This is our blog of the project we did.

http://teprojectblog.blogspot.mx/

Project Proposal Prezitation ;)

This is our project proposal presentation. This project is about how the Secondary School Primitivo Alonzo could apply technology in their English classes. Our proposal was to use a blog so that the students can practice the listening and vocabulary skill through Hot potatoes match activity, recording a podocasting about their last vacation and making a video introducing themselves. I will share the link of this blog with you. I hope one day they take into account this proposal because we did our best effort and we really enjoyed doing it. :)



 

Rubrics (Y)

Well...this is a rubric that I and Adrian made it in oder to grade an activity we are going to do in our final project. In the activity two classmates have to record a video in which they will introduce themselves and then with the information given the other partner has to introduce his/her classmate. With this, they will practice the listening and the speaking skill :) 

Adrian and Nicole s Rubric

Podcasting activity

This audio is from my TE class. It is about podcastings and how we can aplly in ESL. Enjoy it.

Reflection u.u

During this course I have realized that technology not only helps us to communicate with others but also the technology is an efficient tool that helps us today to do a lot more. But in education has become very important, because with it we can do  much  helpful the learning process. Not only  we can learn a new language, we can also learn Matematics, Geography, History and many more subjects. But for us that we will become teachers is very helpful to all we can do with it. From finding information, to be able to take online classes no matter how far you are.

What most caught my attention is the last thing we've seen in class, which is about podcasting. Some U.S. universities are beginning to use it. It is very interesting to me because it is true that students do not come to much class for the busy schedule they have. So, for this won’t be longer a problem for either the teacher or the student, teachers record their lessons and then they uploaded into podcasting for students can then download it to their iPods. This way if they can not attend classes they can hear the class wherever they are and take notes or check the most importante info. I like the idea that not necessarily you have to go to the university. If you are working you can easily hear your class or in your break or when you leave work, but of course not everyone will have the resources for a iPod or the internet for download.

Another thing I've seen in class and I liked is Glogster you can add very funny things to your presentation and definitely you could develop your creativity. But if this is not your thing and you want more a presentation format Prezi is a good choice that also liked. Only the disadvantage of this, I feel, it is a program that takes a long time to load. 

Wiki

Here is my wiki...There are some things I still don't learn. But I hope soon I can improve. While here I leave some info about wikis ;)

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Mindomo Presentation

This is our Mindomo presentation. I did it with Adrian! We had to explain the advantages and limitations of two instructional methods, in this case, about Demonstration and Drill and Practice. I did not enjoy working with Mindomo as I enjoyed with Blogster because it was not really interesting for me. I prefer working with Prezi or Mindomo, anyway, it's a good program!


 

Weblogs in education

Teachers will often start a blog for providing communication to students, parents, or other teachers. Sometimes this is just the posting of homework or other assignments in one easy-to-find location. Other times this can be a richer description of the things taking place in the classroom, specifically drawing the parents into what their children are working on, or for students who have been absent. Blogs can also take advantage of the comment feature for students and parents to ask questions or for clarification, where the answer would be of interest to all the readers.

Another benefit to educational blogging is the opportunity for the student to find a personal "voice" and to develop individual interests. Much like journal-writing, blogging gives wings to ideas that otherwise may can stay trapped in the mind. Many individuals find that blog-writing changes their lives in a significant way by allowing them to express their ideas in a medium that appears to have life and longevity--and that might find a kindred audience.

I think we can use some instructional methods in blogs such as demonstration because we can share a lot of presentations with nice slides to get a better idea of the topic we are learning. Discussion because we can share our ideas about whatever we are reading or watching. And tutorial because is an easy way to keep in communication with your classmates, students or teachers. 

Using blogs in ESL

Using blogs in ESL from Jhonny Ramiro

Gloster presentation

This is my Gloster presentation. We really enjoyed work with gloster beacuse it have a lot of nice things you can add to your presentation. In this case we hae to explain an hypotetical situation and we have to chose two instructional methods in order to solve this situation. It was very interesting. I learned a lot. :) 

My prezi presentation

This is our prezi presentation. Adrian and me did it because we was learning how to use prezi, which is an excellent program, where you can make presentations in a different way we are used to do it. This presentation is about our teaching perspective that is nurting and what is the relation it have with technology and the teaching theory contructivism .

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Intro

Hi, I'm Nicole Villamil. I'm 22 years old. I'm student at the University of Quintana Roo and I am studying the English Language major. This blog is for my Educational Technology class. Here I am presenting all the activities we've been doing in class.  I hope to enjoy it and I hope this blog could be helpful after this course finishes. Amen :)