My reflection of this week (vocaroo and emaze)

Well... this week I did some tasks by using Vocaroo and emaze!

First, I used emaze in order to create a presentation online, which was a new experience for me since I had never donde an online presentation before, not even in prezi! I enjoyed doing the presentation because I based it in my experience in Arkansas State University and made me remember a lot of good memories.
I have to admit that at the beginning I didn't know what to do in the page of emaze but then I started to click everywhere until I could do my presentation succesfully.

The other tool I used this week was  Vocaroo which I found it very practical because it is easy to record your voice and I think students can be more interested in the task if we present pre-recorded instructions and not just letters and more letters.

My lesson plan of Vocaroo

My activity in Vocaroo

Hello class, your instructions for this task are in the audios below




Record and upload audio >>

Online recording software >>

Record and upload voice >>

My emaze presentation

Reflection of the week

This week I created a video quizz in the page eslvideo.com , I made the quizz about the sitcom friends because I really love that serie and I also think that the speaking of the actors is clear and understandable, so that intermediate level students can listen to the video and find the answers without struggling too much, in other words I think the audio is in the right level for them.

           

ESL VIDEO QUIZZ

I invite you to do the quizz that I created in eslvideo.com, this quizz contains five questions of listening comprehension, mainly looking for specific information.

This is my quizz:

click here to see my quizz

Here you have an evidence of my webquest, I hope you enjoy it. Mary's WebQuest

I did it in the page http://zunal.com/  it is for free go it was great and it is easy to use.

I tried to make my webquest a little bit interactive maybe the topic that I choose is not so educational, but in terms of motivation it can really help to make students be more positive about their studies and their activities in life. And motivation was not the only point, I also designed my webquest in order to make students develop their writing abilities by providing them the structure of an essay and creating a rubric that can help them to figure out what content they should add in their essays.

reflection of my vacations

Today my reflection is going to be a little bit different because I'm going to talk about what I did during my vacations....

In general I just spent my time watching movies, soccer and anime, I really enjoy having time to watch soccer because sometimes when I'm at school I have a lot of homework and I don't have enough time to watch the games.

The movie that I watched, was the mockingjay part 2 (yes I hadn't seen it when it was in the movies) , I loved it! this saga is one of my favorite, so the last movie had to be great and it was. I think watching this movie was also helful educationally because if I tell you the truth it was the first time that I dared to watch a movie in English without subtitles, it was good to feel that I'm improving.



And well... vacations were not only at home (most time at home, but not all) .
I went out to eat with my mom, we were really bored so we decided to go out, it was kind of weird because we never go out together and just the two of us , but it was a really nice time, we went to McDonals and ate Chicken McTrio, french fries, coke and ice cream, I loved eating junk food. I didn't take pictures because my phone had a really bad quality of images but wel.. I downloaded one from the internet.



One old picture of my mom and I :



And that's it, those were my vacations... I hope I can have more fun in the next ones :D

Reflection ok the week

Reflection of the week

This week I did all my homework, I think all the homework was focused in discovering tools that can be used in our future as teachers, I had a good experience thinking about how to use different tools to facilitate learning to my students. I enjoy finding out new things because it makes me get into the teacher's role. I know teaching is not only sharing knowledge but looking for the best ways to make our students learn meaningfully, that's why I consider that looking for new tools is essential for the teaching-learning process.

These are the tools I chose for making my chart: