Thursday, 19 March 2015

Netiqueta

Netiqueta





La primera vez que leí esta palabra, no conseguía deducir su significado por el contexto.  En realidad, esta palabra no necesita contexto, porque surge de la fusión de dos términos: "Net" : red (Internet, redes sociales)  y "etiquette": buen comportamiento, buena educación cuando nos relacionamos con otras personas.   Pero yo no supe ver su etimología de primeras, así que tuve que recurrir al buscador de Internet para averiguarlo en la gran Wikipedia y, me gustó tanto lo que averigüé que sentí la necesidad de compartirlo con otros. Me pareció que sería necesario que todo el mundo tuviese en cuenta estas reglas fundamentales de comportamiento digital.

Netiqueta es un término que refiere al uso de buenas prácticas en Internet, a tener educación cuando utilizamos las redes sociales, a no aprovecharse de los esfuerzos de otros y a ser conscientes de que cuando nos conectamos, es como si estuviésemos reunidos en un sitio con muchas otras personas.  Pensemos que esa sensación de seguridad que nos da vernos a solas con nuestro equipo informático es falsa.  Estamos conectados con otras personas, comunicando nuestros pensamientos y sentimientos para que otros lo lean y, en ese punto, debemos evitar ser maleducados, porque no nos gustaría que fuesen así con nosotros, ¿verdad?.  Así que, seamos prudentes y procuremos comportarnos en las redes sociales de la misma manera que lo haríamos en una reunión con otras personas: ¡no conviene decir nada que no diríamos en público...!

                        Resultado de imagen de Netiquette
                                      

La Wikipedia en http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiqueta  nos ofrece una definición de Netiqueta:

Netiquette (término inglés) se utiliza para referirse al conjunto de normas de comportamiento general en Internet. La netiqueta no es más que una adaptación de las reglas de etiqueta del mundo real a las tecnologías y el ambiente virtual. Aunque normalmente las tendencias de etiqueta han evolucionado hasta llegar a formar incluso parte de las reglas de ciertos sistemas, es bastante común que las reglas de etiqueta se basen en un sistema de “honor”; es decir, que el infractor no recibe siquiera una reprimenda.
De la misma manera que existe un protocolo para los encuentros físicos con personas, la así llamada netiquette describe un protocolo que se debe utilizar al hacer "contacto" electrónico.

                                    

10 Reglas básicas de la Netiqueta


  • Regla 1: Nunca olvide que la persona que lee el mensaje es otro ser humano con sentimientos que pueden ser lastimados.
  • Regla 2: Adhiérase a los mismos estándares de comportamiento en línea que usted sigue en la vida real.
  • Regla 3: Escribir todo en mayúsculas se considera como gritar y además, dificulta la lectura.
  • Regla 4: Respete el tiempo y el ancho de banda de otras personas.
  • Regla 5: Muestre el lado bueno de sí mismo mientras se mantenga en línea.
  • Regla 6: Comparta su conocimiento con la comunidad.
  • Regla 7: Ayude a mantener los debates en un ambiente sano y educativo.
  • Regla 8: Respete la privacidad de terceras personas, hacer un grupo contra una persona está mal.
  • Regla 9: No abuse de su poder.
  • Regla 10: Sea objetivo sobre temas cuyo bien primordial no afecte el general.

Para más información acerca de 

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Las buenas maneras en Internet, Miguel Zapata-Ros 







Sunday, 1 March 2015

Friday, 20 February 2015

ICT LESSON PLAN BY DELIA CASCALES

MY PERSONAL VIEW OF ICT LEARNING/TEACHING ON A CLIL COURSE.

REFLECTING ON ICT INTO THE CLIL CLASSROOM.  MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. 


