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.

Task: Moodle

1.     Please go to www.udla.cl and click on "presencial E-support" to access the aula virtual.

2.     Once you’re there,  go to your profile and complete it with your personal information. Don’t forget to include a picture!

3.     Now go to profile, hit the button "messages." Type "Dafna" and once you find me, send a short message just to say hello.

4.     Go back and try to find your classmates to add them as contacts.

5.     Go to your profile again, there you can find a blog. Create a new entry presenting one of your previous activities for this class (your prezi, your present.me, your first blog entry, etc.). Include a short description of the activity.

6.     Now that you've explored Moodle a little more, write a second entry telling about this experience. Is it student-friendly? Is it attractive? What other alternatives are there to create an attractive "virtual learning environment." Think of different platforms and how you can use them to gather all the basic information for a course and share material with your students, contact them easily, provide support, do collaborative work, etc.

7.     Check your classmates’ ideas and comment on them.

8.     Answer your classmates’ comments on your own pedagogical proposal.

Using Facebook for language learning purposes- Prezi

Create a prezi showing and explaining some activities to teach English using Facebook.You can include any other information you consider relevant when it comes to using Facebook with your class.

Presentation skills- Present.me

Use present.me to share a presentation about 'presentation skills.' Include tips, DOs and DON'Ts

Share the link here

TASK- Glogster

TASK for next class
Create a glogster about the different resources you've come across during the course including links to tutorials and teaching projects/ideas. You can work in groups.
*Share the link here

Presentations: Schedule

Presentations

- Deliver information in a creative way

- Show examples that are in connection with our field (ESL)

- Include a hand-out for your classmates to have a short summary of your presentation (main ideas).

- Time: 20-25 minutes

Presentation topics:

August 23^rd

1. The history of CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) The three stages of CALL and its impact. Aldo Alvarado, Claudia Cabrera and Rebeca Pino

2. MOLL: Moblie assisted language learning: What is it? Take and share some practical ideas. Aldo Alvarado, Claudia Cabrera and Rebeca Pino

3. Offline tools- Microsoft Office tools: How can we exploit them as teachers? Information management and teaching ideas (Word, Excel, Power Point) Keyla Castro

4. The World Wide Web: What is it? Maria de los Angeles Rojas and Barbara Valenzuela

5. The Web 2.0: What is it? Yasna Roa and Giannina Herrera

__________________________________________________________________

August 30^th

6. Online Storage Tools- Dropbox, Google Drive (docs, collaborative work), etc. How can we use them? Carolina Hinojosa and Kiria Lastra

7. Blogs, wikis and webquests: Resources and ideas for teaching. Milenka Gutierez and Lissete Gajardo.

8. Online Portfolios: Resources and ideas for teaching. Katherine Felix and Rolando Contreras

9. Presentations: Present.me, Prezi, Goanimate.com. How can we use them? Jana Strohbach and Cynthia Jimenez

10. Social Networks: How can we use them for teaching purpose? Maria Del Castillo and Patricio Onetto

__________________________________________________________________

September 6^th

11. What is Moodle? Camila Barrera and Alejandro Moreno

12. Interactive Whiteboards. Constanza Valdivia and Carla Quintanilla

13. Normalisation of technology. Carolina Mariscal and Inelia Gomez

September 13^th: Cátedra 1

PRESENTATIONS

Choose a topic and write your name next to it

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t9oeSezpp13mBSqc_-ulRheE0RlAtf_sIuO4_D3MZ5E/edit

Tasks: audio and video

So far we have focused on downloading written material, like books, articles, magazines, and so on. Now, let us concentrate on different types of resources that will promote motivation and prompt the acquisition of a foreign language taking advantage of the multimedial experience.
Today, your task is the following:

1)
Find as many sources as possible to access audio files.
Find as many sources as possible to access video files.
Find as many sources as possible to acces different multimedia resources (presentations, flash animations, different ones)

2)
Choose the 4-5 sources that you liked best and solve the following problem:
How can I download audio files or videos from them?

3)
Write a new entry on your blog presenting the sources of your choice and explaining as clearly as possible how to download videos or audio files and, of course, including some information about what kind of videos or audio files will I find there. There might be more than one possiblity to download material; try to focus on solutions that do not require downloading programs or following too many or too complex steps)

Bonus!
Challenge: 
How can you edit the different files?
try to find short solutions to...
- transform a word document into a pdf file
- cut a pdf file
- cut an audio file
- cut a video
- add captions to a video/movie

Once you're done with your entry, remember to post the URL here to share your work with the class.

My 3 favorite ones...

