Saturday, March 1, 2014

LAB SESSION, CAROLINA QUINTANILLA, SAT. AM., MARCH 01-2014
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Friday, August 16, 2013

EFFECTIVE TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION

Agenda:

- Introduction
- Effective Technology Integration Presentation
- Classroom / Computer Lab Layout Presentation
- Explore and Learn

Objectives (PWBT):

- Recognize effective from non-effective technology integration.
- Relate realia with teaching / learning process.
- Distinguish recommended activities and resources for lab sessions.
- Apply what has been learned to own teaching process.
- Prepare effective lab lessons.

Procedure:
- First, pay attention to the introduction and presentation.
- When asked, click on the following links. You will explore these resources and brainstorm different things you can use these sites for with students.

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Saturday, March 23, 2013

The Best Day of My Life Lesson

COMPUTER LAB SESSION
MARCH 23rd, 2013

THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE

Objectives (Students will be able to):

1. Properly use tenses applied to talking about personal experiences.
2. Learn new vocabulary through research.
3. Practice their speaking skills through group work.
4. Effectively apply team work.

Agenda:

1. Set pairs or groups of three.
2. Students will read and follow the instructions posted below.
3. Part I: Coming to an agreement. (Speak English Only)
4. Part II: Do research (collect images, videos, or any type of media/information)
5. Part III: Create a PowerPoint presentation with the content previously gathered.

Instructions:

By this point, you should have been assigned to a group already. As a group, you will have to do some research and create a PowerPoint presentation about "The Best Days of Your Life". Do the following:

1. Imagine what the best days of your life in the future would be like and work based on that. For this first step you will need to do some brainstorming.


This is a very brief video showing us how to brainstorm (it has no audio): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puR33K6fj-E

You will have 15 minutes to brainstorm as a group.

2. You will now have 45 minutes to do some research and gather the content you will include in the PowerPoint presentation (information, pictures, links, ect.). Take note of 15 new vocabulary words found during your research. These words have to be included in your presentation. You must speak English only.

3. Now, you will have another 45 minutes to start working on the PowerPoint presentation. Be as creative as possible. Remember you must speak English only. For the PowerPoint presentation you will have the following rules:

a. You cannot include complete sentences or paragraphs, only include short phrases or key words. So this means no copy/paste is allowed.
b. You cannot use Google´s translator.
c. You need to include pictures as a minimum requirement, you then have the choice to include short videos.

We will now watch this video in which we will see what things we are not supposed to do with PowerPoint: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpvgfmEU2Ck

4. You will only use one computer per group. So this means that one person will control the computer and the other two must give instructions. We will rotate positions every 15 minutes.

The groups will present their work today or after vacation, depending on how much time we have left. All members must participate when presenting. This project will be evaluated by your teacher.

It´s Show Time!!!
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Planning a Trip


LAB SESSION LESSON PLAN

February 26th of 2013



Objectives:

1. Students will be able to interpret information from schedules.

2. Students will be able to interpret information when purchasing flight tickets online.

3. Students will be able to interpret information to book a room in a hotel.

4. Students will be able to program an agenda for a tour trip.

5. Students will be able to research about places to visit and things to do in a specific country.

6. Students will be able to research about a country’s culture, customs, and important/famous people.

Agenda:

1. Assign groups.

2. Give instructions for the activity.

3. Research

4. Create Excel file and PowerPoint presentation

5. Facilitator will schedule presentation dates

Procedure:

- Ask the class to stand up and mingle. The instructor will say a number out loud and students must create a group with that number as fast as possible. They will do this three times. On the third time, the instructor will say number 3 and students must makes groups with that amount of people. This will be their real group to work with. (Groups of 3 members)

- Ask the class to select one computer to work with.

- Students must do the following:

o Budget per person: $6,000.00

 o Think of a country you would like to visit as a group. (It can’t be a Spanish or English speaking country).

o Select an airline or international bus service to travel. They must look at their website and check out the prices and the departure/arrival times.

o Look for a hotel in the country chosen. Look for the prices of the different rooms and services. Why did they select this hotel? How many days are you staying there? What would be the estimated cost for the stay and services?

o Research about places to visit in the country that has been chosen. Which places will you go to? When will you go to these places? How will you get there? What will you do there? How much is the estimated cost?

o Research about that county’s culture, customs, and famous/important people, typical food and drinks.

o What is the currency used in that country? What is the exchange rate between that currency and ours?

o What is their flag? What are their national symbols (flower, animal, etc.) What language(s) do they speak?

 o Create an Excel file in which you show your total budget, details of expenses, and total expense per person.

o Create a power point presentation with the information gathered. Include pictures or media, be creative.

o Include samples of greetings or phrases in that country’s language.

o Include at least 15 new English vocabulary words you have learned throughout the research.

o Include your names in the presentation.

o Presentations cannot contain paragraphs or full sentences. You can only include key words or key phrases.

