WEEK 4

 

Week number four is on. We are about to reach the belly bottom of the course. I have read so many articles that when I try to write about it, I have to go back to the paper and make sure about what I am going to cite. Week number three wasn't that busy. I had fewer responsibilities at my office and course activities were easy to achieve-

Sean our tutor mentioned in our weekly newsletter "I continue to be very impressed with how communicative and sharing everyone is. You all show such wonderful strength in supporting, helping, and sharing with one another. Your students are so lucky to have you in their lives." that made me quote Jose de Cervantes Saavedra, "Cada uno en su oficio puede alabar a Dios" (Ech person's job can praise God). I think of teachers as doctors who prevent and cure knowledge diseases. We, as doctors have to come up with new remedies for our new generations whose needs are wider than ours.

 

This week we are conferencing about Reading/Writing skills and technology Enhanced lesson plans. Readings include step by step how to put technology to work as a tool for students in classroom, how to use ebooks in reading activities.

I have still half week to go, so I will enhance this explanation as I continue to complete more activities. J

 

 

My computer crashed! The screen just freeze. My first thought was: It may be needing a time "to think" but after some minutes: PANIC!!!  All the hints I could get from my acquaintance was "format". How could I!!!

 

I wrote on my blog for about 2 hours. I had nice thoughts on the topics we studied in the last week..thinking, analyzing, writing, editing... and then --> SEND ... no response. The clock sand whirling on the middle of the screen. I cried in my heart. It took a little time to say: why not, let's format.   I finally did. I was able to save my files: family pictures, videos, old documents and so... but I wasn't able to save my blog.  

 

Proof reading on the material we had gone through the past week, I keep thinking about Mey-Ya Ling's recommendations  on her Three Extensive Reading Activities about how to use eBooks in class. She deeply set a plan to get the maximum of these activities:

1. Choosing the book.

2. Reading and Sharing the books

3. Evaluating books

 

Each topic includes: Goals, Procedures, Study guide and How to evaluate. If done as recommended, Miss Ling concludes that at the end of the activities students would be able  to interpret the texts and even study outside the classroom. Isn't it great?