week 4: skill-building websites for Reading and Writing ...........

hello everyone : this last week, we had many interesting articles to read about ways to use the computers to enhance the teaching of reading, writing,and vocabulary.I had read : 1.-Using the internet in ESL writing Instruction .- 2.-three Extensive reading activities for ESL/ EFL students using E-books 3.-Using internet based children´s literature to teach EFL these articles have very interesting information how we can use the internet to teach writing with differents genres.we find many authors, like :Dennis Wilkinson,Ron Belisle,Gerald FOX ,victoria Muehleisen etc.we found many interesting websites like :"http://www.marlo.com/card.htm";etc. I have never seen multi-skill websites is really nice and interesting for teachers and stdents.We should use in class these tools is fantastic...... other aspect very interesting was to do a lesson plan using the technology with google drive and sharing .....the template was very difficul for me to enter I couldn´t enter at first time. I was trying to enter many times at least, I could enter and do the lesson plan is was a nice experience. the las part was the Project task in this part we write some problems about the class we write these problems in this week this is a part of future project. I would like to share this information with my colleagues . best regards, julio uribe

week:3 skill- building websites for oral/aural skills and saving....

hello everyone : last week, we have learned many interesting things like : 1.- teaching Aural/oral skills.-we read interesting articles from differents authors like . a.-Developing listening skills with authentic materials by Lindsa y Millers, b.-new perspective in teaching by Maria Busa. c.-the employment of CALL in teaching second /foreign languages speaking.we saw some sample of speaking lesson plans form differentes websites.( www.one stop english.com ;www.esl about .com www.eslgalaxy.com )we learned some interesting resources about pronunciation we vistited some uselfun websites like www.bbc.com, some techniques .etc 2.-we had the opportunity to create an account in Delicious.com this websites is very interesting because we can save our favorite web links.we can add links to others people in our page. 3.-and finally we have the opportunity to read some sample project report. this expericence it was very uselful for me to know more about the research .

week 2 : SEARCH ENGINE

This last week it was very important in my life , I learned many interesting things like look for information throught others search engine like : Noodletools "find the best search for your information needs,I can find others websites like :http://education.iseek.com ,http://www.sweetsearch.com,http://www.USA.gov...etc. I also learned how to do learning objectives using the bloom´s taxonomy , I think this form I will use in my future class .we learned how to write clear objectives through from Pennsylvania State University´s. It was very interesting to learn about ABCD objective model for me it was very new I never use it . other aspect very interesting was the Project task where the teacher has to describe about one class ,goal, interest of the student ,etc. my comments about the blog from luis I think this blog is very interesting and useful , we can appreciate a important aspect that the professor give to the class . he mentions three conclusions basics and I hope that other colleagues can add some important information to the blog,.

week1

The first week , I have learned many things like : 1.-I visited the course website and explore it. For me it was a very great experienced to explore . 2.-We have the opportunity to join the class discussion on Nicenet, these discussions were very useful because we got more information about new friends around the world. and to use the new plaform and technology. 3.-I also learned a new form to know what are our skills using an assessment survey. 4.-we have the opportunity to create our own reflective teaching blogs 5.-we join the class wiki.