This course provided me a lot of tools. Quias, Educational Blogs, Power Point templates, and the experience to share with my classmates different viewpoints about how to apply technology in class to give students the skills to success in this comptetive world. I was excited to create my first pod cast and I was able o create my first photo story assignment about the Inca Culture. I think this is a good way to share with my students some little facts about different hispanic cultures in class.
Iam just sad because I would like to have more time to practice more about the Quia that allow teachers to organize data of students who took a test. I hope we have more technology classes to improve our knowledge and continue our development.
Thank a lot for all I learned from you. You are a great teacher!!!!
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Week 7: Grant by Jacqueline
I have to mention that I don't know a lot about how to get grants in USA. I think the websites you provied are a good star.
On the other hand, If I have the opportunity to get a grant, I will invest this money in buying at least two digital cameras, good microphones and a good convertor. The videos will be used to record the Spanish plays which is a requirement for the finals of the two levels I teach. I will ask the students if I can film those presentations for educational purposes. This recorded videos will help others newcomers to see how other students struggle in getting the skills of the languages. These videos also will help students to see how others students prepare a ten or fifteen minutes play by using all the artifacts they need to get a good grade. This is agood way to get our own educational resources for the use of teachers and students.
Because learning languages requires a lot of practice in pronunciation and listening skills, I will use the microphones to allow the students to listen to different Spanish podcast and practice some vocabulary. Then they will be able to listen to themselves by using the Audacity Program.
I am glad to be part of this class because I learn a lot not only about technology but about different viewpoints of address a class by using technology.
On the other hand, If I have the opportunity to get a grant, I will invest this money in buying at least two digital cameras, good microphones and a good convertor. The videos will be used to record the Spanish plays which is a requirement for the finals of the two levels I teach. I will ask the students if I can film those presentations for educational purposes. This recorded videos will help others newcomers to see how other students struggle in getting the skills of the languages. These videos also will help students to see how others students prepare a ten or fifteen minutes play by using all the artifacts they need to get a good grade. This is agood way to get our own educational resources for the use of teachers and students.
Because learning languages requires a lot of practice in pronunciation and listening skills, I will use the microphones to allow the students to listen to different Spanish podcast and practice some vocabulary. Then they will be able to listen to themselves by using the Audacity Program.
I am glad to be part of this class because I learn a lot not only about technology but about different viewpoints of address a class by using technology.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Week 6: Writing Prompt response
Online Assestment tools
When I navigated the Quia.com website I found many interesting tools to use in my Spanish class. This website provides templates for creating different types of online activities, including flash cards, word search, battleship, challenge board, and cloze exercises. When I click on "sharing" I found 5811 activities that Spanish students can use to learn and have fun at the same time . Spanish Jepardy, which is a challenge board, pop-ups, jumble words, and Java games are some of the activities you can use for language classes. In addition, this website allow teachers to create their own topics by using this activities templates. This online activities and quizzes have been created by teachers from around the world, and other fellow teachers can access them quickly. That is great!!!
In addition, teachers can save a lot of time and manage students information by using Quia Books. The reason is because this is a program that helps you to grade students and create detailed reports on student performance. For example, this website can provide with a report that specifies what question students failed most. Certainly, teacher needs to know this information to help students to acquire this missing knowledge.
When I navigated the Quia.com website I found many interesting tools to use in my Spanish class. This website provides templates for creating different types of online activities, including flash cards, word search, battleship, challenge board, and cloze exercises. When I click on "sharing" I found 5811 activities that Spanish students can use to learn and have fun at the same time . Spanish Jepardy, which is a challenge board, pop-ups, jumble words, and Java games are some of the activities you can use for language classes. In addition, this website allow teachers to create their own topics by using this activities templates. This online activities and quizzes have been created by teachers from around the world, and other fellow teachers can access them quickly. That is great!!!
In addition, teachers can save a lot of time and manage students information by using Quia Books. The reason is because this is a program that helps you to grade students and create detailed reports on student performance. For example, this website can provide with a report that specifies what question students failed most. Certainly, teacher needs to know this information to help students to acquire this missing knowledge.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Week 1 : Visit three Educational Blogs.
First Blogs: K12EduTALK ( which is in the list of educational blogs). The link is:
k12edutalk
This blog provides a lot of discussion and conferencias about the use of technology in class. They also provide interviews about how to re-define teaching and learning in the 21st century.
I suggest other students to review this blog because they debate how technology is changing teaching instructional and learning process of the students and what the challenges of many educator face in this century are.
I would like to recommend to see this video:
I hope you enjoy it!!!
k12edutalk
This blog provides a lot of discussion and conferencias about the use of technology in class. They also provide interviews about how to re-define teaching and learning in the 21st century.
I suggest other students to review this blog because they debate how technology is changing teaching instructional and learning process of the students and what the challenges of many educator face in this century are.
I would like to recommend to see this video:
I hope you enjoy it!!!
Week 5 : Is google Good or Evil? by Jacqueline Chavez
Credibility is a powerful tool for any company. Now Google Inc. is being criticized for being “evil” because they are crossing the line of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. I don’t think so. I sincerely hope Google’s integrity is reflected in their philosophy for the well-being of many users.
What I have noticed is that Google managers are trying to improve their service by creating the robots.txt file, which is one of the many Google mechanisms to allow operators of a web site to request that part or their entire site not be included in search engine results. I think this is a good way to solve any dispute about copyright. To satisfy the users’ needs we do not need more lawsuits but good agreements among educational institutions, government and big companies like Google to provide a better access to a good and accurate information to make easy our researches.
What really concerns me is that Google keeps some of our personal information obtained from our e-mails. I disagree with this policy because I think we as users should be able to manage our own and personal information. If we decide to delete our e-mail, it should be deleted with our personal information too. I hope it changes.
