week 12

PROVIDING FEEDBACK

 Providing feedback through screen capture came across it in 2000 while at the BETT conference in London. Thanks that the technology allows you to record the screen of your own computer as if you have a video camera pointing at it, you could use it to record literally anything that you can open onto your computer screen. You could be recording yourself as you talk over a marking scheme, a grammar lesson or even as you show a series of pictures on your computer screen. Also,  records your voice allowing you to make videos where you talk over whatever you are showing on your video screen. Moreover, this is a great tool for online class or non-classroom classes. aiding the teachers and students to have an interaction and meaningful feedback.however, this resource can be use for any teacher especially when they have to check essays, instead of write the feedback they can create a video giving a personal feedback through the screen capture. To end,  Screen capture technology and specifically the idea of using the technology for providing feedback to students, both have a long future in education.

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week 11

INTERACTIVE CLASSES THROUGH PARTICIPATION

Make students participate in class is really important specially for have they attentive to it. but how you can make them participate, that is so easy just try to catch their attention moving around the classroom, asking questions about the class, make discussions, put them to read the board or to give examples, have them stand up, make groups or move from desk to desk  very often and so on. This aid students to be active in class and do not sleep or be distract with what surround them. Moreover,  for increase students interaction as teachers you can make them to work in pairs specially when you ask questions because they feel under-pressure and questioned; they do not want to answer, pupils think that they were wrong and others will laugh. this happen with shy students or anyone. So, teacher can make group to discuss the questions and then they can share they answer as a group this make them to feel comfortable and also the interaction between students. As you can see is very easy  to make students participate in class, just you have to use your creativity. Remember you have to adapt the lessons and activities to your students, observation is a good tool for teachers.

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week 10

Creating Critical Thinking in Students Using the Technology.

The growing use of computer in instruction offer to teachers a great way of working to develop the critical thinking in student but, for make use of the technology teacher have to ask themselves what they want students to learn and then which technology can aid them to achieve it. this means that teachers have to learn how students learn and which technology is appropriate for them. so let me introduce some way that will help to understand better the learners. firstly,  students has an intrinsic motivation. But what is that? this proves that people is naturally curious, rational and emotional. So  educators have to challenge their students asking for solutions since people can naturally solve problems that concern them. Moreover, learning specific abilities way where teachers have to focus their students in comprehension, analyze, synthesize, evaluate evidence. this is the way students acquire knowledge. Furthermore, overcoming students' preconceptions where educators have to think as a learners to give explanations. Finally, the challenges versus stress of students here teachers do not have to discourage students but they have to challenge and develop their curiosity. It is normal to make students feel nervous or tensionated. In the other hand, how technology can be used for aid in the knowledge of students. For instance, teachers can create visual presentation where they can provide pictures, diagrams, charts, or make discussions preparing visual lectures to make debates between students or in a laboratory. To conclude, for make appropriate use of technology teachers have to think before in their students’ needs and adapt all this resources to challenge their students and make them disciplined.

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week 9

USING MOBILE PHONES IN THE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM.

Nowadays technology plays an important role in teaching, so as teachers we have to take advantage of all the tools that we have on hand. The mobile phone is not used just for communication we can take this as a tool in the teaching process. First, we have to take in account that students have a cellphone and if they are young ask for permissions to their parents. Then, teachers have to create plans or objectives to achieve the language learning. Here I will mention some activities using mobile phone device.

1.       Use the Voice Memo Recorder feature to record conversations outside the classroom: students can record interview or conversations they engage in outside the classroom and make discussion in class.

2.       Use the Text Messaging feature for circular writing: students can create a story together by contributing one text message at a time. Each student writes a sentence or two and then sends this on to the next student, who adds another message, and so on until the story is complete.

3.       Use the mobile phone for social networking: Like Twitter, Facebook and Myspace where students can post pictures and comment about it using the target language.

4.       Use the mobile phone to play games: such as Scrabble and crossword puzzles and so on. You have to select the appropriate games for encourage them to learn the new language and aid them to search more games that help them in this process.

5.       Use the mobile phone to check student comprehension and get feedback: One way is to add an element of interactivity to your classes through audience participation. Polleverywhere (www.polleverywhere.com) is a free program that allows the teacher to pose survey questions to students. Students respond by texting their responses.

