Week 4 - So far so good!!!
Another week that went by really fast!
It's really incredible all the new things that we are learning with this course. That is one thing I extremely like about my job: in order to teach, you must learn first and you always keep learning.
This week we focused on writing, reading and vocabulary. I visited several webpages related to these topics and I read some of my colleagues' comments on Nicenet and found out good webpages. My delicious is growing longer and longer, it is burning ;). But I must admit that the one that I liked the best and the one that is going to help me now and in the future is www.breakingnewsenglish.com/ because it contains pieces of current and not very old news adapted for reading at different levels. Each unit of work contains a large amount of activities which exploit pre-reading, while-reading and post-reading phases. It's simply spectacular!!!
BREAKING NEWS ENGLISH
Apart from that, we had to do some reading and I want to mention one that I found really interesting and useful:
Three Extensive Reading Activities for ESL/EFL Students Using E-books by Mei-Ya Liang
The best summary of this article is included at the beginning of the article:
"This online extensive reading lesson focuses on intermediate and advanced ESL/EFL students. The objectives of this lesson are to guide students to read authentic e-texts outside of the classroom and to improve their overall reading, writing and thinking skills by synthesizing and evaluating online materials with peers."
We also had to design a technology enhanced lesson plan using a template. I decided to do something that I am going to put into practice. So, I chose my 4º ESO students (the ones I will be implementing my project with) and I chose a lesson that we are going over right now, that is, the environment. For the lesson plan I will be using Prezi, EdModo and the new discovery, the breakingnewsenglish web-site. Let's see the way it goes!!!
PREZI
For the project we took a step further and analyzed what the problem that we want to solve using technology is. Mine has to do with the fact that my students do not consider using new technologies as something interesting and motivating. That is what I want to change and solve in my class!!!
To sum up, I must say that everything is going so far so good, everything is marching along!!!
EDMODO
Another week that went by really fast!
It's really incredible all the new things that we are learning with this course. That is one thing I extremely like about my job: in order to teach, you must learn first and you always keep learning.
This week we focused on writing, reading and vocabulary. I visited several webpages related to these topics and I read some of my colleagues' comments on Nicenet and found out good webpages. My delicious is growing longer and longer, it is burning ;). But I must admit that the one that I liked the best and the one that is going to help me now and in the future is www.breakingnewsenglish.com/ because it contains pieces of current and not very old news adapted for reading at different levels. Each unit of work contains a large amount of activities which exploit pre-reading, while-reading and post-reading phases. It's simply spectacular!!!
BREAKING NEWS ENGLISH
Apart from that, we had to do some reading and I want to mention one that I found really interesting and useful:
Three Extensive Reading Activities for ESL/EFL Students Using E-books by Mei-Ya Liang
The best summary of this article is included at the beginning of the article:
"This online extensive reading lesson focuses on intermediate and advanced ESL/EFL students. The objectives of this lesson are to guide students to read authentic e-texts outside of the classroom and to improve their overall reading, writing and thinking skills by synthesizing and evaluating online materials with peers."
We also had to design a technology enhanced lesson plan using a template. I decided to do something that I am going to put into practice. So, I chose my 4º ESO students (the ones I will be implementing my project with) and I chose a lesson that we are going over right now, that is, the environment. For the lesson plan I will be using Prezi, EdModo and the new discovery, the breakingnewsenglish web-site. Let's see the way it goes!!!
PREZI
For the project we took a step further and analyzed what the problem that we want to solve using technology is. Mine has to do with the fact that my students do not consider using new technologies as something interesting and motivating. That is what I want to change and solve in my class!!!
To sum up, I must say that everything is going so far so good, everything is marching along!!!
EDMODO
Hello Adriano!
ReplyDeleteI like your reflection and fully agree with you on delicious page full of useful web teaching links. Also the summary of Mei-Ya Liang's article you gave in your post attracts my attention. I wish you do achieve best results in your project.
Nazgul
Kyrgyzstan