Far beyond any Google critic, we should recognize that Google makes our lives easier. Since it provides us of the best research engines, fast Gmails, Google News, Google Images, and many other good services, now we are able to success in an organized World Wide Web.
What I have noticed is that Google managers are trying to improve their service by creating the robots.txt file, which is one of the many Google mechanisms to allow operators of a web site to request that part or their entire site not be included in search engine results. I think this is a good way to solve any dispute about copyright. To satisfy the users’ needs we do not need more lawsuits but good agreements among educational institutions, government and big companies like Google to provide a better access to a good and accurate information to make easy our researches.
What really concerns me is that Google keeps some of our personal information obtained from our e-mails. I disagree with this policy because I think we as users should be able to manage our own and personal information. If we decide to delete our e-mail, it should be deleted with our personal information too. I hope it changes.
Far beyond any Google critic, we should recognize that Google makes our lives easier. Since it provides us of the best research engines, fast Gmails, Google News, Google Images, and many other good services, now we are able to success in an organized World Wide Web.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Week 4: Using video fron You Tube in the classroom and students' ability to post their own content on You Tube.(jacqueline V. Chavez)
This week I watched a video in which a teacher and his students are acting disrespectfully. I was shocked. In my country teachers are like our second parents and we respect them like they respect us. It is sad to see that this teacher couldn't manage his class. We all know that to manage a class we need to set the rules first. "No cell phones on," or anything that disrupt the class are the first things students should learn an put in practice. For me, this video is a good evidence that some of those students need a punishment and the teacher needs a reprimand because of the innapropriate behaviors. Parents should understand that sometimes their children are not the angels they pretend to be in fornt of them. Parents need to work with the school staff to find the way to prevent this event again.
Nowadays technology is an easy way to defame teachers. We need to be aware that techonoly may be used for good and bad purposes. For this reason, the educational authorities, teachers, and parents need to work in set the rules or standars to create a video for educational purposes. I am sure that teachers have enough professional capability to censor or remove some part of the material created by students in order to maintain the respect and safety of the classroom.
On the other hand, I would like to mention that sometimes You Tube videos are very useful for students and teachers. However, many utube videos may be very unuseful and a waste of time for professionals. For this reason, I am glad to know that we some inteligent professionals have created Teacher You Tube . This is a website in where teachers and students post videos for educational purposes. In addition, everytime this website receives a post of a new didgital video , they inmediately censor it to make sure it is an appropriate educational material for students. For me, it will be great if teachers and students around the world could create multicultural videos and share them in different languages to have a better accesibility and learn more about different cultures.
Nowadays technology is an easy way to defame teachers. We need to be aware that techonoly may be used for good and bad purposes. For this reason, the educational authorities, teachers, and parents need to work in set the rules or standars to create a video for educational purposes. I am sure that teachers have enough professional capability to censor or remove some part of the material created by students in order to maintain the respect and safety of the classroom.
On the other hand, I would like to mention that sometimes You Tube videos are very useful for students and teachers. However, many utube videos may be very unuseful and a waste of time for professionals. For this reason, I am glad to know that we some inteligent professionals have created Teacher You Tube . This is a website in where teachers and students post videos for educational purposes. In addition, everytime this website receives a post of a new didgital video , they inmediately censor it to make sure it is an appropriate educational material for students. For me, it will be great if teachers and students around the world could create multicultural videos and share them in different languages to have a better accesibility and learn more about different cultures.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Week 2 Blog Post Writing Prompt -Potential of postcasting and editing audio- comment
I never though about pod casting until I listened some of them. I realized that they are very useful because you can make students practice their pronunciation or tell them some tips about how to learn Spanish. In addition, podcast allow teachers to help other teachers to teach because teachers can share this educational podcast. I found one interesting podcast that i would like to incorporate in my curriculum because it talk about some common difficulties in learning Spanish. This podcast also incorporate some speeches from different presidents. But I enjoyed more was the idea that this podcast provide some Spanish sentences that students have to listen to and try to translate in English. Similarly, it podcast have some English sentences that students have to translate in Spanish after a certain time. These are some of the useful podcast I found:
http://epnweb.org/index.php?request_id=14&openpod=10#anchor10
Inside this address there are many examples of podcast like this:
http://epnweb.org/player.php?podshow=http://m2.slapcast.com/mp3/johan0808/johan0808-2005-04-17.mp3&podcast=Really%20Learn%20Spanish&program=Really%20Learn%20Spanish%20-%205%20(14:56)
With respect to using a student video student created video in class. I think I will use this activity as a group project for a final. They supposed to edit a video in which they make a little video clip in Spanish. For example, they can prepare a script about a conversation in a Mexican restaurant or any other idea related with any topic developed in class. the presentation will be just from five to ten minutes. In this way they will be able to practice their Spanish and have a fun activity in where they can use their creativity.
Note: Mr Eric
I hope to having created good links.
Thanks!!!
Jacqueline V. Chavez
http://epnweb.org/index.php?request_id=14&openpod=10#anchor10
Inside this address there are many examples of podcast like this:
http://epnweb.org/player.php?podshow=http://m2.slapcast.com/mp3/johan0808/johan0808-2005-04-17.mp3&podcast=Really%20Learn%20Spanish&program=Really%20Learn%20Spanish%20-%205%20(14:56)
With respect to using a student video student created video in class. I think I will use this activity as a group project for a final. They supposed to edit a video in which they make a little video clip in Spanish. For example, they can prepare a script about a conversation in a Mexican restaurant or any other idea related with any topic developed in class. the presentation will be just from five to ten minutes. In this way they will be able to practice their Spanish and have a fun activity in where they can use their creativity.
Note: Mr Eric
I hope to having created good links.
Thanks!!!
Jacqueline V. Chavez
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