evidence of my chart about bloom's digital taxonomy

I created a chart about bloom's digital taxonomy where I included the levels of thinking, the lower and the higher. 
This taxonomy is important because it helps you to set up your objectives in verbs that can express also digital activities and not only ordinary everyday classroom activities.

Evidence of my table of tools

bookmarking screenshots

Bookmarking

Well, this time I want to share with you the tool that I used in order to bookmark some pages that I consider can be helpful for me in my future as a teacher.

First of all, I used the tool Diigo, I have been using it for a few days and I like it, I can bookmark my favorite pages, highligh text , make screenshots from there and all of it is saved in "my library". If you want to try Diigo, go and chek this link.

The way you bookmark with this tool is really easy, check this screenshots:

I bookmarked these pages:

I chose those pages because it seems to me that they can help mainly as listening activities, because they contain games where the characters are constantly speaking in English so, children can get used to listening native speakers, this means, they will be receiving input and at the same time they will have fun .

Reflection of the week

This week we are on vacations, so I have just done my participation about the collaborative tool I have used and I posted it on Nicenet, I chose to write about Kahoot.

This is what I wrote: (At the end you will find a video about how to use kahoot)

Collaborative tools are so great when you want to engage students in an interactive activity through the net.

In my experience I have used an awesome tool called "kahoot" I'm in love with this tool, I used it for the first time in my ESL classes in United States.
I think Kahoot is amazing for both teachers and students. As teacher, it allows you to create quizes, discussions and surveys, it is incredible because you can create your own questions for your students, the questions that best fit with the adquired and desired knowledge through the course, I think creating your own quizes on the net is the best way to assess your students' learning because you only include the contents that you have seen during classess and this tools facilitates the work since you don't have to do a lot of effort, it is really easy to use it.
For students, this tool is totally engaging!, it is a really fun way to learn, I enjoyed so much when my teacher gave us the opportunity to play kahoot in the classroom. In order to do that, my classmates and I had to connect to kahoot by using our smartphonesand then everybody can see the quizzes on the screen and you have to choose your answer. After everybody chose their answers they gain points for every right answer and also the fastest person gain more points (if the answer is correct).
I'm pretty sure that this collaborative tool is helpful for teaching and learning English, I don't know any person who doesn't like to play kahoot!

I also created my account and created a topic of discussion, check it out: 

Reflection of the week

This week I did some interesting activities which were kind of interesting for me because I had to apply my creativity and new tools that I had never used before, for instance, I had to edit one video of an interview about creativiy. Therefore, I was in a hurry because I didn't know how to edit videos but I downloaded sony vegas and I think it was not so easy for being my first time but it was a nice experience. In my opinion, doing that video can be really helpful for me in my future as teacher since now I know how to present visual resources and edit videos and I can keep improving my technological abilities and devoloping my creativity.

I also did a graphic organizer in word which was really enjoyable for me because I could explain what creativity was but in my own words which is easier. It was also my first time at creating a graphic organizer by inserting a SmartArt, I found it nice and it can become a visual resource as well.

And the last thing I did, was making a table of activities that can be applied for the different intelligences. This was quite good for me because it made me think that there are many several activities to do in class and they should cover all sorts of intelligences not just teaching in one way, we should offer a variety during classes.

Table of activities per intelligence

This is my table of activities per intelligence, I consider this is quiet useful so that we can be aware of the different way of learning of students and the activities that we can apply as teachers.

This is my graphic organizer, I think this is a good visual resource to make students learn easily some topics that we are reviewing in class, with this sort of creative works we facilitate the teaching-learning process.

This is the interview about creativity :



I decided to interview my friend Miriam who was my classmate for 12 years, so I've really been a witness of her creativity, I hope you can enjoy this video :D

Reflection of this week!

This week I had participation in the class forum Nicenet where I could post my opinions of how we can foster students' creativity. I had a good time posting since I think creativity is one of the most important parts if we want our learners to have a meaningful learning.
In my post in Nicenet I shared my opinions but I based some of them on the reading section that the teacher shared with us this week.
I love creative works and I totally support the idea of creating this kind of environments in English teaching since most of the people in our country thinks that leaning English is boring and they take it as an optional subject that is not important at all.
If we start to show a fun environment in English classrooms, people would be more engaged in learning this language and other different languages.
And as a conclusion I want to quote one phrase of this reading

"Your classroom is full of potential Einsteins, Pasteurs, Mozzarts and Picassos" .

We just have to motivate them to become more creative and to express all the potential that they have maybe hidden for a while.