Notas de ejercicios y examen

Ejercicio 1: Productive skills activity
Ejercicio 2: Using polls
Ejercicio 3: E-lerarning and Blended learning
Ejercicio 4: Presentation about strategies to both motivate E-learners and build on-line presence (Nov. 29th)

Final exam: 12/06/12

Last activity: Blended model and E-learning.

Work in groups and discuss about your experience using a blended model here at the university (Touchstone).

1- Describe your experience.

2- Identify its advantages and disadvantages.

3- Suggest strategies to motivate on-line students and build on-line presence. Search the web and come up with your own creative ideas. 

4- Write a comment summarizing your ideas 

5- Present your work to the class.

Grades Cátedra 2 (detail)

Clock on the following link:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5AzUtV1RPXzX05XRUlkUDJCd0E

What's hot in second language teaching...

You're probably familiar with the concept of E-learning, but what about blended education? What's a blended model? Use the website below as a starting point and find more information on the subject.
--> http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/elearning/blend.html


Once you're done with your "literary review," organize your ideas using at least 3 different graphic organizers. There are plenty of them in the websites below.

http://www.carla.umn.edu/cobaltt/modules/strategies/gorganizers/EDITABLE.HTML

http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/

http://www.thinkport.org/technology/template.tp

GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS

"Graphic organizers help students comprehend information through visual  

 representation of concepts, ideas, and relationships.  They provide the structure 

 for short and long term memory. 

Graphic organizers turn abstract concepts into concrete visual representations. (...)

The use of graphic organizers produces learning effects that are substantial and long lasting."

MORE ON GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS...

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/highschool/bayshore/Documents/L-F_Graphic_Organizers%202.pdf

DUE DATE: Nov. 22nd

Using polls

How can you use polls in an EFL classroom?
Suggest resources to create polls and explain how you can use them in language learning activities.
Click here to answer the poll!

Productive skills

Most of my students find it really difficult to develop their productive skills: speaking and writing.

Using the Internet, you can get a lot of exposure! You can watch movies, read and listen to articles online, to the news, and so on. You can find books, read magazines, blogs... however, when it comes to productive skills, it's a different story.

It seems hard to get the chance to get real and meaningful communication going on... isn't it so?

Can you find any resources to develop speaking and writing?

1- Write your ideas here including links.
2- Try some of your classmates' ideas and comment on them.

Using Media Resources in context

Go to Aula Virtual and create a new post on your blog.

1- First, describe your teaching context. If you're not teaching, use your current language course as an example. Include the number of students, characteristics of the class, age of the students, interests, the resources available in the classroom, etc.

2- Then, considering the context that you provided, think of teaching ideas to improve the lessons and make them more engaging by exploiting the available possibilities. Substantiate your ideas.