To conclude, all these ideas allow to students to increase their opportunities in the learning process by taking advantage of mobile phone device. However, there are some challenge in the used of cellphones in class or outside, students can be distracted quickly but it to be a worthwhile investment of their time and a welcome addition to their language teaching methods.

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week 8

AUTHENTIC MATERIAL FOR TEACH ENGLISH

Is time to create, time to involve our students in the real life. Students going to learn a lot with this way. But, what authentic materials mean. This means that teachers have to create and search for real, current and interesting or relevant materials, so teachers have to recognize what students are interested in knowing that can serve them outside the classroom, as well if the material is length appropriate or it is for their level. In fact, the internet plays an important role because is an easy way to find information, websites, apps and podcast; that teachers can use in the classroom. In the other hand, there are 3 creative ways to use authentic materials. For instance, Weather Report: There Is a Blizzard on the Way! (www.weather.com) For familiarize your students with the U.S. climate by exposing them to weather reports, with this student can learn how to make a weather report, learn vocabulary about the weather and give tips to be prepared for any catastrophe. Second, menus: Order Your Favorite Dish. Teacher can give students a worksheet where they can write down what they order at each station. Include a section for price, divide students into teams so they will need to move together from one station to another. Also, at each station, a team member should be the waiter/waitress and use the back of his/her worksheet to take orders. Finally, Job Opening: 1-2-3 I Need a Job! (indeed.com) Students can make work applications and be preparing for a job interview. To conclude, Authentic materials bridge the gap between classroom language use and real life language use by bringing familiar linguistic situations and materials right into the classroom.

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week 7

THE INTEGRATION OF THE INTERNET IN TO ELT

In the following years the internet become an important tool for teachers and students. There are many applications that we can find on the internet and are very useful. Like, pinterest, prezzi, facebook, youtube so on. Moreover, the internet could be use in three ways. Firstly, could be used as an informative; because students utilized web resources to help develop and inform speeches. Second, as a Communicative tool offering techniques for using text-based chat to develop oral communication skills. Finally, The Internet as a Social and Mobile Technology to offer ways to integrate mobile web and other features of mobile phones into ELT. In fact, is well-Known that the internet aid students to increase learner motivation and reduce learner anxiety, promote learner autonomy, aid in retention such as when imagery is perceived as strange, funny, or interesting; through these ways to use the internet. So that, teachers have to select appropriates internets tool for they students, according to the context, type of students, level and the access of students to the internet or a computer. Teacher can download apps that does not need an internet connection; if the classroom is not equipped with technology it does not mean that we cannot bring materials from the internet. It is one of the advantage of the internet that you can consider. To conclude, the internet is a good tool that surround our word through computers, cell-phones and others technological devices. Also, teachers or students can download apps that allow them to interact however they can use apps without internet.

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week 6

How vocabulary and reading comprehension are related and how technology aid them.

Reading is an active activity that involves the reader with the text. How students L2 acquire the reading skill is very important, because through readings learners make use of variety of skills and strategies, combined with background knowledge. In fact, vocabulary plays an important role in the reading comprehension process. For instance, a fluent L2/FL reader need to know about 2,000 to 7,000 words and sometimes even more if they want to reach native-like fluency. And for understanding of academic text is required to know at least of 7,000 words. So that, a reader has to recognize 95% of word in whatever text to comprehend it, and he or she has to know the different meanings and the grammatical properties of word according to the context. This means that vocabulary and reading are inter-related because a good reader has a rich vocabulary, and vocabulary is the key that ensure reading proficiency.

Furthermore, teachers are aid though with some technological resources. For instance, or vocabulary acquisition, instructors could make great use of technology by using multimedia glossed texts, electronic dictionaries, corpora and concordance software, as well as various vocabulary-­building software. Moreover, full glossing seems to be the best facilitator of vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension, as opposed to little or non-­glossed texts. In addition, best results in retention are provoke by picture + text annotations, whereas pronunciation, video, and audio glosses seem to correlate negatively with reading comprehension. However, not all of them are significant for classroom instructions. There are some materials are focus on a specific skill, while other on a wide range of skill and strategies. This means that teachers have to select materials that motivate students and materials appropriate for their level.

To sum up, the vocabulary must be taught first in order to improve the reading comprehension in the learns. Teachers are aid through technology. Like, multimedia glosses for vocabulary and reading development, multimedia-­enhanced electronic dictionaries designed specifically for English language learners, and which have several built ­in aids that their book counterparts cannot provide and other multimedia task that  contain various types of content, such as text, audio, video, graphics, animation, and interactivity.

