- The document discusses various educational activities and technologies that can be used to support language learning, including using computers, tablets, websites like Hot Potatoes, and video techniques like freeze frame, silent viewing, jigsaw viewing, and sound only. - It also discusses how satellites promote education by enabling internet access and communications worldwide, as well as aiding scientific research. However, launching a satellite is extremely expensive, costing at least $290 million. - The document advocates for incorporating educational technologies into language teaching, as students are engaged by digital media, but teachers must learn how to apply these tools and explain activities relating to students' interests.

1. Educational technology and internet
Tutor:
Carlos Raúl López Reátiga
By:
Evelyn Chairez Mendoza

2. Do you use a computer to reinforce your language
learning?
• Yes, I use a computer to work on my language learning, sometimes I also use a
tablet. It helps me with my language learning by using the translator, some
books that I download on a PDF. I google some homeworks, search for some
definition, I recently discovered some activities to improove my english and so.

3. • The name of the site is ‘Hot Potatoes’, It is about english learning
and includes lots of activities to improve your language learning.
The site has some tutorials for teachers, they include some ideas to
create multiple-choice tests, and even tutorials for Windows among
other things. Language learners can practice their skills on the site,
while teachers can get ideas for the class and take some tuttorials
like the ones that I´ve already mentioned.
• The links they include in the site are about the same, language
learners can find multiple sites about english learning and some
curious techniques that include pop culture to teach english. I
strongly recomend this site and I’ll use it in my future classes.

4. Advantages or disadvantages of the activities
Very usefull activity
This doesn’t give you the option to correct your
answer without taking point from your grade.
I couln’t watch the video. If the activity isn’t
updated the student won’t be able to finish it.
Uses a popular element as the audio of a movie.
That becomes interesting for the student
Uses a popular element as the audio of a movie.
That becomes interesting for the student
Using a video increases the atention of the
learner and becomes more didactical.
I couln’t watch the video. If the activity isn’t
updated the student won’t be able to finish it.
Using a video increases the atention of the
learner and becomes more didactical.
I found this activity a bit boring compared to the
others which can seem less atractive to the student.
The text is clear, Its not so long and the student
can aswer the questions easily.
Developes the listening skill, it’s an average text (not .
so long) so they don’t loose their attention while they
are asnwering it

5. What educational activities are supported by
satellites?
Watching educational videos, documentaries online
Discovering updated information about weather, scientific facts etc.
Listening activities on a CD
Answer new activities from a website

6. Its an artificial object created by the men that was put in orbit intentionally, thanks to
it we have digital ways to comunicate as internet, cellphones, among others.
Making and lauching a satellite costs at least $290 million dollars, It can cost more if
you want to add more features. There’s a large list of satellite manufacturers, they get
ensambled on countries like Germany, France and Russia.
Satellite promotes education by making internet and comunications possible, it also
helps with scientific research.

8. Answer with the correct name.
-Normal Viewing -Silent Viewing -Jigsaw Viewing
-Frezze Frame -Sound Only
• Frezze Frame • This technique is simple.
• Press the Pause or Still button on the video recorder so that the
picture stays on the screen. You'll need a Normal Viewing Silent
Viewing JigsawViewing Frezze Frame Sound Only video cassette
recorder (VCR) in which the image stands still and clear for about a
minute. Don't worry about "burning" the picture into the screen or
damaging the tape. These problems are no longer an issue due to
advances in VCR technology. What you will now have is a picture.
(Think of a video as being made up of millions of pictures.) All of
the activities you do with pictures in the classroom are still valid:
describing the people or scene, introducing new vocabulary,
making inferences about the characters' habits, livelihood, or
economic status from their clothing or physical shape, and so on.
The magic of video, however, is that the characters move and
speak. Use It just at the point when a character is about to respond
to a question, at a crucial moment when he/she must make a
statement or reaction, or when he/she has an interesting
expression on his/her face. Ask the students to guess what he/she
will say or do. Then release the pause on the VCR, and let them
compare their answers with what actually happens.

