JUAN MONTALVO SCHOOL

Hello my dear pupils  I know you are  studying hard , but always keep in ypur mind this is for your own good.

This is what you have to do , look throught all the notes you took  during the school year , then organize them specially the grammar part. Secondly  develop of the quizes, exams  or any evaluacion you had  so when Isee you next week , the activities we are going to develop  won´t be  unknown for you.

Dont worry if you dont have all the evaluation papers ,  I will provide the material next week.

But the way check this web page  www.esl-lab.com

 When you finished checking at least  two activities   write a coment so I can check please do it until sunday at 3pm. Dont forget to joined as a follower on my blog. 

 Thank you. See you soon

Alexanra Chuquimarca.

WEEK 10

WRAP UP

It has been amazing how the time has past. This experience has been very fruitful for my career  because  it helped me to  enhance  many aspects  of  my way of teaching, I remembered  that  when I started this course  I was a little bit nervous as  I wasn`t familiar with the technology  and  it  was a surprise to me the way I  can now work with the computer and most important I can find  and create  new materials  and interactive lessons with the new tool which was  provided  to us in this course.  I absolutely believe that this new way of teaching and that I will apply it as soon as I start classes this winter.

I also want to congratulate to my fellow colleagues  for their effort and  commitment they put into this course.  I want to express my gratitude to  the instructor for her support, patience  and motivation  during this time.  

In reference to LOTI since we do not have Internet at my place of work, the students are at level Zero (0) at the moment, my plan is to use the system that I learned and teach my students by using my laptop and a projector. I hope to have them reach by this method level Two (2).

Alex                    

WEEK 9

Teaching Styles and Technology Connections

As before it was a fruitful week . I reinforced my knowledge  about learning styles and  theories which refreshed my memory  in how to treat and teach my students respecting their individuality and  style of learning. I enjoyed watching the videos posted in this web  http://www.edutopia.org   because they gave me a clear idea on how to  take advantage of the students knowledge and interest in order to develop  an interactive, real and virtual lesson.  I also l think it is  important  how parents support and help the students in the learning process.

I plan to continue to check anew the material Donna sent us and pick out the information that I consider most important. I am also going to apply the technology by creating my own material, in this way I will be practicing both with myself and students.

This week I completed my project with the help of Daouda and Ion who supported me and gave me many suggestions on how to improve my project.

Alex.

WEEK 8 REFLECTIONS

TEACHER RESOURCES ONLINE

So far this has been an exhausting week. There was so much interesting information that I found that motivated me to continue checking the webs that was sent to us. It took me a long time to open and read all the webs and the time just flew by!

§  www.blogger.com,

§  http://www.crosswordpuzzlegames.com/create.html      

§   http://www.toolsforeducators.com/

: http://www.easytestmaker.com/default.aspx

I reviewed the web sites above and found them to be amazing because of the large variety of activities, games, cross word  puzzles, bingo, flash cards, quizzes, etc.  With all of this material I know that I can make a change in my English lessons.

In High School I work with a boring and unmotivated textbook and now that I know how to create motivated and dynamic activities according to their ages and level of knowledge of the language. One of the beneficial out come of all of this is that my students don’t have to spend their money on buying extra material to do their work.

I find it now so easy to create a blog, a nice net, bingo, puzzles, etc., that I simply select what I need and with a touch of the keys I have all the interactivities at hand. This helps the teacher tremendously to save time and effort  and I now look forward to putting all this into practice.

Another thing I learned by exploring ANVILL was the different  tools and exercises along with the activities that we can choose from  it in order to make our lessons more dynamic and motivating for the students. I can now say  that Technology is a great tool which helps both the teachers and students in their learning process.

Alex.

WEEK 7 Reflections

Learner Autonomy and One Computer Classroom

Another productive week has come to an end. During these days, I read articles about Autonomous Learners and One Computer Classroom. These articles were very informative because they both have interesting information that showed clear strategies to be followed by the students and teacher. It also showed how the students/teacher share their responsibilities during the teaching/learning process.

I think Autonomy is important for the students. For a student to be autonomous they must interact with other students that are constructing their own knowledge base of experiences.

In regards to the article One Computer classroom - I learned how to create and apply interesting and interactive PPT lessons. Where I teach we do not have access to computers or access to internet so we have to use a laptop and projector in the audiovisual room. What I plan to do is use this room and use prepaid internet to project the PPT that I like.

http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/templategallery/.

Microsoft's Design Gallery Live.

http://theeasyessay.com/?pg=reg

 Using these Webs are a good way to start with PP Lessons as I consider them to be both interactive and creative.

I will also show them a video about food groups found in the following Web site http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zt-KYP_4vg.

Alex.

WEEK 6

INTERACTIVE POWER POINT

The Power Point has proven to me to be a excellent learning tool in order to give the students the necessary technology for classes that do not have the Internet Facilities or Computers.  It gives the students the ability to interact between each other at any moment during the presentation.

It allows the student to learn quickly and effectively developing their critical thinking and not get bored as in the traditional way of learning. That is why it is important that the Teacher prepares the Templates  they must keep it simple and clear, use color but not too much. Every template should be short and clear so that they stay interested and do not get bored.

Another aspect I read  was improving class discussions so that students can integrate in a group  in order to share with each and the teacher their ideas in person or via e-mail. The Teacher should reinforce their efforts so that the student doesn’t lose hope and continues to try to do his best.

Students must become self motivated to accomplish his work and become committed to their work and efforts on their own and be responsible in order to construct their learning abilities to use what this technology is providing.

Alex.

Week 5

Project Base Learning -Web Quest and Rubrics

Dearest colleagues  I have been working hard these past weeks but I am learning a lot that is true. During this week I read the articles about Project-Base learning , the use of Rubrics and Alternative Assessment and there is no doubt that putting these aspects in practice  will help our students to become autonomous. In regard to this aspect I want to mention that they need to be aware of their responsibility in  the development   of the different activities on line  in order to succeed.       

The Project-Based Learning provides the students with the complex tasks based on challenging questions or problems in which they have investigated, reflected and came up with solutions, decisions and possible alternatives. All of this process has to be done by students themselves with the guidance of the teacher. The Assessment tasks gives the  students the chance to evaluate themselves and correct their mistakes. At the same time they are working in pairs or groups so little by little they become aware and confident about  their abilities and weaknesses and become stronger in their will to improve themselves.  

There are other ways of assessing oneself, using check lists and rubrics which is important to focus on how our students accomplish their assignments. Not forgetting as teachers we have to evaluate the whole process not just measuring their knowledge.

Rubrics is one of the keys for a student to perform well and to get to know exactly what they are going to be graded on so that they motivated to do their best in the different tasks that they are assigned.

Alex.