Friday, January 25, 2013

WEEK 3 "The highliting"



I think that would be the best way to describe this week`s job although some other topics were clearly the very important too. The aural and oral skills is considered by most of the teachers in my country as the weakest points in our practices (including me some time ago) and that is due to most of the teachers don`t like or don`t know how to speak the language with the students or with anyone else. In my case isn`t a problem because I have the idea of if you are teaching something how can you be a teacher and don`t use the language? It is like having a Ferrari ( which certainly with my salary of a teacher would be impossible) and keep it parked in your garage of something without using. Other thing is how can we learn a speaking language if we don`t give our students tools to listen and then speak? I always like when my students are trying to communicate with me using the language but first I should be the model to follow and I mean by follow when they listen to me.
The project which I chose can influence some of my final project because it has several similarities within my school setting so I know now what path should I follow and what is the objective of this course?. Thanks as always and see you soon. By the way robert, my birthday was also the 20th of january, 1983. bye bye

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Second week

This is the second week from the course and I think the exact word to describe this week`s work  is "Accurancy". First fo all, search engines give the idea of looking for something specifically without wasting time and also those searches are very specific depending on the topics or the search engine you use for. Secondly, ABCD objectives is a new thing either here in the course and on this year curriculum because there is a adjustment on the national curriculum and Learning objectives are included now so the best thing of this is that I already know something about it , I will search for info in the websites the course suggents. Finally I`m  happy because the topics from the course till now are very challenging and helpful for our practices and our instructor`s feedbacks helps a lot to modify some ideas which may help us to be better teachers using technology and a powerful tools to use in our classroom.

Friday, January 11, 2013

Week 1, starting the journey

hello everyone,
This is my first step on creating a blog, I think it`s similar to what we do in our school with our notebooks to record what things we have done or learnt througth this class. Till now I have great expectations with the class and the instructors. The thing I like the most is the idea f sharing ideas, thoughts and opinions with people who likes what I like most.... English and isn`t because we all use the language to communicate only and if you add technology our practices can be more interesting for our students. So at this point this first week has been very engaging for me, someone who doesn`t use to much tech on classes.
But I realize when something starts like this, it gives me the idea that at the end of the course I will feel rewarded and satisfy with my learning and all the things that my classmates and the teachers share with me.
I wolud like to finish my first post using a quote:

"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.Carl Rogers 

See you all soon. bye.