CLASS, FRIDAY DECEMBER 12TH, 2014

HI! TODAY WE HAD OUR LAST CLASS OF THIS SCHOOL YEAR!
WE DIDN´T DO ALMOST NOTHING, WE ONLY SANG SOME SONGS IN KARAOKE, SUCH AS:

• HAPPY
• WE ARE YOUNG
• JUST THE WAY YOU ARE
• WHEN I WAS YOUR MAN
• STARING OVER

ALSO WE TALKED ABOUT OUR ACHIEVEMENTS OF THIS SEMESTER AND EXPERIENCES!

FINALLY EVERYBODY WENT TO HOUSE VERY HAPPY THIS AFTERNOON!

WE'LL COME BACK ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 07TH, 2015.

CLASS, FRIDAY DECEMBER 05TH, 2014

HI! TODAY WE HAD A CLASS A LITTLE BIT "DIFFICULT", BEACUSE WE KEEP ON LEARNING ABOUT EXCELL, IN THIS CASE WE BEGAN TO CREATE A CHART IN EXCEL, BUT WE HAD SOME PROBLEMS TO CREATE IT. AT FIRST WE OPENED THE PROGRAM, THEN WE INSERT 5 COLUMNS IN ORDER TO WRITE DOWN IT A LIST OF  10 STUDENTS WITH THEIR GRADES DIVIDED IN 3 PARTIAL GRADES TO THE END GET THE AVERAGE FOR EACH ONE OF THEM. THIS WAS THE MOST DIFFICULT BECAUSE WE HAD TO INSERT THE AVERAGE FORMULA AND OBVIOUSLY GET THE AVERAGE BUT WE HAD SOME PROBLEMS WITH IT.

AFTER THAT,  WE CREATED A GRAPH WITH THE DATA AND GOTTEN RESULTS.

I THINK THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT I HAD USED THIS PROGRAM, IT WAS HARD FOR ME BUT IT WAS INTERESTING! (O-^)

CLASS, THURSDAY DECEMBER 04TH, 2014

HI! TODAY WE STARTED A NEW TOPIC IN MANAGEMENT OF ICT'S, THIS ONE WAS : HOW TO USE EXCELL!

WE WENT UP TO THE COMPUTER CLASSROOM, WE TURNED ON OUR COMPUTERS, THEN WE VISITED A NEW WEB PAGE, THIS ONE WAS: AULACLIC, WHERE WE CAN TAKE SEVERAL COURSES AND LEARN HOW TO USE DIFFERENT COMPUTER PROGRAMS SUCH AS: ACCESS 2010, CORELDRAW X5, PHOTOSHOP CC, GOOGLE DOCS,ETC. IN THIS CASE WE BEGAN TO USE EXCELL IN ORDER TO LEARN ABOUT IT BECAUSE IS A PROGRAM VERY USEFUL IN OUR CAREER.

THEREFORE WE STARTED THIS COURSE AT AULACLIC AND WE KEPT ON READING AND LEARNING ABOUT ALL EXCELL STRUCTURE.

WE WERE VERY BUSY IN THIS CLASS AND IT WAS AWESOME!!! (O_O)

 

CLASS, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 28TH, 2014

Hi! Today just the less advanced classmates created a description in Word of different topics and did 3 questions about it!... they did this in order to learn how to move and change the position of the image with the text. The other group was talking about the courses that they will take. we only had an hour and we didn´t another activity.

CLASS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27TH, 2014.

Today we only had an hour. Because there are two groups of classmates, the most advanced classmates remained in the classroom and made a list of potential tutorials that they are going to make and also these tutorials will be share with the less advanced classmates while these went up to the computer center and they finished the family tree and started another activity consisting in making 5 questions and using cells or charts to insert the options to each question. They did this in order to learn how to create an exam.!!!

CLASS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26TH, 2014.

Today the most advanced students took some tutorials that will be applied to less advanced students.
but in this class we did  similar activities  such as that we have been doing in last classes. the most advanced students spent their time in the classroom talking and giving opinios  about the tutorials they investigated while the less advanced students went up to the computer room in order to keep on learning about Word. Today less advanced students created a beautiful family tree.
that's all for today.

