FINAL WEEK

Internet and multimedia portfolio from isarodriguez272

WEEK 18

K 12 Lesson Plans

       

       The K12lessonplans site is very user friendly and serves as a great way to communicate to students and parents. The site has a lot of options for design and creates your activities to your class.

WEEK 17

Dokeos

     Dokeos is an on line learning environment and an application of course content management and collaboration tool.

WEEK 16

WebQuest

       The WebQuest is a tool that is part of an encyclopedia for educational work in the arts of fashion that is guided research, with funds mainly from the Internet, which promotes the use of higher cognitive abilities, cooperative work and autonomy of students and includes authentic assessment.

WEEK 15

Podomatic

       

      Podomatic is a very easy to use website that allows you to create your podcast and distribute it quickly, so you can deliver your content to more people who hear or see at anytime and anywhere, leading them to their players.

WEEK 14

Flickr

Flickr is a website that allows you to store, sort, search, sell, and share pictures and videos online.

WEEK 13

Mappy Friends

          Mappy friends is a platform for social recommendations from people you trust: shared and look for places that your friends, your networks and recommend specific experts.

WEEK 12

Authorstream

          

          It is a very good choice for sharing presentations online. AuthorStream not only allows you to import your PowerPoint presentations online and create a user community around each one, now you can export those presentations to YouTube, making them available as video.

WEEK 11

Podcasts

       This is the distribution of multimedia files (usually audio or video, which can include text and captions and notes) by a system of syndication allowing subscription and use a program that is downloaded to the user can listen at the time want. You do not need a subscription to download.

WEEK 10

Google Maps

      

        It is the name of a Google service. Is a mapping application server on the Web. It offers movable maps and satellite photos of the world and even the route between different locations or at street level images.

WEEK 9

Twitter

        The network can send plain text messages of short length, with a maximum of 140 characters called tweets, which are displayed in the user's home page. Users can subscribe to the tweets of other users - this is called "forward" and subscribers are called "followers."

WEEK 8

Web 2.0

      It is associated with web applications that facilitate information sharing and collaboration on the World Wide Web. A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and work together as creators of user generated content in a virtual community; as opposed to websites where users are limited to passive observation of the content has been created for them.

WEEK 7

          The last Tuesday we learn how to create a good Power Point Presentations. These presentations must show overall visual appeal, grammar, punctuation and spelling without errors, and finally effects and transitions. In the overall visual appeal, students should include graphic elements in an appropriate form. Also, the readability of the Slides should be consistent and clear with the information. Moreover, all images must move properly in relationship to the text. On the other hand, we have to create Power Point Presentations related to the four English Skills that are listening, speaking, writing, and reading. To do that, we need to investigate the methodological process used to teach the receptive skills. For this reason, we learned how to create PPT and we must sure not to include so many effects, colors or pictures which make our work look unprofessional.   

WEEK 6

         On Tuesday we received an interesting seminary about Effective Use of Technology in the EFL Classroom. In this class we learned the Internet is a teaching and learning tool. Also, we can interact outside the class; find authentic materials, teaching resources, different ways of learning like audio and video, and research tools. Moreover, there are some useful web pages like Noodle Tools, Blogs, Nicenet, and so on. For example, Noodle Tools allows create and organize your notes or receive comments. Additionally, Blogs are sites in when we can express our opinions on line. Another page is Nicenet Internet Classroom Assistant that permit you create as many classes as you want and it is easy to use. In conclusion, we will apply this new information in our students because in this moment our world is more technologic.    

WEEK 5

            This week some of my classmates explained about UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers. “This is an emerging broad consensus worldwide about the benefits that can be brought to school education through the appropriate use of evolving information and communication technologies. The range of possible benefits covers practically all areas of activity in which knowledge and communication play a critical role: from improved teaching and learning processes to better student outcomes, from increased student engagement to seamless communication with parents, and from school networking and twinning to more efficient management and monitoring within the school. All in all, this is not surprising since the windows of opportunity that ICT offers for the development of knowledge economies and societies are open also for education”. http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/themes/icts/teacher-education/

           

              On the other hand, we received an invitation in our mails from our teacher about a new program named DROPBOX. This page offers the opportunity to keep important documents that you do not want to lose. To access to this page, you must register to be member of this site. Also, we participated in other web page named BBC British Council. This place has a lot of activities for teachers and students to develop in classes. Moreover, we visited another site named www.esl-lab.com. In this page, you can find activities related with listening. It offers a variety of audio exercises to people from different levels for example, elementary, middle, and high.  Additionally, the spot has each conversation or dialog in a written way to practice reading and speaking, or simply to follow the audio. I think these web pages that I knew and visited will be useful when I will practice in my pre-professional classes. Finally, the ICT will be an appropriate guide to use the information and communication technologies, too.

