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”.