PARCIAL TIC BUSTAMANTE, JORGE NICOLS MUN 2616

1. A. Word cloud: it is a visual source used to highlight a website or texts word content. The words are actually tags which means this cloud encourages the whole ideas, though not all of them are very visible. The most important words are in larger and bolder font, so it becomes easier to see for a visitor o reader. B. Cloze test: a cloze test is an evaluating system, more for those that are learning English as a second language, of someones reading and comprehension ability. The test consists of a prose text with deleted passages where the student must fill in with the correct word/phrase. C. To digitize: (also digitization) is to translate information into a digital format. That is information organized into discrete units of data (called bits) that can be separately addressed (in multiple-bit groups called bytes). This data language is called binary code; a cyphering consisting of 0s and 1s, the name bits is made up from binary digits. In other words, to digitize is the representation of any type of information (music, sound, text, and image) into a single binary code. D. To google: it is to type words into the search engine Google in order to find information about someone or something. E. Aid: F. Communicative competence: it is a linguistic term that refers to someones knowledge about something. In this case communicative involves the aspects of a language itself, but grammar as the most important one: competence meaning to the level of knowledge and ability to manage such language. 2. 3. B-learning and e-learning in our university context: B-learning would be a way satisfactory and successful method for English Language. So as to start mentioning the reasons, we may consider: a. Presence classes are always useful, but if we reduce the presence classes by maximizing language skills via internet? For instance, the use of a virtual platform for teaching (virtual classroom, virtual board, video conference programs such as Skype, etc) This can be done with a computer or a good enough smartphone; we can use electronic versions of books (e-books) and have the units lessons via internet: i.e. as a first task we must read Unit 7, after 10 minutes you must have a list with unknown vocabulary and start debating with your classmates; while debating the teacher starts

organizing a list briefly described with the units vocabulary. We can make use of many websites for exercises such as grammar tenses, adding emphasis, negative inversions, and so on. Homework could be uploaded anytime on the sharing platform. The use of presence classes would be a satisfactory outcome for language in use, language practice and grammar skill: questions to be answered quickly, the performance of what has been practiced before: i.e. -Miss Burton, turn this sentence into passive: Yesterday the US force arrested an Armenian politician. -An Armenian politician has been arrested yesterday by the US force. As regards language practicing, conversation classes are also of great value, for most of the English subjects, not in all of them we normally talk or speak in English, just very few words to answer questions. Additionally, conversation classes are not so confident via internet since (in our province) the connection is unstable and not the best, at least not capable of baring a 30 people video conference. We could also make use of data saving servers and create our own virtual folders and know that the only way to lose our work is by an unlikely catastrophe occurrence where the servers are set, something that, I believe, its not going to happen. An important advantage of virtual folders is the fact that we cant forget anything, you have everything uploaded and saved in the sites server. The disadvantage is the dependence of internet connection, which implies to make a backup of most important files, printed on paper. LINKS FOR: Virtual platform (classroom): this software has to be downloaded and installed in each computer so as to work better and faster than an online one. http://www.e-lecta.com Grammar tenses: this link is quite useful. Its completely organized and staggered for the development of all tenses throughout the year http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html Data saving servers: Google drive is an excellent one; it allows us to upload any file. We can organize our uploads into folders and share it with friends, worldwide, only with those who have the link, or private. This means, if we upload, for instance, a Parcial we can set it to be shared only with those with the link (the teacher). Also it is easy to use. https://drive.google.com

4. http://international.waldenuniversity.com/walden-programs-backup/ This university uses e-learning but m-learning the most. Its timing is perfect. Allows you to do an extra carrier or courses or work parallel to this high education. If we apply this in our context, we should imagine a perfect country and economy were people is In the case of teenagers they would have a lot more of free time. We can use this method for important messaging, so be it no classes tomorrow, dont forget to bring your TPs, etc.

