Sunday, April 13, 2014

Task 2

   When I realize that this subject will be based on the use of technologies and tools to be more effective in the class I thought to myself "Well Johnny this will be easy, so easy", but I wasn't being realistic, I know how to use technology to my favor, but I didn't knew how to use them to teach or what to teach to my students so I was in a kind of bind, so taking my expierence at high school  I decided to use my favorite sport (for the knowledge and passion) for the first work assigned (create a quiz using Quiz Creator) and I was thinking what if they don't like the sport? or the activity?, so to engage their attention I put a really good video to keep them motivated during the activity, but I focus so hard in doing my quiz interesting that I forgot to made it clear with easy instructions (problem solved during the second activity) and during the second the second activity I forgot to made a closure a minor problem I think, but not for this less important, now as I already had previous knowledge from previous experiences it was easier for me to do this activities. concluding with this I can say if you want to do an activity using technology try to do something never seen before something new in simple words, with easy tasks and easy instructions, try to keep in mind that Internet have lots of resources to use in your activity and with a bit of creativity your activity will be the best tool to teach a "boring" content like grammar or vocabulary in my case.


   Finally don't be scared of critics from your teacher or classmates, remember that this is the moment for experimentation, in my case I only have good critics until now, but I think that my two works weren't the best for my skills and I need to focus more on the stages of the activities to be sure that my students will learn the content also I have in mind that not all the students like the English class and not all of them will work in it. is something unavoidable even with this activities.

1 comment:

  1. Good reflective work. It's very important that you do this constantly, before and after your classes. You're very honest, you thought it was easy, but this is METHODOLOGY. so you'll have to come up with your own method to do your classes and it takes a lot of practice..doing, failing, reflecting, improving, planning, doing again, reflecting again and so on

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