Instructional Technology - Beatriz Zavala

Rate: 4 Based on the article "How to use technology to provide feedback" by Russell Stannard This article talks about how we can give feedback trough a social media. It said that there are some aplications in which teachers can give feedback in a voice recorder and its work as if it is a face to face conversation. This type of feedback, makes that the instruction of the teacher will be clear and evade confusion in the student. The article mention how the screen capture and feedback works. It said that students can send their writting task to the teacher by email and the teacher could open it in their computer. Then, she/he can record herself/ himself correcting student's mistakes and also the teacher can record his/her voice explaining the mistakes and as I said before is like to be next to the teacher. This type of feedback provides to the teacher some advantages mostly in online classes. Because you spend less time giving the feedback and also you provide a ...

Rate: 5 Based on the articles: "10 Benefits of Getting Students to Participate in Classroom Discussions" by Maryellen Weimer and "Increase Student Interaction with 'Think-Pair-Shares' and 'Circle Chats'" by Kristina Robertson. As teachers, we know that is important to keep students participating in class. In this way, we notice their comprehension of the topic and also is a good way to check their advance in the language by giving their opinion. And this is something that the articles mentioned and offers some good ideas of how we can make students participate. The first article mentioned 10 benefits of students' participation and I am going to explain all of them. First, "Participation adds interest" it said that for students is bored only listen the teacher explanation and that something that could help is ask for students' opinion; maybe one of the students have an idea of the topic and it could be meaningful for them lis...

Rate: 5 Based on the articles: "Maximizing the Benefits of Project Work in Foreign Language Classroms" by Bülent Alan and Fredricka L. Stoller and "Seven Essentials for Project-Based Learning" by John Larmer and John R. Mergendoller. Projects work help students in different ways. Also, they facilitate their learning and their communication with their classmates and make them organized. First, some of the benefits of projects work are that students can choose with their teacher the topic with their fell comfortable; the project could be an interview, to create a presentation on powerpoint or create a model of something, the principal point is that they have to be creative. Also, they can choose the people to work with and that facilitates the comunication and the harmony in the group. Next, the topics have to be relate with the real world because it could be more meaningful for them if they can tell a self-experience and that could guide them to focus in the ...

Rate:4 Based on the articles: "Online English-English Learner Dictionaries Boost Word Learning" by Ulugbek Nurmukhamedov and "Using Technology to Assist in Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading Comprenhension" by Andreea I. Constantinue. Nowadays, most of the people know that internet may help them to improve whatever thing that are learning and learn English is not an exception. When you are learning a language, something that is principal is learn vocabulary; and to that, learners need to find the "perfect" dictionary that provides them all the tools that are necesary for them. In the first article, are mention some features that we need to take account when we use a dictionary. The first one is the corpus-based dictionary, this means that the dictionary has to have real-word vocabulary and also the article provides a list of some dictinaries that have this feature. The second feature is the word frecuency, which means that the dictionary has to m...