- Research and presentation preparation may take more than one lab session. Investigate which other teachers teach the same level, one lower level, or one higher level so you can invite them to the presentation according to the scheduled dates. Students can bring posters or any other visual aid. This project and the team members will be graded in these things:

o Introduction

o Research and note taking

o Planning

o Creativity

o Followed instructions

o Quality of material/content presented

o Personal presentation/appearance

o PowerPoint text and layout appropriate (easy to understand and well matched/combined)

o Graphics, images, videos, audio…

o No full sentences or paragraphs

o Presentation delivery (no reading, fluency, knowledge)


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Thursday, June 7, 2012

TEFL, TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION 06-07-2012


TEFL TRAINING
TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION

AGENDA:
-          Introduction
-          Review (AllThink)
-          Review (Blended Learning) (Effectively integrate technology)
-          ENGRADE
-          Classroom/Computer Lab Layout
-          Learning Process (Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy)
-          Group Work

OBJECTIVES (PWBAT):
1.      Understand and apply the true concept of blended learning.
2.      Effectively use ENGRADE to maximize the learning experience.
3.      Identify the proper classroom/computer lab layout. (Teacher Centered vs. Student Centered)
4.      Understand and apply the process of learning.
5.      Identify teaching/learning tools and effectively integrate them into a lesson.

PROCEDURE:

  • ·         Briefly introduce myself.
  • ·         Go through a brief review of what has been seen regarding Blended Learning.
  • ·         Have you done any technology integration observations? If so, share thoughts/comments.
  • ·         What is the difference between using technology and effectively integrating technology?
  • ·         What is technology? (What things come to your mind when hearing this word?)
  • ·         Review ENGRADE.
o   Assignments
o   Calendar
o   Attendance
o   Quizzes
o   Turn-ins
o   Comments
o   Discussions
  • ·         Briefly go over the Classroom/Computer Lab Layout.
  • ·         Briefly go over Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy)
  • ·         Group work: You will do some research of the topics you have been assigned per group. You will only use one computer per group and you should take turns using the computer. With the information gathered, you will create a brief powerpoint presentation in which you will tell us about your topics and how to properly integrate them into a lesson (how to use them). Presentations must not contain full sentences or paragraphs; only key words of phrases. You should include images (and videos if possible). Every member in the group must participate in the presentation. No reading will be allowed when presenting.
o   Group 1:
§  Blogger
§  Glogster
§  Penzu

o   Group 2:
§  Voxopop
§  Opentok (tokbox)
§  Audacity
o   Group 3:
§  Prezi
§  Make beliefs comix
§  Dvolver moviemaker
o   Group 4:
§  Voicethread
§  Mind42
§  Pearltrees
o   Group 5:
§  Blabberize
§  Eslpod
§  Eslvideo
o   Group 6:
§  Wallwisher
§  Toondoo
§  Museumbox
o   Group 7
§  Myna audio editor
§  Empress
§  Prezentit
  • ·         Presentations

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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Lab Session 03-03-2012

LAB SESSION LESSON PLAN

March 3rd of 2012



Objectives:

1. Students will be able to interpret information from schedules.

2. Students will be able to interpret information when purchasing flight tickets online.

3. Students will be able to interpret information to book a room in a hotel.

4. Students will be able to program an agenda for a tour trip.

5. Students will be able to research about places to visit and things to do in a specific country.

6. Students will be able to research about a country’s culture, customs, and important/famous people.

Agenda:

1. Assign groups.

2. Give instructions for the activity.

3. Research

4. Create power point presentation

5. Presentations (in a fair) will happen in two Saturdays with other classes as guests.

Procedure:

- Ask the class to stand up and mingle. The instructor will say a number out loud and students must create a group with that number as fast as possible. They will do this three times. On the third time, the instructor will say number 3 and students must makes groups with that amount of people. This will be their real group to work with.

- Ask the class to select one computer to work with.

- Students must do the following:

o Think of a country they would like to visit as a group. (It can’t be a Spanish or English speaking country).

o Select an airline or international bus service to travel. They must look at their website and check out the prices and the departure/arrival times.

o Look for a hotel in the country chosen. Look for the prices of the different rooms and services. Why did they select this hotel? How many days are you staying there? What would be the estimated cost for the stay and services?

o Research about places to visit in the country that has been chosen. Which places will you go to? When will you go to these places? How will you get there? What will you do there? How much is the estimated cost?

o Research about that county’s culture, customs, and famous/important people, typical food and drinks.

o What is the currency used in that country? What is the exchange rate between that currency and ours?

o What is their flag? What are their national symbols (flower, animal, etc.) What language(s) do they speak?

o Create a power point presentation with the information gathered. Include pictures or media, be creative.

o Include samples of greetings or phrases in that country’s language.

o Include at least 15 new English vocabulary words you have learned throughout the research.

o Include your names in the presentation.

o Presentations cannot contain paragraphs or full sentences. You can only include key words or key phrases.

- Research and presentation preparation will take two Saturdays to complete. Investigate which other teachers teach the same level, one lower level, or one higher level so you can invite them to the presentation fair on March 24th of 2012. Students can bring posters or any other visual aid. This project and the team members will be graded in these things:

o Introduction

o Research and note taking

o Planning

o Creativity

o Followed instructions

o Quality of material/content presented

o Personal presentation/appearance

o PowerPoint text and layout appropriate (easy to understand and well matched/combined)

o Graphics, images, videos, audio…

o No full sentences or paragraphs

o Presentation delivery (no reading, fluency, knowledge)


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