jueves, 16 de diciembre de 2010

Learning process

My experience in this curse was very good, I think , sometime I did not have enough time to make my works as I would like to present them, but did us best at I could.
I really learned how to make videos, websites like blogs, wikis, and others and how to apply them into my future class or maybe another profession.
This curse teaches me that technology can be useful to teach in class, even though that class is difficult. Making videos and websites for students can make the class fun and interesting. And students will be motive to go to class and study at home using technology.
One of the things that really like were the wikis and the software that my classmates and I made to present because we can use them in class and sent to the students to study and have fun at home. It is something that did not know.
Thanks’ to the teacher to teach this curse in a practical and easy way.

domingo, 12 de diciembre de 2010

sábado, 20 de noviembre de 2010

movie

Movie Maker is a program to make videos, and it is very easy to do it. Teaching with videos can make our lessons more effective and interesting for students.





jueves, 11 de noviembre de 2010

Virtual Classrroom

Virtual Classrooms
Claroline.net
Introduction

Virtual classrooms is one of the essiest ways of learn nowdays. I will write about Caroline. net which is a virtul classroom that we can use to teach and learn.


Foreword

Today there are many virtual classrooms in the world and its usage is expanding rapidly because they are very convenient and practical. This work will concentrate on Claroline.net which is one of many that exist in the vast internet world. Claroline.net is `` an Open Source eLearning and eWorking platform allowing teachers to build effective online courses and to manage learning and collaborative activities on the web. Translated into 35 languages, Claroline has a large worldwide users’ and developers’ community.`` (Claroline.net, 2010). To understand better what this all means ``the online learning space where students and instructors interact`` (Imperial, 2010).

Characteristics/Activities you can do
Write a course description
Publish documents in any format (text, PDF, HTML, video...)
Administer public and private forums
Develop learning paths
Create groups of students
Prepare online exercises
Manage an agenda with tasks and deadlines
Publish announcements (also by e-mail)
Propose assignments to be handed in online
See the statistics of the users activity
Use the wiki to write collaborative documents

Advantages
· Hosting
· Credibility (The platform is used in more than 80 countries and is available in more than 30 languages.)
· Claroline is compatible with GNU/Linux, Mac OS and Microsoft Windows
· Easy to access
· Effective solution to set up an eLearning system
· Make available pedagogical contents and documents
· Carry out collaborative projects in your organization

Disadvantages
- You have to download it
- You have to pay

Specific Tools
Write a course description
Publish documents in any format (text, PDF, HTML, video...)
Administer public and private forums
Develop
Email

Pedagogical issues
According to its own official website these are the pedagogigal reasons for its existence ``Claroline is based on pedagogical principles coming from the literature on the added value of the technologies for training. Since 2000, Claroline development teams have been focusing on the code stability and the development of features in line with the user's needs. The main concern of the developers is not to build up a large number of new features, but to concentrate upon a few elaborated tools concerning the pedagogical approach and the interface offered to the users. Besides, a large worldwide community of users and developers contributes to Claroline's development and diffusion extensive`` (Claroline, 2010).

For further complete information & Customization
google:http://http://doc.claroline.net/en/index.php/Main_Page#How_to_customize_Claroline_layout_.3F

comparisons With blackboard:
- Both of them are virtual
- Both of them have forums
- Both of them have credibility
- People who use it can get reliable information from both of them
- Lots of interaction

Recomendations
· The installation process should be easier
· More interctive help

Conclusion
Virtual classrooms are the education of today and the future. All people must learn how to use them and make the best of them. They will constitute the main tool for students and teachers around the world in the education to come.

