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

jueves, 30 de septiembre de 2010

How People learn and what might technology have to do with it
Introduction
People begin to learn by they own. They start to walk, to talk, to move, to smile, by they won way, And not body tell them how to do it. Of, course we need somebody to facilities learning.
In other hand we have technology that might help people with their learning approach. I think technology is a facilitator of people development.

LEARNING OCCURS IN CONTEXT
Nowadays we have different kind of technology that is very useful to learn. When people are learning they can use technology to improve their different skills such listening, reading, grammar, and speaking. Driscoll, Marcy P. mentioned “Technology can facilitate learning by providing real world contexts that engage learners in solving complex problems.”

LEARNING IS SOCIAL
We can us technology to socialites, we can read and discus about every topic. We can change ideas with many people and ask about something that we would like to know. Also we can use pages to post information to somebody that is so far away for us or the most important for getting a job, like facebook that is very common.

LEARNING IS REFLECTIVE
This is a very important part to teach. Lat the students know about their own personality, like self-esteem, self confidence, and enterprising. Learning is facilities students to learn about their own mistake because teachers or classmate are going to feedback. And I think it is really nice to get feedback about our own work. Technology let us to read and check our students, classmate, and others people words whatever we are.

A FEW PARTING THOUGHTS
I do not say that technology is going to teach everything or that we pretend that we have to learn everything from there, but it is useful. Students have to do their own work and try to learn by their own.

jueves, 23 de septiembre de 2010


introduction
Nowdays most institutions around the world have techology, and some of them use teachnology to teach. I think institutions that let students working with different kind of technology, have a higher students leves.
Technology

Technology is the practical application of human knowledge to solve real problems through the design of tools or machines. The main purpose of technology is to apply this knowledge or information in order to improve human´s lifestyle.

Instructional technology

Instructional technology is about us as teachers getting the training to use technology to teach others.
Technology for learning
Technology for learning refers to the use of technological means to support the students learning. This is about how to apply technology in order to make easier the learning process.

Educational technology
It is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technology and resources. Some benefits of educational technology are making easier to access to course materials, student`s motivation, wide participation, and improves writing skills.

Elements of the rationale for teaching with technology
• Motivation•
Unique instructional capabilities
• Support for new instructional approaches
• Increase teaching productivity
• Require skills for the information age

Principles of teaching with technology

1. Encourage contact between students and the faculty
2. Develops the reciprocity and cooperation between the students
3. Encourage active learning
4. Gives prompt feedback
5. Emphasizes time on tasks
6. Communicates high expectations
7. Respect of diverse talents and ways of learning.

jueves, 16 de septiembre de 2010

Strategies to search internet

This Presentacion is for teachers and students who wants to learn some tips about searching internet.



Next pages give you some tips to learn how to search internet quickly.


Internet Search Tips and Strategies These page give to you a therorical information about searhing internet.

Bitelia Web Search Strategies, introducción a los buscadores In this page you will find informationa, and a Video that show you some strategies to use internet quickly, Also it is sowftware that can buy to use it.

How Search Works
This page it is a video that teach you how to search by words.

miércoles, 15 de septiembre de 2010

My self

Hi Everybody!

My name is Mary. I am using this blog because I am tryin to learn how to use internet for teaching.

I am a friendly person and I have a good humor. I jus speak with people that is around me or who want to do it. I think it is beacuse I am a little shy person.