Hi everybody,
I am writing this short reflection to invite my students to follow my BLOG.

                                        GREETINGS,

                                                ESTEBAN MALLQUI.

Week 10 - Reflection

TENTH WEEK REFLECTION

Hi everybody,

This week, it is our last week as students of “Webskills”. From now on, we have to apply everything we have learned on technology for the benefit of our students. What I liked most of this course is to have learned to use Blogs, The ABCD objective, Webquest, delicious, interactive PowerPoint, but above all the opportunity to exchange ideas with my classmates from around the world and especially the support of our dear Donna who is an example of a good teacher. She is my role model now. I think I am going to use some of her strategies with my own students. As I commented on Garri’s Blog; my friends, this is not a goodbye, it is just “see you …By the way, I’d like to keep in touch with all of you through our e-mail addresses. My e-mail is: estebanmallquiicpna@yahoo.com.

My best wishes for all of you.

Regards from Peru.

Esteban Mallqui. 

                                                          

Week Nine - Reflection

NINTH WEEK REFLECTION

Hi everybody,

This week, I read some articles about how to use technology to enhance “Learning Styles” and “Multiple Intelligences”. I knew something about these topics, but it is the first time that I discovered how to improve them with the help of Technology. I think we are lucky to learn these things because now, we can have better, modern, and dynamic classes.

We are about to conclude our course, for I’ve already sent my Final Project Plan Report. I feel a little sad because our “Community” comes to an end; I only hope that we can keep in touch after we finish this wonderful course. I believe we have many things to share, so many teaching experiences and why not? Personal experiences, too.

Esteban Mallqui. 

                                                          

Week Eight - Reflection

EIGHTH WEEK REFLECTION

Hi everybody,

This week, I learned how to make exercises online. First, I created a “Survey” using “Tools for educators” http://www.toolsforeducators.com/ then; I made a “Fast Test” using “Easy Test Maker” http://www.easytestmaker.com/default.aspx. It was the first time I created some exercises in this way, I mean using online resources, but let me tell you that I liked very much, so from now on I’m going to create my Academic tools using these resources.Finally, I explored ANVILL and how to Create a Nicenet class. This exploration helped me to refine my Project Plan to the point that now I think I am going to use Nicenet to provide my students information or instructions on what activities to do the same way Donna does with us.

Esteban Mallqui.  

                                                          

Week Seven - Reflection

SEVENTH WEEK REFLECTION

Hi everybody,

This week the reading of the articles on Learner Autonomy and one - computer classroom made me aware of the importance of promoting Autonomy in our students so that they can become responsible of their own Learning Process. It is also important to see the different activities we can create for our students with a single computer in our classrooms. In my Institution we practice the philosophy of providing autonomy to our students and we always count on a computer in our classrooms, but I think it became a kind of routine for me since having a computer and promoting autonomy are common practice for us. Well, after reading the articles previously mentioned, I discovered I had lost many opportunities to put in practice many activities with the computer, so now thanks to these articles I am going to implement more engaging classes for the benefit of my students.

Esteban Mallqui.

                                                          

WEEK SIX - REFLECTION

SIXTH WEEK REFLECTION

Hi everybody,

This week I had the opportunity to read about “Teaching Large Classes”. This article was very engaging to me because as I commented on Nicenet , sometimes I give lectures to the English teachers of my city and the number of people who attend to the Lectures is huge so I have to present the Lectures and “Workshops” in the auditorium of my institution. Well, since there are a lot of people in this place I have to see the best way to reach to each one of them. I think the tips suggested for this article are going to be very useful for me as well as the use of interactive PowerPoint presentations to capture the attention of everybody.

Esteban Mallqui.

                                                          

Comment on Project Task 4 - Implementing a change with Technology

Hi everybody,

As I mentioned, before I am not going to do a Project, but a Plan because I don’t teach the same students for more than a month, so Donna recommended my doing of a Plan. Well, I think I said I am considering using blogs to get my students to be engaged in the writing of Essays in the “Writing Academic English” course I teach from time to time.  The students find this course sometimes boring and feel that the topics to write their Essays suggested by the textbook are not encouraging enough. I’ve been searching the net and I found some interesting websites related to Academic Writing. For example, UEfAP: Academic Writing - Using English for Academic Purposes  http://www.uefap.com/writing/writfram.htm, Advice on Academic Writing   http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice, How To Write Academic English Essay http://ezinearticles.com/?How-To-Write-Academic-English-Essays&id=738224, Paragraph Writing exercises http://www.buowl.boun.edu.tr/students/Paragraph%20Writing%20Exercises.htm, How To Write an Essay   http://esl.about.com/cs/writing/ht/ht_essay.htm.

Esteban Mallqui.