Instructional Technology - Beatriz Zavala

Rate: 5 Based on the article: "Twenty ideas for using mobile phones in the language classroom" by Hayo Reinders. Nowadays, the use of cellphones becomes necesary for everyone. We want to be in contact with our family, friends, cooworkers and every people that surround us. But also, we can use our mobile phones for learning and teaching a new language and this article mention twenty greatly ideas to do that. But remember that use mobile phones with young or teenager students could have pros and cons. But first we are going to see the pros. One principal reason for using mobile phones in class is that students can create their own learning. For students may result boring or so traditional only receiving class in a classroom, but if they are able to use their cellphone for look for a word or recording themselves in a conversation; may help them to know what their mistakes are and auto correct them. The second reason is that you can use a lot of activities both inside ...

Rate: 3 Based on the article "Online Collaborative Writting Using Wikis" by Paul Sze. In this article the author describe step by step a project that his students develop in order to know how the life in secondary school is. He did it in a school in Hong Kong because there almost all the people have acces to internet. To do that, they used a writing online tool call Wiki. In the article the author explain that wiki is a website where anyone can edit anything anytime they want. So that, the teacher create 6 groups in class and every group has a diferent aspect that has to describe. The diferent aspects were: Specials rooms and facilitates, the school as one big family, interest clubs/extra-curricular activities, lunch times and recess, the S1 curriculum and adapting to secondary school life. Each integrant of the groups observed the other students in the diferent areas and then they star to write their draf. Then they checked their drafs and a proofreading in order to ...

Welcome to the lab session 1 Topic:  Daily Routines Authors: Hilda Reyes and Beatriz Zavala Time: 60 minutes Level:  A1 Hello!, welcome to the first lab session in this course. The  today's topic will be "Daily Routines" and the grammar is the simple present. Your teachers will be Hilda Reyes and Beatriz Zavala. We hope you enjoy this class!. 1- Watch the following video and pay attention to the lyric. https://youtu.be/eUXkj6j6Ezw Time: 3 min. 2- Watch the video of daily routines, listen and repeat the pronunciation. https://youtu.be/tiXAWq852Ts Time: 8 min. 3- Now we are going to learn about the structures for the simple present tense. Pay attention to them. https://youtu.be/3W3AZ5Zw0n0 Time: 10 min. 4- Now that you know some daily routines. We are going to practice. Fill in the blank with the correct word. learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/word-games/daily-routines Time: 10 min. 5- Here you have an exercise to practice the simple present. ...