The end is coming

This week it was a little hard I was wondering about the things to design my project I had many ideas then any of them  were wright.  I was dreaming about the project in my dreams I got many useful ideas but there was a little problem in the morning I did not remember any of them. It was a challenge to post the draft.

I posted  it on our wiki and    I think that it has good ideas to write the final project. I am very interested to use all the material and activities that I learned  in my  classes at university . One of them is ANVILL . This is amazing pack of resources for teahers.

Plan "one computer in class "

I realized that  I  have to design a schedule to use computers in class. Sometimes  it is enough to have one computer because you can control the activity and sometimes each student work with one.  The balance of use one computer or twenty five computers  is the goal  of  our annual plan of activities. We have  to motivated student. 

My first Interactive Power Point .

I enjoy this week I had many challenges to face I have never realized  about Power Point . If I design excellent ones I catch up on my students´ attention  to learn and use English. The clue is they must be very interactive I have to think carefully  about the designs of Power Points  for example : topics  length of the activity,  level  of difficulty,  graphics, templates, Links , videos I have to include them inside of the  Annual Plan of Activities in the school. I get  new surprises  for the next school year for my students because  I finish classes this week in my school. 

I made  little mistakes when I was creating my Power Point task. I was a little worried because the first draft did not like me  and I tried again.  A  famous thought said  “ Practice makes perfection “ so I  follow a tutorial to create excellents PPT

The first half of the course ended

I  am really exciting with themes and material I found and discovered in the last five weeks: I realize I made some mistakes about  evaluation. I have to grade the activities with  " Numbers"  this  way of grading  is not useful   because   It is only sumative  and it is part of  the customs. If you use other forms to grade the tasks  for example A,B,C,D,E,and F the students and parents  complaint about the new grades I want to use. The  sudents are very happy when they see grades  such as  20/20 or 18/20. I do not like to do tradional things about teaching so sometimes  my students think I am an alien. Alternative assessment and Rubrics  are  important tools  I am really interest to use in my courses.and Webquests give the opportunity to work closely teacher-students and get the best of me and my students 

I want to shared this experince with my partners  at highschool. If we spred this news we can improve English teaching.

Great resources for our students

Great  resources surfing the Internet

I was  a little busy with my work at school I was surfing it  because I like to do new activities  to get excellent  objectives  with my students .I realized that we can have a huge  eLibrary with different kind of activities this week my target was  Reading and Writing I found  useful and funny web pages for each skill. I like looking for activities  in the Internet.

Reading activities

I liked these pages they have amazing activities  for reading. I hope all of them  work.

  http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/

http://www.readcentral.com/read-online-books you can read many stories , novels, poem You can try a reading test

Wrriting

http://www.paragraphorganizer.com/index.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/writing/paragraphs/index.shtml

http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/fwalters/para.html

I enjoy this on line course which gets the best of all the teachers

I have a quote about teaching It is adapted from Mother Teresa

Teaching is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Teaching is beauty, admire it.
Teaching is bliss, taste it.
Teaching is a dream, realize it.
Teaching is a challenge, meet it.
Teaching is a duty, complete it.
Teaching is a game, play it.
Teaching is a promise, fulfill it.
Teaching is a song, sing it.
Teaching is a struggle, accept it.
Teaching is an adventure, dare it.

Have a good time