Week 3 - Sharing and Sharing

This week was the week of "sharing!" learned to use a tool to share links in an orderly and easy to the many resources available online.

Use the delicious.com website is a gateway to endless possibilities for students and an opportunity to structure the interests of teachers in a clear and simple way.

On the other hand, reading a real example of a final project was very enjoyable, I loved reading the experience of a teacher with very understandable challenges in Latin American countries where the conditions of the classrooms or the resources themselves are not always ideal, but as she shows in your project, it is important that the teacher is convinced the project, apply the techniques we have learned and then implement them, and eventually with the help of end users, in this case the students , which are the main source and reason for any learning process, improve all aspects necessary supported by technological resources at our disposal. This week we had the good fortune then access what other teachers prepare derivative created in BTS-IW by University of Oregon! so it was a very nice gift! Now is so much clear for me my pending tasks...

And about the articles written by experts on Oral / Aural skills, were also quite enriching, talk about one of the major challenges of any English teacher anywhere in the world ... all references that I could access the recommendations of all group members are really helpful to overcome these obstacles, the challenge now is to select and implement those that work best for my students on the course objective.

Thank you for sharing so much knowledge!!

Week 2 - ABCD Objective

The ABCD method is one of the best structured methodologies that I have knew.

I had already had contact with this methodology in the course "Train of trainners" in Japan, and I applied to teach business topics in the SMEs.

But though I knew and had used it 2 years ago, indeed for the English class I was not thinking about how to apply it. It was really helpful to read the guides sent us with the basis of the method, and examples for application in these kind of english courses.

I enjoy greatly, running the exercise and really think about how practical and concise way the student could learn what is really planned.

Management of student expectations is one of the biggest challenges and the ABCD method is an extremely effective tool in order to overcome this challenge, since the method requires the teacher to think why and how, and helps students understand where they are arriving after the whole process, not imagining, but with tangible and measurable, what is their mission.

I am very happy because I see more and more the light on what I can improve in my current educational process, and although I know we are just beginning I love the idea of ​​having a clear structure of our final work and how to apply it with our current students and / or the new ones.

Week 2 - Search Engines

This week, I had the opportunity to review beyond google .... and was totally unexpected, exciting and almost threatening, actually applied about 6 hours, just browsing the various options for specialized search engines that "noodletools.com" is documented.

Now I am completely convinced that the Sea of ​​possibilities in information in the network, requires a variety of search engines of proportional dimmension.

Definitely created by Noodletools guide is extremely useful for people who have little time and need to find quality information to carry reference to our students.

In addition, it is very important mention the article talks about "The future of search" was very interesting, in summary, I think the most important is to realize that search engines are also a vehicle to "find" a vehicle to "gather information" of what people think, search, find and use. And at the end of time or as time passes, then there will be a virtual database that allows for as robust anthropological study but also organic and interactive, for use in his own contemporaneity.

Week 1 - Kickoff

Welcome everyone!!

I hope this summary about the course structure (include the instructions for the next 10 weeks) be useful for you. It was derived of my review of the official website "Building Teacher Skills Through the Interactive Web" (https://sites.google.com/site/webskillsuo/home).

You are able to download the file on the next link, for the next 14 days. https://www.yousendit.com/download/M3BtYnUrZ2pGOFJEZU1UQw

Best Regards!!!

Week 1 - Reflecting

My experience about my first week studying BTS-IW (Building Teacher Skills - Interactive Web).

This week was very excited and very enriching week, because I had the opportunity to put working my mind in how the technology can help students in their learning process.

It was very interesting the task, lectures and discussions that we had this week about:

Ground rules for discussions

Online discussions - comparing rubrics

Needs analysis survey - through email link

Blogs Blogger how-to

Blogging for ELT http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/articles/blogging-elt

Guidelines for Discussion and Rubrics - download and print this document to use as a reference whan you post on Nicenet.

ABOUT THE BLOG!!!

When our coordinator asked us to create a blog where we can share our experience week by week, thought it was a GREAT IDEA!!!

I have created other blogs before (as a jobbie), but this time was special and different experience, this time, I thougth in the functionallity and I thougth in use it in the medium or long term, thats why it was a bigger challenge.

I wanted to do something special, so I decided to involve some friends in my first blog post!!!

I asked them (in facebook), share with me one English word that they like it and I created a collage with the results!!! I Titled "WHAT THE PEOPLE THINK WHEN THEY THINK IN ENGLISH". Thank you so much all my friends!!!!! I hope you enjoy it!!!!!

Post-script: You will find the English word and then the nickname of the thinker...