WEEK 3

WEEK 3

We took our first quiz. It lasted 8 minutes because it was easy to solve. I got a good score that made me feel I am going in the correct way through the first steeps of this subject. We started a new forum to discuss in pairs. The main topic was PLAGIARISM. We red some web pages that illustrated us about citing and giving credit about good thoughts we use but are not ours. I developed this assignment with Natasha. She helped me a lot because she reads efficiently and quickly, so we finished very fast. Teacher Wilma told us that we must investigate about APA Style and make a Power Point Presentation to explain to our partners what we get. She organized oral lessons for next class, so there were three volunteers and she chose one more on Thursday. I participated with my presentation because I got a very useful video on You Tube that helped me a lot. I will put here the link for you to watch it.

APA Referencing: The Basics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOEmM5gmTJM&feature=related

This week we learned the basics of APA Style as a tool to mention author´s when using their phrases and citations. It is so important to give credit to someone else to avoid offending and commiting a crime such Plagiarism. Our papers must have citation to show that we researched about any topic, but we must mention the authors of everything that does not belong or come from our mind. Here I place another link for you to see a video about keeping our papers good presented and free of Plagiarism as well.

Avoid Plagiarism in Research Papers with Paraphrases & Quotations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1t0G7ZnRG8&feature=related

WEEK 2

We are continuing increasing our knowledge and skills to make use of the UTA platform. We started this session changing our personal Aula Virtual´s password for more security. Then, we learned more about taking part in a forum discussion, where its participants can provide their opinions to make it richer in sources. We live in a very rich culture, but it is even more important for us to get in contact and learn from foreign people. They can inform us about many things that could be useful to become in people with opened mind. Teacher Wilma started one to train and to engage us to use it. Everybody participated on it and it was really interesting to learn and perform this assignment as well. Forums are so useful tools to keep our students interested on any topic and in a continue learning process.

Our posts are very important for teacher Wilma, she explained us, because she can realize how much and how well we are learning throughout them. She explained us how manage our entries well. We did a practice-quiz in order to get ready for the real one that will be next week. It was structured on the Hot-potatoes platform that evaluates our current knowledge based on a multi-answer format and ranks our performance according to our right or wrong responses.

A good teacher pursuits the excellence. We are learning about many tools to become in the best ones. We are being trained by the best teachers as well. Now, our one responsibility is to take advantage of these resources that our scholars are setting right in our hands to get our aims fulfilled. That´s why I have looked for a video to make us even more aware of the importance of using technology to teach English. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaPbbchA9LY

WEEK 1

Internet and Multimedia as a subject is a fresh implementation to teach and to train us in order to get professionals who are able to make use of them to educate others, as well.

I am so interested in learning as much as I can. We started our classes this week. On Tuesday we took a look of our module. We saw what we are going to learn, the topics and the new multimedia sources we will use. Besides, teacher Wilma told us about the tools we will use to develop our skills, such as our personal blog to elaborate a Learning Reflexion Journal. It must be edited every week, adding on it a detailed description of our learning process. On Thursday, we started our first assignment. It is kind of reflective and makes emphasis on evaluate and asses websites as critical thinkers to judge which are good and resourceful for us and which are not.

My objectives for this subject are very clear. I know it is very important to be aware about the importance and the pedagogical benefits of applying technology when teaching. Whether we want to be a good teacher and to get acceptable results when teaching others, we must being in constantly innovation about teaching sources. I want to learn to use those tools efficiently and keep them in mind to apply them when they were necessary.

At the end of the present semester, I want to know as many multimedia means as possible to help people to learn; not only in theory, but also in perform.