Happy end

"To succeed you must first improve, to improve you must first practice, to practice you must first learn  and to learn you must first fail"  Wesley Woo
All steps we've been and still are going through, the important thing is never give up. It's a long way to go but we aren't alone. 
It was great to share this course with all of you girls and thanks to our teacher who did her best to make us less technologically ignorant and to see the new challenge we face as a good chance to reach our digital borns and shorten the gap between them and us.
Hope you have a happy end of the year and a better new one with health, happiness and success in everything you do.
best wishes and keep in touch.
Viviana

THE MODERN CLASSROOM: Seven things you sholud know about blogs

THE MODERN CLASSROOM: Seven things you sholud know about blogs

Leaving High School

hola, chicas
about leaving high school, también se podría utilizar el video que publiqué anteriormente en
mi blog de la canción Fireworks, como disparador de distintas actividades.
Tambén encontré un sitio con 10 things for High School Students to remember (tools for
future)  El sitio es www.quintcareers.com/high-school_critical_issu.
Hasta la próxima y besos

Leaving High School

Hola a todas,
No se si interpreté bien la consigna, pero de todos modos les envio mi propuesta.

Here it goes,
Ref.: Leaving High School Plan

This is what I think could be done with students
leaving high school. 
The idea is to start with:

-  Talking about life changes:
.  I tell the students they are going to read four brief texts from a magazine
   about being eighteen. They infer what they think people will talk about.
.  They answer some questions about for example, who of the people in the texts
   Hopes to start a career, who is worried about not getting a good job, feels ready
   to become an adult or knows what they are going to study.
.  They work with a partner and give their opinions about who have the clearest
   ideas of what to do with their lives, who they think will be the most successful
   the happiest and the most disappointed and why.
.  We listen to the people we have read about in the  texts before, who are now 28, talking
   about how their lives have changed since  they were 18 and their plans for the future.
   They listen and complete a table.
   I play the tape as necessary.
.  They check their predictions. We start a class discussion.
.  I write ' If you had unlimited talents  and abilities, what would you do?' they spend
   some minutes thinking and they discuss in small groups and then we share the answers on
   the net emphasizing the coincidences among students.
.  Then, the students think about their dream job and answer some questions about the
   skills , personal quealities and special qualifications they need.
.  Then they complete a questionnaire about Use of English in their present and future
   work or study.  In small groups they discuss their answers and report to the
   class.  If time available, they interview other groups about how important
   English will be for their future.
.  Next, They read some tips on how to write a good Curriculum Vitae. 'The perfect graduate CV'
.  They find at least six ways to improve the example CV,  I set for them, using the given tips.
.  Finally, they write their own CV following the advice and the instructions in the
   tips.

Well, I hope you can get some ideas from this sequence of tasks and add or change things
according to your students' need and to yourself.  Perhapes we should include more technology
but well, we'll do it  better after the course.

Bye and please, make comments.
kisses  viviana

SEVERAL IDEAS TO USE IN THE CLASSROOM

Hi to every body,
continuing with my homework, I enclose a resource I think may be useful for us since it provides
many ideas to introduce in the classroom.   If you are familiar with technology it won't be difficult
for you to understand and follow.  
well, I hope you like it and hope your comments.
cheers.  viviana   http://askatechteacher.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/41-websites-for-teachers-to-integrate-tech-into-your-classroom/

7 things to know about blogs

Hi, Here I am, doing part of our homework.
I only know that I knew nothing about blogs until now.  One more thing I learnt from this course. 
I liked the phrase which defines a blog as a perfect way of generating a ¨strong sense of community¨.
To start, I felt identified with the mentioned scenario such as creating the blog, sharing information and
making comments.
I started to clear up the technical meaning of some  terms like posts, downsides or entries, among others.
After reading,  I think that we are before a revolutionary way of being communicated and sharing
knowledge in the educational world which we´ll have to get familiar with as soon as possible.
This way of teaching and learning will provide new opportunities for working with autonomy and for interaction, reflection and discussion.
Lucky us for being part of this.  Absolutely amazing.

bye to everybody.  Have a good time.
viviana

Quien soy?

Hola a todas,
Soy Profesora en varios colegios en diferentes niveles. Estoy incursionando en el tema tecnólogico. Me parece un mundo fantastico pero aun desconocido.  Muchos éxitos para todas en esta nueva era que se avecina.