WEEK 4

              At the beginning of this week, the teacher showed us a new program named Diigo.com. This web page keeps your important information like a diary. For example, if you find an excellent web page and you want to keep this page to future researches, you can do it with this this program. To keep the information: First, you must create a count in www.diigo.com. Second, you must go to diigolet to keep the information. Third, when you are in an interesting web page, you can keep it selecting an option named favorite. After, with a click you can save your page. Then, you have to write some information related with the page, for example the reason of this page, the use of it, extra information about the web page, key words, and so on. Finally, you must classify each web page into listening, speaking, reading, grammar, vocabulary, and EFL methods.

            On Thursday, we read about ICT in Education, the Policy, UNESCO Guide to measuring ICT in Education, and Teacher Education. Later, we did a summary about this to public the comment in diigo.com. I wrote thatInformation and Communication Technology (ICT) stimulates education, communication, and information. It is promoted by UNESCO and by people who are involved in this new strategy. Also, UNESCO’s global network of agencies, establishments and associates offer Member States with incomes for expanding ICT in education policies, strategies and activities.Furthermore, ICT has some policies like develop transparent education planning to increase quality. For this reason, it makes thatthe information can be reliable and generally accessible. The advantage of Information and Communication Technologyis that it is being used for develop materials, distribute and share contents. Moreover, there is communication between learners, teachers and people around the world. With this kind of communication, lots of people are acquiring self-confidence, self-esteem, and security to share their ideas, feelings, and knowledge with others. Teachers are especially involved, because they must increase their quality as professionals and show the new changes. This is because we are in a civilized world, in a “Changing World”.

WEEK 3

In this week our teacher gave us some web pages related with plagiarism. First, we read this information to understand more about this process. Then, we work in pairs into the platform and answered some questions that we wrote in the forum. After, I learned that plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward. Also,I discovered that we can do plagiarism in different forms. For example, when we turn in someone else's work as your own, when we copy words or ideas from someone else without giving credit, when we fail to put a quotation in quotation marks, when we give incorrect information about the source of a quotation, when we change words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit, or copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not. Moreover, I read about citing. Itis to cite the authors name and the sources you have taken the information when you write an essay. By citing you show your credibility as a writer. You also provide an opportunity to share information with others. Finally, we exposed about APA Style. It refers to the rules and conventions established by the American Psychological Association for documenting sources used in a research paper.This document has a reference list that provides the information necessary to identify and retrieve each source. In conclusion, I think that I will be able to apply this new knowledge in my future researches. Also, I won’t forget that the expression of original ideas is considered intellectual property and I must avoid doing plagiarism.

REFERENCES:

http://www.plagiarism.org/ 

http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/researchhelp/swfs/plagiarism.swf

http://www.library.cornell.edu/resrch/citmanage/apa

WEEK 2

         During this week I learned how work in in the UTA page. The teacher gave us our usernames and the passwords to access into the Internet and Multimedia Resources page. After, we changed our passwords for more security. Then we added more information and our photographs in the profiles. Also, we upload the first group workrelated about the URL, internet pages, reliable information, and so on. After that, the teacher taught us how we should manage the blogs and how share the information with the other users (classmates). Moreover, we developed an individual work and we published our respective paragraphs in the forum. Later, we gave an opinion based in our classmate’s comments.

        On the other hand, I found an article that our teacher published in the Discussion Forum Rubric (http://www.cal.org/resources/Digest/0105oxford.html). When I read about Integrated Skills in the ESL/EFL Classroom I noticed something important. It said that some teachers prefer to develop one or two skills with the absence of all the others. I think that they should unite all of them to ensure an adequate learning in the students. In this form, the learners can get a better communication inside the environment that surrounds them. Also, students can interact with security and acquire self-confidence. When the teacher teaches in a wrong way, the student almost always uses literal translation from one language to another, especially when they are learning new grammar. To avoid this confusion in the students, the teacher must associate English's four important bases (reading, speaking, writing, and listening). With the integration of these skills, the teacher is promoting a free communication and preparing to his/her students to use the language in everyday life.Finally, I believe that all of this information will be applied when I realize my pre-professional practices in the next level of my English program.

WEEK 1

      This week I received a new subject named Internet and Multimedia Resources.
I think this subject will help me to learn and understand the technology in a better way.
In my first class, the teacher explained us how we will work during this semester.
Also, she showed us our site of work into the “aulasvirtuales” from the UTA page.
Then, we created our new mails in Gmail and the blogs to publish the learning reflective journals every week. In the second class, our teacher sent us an e-mail with an interesting file about the URL, internet pages, and reliable information, and so on to work in pairs. After, we downloaded a document of Microsoft Word that contained two charts. Then, we filled the document with our own answers, but related with the information from the file.
In conclusion, during these days I learned how to manage the true information of a web page. Also, I think that I can apply this new knowledge in my future investigations or homework.Obviously, I will be more cautious in my research and I will try to find more reliable information.