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.