Week 2 The ABCD Objective and the Interactive Web Searching

During this couple of weeks I have learned a lot . I don’t want to start writing about the subjects I learned without expressing my gratitude to Donna for letting me be part of this group and  for  sending me   useful information about the  Technology which I am getting familiar with.

I mentioned in my discussion some of the problems I am facing as a teacher of a second language as  the students are not motivated enough to learn the language. This is because they don’t need to use the language after classes and they only need the certificate.

The University Campus where I work has a few wifi Internet places like the library  facilities where students can do their homework or research projects but only if they have a laptop or laboratories class.   Unfortunately, the rest  of the students and teachers  have to find a place through a friend or  cyber store to be able to use a computer. This is just  one of the difficulties  I have to deal with in our Country especially in the Public Education system.

You must be wondering how I work. Well referring to my daily lessons I use a Portable CD Player and an Interactive CD.  It has listening, reading and games which I use in class combining them  with role plays and songs in addition using the Text book.

Applying the technology I am learning it is going to be a  challenge for me and for my pupils as well.  I believe it is also going to be a great experience and an innovation  in the English learning teaching  process.

During this  week I have found a huge variety of Web sites that have provided me with a great deal of useful information. I especially like http://www.uoregon.edu    because my students and I can select  active topics in accordance with their ages . I also like  http://www.twurdy .com . because in this link we can find motivated reports and videos to discuss. I also recommend http://www.slideshare  as it is a good tool for preparing and giving presentation in power point.

I also researched the ABCD model objective and it helped me to improve the objectives that  I am putting into practice and compared the ones that are show in the textbook  in order to make  changes so that they will make it easier for the students to use and understand.  that is what I learned during this week I also want to say that I going to do  my best to involve my pupils into the English technology because the students are familiar with the technology for chatting on line and doing homework, but in their own language (Spanish). It will be difficult for the students to work in English because of their poor knowledge of English. Which I hope to make a change with this new technology to help them. I feel the best way to start will be by using a Blog which hopefully will motivate them.

I look forward to your comments.

Alex.