DRAMA AT THE ESPLANADE

The Esplanade lies between the Manawatu river and Palmerston North city, New Zealand, where I am currently living, and it is always alive, even more during warm summer nights.

This time and for a couple of weeks during evenings and weekends we were able to enjoy  King Lear, the play, directed by Jaime Dorner, Massey University visiting artist-in-residence.

The play takes place under a giant sequoia tree and tells about dementia, elder abuse, family violence, sibling rivalry, greed, spying, treachery, torture, adultery, over-reaching power, cruelty, war, loyalty, friendship and love, all today's themes, I think.

Before commencing the orchestra started playing, and people in silence respectfully listen to them while drinking some wine and beer:

Some minutes later King Lear approaches the watchers and starts counting them:

 What follows is a small piece of it, recorded one warm night, surrounded by birds twitting,

Viernes 13...finalizando el Módulo 6

Reflexiones

Finalmente

mi auto evaluación ha sido satisfactoria:

realicé una hipótesis de trabajo

la elaboré, construí, destruí, rearmé, reconstruí este trabajo, lo compartí, embebí, comenté, simulé muchísimas veces...

...espero que ahora esté mejor...
.
...a mi me gusta, y como a todo estudiante, me costó muchas horas. Eso es sin dudas usar las capacidades de pensamiento superior.

Aspectos positivos: logré aprender a grabar información, googlear, embeber, bajar y subir datos, por ejemplo.

SIMULANCION: palabras que elegimos

Las palabras que elegimos mi compañero y yo son:

MEN

BLACK

FICTION

SCIENCE

ACTION

BOOK

COMIC

SMITH

SPIELBERG

Con mis compañeros las re-agruparé en Mindmeister.

Comments are welcomed!

History of Protest Song Writers

Slideshare: Mundos Virtuales para la Enseñanza de Idiomas

Mundos virtuales para_la_eseñanza_de_idiomas from Eva Acosta

A summary on a virtual experience in a second life environment carried out by three teachers of English in a virtual immersion project.

Galería FLICKR

FLICKR: galeria

After having tried a hundredth time, even with tutorials from Rafael Ballesteros, this is the best I can do. Sorry, about this.

Virtual Worlds, Second Life, Metaverse Concepts

My personal thoughts about Second Life and learning. 

My words are based on my experience in  virtual worlds as a learner.

Is a Second Life possible for a teacher of English?

ELLA IN WONDERLAND SL EXPERIENCE

The wonderland of SL for teachers of English: Some comments on it. (Spanish language)

Today  I have explored a new teaching experience: Second Life World, and as a learner!

I definitely loved it, even got addicted to it, I guess.

Thus, is there A second life for us, teachers of English?

Then, can I replace my classroom by a second classroom, a virtual one? 

I personally tend to think this new SL "game" has many blurry limits, and these are some of many questions flooding my mind:

How can we teachers re-define our classrooms? 

 

How can we teachers re-adapt ourselves to this new environment? 

 

How can we teachers adopt SL as a learning - teaching space?
 

Should we, teachers, just obvserve our teaching world to see what happens?
 

Should we, teachers,  get involved in these new ephemeral circumstances?
 

Have they arrived in our classes to stay for long?

 

Are they ephemeral?

If you wish, your thoughts, hopes and fears are all welcomed to debate them!

A cuppa might help me...

I usually teach late at night, and this is what I was doing last Monday,  at around 11 pm. As usually, more than twenty eager-to-learn students were following my phonetics and phonology class.

I was occupied trying to teach them about how physical standing and speaking may affect for or against a foreign accent when speaking English, when I heard a loud, interrupting, laughing burst.....

.....one of the students had found my class so ridiculously funny that could not help making fun of me.


I just went on teaching the class, did not let him break the learning environment. However,

Should have I felt unappreciated by him? Why?

How do you feel when your experience is denied by the same learner?

Probably, a cuppa might help me today...or just a couple of lines from you...

Please, your comments are welcomed to be shared here.



Eva

Every teacher needs a blog

 "Becoming a reflective teacher"

A teaching blog is a weekly record of the events in a teacher's life that have impressed themselves most vividly on his or her consciuousness. By focusing on these events, we learn much more about our assumptions that if we just tried to list them.

Why is this important?

Because events that engage our emotions also reveal our values as teachers.


This blog is aimed to those teachers of English who feel tired and need a place to meet to positively empower each other.

I am a teacher of English, and sometimes I feel really tired; thus, I'd like a safe blank piece of "paper" to write about my feelings and emotions, hopes and dispairs.

This surely is the third or fourth attempt to make a reflecting journal, I 've always wanted to develop one, however, I am never into it, lack of time probably, but also lack of opportunities to write it.

I love my job. Do you like yours? Why?

Please, join me in this blogging exchange, help me to cheer up, I promise I'll try to cheer you up, as well!

I'd like to share this post with you.

Thanks for reading!

Eva