REFLECTION
Reflection post: views on
the subject, tools and the master in general.
1- Go over some blog makers,
templates, etc.
I chose to keep the blogger's blog I
had been using before this subject started because it was the easiest one for me to work
with. Even so, I have faced plenty of text loss that I had already
published because of last minute template's changes or rewriting and such.
Anyway still in my opinion the
easiest of them all: blogger :)
By the way good support team blogger
has with nice people answering doubts straight and quick whenever we users face
trouble. Good job! http://support.google.com/blogger/?hl=en&hlrm=es
2- www.wordle.com (How to introduce
a new story? How to write a story?)
a. Think of new vocab. and
expressions learned from the story/tale
The happy Man offers an interesting approach on English
sensibility and Weltanschauung of the 1930s England. We are able to feel it
through the text.
Somehow sensibility is different from nowadays and this may be an interesting point to keep in mind and share somehow with the students achieving so a multidisciplinary approach to other subjects such as human relationships, morals, etc. How we see life, what we expect from life, etc...May be treated or at least approach in the class through activities, play role. Besides the abundance of dialogs make the text a stage transferable one. That could be another idea.
Somehow sensibility is different from nowadays and this may be an interesting point to keep in mind and share somehow with the students achieving so a multidisciplinary approach to other subjects such as human relationships, morals, etc. How we see life, what we expect from life, etc...May be treated or at least approach in the class through activities, play role. Besides the abundance of dialogs make the text a stage transferable one. That could be another idea.
b. Go to Wordle.com and type them in
c. As a result, you’ll have a tag
cloud to work with (pre-treatment, action or post-treatment)
d. Now, make a tag cloud (based on
the story you liked most, on the master, on your learning process, on yourself…to be
included in the blog)
The story I liked the most is the one I read more
thoughtfully which is The
Happy Man. I also liked though Mrs.
Bixby and the Colonel's Coat because
I found it fun and terrible at the same time with a lot of
readings/interpretations from the part of the reader and very useful for
English (L2, I mean) Literature student’s expansion of film (Alfred Hitchcock)
and approaching Roald Dahl, a very good author for English learning due to his
wide use in intermediate English learners classes.
The master has been especially useful for me because I
always liked since I started to get in touch with it TIC usage in the classroom
for English teaching.
During my Practicum (some of it may be seen in this
blog) I realized how much motivated students became through blogging, singing,
recording their own voices and hearing them very critically by the way, etc
It was of a lot of help to me to get plenty of
electronic material and use it right away or just try it for fun. I liked it.
Related to Literature: stories, short stories, devices
that have to do with Literature teaching were given to us that other ways would
have been hard to find by ourselves at this knowledge level with TICs.
3- Go to
http://www.classtools.net/fb/home/page
Fakebook
It’s okay. I checked some of them: the one from Anna
Frank,. the one from Hitler and the one from Al Capone.
many contemporary real characters are able to interact
with each other in the "facebook manner" answering questions and
"updating" information daily, simultaneously, in a synchronic manner.
(Check the applications)
a . How could you use it in a
classroom?
in the case of Somerset Maugham it could be useful to
integrate a historical background of characters from his time, maybe morals
from then and contemporary authors.
Some biography stuff and maybe in a chronological way,
this is, towards the end of the blog or in a different entry or post his
Hollywood years and film adaptations. This last point can be also for Roald
Dahl's Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat applied.
4- Have a look at:
http://soundcloud.com/ and http://vocaroo.com/
a. Compare them. How could you use
them in a classroom?
vocaroo.com fairly poor in comparison to the voki
avatar recorder
in relationship with soundcloud.com i find t much more
elaborated as it allows some problems I have been facing since long, this is:
upload without being forced to use Ads recorders incrusted in the blog (as the
one i have) songs, sounds and whatever audio material I wish to use during the
class.
b. Include an activity where you use
any of the voice recorders (either for pre- treatment, action, or
post-treatment) to be included in the blog.
5- Which of all the different TICS do you like best and why?
glogster seems to me the more "complete" one
it allows audio, video,links, plenty of material to be
include and at the same time if one designs it fine includes all the necessary
for a complete activity in class without being obliged to open plenty of
windows and consuming resources.
entrada de CBG @ domingo, junio 10, 2012
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