Week 15

An innovated way to give feedback

 (Gabriela orellana)

The topic for this week has really called my attention especially because I have already lived the experience to have personal feedback through the technology and with the usage of the computer. In my opinion, this is a good method to get closer to the student to explain the details about their   evaluations.

In addition, it is important to take into a consideration that giving feedback through the technology might take more time for the teacher to be recorder and explain little by little the reasons why the students have a specific grade. However, with this methology  teachers will evoke any doubt or complain from the students at the time to receive their evaluation results, also it will help to the student to be clear on specific point in their task, and  even though teachers might have different manners to give feedback this would be the most appropriate way to do or to  release comments for the students . In fact, I hold the opinion that giving personal feedback to students through a video or through a recorded voiced can make students to have a better simplification of their performance, especially because the teacher is the one who is taking the time to explain systematically the results, evoking just giving feedback by writing hand. So, If I have the opportunity to give personal feedback to my students I would chose for sure the metrology of the usage of the computer.

Week 14

Letting students to express in the classroom 

 (Gabriela orellana)

My personal view about this topic is that letting students express themselves in the classroom is important because in that way teachers can easily identify the students who really have understood the topic, and the ones who really need to have a better clarification on it.  In addition, it helps teachers to make students to lose the embarrassed to speak in front of the class or simply tells others what they think about something.

However, the problem is that many teachers do not like to let students say what they think or what they have not understood, many of them just dedicate their time to talk and talk to the students without knowing if the they  are getting the idea or if the students are still bagging with doubts, or even  teachers might noticed that the  students’ face are confused,  and they still continue with the class as if nothing were happening  on students  learning process. When there are many strategies to use to make students  to participate in the classroom, such  as think pair  to share  which in  my opinion,  it would be  a good  way to make students to share their ideas and to make them feel comfortable enough to deliberate their thoughts. Moreover, Teachers may take an advantage to let students to release their opinions and discussions because at that time teachers can provide feedback to the students or help them to have a clear idea about any doubt. To conclude, it seems to me that letting students to participate in the classroom has many advantages.   

Week 12

The benefits of a project. ( Gabriela Orellana)

This article was very important for me because I learned a lot about this topic. the reading was of "Maximizing the Benefits of Project Work in Foreign Language Classrooms." The students learn according their experience and the environment help them because they develop their skills depending on real-life. Also, teacher guidance and teacher feedback is very neccesary to teach but the pupil too must put of their part like the responsibility and student engagement for achieve their goal. Moreover, the benefits of project work are big because students cope with the challenge of real life. Besides, it helps you to get familiar with the idiom and help S.s to develop their skills in different ways like speaking when they ask somes question and listening when they receive the answer or the personal feedback. Teacher are required to help students to look for the right information at the time to the researches. In my opinión, it is good to make a Project in the classroom because teacher can give feedback to students and support them at the time to creative their own ideas.

Week 11

The importance of mobile user in the classroom (Gabriela Orellana)

I really like this Reading because was about using mobile phones in the second language classroom. since mobile phones are part of students’ everyday routines. Also, the phones are ideal tool to develop their skills like writing, listening, speaking and reading. Moreover, the article mention about some program that our can using in classes. the program might be notes, camera, the Voice Memo Recorder, the Text Messaging and others. Futhermore, the social networking like facebook twitter and  MySpace are sites that allow to create group of friends and they can meet, send messages, share pictures with the purpose to asking students to use English instead of their native language.Besides, other option to help our students is give them listenin material or reading material. For example, the students can record their voices while they read and in the next class, they can give the reflections that they made it. Additionally, this options are exelent to improve the learning process because the technology is very attractive to our students and they feel motivate. On the other hand, I like when the article are mention of possible problems when using mobile phones in the classroom because at the same time give the possible solutions. In my opinion, i would like to use Mobile phones in the language classroom because our goal is the success of our students.

Week 10

Helping students improve their writing skill (Gabriela Orellana)

This Reading was very important and interesting because I didn't know this application and it draws my attention. The article is about Online Collaborative Writing Using Wikis and wiki is a website that allow you to improve the writting. Also, the students have the opportunity to use wiki in diferent ways like book reports, brainstorming wikis,poetry, school history wiki, exercise, class blogs  and planning a party or concert. Moreover, this website is very useful for teacher and students, they can create their wikis for free. Furthermore, wikis are easy to learn and use, the writting is a important skill in this a execellent oportunity to develop it. Besides, this is a good way to make students practice their writting skills, and teachers help students to improve their writtings giving them the steps that they need to follow to create their own ideas because it is not only let students do writtings task, but also to improve their writting skill is the way to monitoring them to do their task in a good way. Otherwise, there is another website which might be helpful for teachers to make students writting paragraphs and it is the blog.com, there students can write ideas about any topic using the steps that the teacher has given to them. In my opinion, this website is very interesting and I would like to apply in my classes because it may allow me to help my students.

Week 8

Ways to improve their vocabulary ( Gabriela Orellana)

 This reading was very interesting because it is about vocabulary and I like this phrase that article say “Vocabulary is one of those things where the rich get richer.” by Dr. Eli Hinkel because is true, when the students know a lot of vocabulary they can be more communicative. Also, in this article shows six kind of the dictionaries to improve the vocabulary.They are Cambridge Learner’s, Cambridge Advanced Learner’s, Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Macmillan, Merriam-Webster Learner’s, and Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary each dictionary has their function. Moreover, online dictionary should have a corpus-based compilation of words, collocation guides, and word frequency data. Besides that, the technology is very useful for the students with their advances nowadays until in their cellphone can be use it. Additionally, it is really important to make students to improve their vocabulary in different  ways and we as futures teachers are required to look for the best websites to make students improve their vocabulary and Taking into an account different task to ask them to complete. To conclude, if the students know or learn a good vocabulary their can have a good comprehension when they read something and they can improve a lot in other skill like speaking because they will have a good fluently.

week 7

 Improve our writing and Reading skills ( Gabriela orellana)

This reading was very interesting for me because this skills are the most difficult things to do at the time to learn a new language. I like to know that technology is a big tool to teach second language, Also, it is very important to use the real learning environment because when students read books with wonderful pictures, they might imagine the story as it would be real, or as if they were living the story in real life. Moreover, teacher must avoid a lot of thing like when the students translate word by word to read or writting something. Futhermore, the internet offers some websites that allow students develop their reading and writting skills. in sites you can create letter to a friend, a formal letter, a biography, a description of a person, and a description of a book or film. besides, this site is very interesting www.marlo.com/card.htm because students can create a letter to a friend, it is a site where they can send free their letters, and they can find cards with animated pictures, accompanying music, etc. Indeed, pupils can practice both skills in this activity because they writting the letter and the other students reading and changed the roles.   

On the other hand, it is very important that teacher help students to overcoming their barriers because sometime they can not follow with their learning. 

To conclude, the technology is very useful for everybody because the majority has access internet and it is very necessary to know the ways to use the resource.