After more than three months following this course, my feelings about it are both positive and negative . However, I must say that the predominant feelings are positive ones.  The only negative aspect I have considered here has to do with the difficulties I found as a learner  to manage with new technologies at the beginning of the course.  But it quickly disappeared in a short period.  I had never had such technologies when I was coursing English Philology at the University of Alicante (at the beginning of this millennium!).  Fortunately, the tools, apps and web engines we have learned to use are not extremely complicated and they allow you to make mistakes and correct them before final outcome.  In exchange, they offer you a wide, easy path for the practise of any subject, doing it easier to provide contents (if you are a teacher) or to deliver the tasks you have to do (if you are a student).  I have played here both the roles of  student first and of  teacher later.  I found easier this second role, surely due to the fact that I had already reached knowledge enough to manage with the new technologies and,  why not, due also to the fact that, as a teacher, I decided which tools I used with my supposed students and which ones were not appropriate for them.  At the end, I reached to the conclusion that, once I had considered dos and don'ts, DOS win the race!.  I do not mind if it is a bit difficult to manage at first time because when you manage all this, you find an infinite range of possibilities to develop and the easiest way of sharing ideas and the like with your academic community.  It is constructive, flexible, enriching and, at the end, EASY to work with.  The traditional methods, based on books, sheets, pencil and pen were simpler and also adequate to teach/learn subjects, but they were more limited than the new digital methodologies.  All this is complemented with the structure of the CLIL methods, which are showing very good results in, for example, my field of expertise: TESL Teacher.  The problem with all these is that to apply new technologies in public schools, it would be necessary a great investment on the Educational budget from the Government "Ministerio de Educación".  It would be ideal to see that schools and High Schools are able to provide a  notebook, laptop, i-pad or the like to each student, so that printed books would not be further necessary...  Today they have began to use these technologies for the development of the subjects, but the ought to share digital devices with classmates at school, which makes everybody to lose a great amount of time:  changing placements, going to the computers classroom... If someday, each student has access to a digital equipment for him/herself, this would be the best way to develop ICT subjects based on CLIL.  Unfortunately, I  do not think it would happen in a short future.  Meanwhile, it seems a good idea that future teachers get trained on all this for possible future advances in this field.

Wednesday, 18 February 2015

RECURSOS DIGITALES Y MATERIAL EXTRA PARA COMPLETAR O REFORZAR EL APRENDIZAJE DE INGLES EN 1ºESO


EXTRA DIGITAL SOURCES TO LEARN MORE ABOUT  PEOPLE'S APPEARANCE

Videos are funny and you learn better if you enjoy what you are learning.  However, if you want to get a good mark in English, you should better be an active student than a passive one.   So, ready?  Here you have some sample videos related to people' appearances which may help you to learn how a description is made in English.  You need to take notes, writing down every work or phrase difficult for you.  Try to solve yourself the vocabulary problem whith the help of a dictionary and ask in the classroom any word or expression in case you cannot find or guess the meaning through the context.


READING COMPREHENSION.  These are two great powerpoints without any sound that you can watch to learn some new vocabulary related to people's physical description in English.  You do not need to listen:  only read the passing cards and enjoy them!  









LISTENING COMPREHENSION.  And these are other videos.  They are shorter than the previous ones but offer you to know the word's pronounciation so as you can perfectly say them out loud.









Now, try yourself!  Choice a real friend, a famous person or a fictional one and make hi/her physical description. Come on, it will be easy!

Monday, 16 February 2015

DESCRIBING PEOPLE AND HOBBIES

UNIT 1: PEOPLE AND HOBBIES

WRITING/SPEAKING.

 Describing people.

TASK 1
Using the following model form, select one of your partners and write down his/her description. 


Describe a classmate                                         



He/she...

is _____ years old.

is _______________. (Nationality)

speaks ___________. (Language)

is from _______________.
lives in _______________.


has a boyfriend / a girlfriend.
has ___ brother(s) / ___sister(s).

likes ___________+ing.
likes to ____________.

doesn't like ___________+ing.
doesn't like to ___________.

What does he/she look like?

