viernes, 11 de mayo de 2007

Webpage project
This is a project for the creation of a webpage for the benefit of a group of student teachers doing the subject Language and Oral Expression IV at a public tertiary teacher education institution in Buenos Aires province (ISFD No. 3), within the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) program.

This webpage is intended to fulfil different objectives:

Ø Give students an overview of the subject (home page)
Ø Provide a copy of the syllabus together with the bibliography selected for each unit.
Ø Provide links to useful sites, where students will find extra information, and/or activities for teaching pronunciation they can use with their students during their practicum.
Ø Provide links to radio stations and other sites where they will have a chance to listen to different English accents, and practise and improve their listening skills.
Ø Provide links to websites that will allow them to read and listen to beautiful English poems, thus giving them the opportunity to practise pronunciation in a literary context.
Ø Create a space where students will have some of their contributions to the class blog uploaded and commented on by the teacher.

Thus, the website will foster the use of technology as an information vehicle for exploring knowledge to support learning-by-constructing through access to needed information, and by comparing perspectives, beliefs and world views; and – in combination with the class blog – both as a tool to support knowledge construction, representing learners’ideas, understandings and beliefs, and as context to support learning-by-doing, representing and simulating real-world problems, situations and contexts.
Students are expected to profit from their acquaintance with these technologies that allow them to look for new text and audio/video materials and offer them an opportunity to be in touch with each other and with the teacher any day of the week, to share ideas, reflections or questions.

11 comentarios:

Maria Belen Dominguez dijo...

Hi Silvia! Your project is very interesting... I think it will be very useful for your students, and surely for you too. You'll offer them a lot of material and the opportunity to interact and ... develop automy! It could be a starting point for you and technology to become friends!! Give it a try!

rosana dijo...

HELLO SILVIA!!! I´M GLAD TO SEE YOU CAN MANAGE WITH IT AT LAST!! HARD BUSINESS, ISN`T IT?
YOUR BLOG IS VERY NICE AND COMPREHENSIVE!!!

Carolina C. Requena dijo...

HI Sil!!! I love your project for two reasons: 1) because it is innovative and unusual and 2) because you have managed it very well... it is clear and organised, as you always are!!! clap, clap, clap!!!! I want to see the web page, now,mmmmmm!!! just can't wait!!!!

Natalia Manchado dijo...

Silvia: I think your project is really good. It is well organized and it´s complete. Congratulations.

María Inés, Betty, Edel, Mary, Flora dijo...

Hi Silvia Your blog is nice, well organized and interesting! I'm sure your students in English phonlogy will enjoy working this way. I have tried inserting pictures in my blog and it worked well, try again with your pictures I'm sure you'll manage! congratulations for the blog!

María Matilde Olivero dijo...

Hi, Silvia. You were so right about your doubt about "blogs" or "blog".I was thinking of a general blog, so it would be in the singular. What I included was an outline of the project for both the blog and the webpage. The only thing that changes is the layout.The objectives are the same, and the information I am going to include is the same. The difference is that the blog allows the students to write comments, and in the webpage they can only read information about the subject.
Bye!! See you next weekend!
Matilde

Alexandra dijo...

Hi Silvia,
Congratulations! You posted not only your project but activities for students as well.
Best luck with the technology!
Alexandra:9

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laura girardi dijo...

Hi Silvia! I like your project especially because it will help your students with what I consider the weakest area of EFL teaching: Phonology. I say weak because as EFL teachers-learners we are more exposed to written material than oral, so we don't have the oral input overload we could have if we taught ESL. Through my teaching experience I learned that phonology is the area in which students feel less confident (and so did I as a student!). It's great that you support this area by implementing a web page where students will find information about any gaps or questions they feel they have in Phonology. Good luck Silvia!

Gabriela Ciro dijo...

Hi Silvia!!!
I've been working a lot, and this is the first time I've visited your blog.
I'm very surprised since my project goes round Oral Language too. However, I'm much more surprised (and glad) than that because you could overcome your fears of technology and PCs!!!
Good of you, you've just tackled the thing!!!
See you tomorrow