Delicious!!





Week 3 started a little late for me because I had problems accessing internet. I was really anxious about it.

To tell you the truth I was curious to know about the meaning of that word Delicious!! I kept thinking of that, but as time goes by so fast, I did not go on the net to check before this week. I was glad with the surprise. Now we can save our favorite sites and access them everywhere.

This week we’ve been focusing in audio and oral skills. Like Robert, I particularly like working with that topic with my students. I liked both articles I read. The one about authentic material, that is, if they are not prepared specially for language learners they are authentic. It takes out all the doubts about that. The second one was: New Perspectives in Teaching Pronunciation. I’ve never tried any of the ideas about using internet tools with my students before. Maybe it is an idea for the project.

Finally, we were given some projects from previous courses to read to some have ideas to work with our own project. However, I feel a little puzzled on how I am going to work with my students.  I have some ideas, but nothing concrete yet. That is why I am going to read more projects before week 4 to have more ideas.

Week II - Reflection

This week has been a really busy one. I had to use all my free time to complete the tasks. We had a lot to read and write. I think I am still getting used on how to manage my time for the course.

It was also a week for decisions. We had to decide on a group of our students to work with using technology. I haven’t decided yet on how to work with them. I hope during the course I can have a clear idea on how to develop extra activities using technology in order to help my students to improve their English. In addition, I hope to develop my own “webskills” to reach such a goal.

First of all, we had to describe one of our classes using behavioral learning objectives, following the ABCD model. That is a new theory for me. It is a new way of thinking about making objectives clearer.

It was very important to realize that we can expand and have good choices to search on the net for educational purposes like noodletools and twurdy. I am glad I can use them from now.

This is just the beginning of our webskills adventure. I hope we all can succeed.

Week 1 - Reflection

Hello everyone,

just like some of you this is my first blog. I have always thought about using a blog with my students but I was not able to do it before. I am glad we are here sharing our blogs and trying to improve our way of teaching using this internet tool.

I believe that the student’s interaction can continue out of class. That’s why we can use this blog to work with them in a project, for example. In my school, the students are supposed to present a final project at the end of the term. I am thinking about making a first experience using a blog with them in their final project.  

Best,

Marcia