Reflections week 10

Dear friends,
I would like to send an special thanks to our tutor Donna, all of you and to my students who were with me in all this process..

The most rewarding aspect of the course was definitely put in practice everything we learnt here. We were able to work with our students using all this technological tools in benefit of their own learning. With the final project our students were part of their own learning process in an interactive and dynamic way.

             

EVE

Reflections week 9

Dear Friends,

It has been an excellent week…. We did it… you finished our projects. I remembered when we were in week one and I got very nervous about the project. I will like to send special thanks to my partner Luchito, my coworkers and Donna for all the support you´ve given me during all the process of completing my project.

Thank you to all my students at ESPE who still working on the project…. 

 

I want to welcome you to see some of their blogs…
 http://dcuasi.blogspot.com/
http://www.englishclass5624.blogspot.com/

http://www.taniaydome.blogspot.com/

http://englishcvillacis.blogspot.com/

http://martitamcld22.blogspot.com/

http://katherinepaladines.blogspot.com/

http://consueparrabril.blogspot.com/

http://gabyenglish11.blogspot.com/

EVE

Tecnology and Teachers

It seems that we as teachers have to be one step forward ... and that is why courses like this are important in teachers training. It is important that teachers are prepared enough in the use of new technologies and communication so we can guide our students in their learning process in a better, faster and dynamic way.



After exploring ANVILL and some of the different tools and exercises we can that technology is a tool which could help not only the teachers but also the students in their learning process. As my friend Gabby said there are an infinity of activities that we can choose from in order to ay our class more dynamic and motivating for the students. One of the most impressive tools is VOICEBOARDS. Here students are able to practice their pronunciation at home on their own. There are also other tools which students can keep in touch with their mates and with the teacher such as the forums and chat...

We as teachers have to take advantage of these interesting tools in benefit of our students..

Reflections week 8

Community service…… Huigra Ecuador…

Dear friends I will like to share with you some on the activities we did this weekend. Some of the teachers from ESPE and approximately one hundred students from the Linguistics career went to do community service in a small town called Huigra (seven hours from the capital city). There we have the opportunity to share our experience as teachers, give training, paint the schools, fix the classrooms, and work with the people from the community… this experience is something that I cannot describe … it is mixture of emotions… but the most important thing is that we did something to help the community..

EVE

http://www.huigra.com/

Reflections week 7

During this week we talked about the use of computer in class and about autonomous learning. The use of computer can make the class more effective considering that we do not lose any time… if the teacher is well prepared … we can use the time to focus on the students performance….

  

It is important that the students know in advance what they are expected to do … and you’re the goal of the class, or lesson is… In that way they can do their best… of we want autonomous learners we as teacher have to guide them.. Lead them in all the activities we want them to do…

 

EVE

Cooperative Learning....

Dear friends,

All of the topics seem very interesting to me but I the article about cooperative learning the most. First of all because I was not sure about the term with collaborative learning, cooperative learning is a teaching strategy which involves creating groups in class. The key point is that each student in each group should have a different level of ability or ability. Why is that, because the purpose of the cooperative learning is that each member of the team is responsible not only for his learning but the learning of the group. Therefore the students must help each other in order to succeed in every task given.

Week 6 "What a week"

I am going to start by saying “what a week” traveling from one place to another, studying for your promoting, finishing your thesis can be very exhausting be but is definitely worth it.

Let´s talk about Power Point Presentations.

Creating presentations in power point is an interactive way of teaching and also of motivating the students. The first benefit is because this program is very easy to use… because it is an application of Microsoft office and almost everybody has access to it. Another benefit is that we can introduce whatever we need in order to create an interesting presentation. In other words in each slide we can include texts, charts, pictures, graphs, animations, sounds. This PPP make it more visual for the students to understand the lesson and for the teachers this kind of presentation saves time in class that could be use for the students to produce the language…

Power Point Presentations also demand time from teachers, because we have to find, analyze and select the materials we are using in advance… this is also an advantage because we are actually planning the lesson.

For students this is another way of studying .. during class they will not be worry about copying the class, because they already have the information… during class they will be worry about understanding it…