CLASS,FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH, 2014

Hi! Today the teacher continued receiving the missing tutorials. Seconds later, we made a funny dynamic, that was called "mirrors. First, we made a big circle and then the teacher took out a classmate from the classroom. He immediately assigned to other classmate( this would be the mirror, the person who would do all the movements and gestures, obviously the rest of the classmates had to imitate the classmate).

After that, when the classmate who was outside had to enter and guess who was "the mirror". it was very very funny" and of course with educational purposes. We did this in order to "break the ice", it means when students are stressed, we can apply this wonderful dynamic.

Finally we talked about an interesting topic. Teacher gave us a task... We had to visit aulaclic in order to take a course but this task was only for more advanced students. the rest of them had to continue learning how to use Word.

CLASS, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19TH, 2014

Hi! Today, we gave our printed tutorials to the teacher. After that, the teacher divided the group:

*Students more skilled in the subject.

*Student less skilled in the subject.

The teacher did this so that we all reach the same level of learning in this subject.

Then, the teacher assigned some peers to be the guardians of less skilled peers.

Finally some of us went at the computer center in order to start to explore the program:
Word.

Within the next few weeks we will learn to use further Power Point and Excel.

 

CLASS, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 14TH, 2014

Today we continue making observations and clarifying doubts with our teacher about how to create the tutorial but in this case the teacher taught us how to make screenshots and how to crop images to place on the detailed steps of the tutorial.

These are some steps that we follow to do it:

• Press control print screen on screen
• Go to paint
• Select image and crop it
• Press control X
• Save image in the required format

Example of a cropped image to create an account at Facebook

 

Also the teacher gave us another task :

• To download camtasia

 

Camtasia Studio   

 

Camtasia Studio and Camtasia for Mac are software suites, created and published by TechSmith, for creating video tutorials and presentations directly via screencast, or via a direct recording plug-in to Microsoft PowerPoint. The screen area to be recorded can be chosen freely, and audio or other multimedia recordings may be recorded at the same time or added separately from any other source and integrated in the Camtasia Studio component of the product. Both versions of Camtasia started as enhanced screen capture programs and have evolved to integrate screen capture and post processing tools targeted at the educational and information multimedia development marketplace.

Camtasia Studio v8 for Microsoft Windows consists of two major components:

• Camtasia Recorder - a separate tool for capturing screen audio and video
• Camtasia Studio editor - the component for which the entire product is named, which is now a multimedia authoring tool with the industry standard "timeline" interface for managing multiple clips in a stacked track form plus enhancements summarized below.

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CLASS, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 13TH, 2014

In this class, we learnt how to create a tutorial!!!

What is a tutorial?

A tutorial is a method of transferring knowledge and may be used as a part of a learning process. More interactive and specific than a book or a lecture; a tutorial seeks to teach by example and supply the information to complete a certain task.
Depending on the context a tutorial can take one of many forms, ranging from a set of instructions to complete a task to an interactive problem solving session (usually in academia).

Tutorial class

In British academic parlance, a tutorial is a small class of one, or only a few, students, in which the tutor (a lecturer or other academic staff member) gives individual attention to the students.The tutorial system at Oxford and Cambridge is fundamental to methods of teaching at those universities, but it is by no means particular to them; Heythrop College (University of London), for instance, also offers a tutorial system with one-on-one teaching. It is rare for newer universities in the UK to have the resources to offer individual tuition; six to eight (or even more) students is a far more common tutorial size. At Cambridge, a tutorial is known as a supervision.
In Australian, New Zealand and South African universities, a tutorial (colloquially called a tute or tut in South Africa ) is a class of 10–30 students. Such tutorials are very similar to the Canadian system, although tutorials are usually led by honours or postgraduate students, known as 'tutors'.
At the two campuses of St. John's College, U.S. and a few other American colleges with a similar version of the Great Books program, a "tutorial" is a class of 12–16 students who meet regularly with the guidance of a tutor. The tutorial focuses on a certain subject area (e.g., mathematics tutorial, language tutorial) and generally proceeds with careful reading of selected primary texts and working through associated exercises (e.g., demonstrating a Euclid proof or translating ancient Greek poetry). Since formal lectures do not play a large part in the St. John's College curriculum, the tutorial is the primary method by which certain subjects are studied. However, at St. John's the tutorial is considered ancillary to the seminar, in which a slightly larger group of students meets with two tutors for broader discussion of the particular texts on the seminar list.
Some US colleges, such as Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, offer tutorials almost identical in structure to that of an Oxbridge tutorial. At Williams, students in tutorials typically work in pairs alongside a professor and meet weekly, alternately presenting position papers or critiques of their partner's paper.