http://www.americanonlinehigh.com/international/?gclid=CLP7ifaekboCFctr7Aod11E AKw This university also has a high school program. In this case we could mention the importance of the self-paced course so its more comfortable to work on ones own. I dont think its that necessary for high school, but we could adapt it for students with learning problems, so they get a better chance for their studies. http://ohs.stanford.edu/student_ambassadors/spencer.html In this link the student tell us about his life as a student, how he applied for the university and what it is like. He mentions a virtual laboratory for AP biology: In my AP Biology class we performed a virtual lab, which required us to identify an unknown species from fossil evidence and genetic sequences that we ran through a sophisticated online database. This is a very futuristic resource, very useful but quite sophisticated as he said. We can make use of this virtual lab for Chemistry practices, we can avoid lots of dangers with it.

5. At first, I would give the students this image in the sharing platform (http://www.electa.com) for them to get a first glance of vocabulary and also to diagnose how much do they know about describing people. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jMSO51OmLeE/R_u3a3lsaxI/AAAAAAAAAB8/CdsYGO1moR E/s640/Clothing.png I would use the image of this teachers blog to teach the basic sentence structure for describing people. http://englishccsantaana.blogspot.com.ar/2012/05/lets-learn-about-physicaldescription.html In order to improve a little bit more in description of people I would use the following presentation in SlideShare (author: Maria Irene Albers). It contains the adjectives order and exercises for its recognition. http://www.slideshare.net/marialbers/adjective-order-11954838?from_search=3 For more and organized vocabulary I would use this presentation http://www.slideshare.net/terefernan/describing-people-3638848?from_search=12 For exercises, the following link is really useful and practical. These exercises have 2 options in each sentence (which you have to choose the correct one that describes them) and each option is voiced, you click it and you will hear how to pronounce it. After the students do it, I will be allowed to check more or less how much theyve learned of vocabulary. So it is useful for vocabulary consolidation and also for listening. http://cerquella.com/bilingual/deploy/Unit2/vocabulary_2.html This cloze test creator I would use first to give the students complete exercises (including adjective order, vocabulary, etc) just to practice before an exam. And as a way of being sure they do it, I would make this exercises a Practical Work. That would guarantee an important percentage of success.

http://martineau.tv/cloze/ After checking the results, I will be acknowledge about the students current knowledge about the topic we are dealing with. So, if we have varied results (meaning different problems on developing the exercises) I would make 2 different tests in Survey Monkey. For instance: a multiple choice exercise that says Choose the correct sentences. (in terms of order and sentence structure). Sarah has hair blonde. Sara has blonde hair. Sara blonde has hair.

These steps are the ones I would take to teach teenagers with their Conectar Igualdad netbook.

6. CALL: a. I imagine classes were totally boring and useless, no sense on PLATO at all. After all is a way of programming someone and was nothing but a mechanical practice. It was the same activity but instead of a teacher they had a machine. b. At first the communicative competence dealt with language knowledge, the ability of manipulating the language as regards linguistics (Chomsky). But in the 80s they also recognized that a student must be capable of managing the language within a social context, and so forth they established a series of basic principles in order to reach that goal. c. 2 Call should put the learner at the center of the process: students become more self-confident when they feel they can handle and manage with the learning process. Its quite difficult because it needs a careful work design, in order to graduate the level of complexity of the exercises or lessons provided. 3 CALL exists for learners, not teachers: as its own name (Computer assisted language LEARNING). The aim of CALL is developing the most meaningful sequences of exercises for students to thrive and progress on their second language learning. 6 CALL should engage and motivate the learner: An effective CALL program keeps a student motivated through appropriated feedback. The student needs to get engaged with the content and replace the meta-language whenever possible. If this happens, it generates a rich environment and gives the student a sense of progress and thriving. 10 CALL should help learners learn better: it should help reflect the learners whenever they feel like quitting a routine or activity, how was their performance or how did they achieved that skills.