Finally, the last week!!

Hi everyone

First of all, let me tell you that I’m really sad because of the end of this wonderful course. As I said in other posts, I really enjoyed the course and all the learning that I acquired, all the classmates, Jodi and Celeste, well everything.

I know this is not the end of the whole process, I have not enough experience but now I feel I have because of all your shared experiences, suggestions and teachings. We never finish learning and I aware I have a lot to learn from this new way of teaching through digital resources and WEB sites. This course allowed me to open up my eyes and discovered new tools that allow not only teachers but also students to teach and learn in a innovative and easy way.

As I said on my NICENET´s post I really enjoyed and like the interactive class with power point. I started to use it from now and with my longest class, my experience was fantastic because it was very helpful and entertaining for the kids.

In general, I learnt from this digital course with all the real examples that the online course used. For example, Nicenet, the blogs, wiki, the web site of the course, all this tools were really useful for me, so I hope to try working on these kinds of resources to do easier my lessons.

Week 9!!

It's almost the end of the course but not of the learning...We started to explore the different tools that we can use according to the different skills, like aural/oral, writing, reading and so on. The internet is an entire world that probably we can't finish to explore it at all but if we are selective we can find most of the most helpful things for our purpose. 

With the article of Ferder & Soloman, We learnt the different characteristics that define the style of every learner and this is very relevant because it help us to design our classes and take into consideration the different strategies to teach and to learn. Also, to choose the correct material for our lessons and the methods we have to use for a success class!! 

Learning, no more, but in a different way!!

Week 8!!

According to the tools I and all my classmates have seen this week; I have to say…What Amazing Resources!!

All the new sites to improve our teaching and our student’s learning were really interesting and helpful, The way that this software facilitate our labor is really grateful because sometimes we don’t have the enough time to prepare all the material for different classes and for different kind of students. Probably, as professors we were used to do all the work and our students just received the information. I thing with the use of all this web resources students can become more involved in the activities and material for their learning.

Students can get in direct contact with the knowledge and, furthermore, they can be free to obtain and work hard in the skill they want to. I want to share with all of you that I have already given my lesson for kids using technology and that was very comfortable for me and very interesting for them. I used videos resources, images, and special effects of the different explored websites. I have to say that all of my 40 kids were paying attention and I think they learnt in a different way, probably no more, but at least they were interested.   

All of my children were so fascinated that some of them decided to do a Power Point presentation about their families. The most interesting for me is coming because some of them will work with PPT presentations and others will work with the traditional presentation on a piece of paper bond. I hope they do their best but, above all, I hope they have fun in their English class!!