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.

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.