Pitie

Week 2: FINAL PROJECT - Step 1 -

Week 2: FINAL PROJECT - Step 1 -

Hello Robert and everyone,

I am working in Central University of Ecuador as English teacher where students need to study and to pass 8 levels of a foreign language as a requirement before finishing their college career . The Centre of Languages is the place at the University where students learn English, French . Chinese, and Quechua . My class is about 30 students with different learning styles and it is a mixed ability group who some of them detest English because they find it hard to speak. The majority of them are second and third year university student, so I suppose they are advance level.
They study different subjects in Spanish such as, Medicine, Technical Education, Social Communication, Engineering, Law, Accounting, Turism, Arts, etc. Students attend classes 2 hours every day from Monday to Friday during a period of 6 weeks ( 60 hours) in order to complete one English level.

My university does not have a multimedia lab, there is only a class with internet access but no wireless connection, so it is necessary to use a computer and a projector. Some students have access to internet at their homes and others in internet cafés.

My project consists of: HOW CAN YOU DEVELOP THE ENGLISH SKILLS?
I will work the platform Moodle.org and use the site http://colrosario.edu.ec/campus/
about HOW CAN YOU DEVELOP THE ENGLISH SKILLS? where my students improve and develop of the four basic skills (listening, reading, speaking, writing) through the forums, chats, and blogs.
I am going to work with students of first level of Universidad Central del Ecuador (Language Center), they are from 18 to 29 years old.
For more information about the platform you can search engine http://moodle.org/
Regards,
Pitie, Ecuador

WEEK 2: Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need

Hello  everyone,

I am completely sure this  week  was so  helpful to everybody. First, I want to share with you that I used to search in Google because I believe that it was an important search engine to find information that I needed or wanted for doing homework, projects,  etc.  Now  I try something different from Google and I have to say that I really loved it. Going through Noodletools took me lots of time because I found so many different options that we can use in our classes and in our personal and professional growth.  For example the following search engines are most useful for me iSeek Education, SweetSearch, and Kids.yahoo., Video Search Engine: http://www.blinkx.com/
Resources For ESL students:http://www.manythings.org/,
Dictionaries: http://www.onelook.com/ because  this kind of search  engines will help us improve our environmental teaching in class, because through this I can teach my students English language and encourage them at the same time for learning using new tools in order to keep in our students the main objective of the teaching - learning process.

In order to answer the questions of Robert , How I might apply it in my teaching? I could say that I will use the ABCD model  because it is going to be the best model  I can apply in learning process with my students. I embed the URL; http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/learningdesign/objectives/writingobjectives/

Finally, I never know that there are lots of web search engines as the list .People can get wrong or worthless facts or information, and this is the importance of looking for different search engines which make students and teachers realize that around the world exists a wide range of important and interesting information.

Week 1

Well, the first time blogging was not so easy for me on february I was kind of lost and confused but now I guess I am on the right way.

Creating my own blog has let me get new ideas for my classes. I will try using it as a tool at the high school and university. I am sure my students will exciting doing this as they enjoy spending hours online.

Actually I put some videos about: Why Technology Is Failing In Public Schools and Language and Thinking. They are very intersting and funny. I hope that everybody can browse my blog and write some comments.

Thank you Ziola four your comment.


Finally, It was interesting, so I am going to continue working on it. You can visit my blog at:

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