WEEK 4

Week after week our class gets more and more intersting, the discussions jucier and the resources more productive. This week we had to write about the problem we want to solve in our project, it is becoming real. Besides our course project we worked on some sort of mini project when writing our lesson plans and I must say this was the task hat I enjoyed the most because it made me think of every aspect of the class (the topic of the class that I was going to write about, students' learning styles, skills that I wanted to addressed and the criteria to assess students' performance in the activity) and the use of the tool chosen to meet the goal. The other assignment for this week was to write about Reading, Writing and vocabulary I wasn't expecting much because most of the websites I knew for practicing reading and writing before this week were to plain for my taste, meaning boring. But this week I explored different websites for writing that I enjoyed very much, like Dvolver.com to create a movie, Kerpoof Studio to write stories with animations and Lauri's ESL website to write crazy stories taking the different parts of the speech into account. I am still exploring the websites to find one with cool reading comprehension exercises. I know that what's really important is that the tool is useful, but if is also entertaining, even better. Aside from what happened in our course, this week I presented the workshop for the ELT conference about technology in the classroom that I wrote about in a previous post, and it went great, especially because one of the attendees was David Fay, the US Deparment of States Director of the RELO for the Andean Region and after the presentation he was kind enough to introduce himself to me and give me some feedback. I am just glad he approached me after the workshop and not before: Had i known who he was I would have panicked, I know. After I finished planning my workshop I realised that you were right in your comment Robert, what I have learned throughout this four weeks gave me a lot of material for my presentation. I am very happy with what we have done during this whole process and convince that what is happening in our class is going to have an impact in a lot more people than we can imagine.