Men in Black III or Teachers with a Blank Mind?

TRABAJO INTEGRADOR MODULO 6

Estoy ocupada esta semana.

Debo presentar una actividad didáctica integrando recursos multimediales, la Web 2.0 y la enseñanza de inglés. 

Esto me ha dejado muchas noches sin dormir.

Finalmente decidí nombrarlo:

Write with Men in Black

Objetivos específicos didácticos: Explotar la imaginación de los estudiantes para desarrollar escritura creativa mediada por los recursos multimediales y la Web 2.0 en la clase de inglés.

Objetivos

Didácticos

Explotar la imaginación de los estudiantes para desarrollar escritura creativa mediada por los recursos multimediales y la Web 2.0 en la clase de inglés.

Lingüísticos

usar la escritura en inglés como medio de comunicación práctica entre pares intermediada por recursos multimediales y  de la Web 2.0.

producir textos orales bilingües relacionadas con el trabajo escrito para comunicarse con docentes y pares por medio de los recurso multimediales y de la Web 2.0

comprender  textos escritos y orales adecuados al nivel de producción de escritura y habla.

Culturales

compartir valores, creencias, estándares de belleza, patrones de pensamiento, normas de comportamiento, estilos de comunicación con los miembros del grupo a través de la  trilogía Men in Black.

Tecnológicos

usar los recursos multimediales y de la Web 2.0 para mejorar la práctica de la escritura en inglés y oralidad bilingüe.  

Esta imagen es especialmente interesante para trabajar el subtexto cultural que la subyace.

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.

PART TWO: Contents

WRITE WITH MEN IN BLACK

Contenidos

Gramaticales:  tiempo pasado simple, preguntas (Wh) cerradas, pronombres objetivos, verbos modales para solicitar información.

Lexicales: gustar, creer, opinar descriptivos, adverbios de tiempo, conectores, sustantivos varios.

Funcionales: relatando eventos pasados, dando opiniones, describiendo películas, valores, gustos, dando opiniones, emociones, sentimientos.

Men in Black pone en colores y formas  mundos con  otros patrones de belleza

 y comportamiento social

 también respetables.

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