Week 4 Post 1

I enjoyed a lot working on the technology enhanced lesson plan. I think it is not very different from the ones I plan every day. That's because I mostly work deeloping digital educational resources for English elementary school teachers and students in .public schools throughout the country. Those resources are published at http://www.uruguayeduca.edu.uy/

I feel the article "What is successful technology Integration" (http://www.edutopia.org/technology-integration-guide-description)  was particularly useful for me. The SAMR model helped me revise my teaching practice.  In Uruguay we mostly follow the T-Pack model to promote technology integration among our teachers. I recomend visiting both sites to get a more thorough insite of the models.

Talking about the Final Project, I decided to change my target audience. Instead of developing a project for my students, I decided to focus on  teachers and technology integration. The main reasons for this change are:

• our students belong to the digital generation and thus are ready and willing to profit from technology while learning.
• one of the major barriers regarding technology integration lies on teachers' knowledge (T-Pack) and attitudes towards gadgets.

 I want to help build a collaborative  path

among teachers to move towards technogloy integration.                

Virginia

Week 3 Post 1

First I want to let everybody know that from week 3 on I'm starting to write my weekly posts on my blog home page instead of writting them on "My Learning Log" page. This is because it will be easier for my colleagues to find and make comments about my posts if they are here.
I want to thank Courtney for this suggestion, and hope to get many comments on my posts from now on


Regarding this week I must say I learned a lot:

• On line social bookmarking opened a whole new world to me. I had no idea of this tool before. I'm very enthusiatic about  having my own Delicious page. I'm aware  still have a lot to explore and learn how to use it in a more profitable way, However, it  already meant a lot of help to organize and keep just a click away many useful links.

• Reading the articles about teaching aural/oral skills and exploring through the suggested web pages allowed me to notice the importance of teaching and working on pronunciation and how to take advantage of the many on line tools we can easily access.

• Reading and analysing some sample final project reports helped me to have a more complete picture of what the Final Project might be. As I said on my nicenet post, now I have more questions than anwers about my own final project idea. But I also know that by answering those questions I will be able to develop my project, step by step, looking for the core building blocks.

Virginia