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