WEEK 6

Edmodo offers educators and pupils a safe place to join and team up, share content and learning presentations, and contact schoolwork, results, class debates and announcements. Its aim is to support teachers connection, the influence of collective media to convert the classroom for each and every student.

Learning is seen as essentially a social process, requiring communication among learner, teacher and others. This social process cannot effectively be replaced by technology, although technology may facilitate it. (p. 35)

Bates, A.W., & Poole, G (2003). Effective teaching with technology in higher education: Foundations for success. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Technology provides a wide and extensive variety of tools and sources to teach and get students attention easily. We must take advantage of this fact teaching according this current age. We have to use new applications and innovative network in order to live and develop our students capacities and quality of results.

WEEK 5

       Week 5 was dedicated to evaluate and share our acquired knowledge about UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers. It was a document that was posted in UNESCO´s official web page. It was a long and complete file, so our teacher gave us specific parts of it to expose what we understood.  

       The second part of this week we started to use a very useful tool that allows us to keep our information safe everywhere. It works as a memory flash controlled by the net, so it is not physical, but electronic. We created new accounts to belong to the wide group of people who use it around the world due to its usefulness. We saved there all our Power Point presentations to start shaping our Digital-Portfolio. For more information and extra tips of how using Dropbox, I will left here the link of a very useful video I found.
                         

Dropbox Tips

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK6u83lzQtw

      We took a look over a very helpful website called BBC British Council. It has many innovations for teachers to do their classes easier to understand, organized and funny. Students can take advantage of many spaces there, as the varied sections for self-evaluation and practice. Teacher Wilma recommended us to use a very functional webpage identified as ESL-LAB.com

She told us that this website offers us many exercises to practice our listening skills. We can use it with our students as well due to a wide variety of levels and graded drills. This web page counts with the corresponding written scripts for each dialog, so we or our students can practice our speaking and reading skills as an appropriated complement of inclusive learning process.

        In conclusion, Week 5 was a fruitful period that left us the thought that there are much and uncountable tools to develop our students´ acquisition and our own knowledge by using technology and traditional basis as well.

WEEK 4

We learned many things and we made some clarifications about our blogs and our comments on them. We started a new discovery this week. We started running a very useful tool like DIIGO. This is a powerful information capturing, storing, recalling and sharing network instrument. We can save important websites and go into them on any computer as well as classify them by titles, notes, keyword tags, list and groups. It is so useful for professionals that you can search through bookmarks to find desired information very quickly and so other functional uses that we will learn through time with our teacher´s help.

I have made some research on this topic and how we can use Diigo as teacher or even in the classroom, so I want to share with you what I have found. According to the web page called Student Learning with Diigo which is a Google Site there are many cases in which we can use Diigo in the classroom. For example, students can review their favorite websites using their Diigo account. Teachers can do the same accessing their Diigo lists to get the best exercises and relevant information posted on the net to share with students.   

SOURCE:      https://sites.google.com/site/team8project9440/using-diigo-in-the-classroom-2