                                               

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week 5

Using Internet to Develop the Writing and Reading Comprehension.

The Internet and the widespread of technology in our life create new opportunities for language learning, and the Web is a great source of information for teachers to create materials and for their students to explore the world simply by clicking with the mouse. In fact, the internet has come to modify the way of teaching students, and provides tools that allow pupils to develop better the two most complex areas of English or more boring to define it, which are writing and Reading comprehension. Through different web Pages, e­mail and website class learners can have the opportunity to have a multitude writing conversation. Also, they can use a digital aula that have different platforms for aid them to be connecting. But, first teacher has to know how to integrate these online activities taking in consideration their objectives. However, they can make students more involved in the learning content and leave them to contribute with some ideas about the use of the technology inside the classroom or leave them to create some topics that seem relevant to them. Moreover, for develop the reading comprehension in students taking in consideration the technological resources especially the internet. Firstly, students must have prior knowledge of vocabulary and grammatical structure in order to start reading because the readings may vary according to the level at which the student is. the internet is a great advantage for the teachers so they can search for suitable books at the level of the students and they can also create their own books according to the lessons they are teaching. Furthermore, there are four websites that teachers can use. For instance, The Magic Keys web­site (http://www.magickeys.com/books) contains more than thirty illustrated stories at a wide range of difficulty levels, Bygosh website (http://www.bygosh.com/index.html) it has short stories, poems and short novels, Children's Digital Library (http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/SearchWorld) this site has illustrated children’s books in many languages and more than 1000 illustrated children’s books in English, and the Tumblebooks (http://www.tumblebooks.com/ ) this is a subscription service with access to more than 100 children's books ranging from the beginning to intermediate range of difficulty. To conclude, the internet is a good advantage for teacher to make writing and the reading comprehension more interesting, especially when the teacher involves students. In writing teachers can create different activities through the platforms like e-mail and digitals aulas for make students interact out and inside the classroom. In reading, teacher can leave students to create their own stories or leave them to select their favorite book.

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week 4

Internet resources for develop speaking and listening skills.

Thanks to the biggest innovation of the ¨internet¨, that allow the online navigation; many people can be connecting through any device, that has access to internet. Furthermore, the use of the Internet has grown exponentially because the number of people worldwide with access to the internet grew 20 percent between 2001 and 2002; during this period the number of user in developed countries increased 12 percent, while the number of users in developing countries grew a more impressive 40 percent. So that, in the English teaching the internet becomes a support tool that aid students to interact and learn a new language easily. In fact, though the internet students have access to some communication activities; that can be categorized as a receptive or interactive. The receptive communication actives are those that permit just a single user, and involved listening. For instance, students can receive information from the wen in the form of text, images, audios and videos. There are 5 website classification of receptive communication activities such as, advocacy/opinion website, news websites, informational websites, business/marketing websites, personal websites which are set up and maintained by an individual. Also, teacher can create their own activities for make practices with pupils. Such as, make surveys, multiple choice questions and gap fill exercises for listening comprehension. In the other hand, we have interactive communication activities; this can be synchronous or asynchronous. Asynchronous activities involve two or more students, do not occur in real-time, and include composing and answering messages on email and discussion boards, and Synchronous activities allow two or more users to interact simultaneously from different computers, such as live chat and instant messaging and this involve speaking and listening. But, both receptive and interactive communication actives have the same purpose to make student learn and practice in a real word with native speakers. To conclude, the internet is the best tool for students and teachers for the learning process easily and interactive.

                                           

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week 3

The integrations of podcast in the classroom.