He/she...

is tall / short.
is fat / skinny.

has long / short hair.
has black / brown / red / blond / hair.


has brown / blue / hazel / green eyes.

wears glasses / contacts / braces.

wears a jeans / earrings / a           T-shirt/ a     jacket/ a            skirt.

has a piercing / a tattoo...

DO YOU KNOW WHO IS HE OR SHE?

TASK 2
 After you have your written description ready, you will read it out loud to the rest of the classroom and they might guess who you are talking about.  And remember:  you must not say his/her name...!



EXTRA RESOURCES FOR REINFORCEMENT OF LINGUISTIC ABILITIES.

As a way to reinforce the contents that the students see all through the introduction unit and the 1st. unit, I have considered the possibility of offering them extra material for the practice of those points which they find difficult or they simply like most.  This extra sources are showed in the form of printable worksheets, which in turn seem to me visually very appealing, so they can help students to memorize and learn English linguistic structures.  Of course, they do not need to do all of them (unless they need to! bad symptom...), only the ones they need to solve difficulties with the English language.  

Go to the web page http://www.englishwsheets.com/ and surf on it through all the contents you need or wish.  However, if you want to center on the units language, you may clic on here on the links below.  These should open the worksheets directly and will allow you to print them and to start practising.  You know, the sooner, the best!  I hope you enjoy them!


CLASSROOM LANGUAGE.  Clic on the following link and you will find an interesting worksheet for the practice of words and expressions we usually use in the classroom.

http://www.englishwsheets.com/classroom-language-1.html

http://www.englishwsheets.com/classroom-language-2.html

SAMLPE OF GREETINGS IN ENGLISH. No task required.

http://www.englishwsheets.com/greetings-1.html

AUXILIARY VERBS: TO BE/TO DO.  Practice these verbs in their affirmative, negative and question forms. Here you have a link which leads you to a multiple choice exercise.  You have also a worksheet with the correct answers to self-checking and self-assesment.

http://www.englishwsheets.com/be_do_1.html


. AUXILIARY DO/DOES. Fill in the gap exercise.

http://www.englishwsheets.com/do-does.html

PRESENT SIMPLE.
 1.Uses and related words and expressions.
 http://www.englishwsheets.com/present-simp

2. Fill in the gap exercise with auto-checking.
 http://www.englishwsheets.com/present-simple-2.html

3.Usingcontractions in negative sentences:DON'T/DOESN'T.                                                  
http://www.englishwsheets.com/present-simple-3.html

4.Describing people's jobs and occupations with the present simple tense.  http://www.englishwsheets.com/present-simple-4.html


PRESENT CONTINUOUS.

Read the short grammar explanation and examples about Present Continuous Tense.1.Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets. 2.Complete the sentences with a sutable verbs.3.Unscramble the words and make sentences.
http://www.englishwsheets.com/present-continuous-1.html

Choose the correct verbs from the box and fill in the blanks with them.Then number the pictures.
http://www.englishwsheets.com/present-continuous-2.html

















Tuesday, 27 January 2015

HOT POTATOES!!


USING HOT POTATOES TO DESIGN INTERDACTIVE TASK FOR STUDENTS.

I have designed my first interactive activity created with the helping of HOTPOT technology. This is a crossword about English adverbs.  If you wish, you can have a look here or go the following link to solve it.  Good luck!

-ly ADVERBS CROSSWORD.

