Conclusions

A Slidestory allows you to make presentations and share them on the internet. That means, to tell a story, share your photos, narrate in your own voice, etc.
It is done by following four steps:
1.drag and drop your images onto the program
2.record audio for each image
3.add a title,description, and some tags
4.click the publish button.
A slide story can be used to describe any kind of theme. It could be about art, entertaining, recreation, etc. We can use it to relate a story with images about it. You can also expose them your own experience as a resource for learning. That is, to share your feelings about trouble for learning, or how it is the best way to attack a topic, or a difficult chunk of grammar, etc. We can help our students by giving them tips to improve their own weaknesses. It can also be a clearer explanation for them about language.
My propousals are:
1. Use the slidestory to explain to the students how to create a poster, with pictures downloaded from the Internet (they have to look for them, of course, related to the info in the text given), a text previously selected to work with, and/or how to illustrate the info in the text to create a graphic organizer.
After that, the students are going to design their assignments, and send them to the log.
2. Use the slidestory to explain them how to create their blogs along with yours.

Conclusions

These activities, the poster and the project, were very funny and interesting. I found them also very useful. The project poster allows teachers to create a lesson, a worksheet, or a class page, and assign projects to students. These students can be bilingual or just readers, like ours in CCH. The aim here is to complete the assignment on line, and of course it is going to be corrected the same way, or at least, it is going to have sort of feedback by the teacher. It includes images, texts, titles, subtitles, or any kind of graphic or info.
Its applications can be ilimited in education, so you can design any kind of activities or assignments for your students. The kind of the activities will depend on the type of class you need to perform. Here, at CCH, can be done for graphic organizers, for mind maps, for concept maps, pie graphs, etc., about a certain text or also can be done in a collage.
The difficulties I might find are the language itself and the usage of the technology, because of their level of English and their economical situation. That is, they may not have a computer and they don't have full command of the language, and this page is totally in English.
I would solve these problems having the class in the computing lab, make them follow my instructions in Spanish, and giving them the activities and the instructions in Spanish, but not the texts or the information to fill with in the graphic organizers.
This experience has been exciting and enlighting. I think is the tpc I like the most from all the ones I have taken. Thanks a lot for doing it like that.

My heart and hobbies

Poster Mexico City

http://poster.4teachers.org/view/poster.php?poster_id=224836

Poster My Hobbies

http://poster.4teachers.org/view/poster.php?poster_id=224826

Conclusions

Well, I have to say that this kind of activity is really interesting and up dated. We have, now, an important way to make our students get interested in the language. Using technology and the language itself. This tool is liked by most of youngsters and can be assessed easily by the teacher. We, as teachers, should use this kind of activities and devices to develop our classes every day. We can improve our teaching and our academic level as well. We must be aware of technology and students interests to make our own teaching meaningful for them.

What in a hell is a blog?

A blog is, in my personal opinion, a very useful tool for teachers. It can be used as a diary or as a forum to exchange information and learning experiences. You can download images, videos, sounds, texts, and activities. They can also be modified, enhanced, and improved by the participants. You can put different and meaningful links that are related to our content. You can write about a topic or interests. It depends on the purpose of the activity or the blog.
We as CCH' teachers can use it in many different ways to improve our students academic level of reading comprehension, as well as their ability to use the web and technology.

Who am I?

Hi guys!!! Welcome to my site. My name is Carmen Celeste Martínez A.
I work as a teacher in a private school and also here in CCH Vallejo. I finished a Master's degree in Education. I 'm so glad to have the chance to learn along with you. Let's have fun!!!

English make friends remain together

You can have your friends near you with the English language. And they can have you too. It is interesting to know other people from other countries and to know their cultures. English enhances your horizons.

M.E.Carmen Celeste Martínez Aguilar

Welcome to the most interesting page!!!
This is a special forum especially designed for you, my students. In this corner you may find lots of tips and exercises to learn English.
You can also find funny things that are useful for our purpose, to show you that learning a language is needed and enjoyed.