Power in the Presentations in the Classroom

Amazing we are finishing week 6, I had the opportunity to learn a lot of things, of course I used power point slides in class, but now I do have a better idea about the new techniques and how to make a boring, traditional class into a great interactive one, I remembered when my teachers used to present some slides there were full of reading no pictures no animation, and to be honest I was not into it, interactivity was absent at all.

Nowadays everything has changed for good; making slides to teach putting a lot of effort; knowledge and love in them make the classroom in a warmer place to learn and to teach.

I really enjoyed using new techniques such as: Concept test, quick write and trying to elaborate my own game jeopardy, I had a lot of fun doing this, so goal achieved, now that I am a student in this great web skills course I feel the same that my students might feel, Satisfaction and motivation.

Greetings

Loly     

PBL Great week 5

Hello my friends:

We are finishing week 5, it is amazing? Isn’t it?  I cannot believe how fast the time runs, it is because when we are learning and enjoying what we are doing.

This week was full of learning experiences, reading about PBL and WEBQUEST had gave me a really clear idea about research projects and how important this is for our students, creating in them the necessity to work by their own, as many participants in this e-course have expressed, project based learning is an approach that immerse the students in real life issues, and because this is the last week of class with my students we are doing a project.

Student’s number: 18, High School, age 12-13 years old, they are going to do a research work about economic situation in their neighborhood, to do that they will be working in groups, and they have to go around their neighborhood and asking some questions about, for example: How many people live in the house? How many people are working? Are all the children in the house studying? These are some of the questions they will do; of course the interviews will be in Spanish but the students will submit a report in one page they will do a summary about what they investigated. I believe that with this project the students will learn about the real economic situation, they will be more conscious about how their parents work to pay their education and they will make an effort to write the summary in English, expressing what they feel.

I would like to share these quotes with you my friends, thinking in the enormous responsibly that we have as teachers.

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) Thirty-fifth President of the USA

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Plato (BC 427-BC 347) Greek philosopher.

Greetings

Loly

Planning a Lesson Week 4

Dear Donna and E-Friends

It is amazing! We are finishing week 4 and the most important lesson I have learned this week is: I felt like one of my students, after all the reading, studying, writing, thinking and planning I realized that I had the same feelings that my students might have during the year, they might feel frustration, anxious and nervous, I have had those feelings during this learning process, it is because I am a student too and its feels so great, when you achieve a goal. Learn every day something new make as grow up as humans begins and also in a professional field.

Planning a lesson is an essential tool for teachers and also it is important for our students to have a general idea about what are they going to learn, how fast are they going to learn and what the objectives are, how are they going to be evaluated? These are important aspects that our students need to have clear.

Greeting
Loly

Call and Delicious

Hello my dear e-friends

Here we are in the third week of this great opportunity to learn something new and useful for everyday life, during those days I have learned a lot of new things, I have read some great articles about Call and I created a delicious website, believed or not I did it. For me it is kind of hard to handle all these websites, but as soon as I finished doing something the feeling it is amazing I am sure you are feeling the same thing.

Good Luck to all of us, I everything we have learned here in this online course should be in benefic of our students.

Greetings

Loly

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