Saturday, August 16, 2008

ICT- British Council Proyect / U.E.M. "Juan de Dios Guanche"

Since last March 2006, I started to work with blogs and publish our web-based lessons. This was part of British council project.it was extremely hard because the ICT language project was divided into two phases. Phase I participated in a workshop given in the British Council premises. I was taking this course in two days with some ICT tools and learned how to design web-based lessons using Internet. After this, I gave a session with some of students of 7th grade (about 15) demonstrating what I learned in the British Council lab. Ater that my tutor Miguel Mendoza and me planned the second phase of the project: using ICT with the students in the school lab.




Lab sessions took for about one academic hour (45 minutes) on a weekly basis in the school labs and about 17 students from each section participated in this part of the project. I will briefly describe the steps followed to design a web-based lesson using blogs in this pilot project. First, let's start with a definition of blogs.To understand what a blog is and its power as an ICT tool, I will compare it with an EFL printed book. In a blog, the web-based lesson is a single entry where you have the activities you want your students to do whereas a lesson, in a printed book, is comprised of several pages. Activities, in the blog, have hyperlinks that take your students to other websites or exercises you have designed yourself. That is, activities are no presented in a linear fashion as in a printed book. Both the printed book and the blog class can have pictures, illustrations and graphics. The only difference is that in the blog you can choose images from the web (e.g. Google images) or design/edit them yourself (e.g. Photoshop). Furthermore, while in a printed book, lessons are organized in an orderly fashion (lesson 1 to 12), in the class blog lessons can be archived monthly , generally, in a chronological reversed order. Also, students cannot write comments about a lesson in their printed books .

In this case in a class blog, students can (interactivity). Only a limited audience have access to the printed book: the student himself/herself, teacher and parents from a certain school. The blog can be accessed by anybody or restricted to other students/teachers/parents from other schools around the world. Books can get lost or deteriorated easily. Blogs do not. Experiences of the students lived through this pilot project using class blogs


This part of information about how to create a blog was taken from british council web-page.
Blogs can be used as reflective journals, class or shared blogs (Richardson, 2006). For this project, we used the
class blog.1. They got a Blogger account2. Once they had their account, they clicked on “New post” in the dashboard and explored how they could add content to blogs. The only IT skills they needed to use Blogger were those required for e-mailing.3. After exploring and learning how to post entries, they got ready to design their web-based lesson! To design the first web-based lessons, they needed the teacher trainer technical support. To do this the teacher trainer devoted about 3 hours per teacher on a weekly basis. Two hours FtF and one on-line.Important tips to design a web-based lessonteachers should keep in mind that the web-based lesson...1. reinforces a lesson already taught in the classroom (e.g. Animals, colours, numbers, etc.)2. is based on tasks (Check material from teacher training session).3. has three basic stages: pre-task (warming up); task; post-task (follow-up)Besides, before the class, they should test the lesson themselves or asked a colleague/ teacher trainer to make sure instructions were clear and links worked. Experiences of the students lived through this pilot project using class blogsStudents 1) got engaged;


Coments; they feel with enthusiasm and motivated to exercise the activities in the blogger
blogs in this pilot project. First, let's start with a definition of blogs.To understand what a blog is and its power as an ICT tool, I will compare it with an
EFL printed book. In a blog, the web-based lesson is a single entry where you have the activities you want your students to do whereas a lesson, in a printed book, is comprised of several pages.




Activities, in the blog, have hyperlinks that take your students to other websites or exercises you have designed yourself. That is, activities are no presented in a linear fashion as in a printed book. Both the printed book and the blog class can have pictures, illustrations and graphics. The only difference is that in the blog you can choose images from the web (e.g. Google images) or design/edit them yourself (e.g. Photoshop). Furthermore, while in a printed book, lessons are organized in an orderly fashion (lesson 1 to 12), in the class blog lessons can be archived monthly , generally, in a chronological reversed order. Also, students cannot write comments about a lesson in their printed books .


This part of information about how to create a blog was taken from british council web-page.
Blogs can be used as reflective journals, class or shared blogs (Richardson, 2006). For this project, we used the
class blog.1. They got a Blogger account2. Once they had their account, they clicked on “New post” in the dashboard and explored how they could add content to blogs. The only IT skills they needed to use Blogger were those required for e-mailing.3. After exploring and learning how to post entries, they got ready to design their web-based lesson! To design the first web-based lessons, they needed the teacher trainer technical support. To do this the teacher trainer devoted about 3 hours per teacher on a weekly basis. Two hours FtF and one on-line.Important tips to design a web-based lessonteachers should keep in mind that the web-based lesson...1. reinforces a lesson already taught in the classroom (e.g. Animals, colours, numbers, etc.)2. is based on tasks (Check material from teacher training session).3. has three basic stages: pre-task (warming up); task; post-task (follow-up)Besides, before the class, they should test the lesson themselves or asked a colleague/ teacher trainer to make sure instructions were clear and links worked. Experiences of the students lived through this pilot project using class blogsStudents 1) got engaged;


blogs in this pilot project. First, let's start with a definition of blogs.To understand what a blog is and its power as an ICT tool, I will compare it with an EFL printed book. In a blog, the web-based lesson is a single entry where you have the activities you want your students to do whereas a lesson, in a printed book, is comprised of several pages. Activities, in the blog, have hyperlinks that take your students to other websites or exercises you have designed yourself. That is, activities are no presented in a linear fashion as in a printed book. Both the printed book and the blog class can have pictures, illustrations and graphics. The only difference is that in the blog you can choose images from the web (e.g. Google images) or design/edit them yourself (e.g. Photoshop). Furthermore, while in a printed book, lessons are organized in an orderly fashion (lesson 1 to 12), in the class blog lessons can be archived monthly , generally, in a chronological reversed order. Also, students cannot write comments about a lesson in their printed books .






Coments;




1)they feel with enthusiasm and motivated to exercise the activities in the blogger

2) became aware of things they were learning (metacognition)



Coments;




1) They did´t need too much practice to learn what they liked .

2) developed IT skills (life-long skills);


Coments;




1)They integrated and communicated between themselves


2) They became in charge of their own learning.


Coments:




1)they learned and enjoyed their activities at the same time.

2) They worked at their own pace Coments ;
3) They relaxed working without presion and they never felt evaluated .






My experiences lived through this pilot project using class blogs. and the ICT program-

1) ; Students felt in a cyber but getting the teaching in front of a computer 2) I notice that students' behavior was less disruptive;
3) They developed IT skills and more interaction in the group ;
4) The students showed enough interest in learning much english
5) I was surprised with students' attitude towards learning English


6) they relaxed working without presion and they never felt evaluated .


Thursday, January 17, 2008

Chequen mi Slide Show

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Playing in English with verbs and nouns




Warm Up
Activity 1. Review this vocabulary , write a noun that refers to each one of them, for example:
teacher:SCHOOL , computer:INTERNET, money:DOLLARS etc.

climb/verbo
fight/verbo
strong
afraid
agile
move(verbo)

brave
arrive/verbo
clever
know/ verbo
fast /verbo

Activity 2 (Read and write)
1. You are going to design a STYLE-HERO! Using the same vocabulary

To do that:
A. Read and choose the hero you like.
B. Create your hero.
C. Click on "Finish".
d. Write name and date of birth for your hero.
e. Read the information about your hero several times!
f. Go to "comments" in blogger and write about your hero. DO NOT read the text. Write what you remember.Go to STYLE-HERO:http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-games-superheroes.htm

Saturday, June 10, 2006

My Daily Routines

Thursday 15th, 2006

Telling the time!

Part I

A) Selecciona la hora correcta para ello visita:

http://www.manythings.org/wbg/time-jw.html

Part II

A) Encuentra el significado de las siguientes palabras en tu cuaderno:

sore throat

mirror

red spots

heart

give

Visita: http://www.google.co.ve/imghp?hl=es&tab=wi&q=

B) Encuentra el significado de las siguientes palabras en tu cuaderno:

help

wake up

cover

tell

should

wait

until

turn

call

ask

feel

start

soon

rest

Visita: http://www.wordreference.com/

Part III

Vas a leer una historia sobre Jape y su visita al doctor. Realiza las siguientes actividades:

1) Lee el texto primero

2) Escribe en comentarios ("comments") de que se trata el texto. Haz tu comentario en español. Recuerda colocar tu nombre y el de tu compañero.

3) Escribe en Inglés acerca de tu rutina durante un día de la semana en comentarios, también. Máximo 5 oraciones. Recuerda colocar tu nombre y el de tu compañero.

Para la actividad visita:

http://www.storiesfromtheweb.org/earlyyears/jifandjapestoriesindex.asp

Follow up

Escribe tus comentarios acerca de la clase de hoy.

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

EXPRESSING ABILITY (Can-Can´t)

Date: June 1st, 2006

Warm up

1. Identify the different sports shown in the game. To do that, go to:

http://www.eflnet.com/vocab/dictionary/sportsquiz3.php

2. Repeat the game again. Write in your NOTEBOOK the sport you can or cannot play like this:



Activity 1
(Vocabulary)


1. Write the meaning of the following words in Spanish in your NOTEBOOK. Use Google images:

http://www.google.co.ve/imghp?hl=es&tab=wi&q

climb

fighting

strong

afraid

2. Write the meaning of the following words in Spanish in your NOTEBOOK. Use Wordreference:

http://www.wordreference.com/

agile

move(verbo)

quite

brave

arrive

clever

know

fast

Activity 2 (Read and write)

1. You are going to create a STYLE-HERO! To do that:

A. Read and choose the hero you like.
B. Create your hero.
C. Click on "Finish". Write name and date of birth for your hero.
D. Read the information about your hero several times!

E. Go to "comments" in blogger and write about your hero. DO NOT read the text. Write what you remember.

Go to STYLE-HERO:
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-games-superheroes.htm

Follow up

1. In the classroom, tell about your hero to your classmates.

2.Write what you liked the most from this activity in "comments".

Saturday, May 13, 2006

SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

Thursday, May 2006

Activities (I)

1. Match the verbs on the right with each sentence on the left.
http://www.geocities.com/oenis_leonela/Simple1.htm


3. Match the jobs with their definitions.
http://www.geocities.com/oenis_leonela/simple3.html

Activities (II)

4. Read the text and answer the questions.
http://www.geocities.com/oenis_leonela/Juangomez.htm

5. Read the sentences and organize Juan Gomez's daily routine.
http://www.geocities.com/oenis_leonela/Juangomez2.htm

Follow up:

Write in the "Comments" section your daily routine. You can start like this:

"My name is José Gómez and this is my daily routine. I....."