Website

I love the idea of websites because it can be a very useful free resource. I had never used google sites before, but it is not that difficult. I decided to created a resource website for teachers. The purpose to of this website is to provide a list of useful website for teaching. I created links to those websites and a short description of them. I also added a calendar, a tweeter fallow bottom, and you tube news. I created a teaching resource webpage and a web 2.0 webpage.

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Concept Map

I created a concept map with the classification of the pronouns. I would use this concept map for explaining the classification of the pronouns with examples of them. This can be very useful to summarize the pronouns lesson and could help to students understanding of pronouns.

Screencasting

Screencasting

Back in my country I am a teacher. I love have students working in small groups because it is a very effective way to teach big classes like mines. One of the major benefits is the interaction and cooperation among students. But sometime when I assign group projects, most students complain that they don’t have the time to meet because everyone is too busy or they live far away from each other. Another problem that I face in my classes is when we have presentation. Most of the time my students work on PowerPoint and the day of the presentation it just doesn't work or they forget their UBS at home. So I decided to use Jing to do a tutorial of Google Drive.

With Google Drive, students won’t have the excuse of lack of time for working in a group projects because it allows people to share and edit documents from wherever. Also they won’t need any physical device to save their files. Google Drive works like a cloud service. You only need a connection to the internet. This application has a lot of features that can be very useful for teaching or learning. In order to make my tutorial, I used Jing. It takes screenshots, captures an image of what you see on your computer screen, and record screen casts up to 5 minutes of onscreen video. So I just installed Jing in my pc and I made up the tutorial of Google drive.

Google Maps for Teaching

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For my lesson of giving directions in my language class, I would make my students to create their own google maps. The idea is very simple but could be very useful for this purpose. Students would create a map of their community or a place they like and will highlight the place marks they find interesting. Then they will add line between the locations. These lines could be for walking routes as well as car routes. After they create their maps, they will make a presentation of it in class. They could use power point or prezi. In their presentation, they will use their maps to give directions. This will allow them to use the lesson vocabulary in a real environment.