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Blog 10

Level 3 >> Post 10 (week 15) Evaluation of your Blogging Experience

Write about your experience using blogs in the English class.

Say:

> What you think about the experience in general

> How much you feel your writing skills have developed

> What you would like to include in the future

> What else you would like to write about

Wordcount: 200

Make comments on 3 of your classmates' posts.

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Evaluation of My Experience With Students:

As I have always said, when being here in front of a group of people in a class, I feel lucky to have the chance of being able to be their teacher, and I take very seriously and passionately the fact that the work I can make may change History someday – No one knows for sure if some of the people you were teacher’s to, might grow to become a future senator or the future president.

Having said that is time to reflect upon the practices and understand the ways in which the experience of the process of teaching and learning has enriched one’s life. It is time to assess one’s motivations, one’s teaching practice and the learning gained from the students.

By doing the self-analysis exercise, I realize that by being related to the academic affairs of a wide diversity of students from several faculties and majors, this term as well as the former ones, I have learnt and deepened in areas which were unknown to me and so I have learnt about the world of Dentistry and the different functions of the different organs involved in teething. Furthermore I have explored the world of cinema and the many dimensions to it and that are not always displayed for the mere spectator; I have enriched my understanding of the current national affairs just by listening to my journalism students and the discussions they have in the hallways or when just having a coffee with their peers.

From the interaction with my students –n English most of the time, I always insist - I have seen art in a way that was distant to me, I could finally appreciate artistic forms that before seemed sterile to me and needless say that as a whole, when reflecting upon the learning I have obtained from my students, I understand how wonderful my profession is and that from that nourishing feedback we both, teacher and students, receive from each other,  I believe we may endue the world with ways to stop inequity and contribute for citizens to overcome deprivation.

In the future I aim at opening up more to look over students learning styles, to take their ideas and try to include them in class activities that are even more profitable and beneficial not only for the academic endeavor but furthermore for the pursue of happiness. 

Today: Do the Followin Quiz

Student Survey (To be completed by students)

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/2342496/335bff4b8a9c

 

Remember the "Encuesta Docente" available at www.plataforma.uchile.cl 

After:

 

1- Do the following interactive text maze. You'll have 8 minutes! It's a great challenge. 

http://www.plataforma.uchile.cl/lapetus/2009/1/ingles/themes/intermediate/theme06_act02.htm

 

2-  Find out if you have what it takes to be a Techer. Interesting reflecting questionnaire. 

http://careerplanning.about.com/library/quiz/career_quizzes/blteacher_quiz.htm 

3- Let's see how workaholics we are: 

http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2011/05/living/workaholic.test/ 

 

4- Finally: Do the following Listening activity. 

http://www.elllo.org/english/0751/T751-Tim-JobOptions.htm  

ENJOY. HAPPY LEARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Blog 9: Themed Topic: Childhood Cartoons.

Dear all: today's free topic is Childhood Cartoons.

You have to structure a text telling us about the programmes you used to watch, as a child. 

- Make a comment on 3 of their classmates posts
- Word Count for this post : 190 words 

Childhood Cartoons

Believe it or not, when I was a child there weren't many series on TV, besides, I used to live in the 8th region, in a lost town in the middle of nowhere and we did not receive much technology nor state of the art cinema, theatre, cultural venues, etc.

It was the late 80's and national TV was the only option available, and consequently, the very limited programming they offered.

The series that you could see were quite classical, the typical Disney style, with Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and my favourite: Goofy.

I cannot tell you that I really remember their adventures on screen, because I was less than 5 years old, but I do remember having felt very proud after receiving positive appraisal from my parents when I was able to properly pronounce Goofy's spanish name, which was hard for someone mastering language in his early years. 

 

As years went by, things changed in my life and in the country, and in the year 1995, there was a new service arriving into the region, it was CABLE TV!!!!!

The first couple of months, and since it was a real novelty, not many people seemed to have hired the service, and the channels were not all yet given in Spanish. It was then when I discovered Nickelodeon, and also Scooby Doo.

I remember I really Really REALLY loved not understanding it all but I was happy when I realized Scooby and his gang had solved a mystery, I was happy just by understanding even only the gist of the episode.

Later in my life, I changed my likes from cartoons to soap operas and series, series with human beings and with more adult-like topics. My favourite has always been Friends and Seinfeld, and still nowadays I prefer series rather than cartoons, although to be honest, after letting my self be stimulated by some of my students, I am developing a crave for anime series and movies.