Crossword

Complete the crossword, then click on "Check" to check your answer. If you are stuck, you can click on "Hint" to get a free letter. Click on a number in the grid to see the clue or clues for that number.
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Sunday, 25 January 2015

NEWSLETTERS

NEWSLETTERS

I have recently subscribed to an interestig and useful newsletter which deals with TEFL.  It co
mes from a web page called www.facultyfocus.com which deals with the teaching of English as a second language at intermediate-advanced levels.  It is a good siti to acquire knowledge about the difficut  practice of teaching teenagers.  It offers you experiences from other English teachers and refreshing ideas to build up appealing lesson plans.  If you click on the link below, you will have a look to the newsletter.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

http://www.facultyfocus.com/topic/newsletters/

The Teaching Professor Newsletter

Saturday, 24 January 2015

TEACHING ENGLISH ON-LINE. THE WONDERFUL NEW TECHNOLOGIES

ON-LINE APPS AND TOOLS

After an exhaustive research on the  web I have found many APPs which seem to me very interesting for their use in the teaching of ESL at High School.  I have published them  on a board thanks to http://linoit.com.  You can visit my board with a click on:


http://linoit.com/users/demacama/canvases/APPS%20TOOLS%sheD%20APPLICATIONS


There, you will see many interesting apps and on-line tools for computers, tablets or smart phones.  Among the web tools I have published, my favourite ones are the lesson plans for whiteboards.  From my point of view, all of them are very useful, but whiteboards seem very appealing for students.  At least, if students feel confortable, they study or do their tasks.  With such a tool, a teacher can make lessons funnier!

Tuesday, 20 January 2015

LOOKING FOR A GOOD CMS ENGINE

CMS EXAMPLES


 CMS stands for Content Management System.  It allows us to generate web pages with different styles and contents, according to our purposes.  As you can see bellow, there are many CMS engines which allow us to get the best results.
Among the infite number of web pages we can find on the Internet, which are powered by CMS systems, bellow, you can find some examples of different educational centres using different CMS softwares.  If you go througsh them, you will see that each one has a particular design, according to the CMS sofware used in each case.

Let's see the following ones:

Sites created with Drupal:
http://www.salesianos.edu/alicante/http://www.iesenricsolerigodes.com/drupal/Sites created with WordPress:
http://navarrosantafe.edu.gva.es/wordpress/http://iesb,enjaminjarnes.wordpress.com/Sites created with Joomla:
http://www.iesdoctorbalmis.com/ http://iesleonardoalacant.edu.gva.es/web/ http://cavanilles.edu.gva.es/Sites created with PHP-Nuke:
http://www.iesjaumeprimer.com/pphp/nuke/html/index.phpSites created with SPIP:
http://nsd.hhdc.net/ so
Sites created with Zikula (mostly in Catalonia):
http://agora.xtec.cat/iessantjust/intranet/http://agora.xtec.cat/iesnumancia/intranet/Sites using Mestre a Casa (official web offered by Conselleria):
http://mestreacasa.gva.es/web/ieslacanyada http://mestreacasa.gva.es/web/fpabeniassentSites directly using Moodle as site and VLE:
http://fpaibi.edu.gva.es/aulavirtual/http://www.iesalquibla.net/moodle/index.php

Once you have visited them you can appreciate that they all have a similar structure, except for the ones created using Mestre a Casa or Moodle and VLE.  Whereas the previous ones seem so simple,  anoying, these four last web sites which used the two above mentioned CMS software, appear more visually attractive, dynamic, easy to use and, connected with  siocial networking pages, which seems to me very important nowadays.

That is why, I prefer the four last pages, those created with Mestre a Casa or Moodle.  The other ones seem to me obsolete for today's teachinog and learning.  However, the choice is yours!





WELLCOME TO JOOMLA!

JOOMLA!

I would like to share with you some tool I found on the Internet: it is Joomla, a webpage which offers you Content Management System for the designing of your own site.  hiccan visit this at http://www.joomla.org.  It may help you to build your page and to give it a dinamic content and a great visual appeal!  Moreover, you can find there some subdirectories and( select the one(s) that best fist your interests.  For  example, as I would like to create a web page to teach foreign languages, I chose the subdirectory you can see below.  Actually, I would need more than this to create my page, but I considered that the most important aspect of learning a language is COMMUNICATION, so I should start with it.  Feel free of going to this site and look at the many possibilities it offers. Enjoy it!

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 http://www.jooeemla.org/about-joomla.html
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