Tutorial Schools

There are also specialised schools for tutoring such as Kumon and EduHub. These supplemental hands-on learning programmes are especially popular in Asia.

Conference Tutorials

Conference tutorials are one example of a continuing education activity sponsored by a technical and professional association as a service to its members.

Internet

Internet computer tutorials can take the form of a screen recording (screencast), a written document (either online or downloadable), interactive tutorial, or an audio file, where a person will give step by step instructions on how to do something.
Tutorials usually have the following characteristics:

• A presentation of the view usually explaining and showing the user the user interface
• A demonstration of a process, using examples to show how a workflow or process is completed; often broken up into discrete modules or sections.
• Some method of review that reinforces or tests understanding of the content in the related module or section.
• A transition to additional modules or sections that builds on the instructions already provided. Tutorials can be linear or branching.

While many writers refer to a mere list of instructions or tips as a tutorial, this usage can be misleading.

Computer-based tutoring

In computer-based education, a tutorial is a computer program whose purpose it is to assist users in learning how to use (parts of) a software product such as an office suite or any other application, operating system interface, programming tool, or video game. There are 3 kinds of software tutorials: 1) video tutorials that the user views, 2) interactive tutorials where the user follows on-screen instructions (and—in some cases—watches short instruction movies), whereupon he/she does the tutorial exercises and receives feedback depending on his/her actions; and 3) webinars where users participate in real-time lectures, online tutoring, or workshops remotely using web conferencing software.

Parts:

1.- Title
2.-Definition
3.-Introduction
4.-Quick start(fast steps, link and image)
5.-Detailed walkthrough(detailed steps)

Example:

Creating a Blog at Blogger

A web-log or "blog" is like an online diary. Where students, teachers, and anyone else can easily create and share online content and add comments. There are many possible uses of an educational blog. We will be using the bolgs as a reflective journal, a place to think out loud about what you've seen and done in the course, and how you are incorporating what you are learning into your teaching and context.

You can create a blog for free at www.blogger.com- here's how!

Quick start:

1.- Sign in or sign up with blogger
2.-Go to the home dashboard page, click "new blog"
3.-Give the blog a Little and choose a template
4.-Add content  in a new post
... (etc.)

Detailed Walkthrough:

1.- step 1. first .........( we have to give a detailed explanation for each step and add a image in order to understand more )
...(etc.)

The task was to create a tutorial about a educational topic like: how to create an account at gmail, how to download a video,etc.

CLASS, FRIDAY OCTOBER 24TH, 2014

THE TEACHER JUST RECEIVED ALL OUR CLASSWARES IN THIS CLASS AND WE WERE VERY ENTHUSIASTIC, BECAUSE WE THOUGHT THAT WE DID A GREAT TASK. WE DIDN'T DO ANYMORE.

CLASS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER09TH, 2014

In this class the teacher explained one more time how to create a Classware:

1.- first we have to scan our book.

2.- then we have to open the power point program and make copy/paste to get our scanned book in power point, too.

3.-posteriorly when we have our book in power point, if we want, we can answer our book using hyperlinks, forms and everything that can be used to answer it, but students should not see the answers.

the Classware is a practical way to have a book in a USB memory without the need for carrying a book.

Logically the homework was to create a Classware.

CLASS. FRIDAY, OCTOBER3RD, 2014

Hi everyone!!!... Today in this class we learned some new things and so important for our academic development  in technology, we will see it below:

At the beginning, the teacher taught us how to create a classware. A classware is a kind of file to save a book or organize it for not spending the time bringing and taking our book or books and it is so important when a teacher or a student gives a class and forgets the book , it would save in a USB Memory.

The next one is a example on how to create a classware( this is created in POWER POINT) :


MENU

SELECT LEVEL(OR UNIT IF WE ARE CONSIDERING A BOOK)


BASIC                                                                                                        INTERMEDIATE

SELECT CATEGORY
SKILLS      GRAMMAR     VOCABULARY
CONVERSATION    QUIZZES      GAMES

(IN THE CORNER WE CAN PUT ON A SIGN
TO COME BACK TO THE MENU)


UUPER                                                                                                         ADVANCE

WE MUST SCAN OUR BOOK OR TAKE  PHOTOS TO THE TOPICS OR UNITS THAT WE'LL CONSIDER TO MAKE POSSIBLE THE CLASS.

After that, the teacher showed us the WEB SKILLS one more time, because we didn't understand so well how to create our presentation using this web skills last class....

Now we understood how to apply these web skills to create our presentation more interactive .

TECHNIQUES TO PROMOTE INTERACTIVE :

• BLANK SLIDE
• CONCEPT TEST
• THINK-PAIR-SHARE
• INTERPRETED LECTURE
• RAPID REFLECTION
• QUICK WRITE

All these are very important to make an enviroment where the interactivity being as posible as we can do it!!!
This was everything classmates!!!!.... Have a nice weekend!

WHAT DID WE DO IN THIS MARVELOUS CLASS OF THE WEEK FROM 22 TO 26 OCTOBER????

I really appreciate this class because I have learnt extraordinary things that we can create thanks to  technology.

On wednesday, October 23rd, every students showed a presentation about a homework that the teacher told us we did, this homework was that everyone of us created an incredible "JEOPARDY". I learnt what is a jeopardy, how to do it, what type of content it can has, etc.

A Jeopardy is a game created in Power Point that has some categories such as Sports, Animals, Music, Countries and Movies but it can includes other ones and each one has four or five questions according to the category and a amount of money allocated in each question from the category.
The question is more  difficult if the amount is more. On the other hand the question is easier if the amount is less.

Then the teacher collected all jeopardys and he was checking them one by one. He formed 2 teams, I belonged to team 2, and after that the Game started!!!......

That day the class was very funny and interactive, too. At the end we won the game!!!

Now it is important that we ask ourselves, what was the objective about creating and playing jeopardy?

Well, in this game we learnt as things as we thought, for example:

• Personally I discovered new features and uses in Power Point.
• Obviously, as jeopardy was created in english we learnt new and several words, it was great for me.
• Also as in the future we'll be English teachers, this type of activities are really important to make a more interactive and less bored class, that's true. it's an excellent way for teaching-learning.

On thursday, september 25th, we kept on showing and playing the other jeopardys that there weren't shown in last class.....

Finally on friday, september 26th, our teacher taught us to apply strategies to give a class specially in english during a presentation in Power Point!!!!.... it was awesome!!!! I really liked that class, so he told us our homework : create a presentation in power point using or applying the strategies to give a valuable class!!!!

WHAT ABOUT NICENET? WHAT IS NICENET?...!!!!

 

 

NICENET

 

 

Nicenet's Internet Classroom Assistant (ICA) allows virtually any classroom, even those with modest resources, access to powerful tools. Everything in Nicenet is offered free for public use, and Nicenet makes no profits from your participation.

 

Nicenet was created in 1995 with the aim of providing useful tools for distance learning and collaborative learning. This system provides a simple way to create courses on the Internet without the need to know about HTML (the language used to create Web pages). It offers a number of components that the teacher and students can use to expand their knowledge, discuss issues concerning the course and submit documents online. It is an ideal tool for teacher who has many technological skills but interested to begin integrating technology into their classrooms. It has remained ad-free and free of cost from the beginning.

With Nicenet you can send and receive emails to students; create discussion forums, create a directory of links organized by categories; receive assignments online and publish important events and activities of the course. You can also publish documents and notes on the various topics of the class.

 

 

 

 

NICENET RELEASES A NEW INTERNET CLASSROOM ASSISTANT !!!

Free web-based learning environment for classrooms, distance learning programs and collaborative academic projects.

 

 

Nicenet is pleased to announce the public availability of the new Internet Classroom Assistant (ICA2), a sophisticated communication tool that brings powerful World-Wide-Web based conferencing, personal messaging, document sharing, scheduling and link/resource sharing to a variety of learning environments. The ICA2 incorporates many new features and responds to requests we have received from our users. Nicenet provides the ICA free of charge with no advertising.

The ICA is designed for post-secondary and secondary classrooms, distance learning and collaborative academic projects, though anyone who finds it useful is free and welcome to use it. The ICA runs on Nicenet's server and requires any web browser running on any platform and an Internet connection - there is no software to download and no server to configure. The ICA was intentionally designed as a low graphics environment to decrease the load time of each page. The queries used to fill the site with class-specific data take less than a second. A fully dynamic site, the ICA is customized at two different levels: 1.) the user and 2.) the class. Anyone can set up a class in minutes and allow others to join. After login, users are presented with a "heads-up" display of class resources.

The features include:

• Conferencing: Create your own private, threaded conferencing on topics you make for the class or opt to allow students to create their own topics.  

  
• Scheduling: Put the class schedule on-line. With a seven day advance view on your class homepage, students will have a heads-up display of upcoming assignments and class events.

  
• Document sharing: Students and professors have the ability to publish their documents on the site using simple web-based forms. No knowledge of HTML is needed. Automatically integrated with scheduling, students are one click away from turning in their assignments on-line, giving their peers feedback on published papers and receiving professors comments.

  
• Personal Messaging: Similar to traditional email but fully integrated with document sharing and conferencing, personal messaging is a great way communicate with and between individuals in your class, comment privately on conferencing postings or give private feedback on published papers.

  
• Link Sharing: Share links to pertinent Internet resources sorted by topics that you create.

  

All features of the site are fully integrated - a user reading the class schedule is one click away from turning in an assignment on-line. While reading a document, a user can simply and easily send the author comments and feedback. Conferencing topics can be created for new schedule items and documents automatically.

For professors and teachers who are uncomfortable with allowing students the ability to add any link they want to the system or create a conferencing topic at their own discretion, Nicenet has included preferences that allow these abilities to be turned on and off at the professor's or teacher's discretion.

Setting up a class on the Internet Classroom Assistant takes about 2 minutes. You will be asked to choose a username and password, then a name for your class, some contact information, and that's it. You will be assigned a unique 'key' for your class that you can give to your students so they can create user accounts and access your class. You can set up your class right now by following the link from our home page (http://www.nicenet.org).

If you would like to learn more write to info@nicenet.org. If you have heard enough and want to give it a try you can set up your class right now.

Money will not be solicited for using the system and advertisements will not be forced upon users - now and forever. The ICA is powered by Allaire's (Cambridge, MA) Cold-Fusion.

Organization Profile

Founded in 1995, Nicenet is an organization of Internet professionals who donate their time to provide services for the Internet community. One of Nicenet's primary goals is bringing communication tools and resources previously available only to those with large sums of money or substantial technical expertise to the education community.

Information and Communication Technologies(ICTs) and its usage in English teaching-learning. (My own reflection!)

 
New technologies can be used in the educational system in three different ways: as an object of learning, as a means to learn and to support learning.

•   In the current state of affairs is normal to consider new technologies as learning object itself. It allows students to become familiar with the computer and acquire the necessary skills to make the same a useful tool throughout the studies in the world of work or further training as adults. 

•   Considered technologies are used as a means of learning when it is a tool in the service of distance education, non-attendance and self-study or are repetition exercises, online courses throughout  Internet, videoconferencing, cederoms, programs or simulation exercises, etc. This procedure is part of the traditional teaching to supplement or enrich the content presented. 

•   But where new technologies find their true place in teaching is to support learning. The technologies have been well understood pedagogically integrated into the learning process, have their place in the classroom, responding to needs more proactive training and are employed on a daily basis. The pedagogical integration of technology differs from training in technologies and is part of a lifelong learning perspective and personal and professional development as a "knowing how to learn ''

Well, I consider ICTs as an effective and efficient educational tool because it makes possible the development of  English teaching-learning.


 At the present time the computer is very useful and Internet is more than that because without it we couldn't look for absolutely anything and also we couldn't find out new things for our acknowledgement that's the why we appreciate this tool.

