webquest task:

http://10357135.tripod.com/

this is a webquest about teaching pronunciation, and how teachers can do it, the webquest is for advanced fourteen year`s students .

mixie ortiz 

regards!

"A WebQuest is a scaffolded learning structure that uses links to essential resources on the World Wide Web and an authentic task to motivate students’ investigation of a central, open-ended question, development of individual expertise and participation in a final group process that attempts to transform newly acquired information into a more sophisticated understanding. The best WebQuests do this in a way that inspires students to see richer thematic relationships, facilitate a contribution to the real world of learning and reflect on their own metacognitive processes."

 (Tom March, circa 2003)



for me a webquest is an academic tool that teachers use to assign activities or tasks to students in which they make use of internet resources to solve a real messy problem, also a webquest is formed by six essential components that structure the activity and they are useful to organise students at the time of working,these six components are: (introduction,task,resources,process,evaluation,conclusion), it could be use to teach many topics of different subjects and it is an interesting way of teaching and learning.


some advantages a WEBQUEST has are:

 * They are an easy way for teachers to begin to incorporate the Internet into the language classroom,for example.

 * it allows students to share their knowledge between them.

 * webquests are interdisciplinary, allowing for crossover into many departments and subject areas.

 *Learners are not able to simply regurgitate information they find, but are guided towards a transformation of that information in order to achieve a given task.


 disadvantages:

 * students can get confused with some points at the time of working.

 * teacher have to be very clear at the time of giving instructions to students to achieve the aim they want.


 Mixie Ortiz

 regards!

well here we are again... and let me tell you guys that this week was kind of hard to me because we had to read a lot and when I say a lot is a lot :p BUT I think this was good for me bacause I learned important points to put in practice when teaching reading and writing and the most important is that I can teach them by using the technology which means that is not going to be boring at the time to learn for students and for me while teaching. I hope you have found the activities of this week interesting and also you have learned many many new things. xoxo Mixie Ortiz

Hi mates! I checked the links and the one I think would be useful for an english class is this one: Many Interesting Things for ESL Students http://www.manythings.org/ this web-page is useful for begginers to students who have an intermediate level of english, this site will work for students because it has all the habilities include and also for each hability it has a wide range of activities such a memory games,records,readings,quizzes,puzzles etc also I think this web page is very useful because I consider it is a complete page to practice specially for students who are not native speakers it provides all the sources to be in contact with the real language that usually is not taught in schools, one aspect that I liked a lot is that it has an activity to learn about slangs because most of the time this aspect is kind of difficult to learn or to put in practice because it usually is used for people who is a native speaker, so for all these aspects I think it is a really good page. Mixie Ortiz

Hi beautiful people! well I have to say that this is the second week we have been working with delicious and I really liked it,because I find this website nice,funny and also useful, it is a good tool specially for us because we always have different links that we use to study,practice or just for hobbie and with this site we can have a better order of our links in order to find them quickly.

hi boys and girls! well I have to say this week I definitely learnt something new,I didnt know anything about bookmarking but I start to get familiarizaed with this tool by creating my own delicious profile and I found it funny and very useful and it is not complicated to use and I really like the idea of share our favorites links by using this website also I definitely use this web for my future classes and to organize the links where students could find the links to study about the topic they learnt. xoxo! Mixie Ortiz

Hi guys! the topic about wikis for me was interesting and very useful because this is another tool that we have to share knowledge and information about academic purposes as well as this blog is a website that allow us to put academic topics and interacting between us about the new knowledges we are adquiring. blessings!!! Mixie Ortiz

This week I learned there are many web searchers that can be very useful and reliable for us at the time of doing some research and that not only exist google as a web searcher information, and also I found with other classmates new web searchers.

hi classmates! This week We read about the ABCD method and what I can say is I have learned something new because I didn´t know there was a method to have clear objectives for class and that it has steps to make a good class project. For example We have to know the audience that in this case are students We have to know Which age are they if they are adults,teens,children etc. Also is the behavior it consist on what we expect students learn and there are the condition and the degree of mastery. I consider this method could be very important for us when teaching because with it we can achieve a better comprehension with students and we as teachers could evaluate better to students. Regards! Mixie Ortiz Romero

Educational Technology

Hello everybody!

What I learned while creating the blog was that it is an important tool to share different kinds of  experiences as an english teacher or as a teacher in training with other people that are in the same career or with teachers from a different place, also I think using a blog for class is a good idea because in this way we can see our development on using the technology as one more scholar tool.

Regards,
Mixie Ortiz