Saturday, October 15, 2011

0 Delicious Course *** Week 3

For this week :
I read Aleyda Linares "Building Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web Project ' The projects goals are develop students' grammar skills, involve them to be better in using English by motivation and work in group.
The project was designed to support the various types of interaction that occur during the web-based learning process. The purpose of the project was to design and develop a web-based program and to examine the effects of interaction on problem solving and participation of students in the web-based learning process.
For the type of interaction, students showed different patterns of participation in the web-based learning process.Regarding the results for students' participation in the learning process, the differential effects were found.
I really liked this project , Aleyda expresses how the use of technology can change the mentality of the students about the foreign language helping them to acquire new important knowledge and have fun at the same time.
Another activity was to start using Delicious. com, a site to store your favorite web pages online. It is very helpful because you can access to your favorite website trough any computer with Internet connection. It was great to know that you can start a network with other teachers to explore their favorites and to get use of them in order to get more resources for class. You can visit and check my bookmarks on http://delicious.com/mariamalfarisia/



We read about CALL in the developing of speaking and listening skills. We had an overview of the different types of software that are being developed and some results that researchers have shown in relation to these teaching points. We also read some lesson plans whose main purpose is to exercise speaking and listening skills with some links resources such as http://www.elthillside.com/up/files/article4.doc and http://www.onestopenglish.com/skills/speaking/teaching-ideas/
I had the chance to read good articles and explore interesting sites in order to have more resources to employ in class.
I´m ready for another week of great learning and new experiences.

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