We can do as many things as possible either to teach and learn English such as:
    

• Research by internet the English Grammar
• Take English Classes online( If we cannot stay at a classroom taking classes).
• Watch educational videos that can be useful for speak in English like one skill of this language.
• Listen to music or recordings that help us to understand more this language.
• Search dynamics or educational games like : "rock paper scissors" or "jeopardy".

Perhaps some of us ask ourselves : How can these dynamics or games be applied to the English teaching or learning?

Undoubtedly thanks to these tools we can learn a lot of vocabulary and so many words that we can imagine, also the use of these techniques make faster Development of speaking and listening skills in ENGLISH by fostering a suitable environment in the educational context.

That's the reason which we must apply these teaching methods and so to have a more interesting class, less bored, and more interactive of course. This give us the opportunity to involve us in the marvelous English World.

Here you are some videos :

...And visit this page clickhere
 

¿Qué son las TIC's?

¿Qué son las TIC?

Las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) son todas aquellas herramientas y programas que tratan, administran, transmiten y comparten la información mediante soportes tecnológicos. La informática, Internet y las telecomunicaciones son las TIC más extendidas, aunque su crecimiento y evolución están haciendo que cada vez surjan cada vez más modelos.

En los últimos años, las TIC han tomado un papel importantísimo en nuestra sociedad y se utilizan en multitud de actividades. Las TIC forman ya parte de la mayoría de sectores: educación, robótica, Administración pública, empleo y empresas, salud…

¿Para que sirven las TIC?

Fácil acceso a la información en cualquier formato y de manera fácil y rápida.
1. Inmaterialidad. La digitalización nos permite disponer de información inmaterial, para almacenar grandes cantidades en pequeños soportes o acceder a información ubicada en dispositivos lejanos.
2. Instantaneidad. Podemos conseguir información y comunicarnos instantáneamente a pesar de encontrarnos a kilómetros de la fuente original.
3. Interactividad. Las nuevas TIC se caracterizan por permitir la comunicación bidireccional, entre personas o grupos sin importar donde se encuentren. Esta comunicación se realiza a través de páginas web, correo electrónico, foros, mensajería instantánea, videoconferencias, blogs o wikis entre otros sistemas.
4. Automatización de tareas. Las TIC han facilitado muchos aspectos de la vida de las personas gracias a esta característica. Con la automatización de tareas podemos, por ejemplo, programar actividades que realizaran automáticamente los ordenadores con total seguridad y efectividad. Existen interesantes cursos de TIC, desde enfados a profesores como a público en general. Incluso hay programas más especializados como los masters en TIC.

¿Qué tipos de TIC existen?

Podemos hacer una clasificación general de las tecnologías de la información y comunicación en redes, terminales y servicios que ofrecen.

1. Redes: la telefonía fija, la banda ancha, la telefonía móvil, las redes de televisión o las redes en el hogar son algunas de las redes de TIC.

2. Terminales: existen varios dispositivos o terminales que forman parte de las TIC. Estos son el ordenador, el navegador de Internet, los sistemas operativos para ordenadores, los teléfonos móviles, los televisores, los reproductores portátiles de audio y video o las consolas de juego.

3. Servicios en las TIC: las TIC ofrecen varios servicios a los consumidores. Los más importantes son el correo electrónico, la búsqueda de información, la banca online, el audio y música, la televisión y el cine, el comercio electrónico, e-administración y e-gobierno, la e-sanidad, la educación, los videojuegos y los servicios móviles. En los últimos años han aparecido más servicios como los Peer to Peer (P2P), los blogs o las comunidades virtuales.

 

Dentro de las TIC´S tenemos la oportunidad de crear un BLOG, pero en realidad no todos tienen la idea concreta de lo que es este sitio web, es por eso que aqui les tengo una definición clara :

Un blog, (en español también una bitácora) es un lugar web donde se recogen textos o artículos de uno o diversos autores ordenados de más moderno a más antiguo, y escrito en un estilo personal e informal. Es como un diario, aunque muchas veces especializado, dedicado a viajes o cocina, por ejemplo. El autor puede dejar publicado lo que crea conveniente.