Bibliography
Claroline. (2010). Community Worldwide. Recuperado el 2010, de Community Worldwide: http://www.claroline.net/worldwide.htm
Claroline.net. (2010). Claroline.net. Recuperado el 2010, de Claroline.net: http://www.claroline.net/index.php?lang=en
Imperial. (2010). Imperial. Recuperado el 2010, de Imperial: www3.imperial.ac.uk/ict/services/teachingandresearchservices/elearning/aboutelearning/elearningglossary

martes, 12 de octubre de 2010

Multiples intelligence

Multiples intelligence

Introduction
Technology is a material that teachers can use in their lesson to help students learn any topic, and motive some students. In addition, teachers can use technology with different of intelligence that student have.
Gardner defines intelligence as "the capacity to solve problems or to fashion products that are valued in one or more cultural setting" (Gardner & Hatch, 1989).

Multiples intelligence is the different intelligence humans can have. Some people are better at understanding some things than others or they so something
easier than other people because their intelligence is different.


Verbal linguistic: involves having a mastery of language. This intelligence includes the ability to effectively manipulate language. This intelligence involves the knowing which comes through language; through reading, writing, and speaking (uncg.edu)

Logical mathematic: This intelligence is most often associated with scientific and mathematical thinking. This intelligence uses numbers, math, and logic to find and understand the various patterns that occur in our lives

Interpersonal: the ability to understand and discern the feelings and intentions of others.
Intrapersonal: the ability to understand one's own feelings and motivations. At the heart of this intelligence are our human self-reflective abilities by which we can step outside of ourselves and think about our own lives. It involves our uniquely human propensity to want to know the meaning, purpose, and significance of things. It involves our awareness of the inner world of the self, emotions, values, beliefs, and our various quests for genuine spirituality.

Musical: encompasses the capability to recognize and compose musical pitches, tones, and rhythms.

Naturalist: The naturalist intelligence involves the full range of knowing that occurs in and through our encounters with the natural world including our recognition, appreciation, and understanding of the natural environment

Kinesthetic:
is the ability to use one's mental abilities to coordinate one's own bodily movements. This intelligence challenges the popular belief that mental and physical activities are unrelated.

Spatial: gives one the ability to manipulate and create mental images in order to solve problems. This intelligence represents the knowing that occurs through the shapes, images, patterns, designs, and textures we see with our external eyes, but also includes all of the images we are able to conjure inside our heads.







Adapted from various sources including: http://aplus-schools.uncg.edu/multipleintelligences.

jueves, 7 de octubre de 2010

Games.
Introduction

For learning languages or any subject we want to study we have different ways to do it, one of them is by games, games make topics interesting and funny.
Active learning theorists encourage instructors to consider the motivational context for students during course design. The premise is that students learn best when they feel a need to know. Integrating exercises into the curriculum prompts this need to know. Activities which provide rewards or prizes serve as a motivational force. This new generation of students is characterized as having low thresholds for boredom as well as having short attention spans (Felicia, 2007)


google

http://http//www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~mbolin/f-smith.htm


General activities
google:http://http//www.theclassroomkit.com/classroom-1-literacy-links-alphabet.html

google:http://http//www.kenttrustweb.org.uk/kentict/content/games/literacy_menu.html

Games for teaching Reading
Reading is a subject that usually students don’t like. Teach with game should be more fun to read and learn.

google: http://http//www.theclassroomkit.com/classroom-2-literacy-links.html

google: http://http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=0baFyAF4d-c

google:http://http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc0DX4bCdvs&feature=related

Games for teaching grammar.
Grammar is one of the most important skills that people have to learn. For this reason teachers should try that every students learn grammar as much as they can. To teach grammar

Google http://%20http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xJBbHyVngw&feature=related

Google:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n91-RE7M3D0&feature=related

Google:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRVJS2zBIZs

Google:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wam5PscoSjU

Games for teaching Speaking

Google:http://www.youtube.com/watch?vQUgtomV3y4A&feature=channel

Games for teaching Listening

listeting is a very difficult skill, using techonology and games will help students to learn faster.
Google: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUgtomV3y4A&feature=channel

google:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NZz49aBfGI&feature=related

Google: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgpCKfMzVsk&feature=related

Google:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t314aZKfNCM&feature=related

Google: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSfZ8TsCsGI&feature=related