Now in days we can find different technological advances, and teachers have to implement those resources to make the class more interesting or attract student’s attention and aid the learns to develop their English skill. One of the resources are the podcast that aid student to develop listening skill Throughout many language programs; listening skills are taught with the use of audiotape cassettes for use either in the whole classroom or for use by the individual student. The advantage of the uses of podcast is that ESL (English as a Second Language) is achieve to students using record that are made by native speaker. This allowed students to acquire the authentic language. Also, teaching listening in the second language classroom is a multi-purpose activity because learners must use this resource for ‘learning to listen’ and for ‘listening to learn’. This mean that can be built such as project (e.g., discerning the opinions of several experts in a particular topic area), or a task (e.g., following oral directions in map reading), as a resource (e.g., honing the ability to distinguish amongst discrete sounds) or as a stimulus for related work in other skill areas (e.g., listening to a lecture and then writing up a summary before having to deliver an oral presentation). Furthermore, there were a range of cultural, organizational, psychological, and social barriers to integration of technology. For instance, insufficient time, lack of relevant institution development, lack of on-site technology support, inadequate or no access to necessary hardware or software, and receiving few rewards for efforts. But, this is related to the teacher’s environment. However, the technological approaches aid students to interact more. E.g. students can create their own podcast as a way to practice speaking, listening ad writing in some case. Moreover, podcast is really accessible for pupils they can make use of this through an Apple iPod, computers, smartphones and other portable MP3 players. To conclude, as futures teachers we have to take advantages to the technological resources and take account this meaningful tool “Podcast” that can aid us to develop English skills in students since it allows for the provision of information in multiple modes in order to enhance pupils ‘understanding and retention of listening strategies. Also, give learners access to outside perspectives; whether from other language learners or professors, that stress the importance of the strategies they are learning in class. And provide examples of lectures or conversations by native and nonnative English speakers to help them to practice their listening comprehension.

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Week 2.

ICT Tools to Foster Metacognitive Awareness and the Learning Autonomy.

firstly, is necessary to know what autonomy or autonomous learning mean and what metacognitive awareness refers to. So that, I am going to give a short description about them. learner autonomy is the capacity of student to identify the academic deficiencies, and be able to find a way to overcome and improve these areas; In fact, this leads students to become autonomous because they begging to create their own learning goals and analyze their own progress. On the other hand, metacognitive awareness is referring to self-knowledge in other words, is the knowledge that learners have about their cognitive potential and limitations and other personal traits that affect school performance.

After explaining the above, we return to the topic. Infusing technology like CALL or ICT in the classroom may significantly contribute to the growth in learners’ motivation, autonomy and thinking skills. Teachers play an important role in developing learner’s autonomy through the creation of activities were students have the opportunity to reflect on what they have done and how they achieve their personal learning aim. Moreover, technology has been used for practice the different language skills such as, pronunciation, spelling, grammar and writing. Nonetheless, something that teachers have to keep in mind that some in some students the autonomy can be innate or be acquire in a self-taught way. Therefore; teachers have to create strategies making use of virtual fields to encourage critical thougth, the initiative and cooperative work.

To end, the aim of a teacher to create autonomous learners is to aid them to create good learning habits through different platforms using the technology resources or activities like assessments. Also, this aid students to acknowledge what are their perfect learning Ways.

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Week 1

THE USES OF THE COMPUTER IN THE LEARNING PROCESS.

The uses of the technology in the learning process has increased through the years. Computers have been used for language teaching since the 1960s it was used first as a behaviorist were students just took the computer as a mechanical tutor that allowed them to work individual but this idea was rejected and they decided to used as a communicative tool this allow pupils to generate a good utterance as well many teachers saw the advantages like it was more socio-cognitive where integrated students in a real environment and aid them to develop their input and output skills.

what call my attention about the article was when the writer says "the teacher has become a facilitator of learning rather than the font of wisdom, and will find, select, and offer information in a variety of ways on the basis of what the students must learn in order to meet diverse needs." (pg58) is mind that the technological resources do not come to substitute the role of teachers but came to give them tools for make their job easy and for help students to have a great experience in the learning process.

Thanks to the technological advances were created new flexible software that going to change and improve three key sistem areas that are: the knowledge acquisition, interaction with multiple underlying system and partial understanding.

To end, in my on words the uses of the computer and the differents technological resources are helping  not just the educators,but also the students to develop their skills. And Thanks to the internet, windows and software advance in term of education transform the society and the classroom environment in a very educational approaches.

introducing myself.

Hi. let me introduce myself. My name is Xiomara Grisel Molina Rosa i am 20 years old, I am studying in Don Bosco University. Something about me it is that I am an outgoing, energetic and sincere person, I like to read stories and romantic books, I do not have favorite color I like all of them, I am vegetarian and my favorite food is the cavatini pasta,I love animals and the nature. I lived in the countryside in Chalatenango but i moved to the city five years ago. I love to teach that is one of the best experience of my life. In my childhood I alway played with my dolls and I imagined that they were my students and I took the role of a teacher; I never imagine that one day I could make real that little girl's game. now I am so proud of me and I am so thankful with God for give all the opportunities and the experiences that I have acquired throughout my career