Weaving internet in the class

Slide 1: Weaving Internet in the classroom by Ma. Elena Delgado ENP1 April 2008

Slide 2: Content  The blog as a Publishing tool  Teacher and learners blogs  Sample Activities : design criteria  Other tools

Slide 3: How?, When? Where?  Publishactivities in a blog.  Students check it after class hours  At school, at home…

Slide 4: Blogs in class …  Information is typed and published with a  Anyone who can type, copy, and paste can create and maintain a blog.  The sequence of writings create a record of learning and a resource for others. A blog is interactive, readers can comment.

Slide 5: Types of blogs Teacher Blog It promotes exploration of English websites.  It provides syllabus information (assignments,  upcoming topics). It serves as a resource of links for self-study. 

Slide 6: Types of blogs Learners Blog May be run by individual learners themselves  or by small collaborative groups of learners. Can be used as journals or e-portfolios. 

Slide 7: Activities Criteria  Linguistic - What do students need to learn, review, ?  How? (by reading, writing,speaking,listening)  Learner´s interest.  Difficulty of task: Low tech vs. High tech. Describe the activities in handout See printed samples

Slide 8: Sample activities  My English4 class  In the design you can include  Text  Pictures  Links  Video  Interactive activities

Slide 9: You can… edit delete keep track of posts Para ver esta pelﾒcula, debe disponer de QuickTimeﾪ y de un descompresor TIFF (sin comprimir).

Slide 10: Learners blogs E-portfolios, class blogs http://sandragutierrez509.blogspot.com/  http://alfredoluna509.blogspot.com/  cartoon-festival 

Slide 11: Other useful tools… wikis  Student´s page http://luisangellopez.blogspot.com/ Para ver esta pelﾒcula, debe disponer de QuickTimeﾪ y de un descompresor TIFF (sin comprimir).

Slide 12: Tools for blogs for social networks and gadgets Para ver esta pelﾒcula, debe disponer de QuickTimeﾪ y de un descompresor TIFF (sin comprimir). Para ver esta pelﾒcula, debe disponer de QuickTimeﾪ y de un descompresor TIFF (sin comprimir). Blinklist  Neo counter, answers.com 

Slide 13: Cell phones = mobility Informal learning ( new learning spaces)  Flexibility (anytime, anywhere)  To listen to podcasts  To create podcasts  To create videoclips 

Slide 14: Participating groups  Group 403B (25 students)  Group 413A ( 28 students)  Group 509 ( 30 students)  Group 501 ( 26 students)