9. • Silent viewing
• This technique is useful, too, for pronunciation and grammar
practice. Stop the tape when a character has used an intonation
pattern, grammatical structure, or idiom that you want the
students to practice. Rewind slightly so that they can hear the
utterance again, and repeat it, either along with or following the
character's voice. Think about how much information we get
through our eyes: we make judgments about a person's age,
physical appearance, economic status, and mood. We know the
time of day and the season of the year. When two people are
talking, we infer much about their relationship and personalities
from their body language. If we observe small details, as we can
through video close-ups, we can find out additional information:
whether a person is married (Is she wearing a wedding ring?);
relaxed or tense (Is he smiling broadly or grinding his teeth?); or
concerned about appearance (Are his shoes shined or dirty?). All
of this information is readily available for class discussion if you
use this technique. In addition, video scenes usually present
many unsubtle clues to their content. (In fact, if you ask your
students to tell you about what they have just seen silently - both
the sequence of events and the content of the characters'
conversation - most students will give surprisingly accurate
descriptions.) By watching a scene with the sound off, students
gain two major benefits: 1) time in which to absorb the content of
a sequence without the anxiety of having to understand the
language and 2) a chance to fit the language that they hear on a
second viewing into a context. Not surprisingly, their level of
comprehension in the second viewing is greatly superior to that
of a "cold" first viewing that includes both sound and picture.

10. • Sound Only
• This technique
• may also be the chosen one when you want students to pay
particular attention to a small piece of dialogue, while avoiding
the distraction of the activity on the screen. This is particularly
interesting when body language and verbal language are
contradictory; focusing on each separately can lead to interesting
student observations. The major advantage of this method over
audiotape is that students can positively confirm their guesses (or
laugh at their mistakes) immediately upon viewing. This
technique is based on the idea that student partners will each
know different, but incomplete, versions of a story. In order to
recreate the original story, they will need to share their
information. While creating materials in print or on audiotape to
use with this technique is an arduous task, video, with its
separate visual and sound tracks, adapts quite easily. The
"classic" mode for
• this technique
• requires the ability to send half of the class out of the room for a
few minutes. The remaining students watch the video with the
sound off. The students then switch places, with the students who
just watched the video without sound leave the room and the
remainder listen with the picture off

11. • Jigsaw Viewing
• You will also want to create very structured
tasks for your class if this techniqueis used as
an initial viewing. While you can't expect
detailed comprehension from your students,
you can create activities that focus on
sequence of events, checking off things that
they see (or do not see), listening for
paraphrases, and gaining impressions that
can lead into writing assignments. The most
common use of this technique, however, is on
a second or third viewing of a tape segment,
after students have a general impression of
the content gained through silent viewing.
Now they can concentrate on activities that
require recall of specific vocabulary or
language exchanges

12. • In this activities I learned about satellites, the uses, the super expensive costs, also
the way satellites contribute education in the world and more specifically in mexico,
because even if it’s pretty obvious that satellites help us on our digital resources
somehow, most of the people doesn’t know exactly how they work or where they
come from. On the other hand I personally would like to thank this passage (and
the teacher of course) for introducing to me this website (hotpotatos) because I
found it very usefull, you can learn as a student and also as a teacher. The site
separates the activities according to the skill you want to develope or you want the
student to develope himself and also helps the teacher with his classes. I think It’s
very important that this kind of sites have this tutorials where the teachers have the
opportunity to learn how to use this educational technologies applying them on their
programs and optimize the classes. Students nowaday are very into technology, if we
use some traditional teaching methods they may get bored and loose the interest on
the class, that would mean a poor develoment of the students, so I think it’s our
responsability to find the way to make our classes interesting and also very updated
to this century. Including at least one of this activities on our classes may make a
difference and who know, it may also improve the student-teacher relationship. I
personally didn’t know the name of this activities (the ones of the last activity:
normal viewing, Silent Viewing, Jigsaw Viewing, Frezze Frame and Sound Only) all
of them are very usefull and, even if I only knew two of them, I think I can apply the
others succesfully because they include technology. There’s evidence that technology
helps the student be more aware of the activities and the contents that the teacher
includes on the class, young students are more related to digital media and
comunications. I think that this teaching methods just need the final touch, I would
say the just need to explaing this topics, and activities to the students using popular
culture, I write this as a personal advice, maybe because I work with teenagers, but
this always calls for their atenttion and make them get into the passages and classes,
technology keeps people updated if you know the correct way to use it.