ENGLISH TIPS

Here you can download complete works for free. There are a lot of books, course books, novels, graded readers, magazines. Some of them include audio files and there are also some movies, documentaries…
You need to create an account and then search  the material you need or the topic. Then, just click on the link of the material you want to download, scroll down and hit “mirrors” to display a menu with the links to download the files.
There are plenty of really high quality things, but also a few death links. www.englishtips.org

ES.SCRIBD

Create an account for free and download thousands of books in different formats. Here you can find a lot of collections under the name of ‘English readers’

http://es.scribd.com/search-collections?docs_count=&limit=10&query=english+readers

BBC LEARING ENGLISH

Access a wide variety of texts like news, interviews, dialogues, etc. about interesting topics. You can Access the scripts, audio files, and in some cases the videos.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/

Week 2: TASKS

* you can work in pairs or small groups (up to 4 people)

   1. Create a blog and share the link here, as a comment.

On your blog…

           Entry 1: Go over the wiki we created last week (at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Egfg4pmCPgkRNUFB44fxl64r8yDIhDqgtvUnY7aX2F8/edit) and choose the 3 -5 websites you like best. Include a complete review and a step-by-step guide on how to download a book from each website.
     Entry 2: As teachers, we always have to research and learn. Choose a topic you would like to explore, like:

ü  young learners

ü  adults

ü  ESP

ü  culture

ü  etc.

            Find a set of high quality books or papers, etc. and include short reviews  as well as the links to download them.

·         Notice that when you actually use this material, it should be bought to respect author rights.

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2. Prepare an extensive reading program: Search the web to find graded readers. Contribute a data base with books and their links to download.

·         Notice that when you actually use this material, it should be bought to respect author rights.

Data base: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w-oZ_3nqysao1JY5EyLazoxZdXI6b48dyRSjOvjVGkg/edit

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      3.    (not obligatory) Download your material and store everything on-line using Google Drive at drive.google.com/. Then, share a folder with miss.jodeck@gmail.com.

      Google drive tutorials:

a.    https://drive.google.com/start?authuser=0#home

b.    http://www.slideshare.net/adolforomero/tutorial-google-drive

c.    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef472jsDGE4&feature=related

Deadline: Tuesday, August 14th, 22:00 

Skype tutories- Let's choose the day and time

Please, answer the following poll to find the schedule that best suits all of you in order to set a time when we can meet online using skype or other social network of our choice.
When you answer the poll, notice that multiple choices are allowed.
Thank you!!!

SURVEY:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/X6RCXDG

How to find information or other resources online?

TASK

1) Go over the information presented in the following tutorials to improve your web searching skills

·         Use the following worksheet to guide your search

                http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/AnalyseTopicForm.pdf

·         Find more information on how to use some recommended search engines at:

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/SearchEngines.html

2) Think of different categories of teaching resources that we usually need.

Today we will focus on text based material, like books, graduate projects, resear articles, papers, worksheets, etc.

3) Contribute a class wiki with sources to find and download or access different text based material. Include the link to the website, identify the provider, and write a review including relevant information (free or paid services, easy to download/share/access online…, quality and variety of the material, popularity, tips to use, other people’s opinions-you may visit online forums about the specific resource, etc.)
** Remember to include your name at the end so that we who made each contribution.

Access the wiki here: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Egfg4pmCPgkRNUFB44fxl64r8yDIhDqgtvUnY7aX2F8/edit

Needs Analysis

What do we have to do as English teachers?

As teachers of English as a Second Language, we do a lot of things, like…

• Design learning activities and student-friendly material
• Make input more comprehensible
• Provide opportunities for interaction and negotiation of meaning
• Help develop a variety of strategies
• Promote cultural awareness
• Manage some numeric data
• etc...

Let’s try to break these BIG ideas into smaller and concrete tasks we come across with during our practice; for example:

“Manage some numeric data.” 

We need to…

• Keep a clear record of my students’ grades
• Calculate the results of my 64 students giving different evaluations different weights (Ex.: 4 quizzes 15%, 2 tests 50%- each with a written component weighed 60% and an oral one given a 40%, 1 final exam 35%)
• Transform results from percentages to grades using a 1-7 scale
• Transform scores to grades using different grading scales
• Calculate percentages to deal with attendance

TASK:

• Get in groups of 4 and brainstorm more ideas (as many as possible!)
• Share your ideas on this blog 
• Go over all the comments on the blog and think of solutions or resources that might help us solve these problems/ fulfill these needs.

•  For example:

Comment: “Keep a clear record of my students’ grades”
Answer 1: “You can use the Microsoft Office tool called Excel.”
Answer 2: “You can use the Internet to download a template.

• For example: here’s a website…”

• Try to answer at least 5 comments.

Welcoming message

Welcome to Teaching Resources.

In this course, we are going to reflect on our teaching practice and some of the needs or challenges we can find on the way in order to bring up simple and creative solutions. To do so, we will search, adapt and generate a variety of resources to help our practice.
 

Expected outcome: 

By the end of the course, you are expected to use variety of resources, count on a battery of handy tools and teaching ideas, and, most important, have the skills to research and find solutions to the challenges/needs that will emerge in our everyday professional life. 

Let’s just be resourceful!

è Resourceful:

Able to act effectively or imaginatively, especially in difficult situations