jueves, 25 de marzo de 2010

Blackboard

Today I learned how to use a new tool, it is called "Picnik". Well this is a wonderful tool that allow us to modify pictures and you can add many images or effects, I think that is a creative tool that can be useful for many students.
Then I learned how to use the tools of blackboard, like create a discussion forum, also create a new unit and other important things.
I think that is very important that I learned how to use these tools because as future teachers we will need them in order to create a distance course that could be useful for many students.

Distance Education

Today I learned what is Distance Education, the advantage that it has and the tools that we can use in order to improve our knowledge.
For me, Distance Education is to obtain the knowledge in a different way that in the past. It means that in Distance Education the learners are not dependent from the teacher, in this type of education learners are free to learn in the speed that they want, because they can obtain the information whatever they want and also they have more tools in order to reinforce the knowledge.
The advantages that it has is that the learners don't need to go to the classroom because they learn through the technology.
In the last class we saw many of the tools that we can use for Distance Education like: WEB 2.0, Blackboard and others.
Distance Education help us as future teachers to create a distance course to these students that cannot come to the classroom and we as teachers can design many activities in order to help students to learn through internet.

jueves, 4 de marzo de 2010

La Lengua de las Mariposas

The movie that we watched called "La Lengua de las Mariposas" is a very beautiful movie because we saw the different roles that a teacher has to have when he/she is teaching. For example when you are teacher you teach to students more than educative things, you teach things that are related with real context like in the movie when the teacher talked about "GOD" because the little boy asked, so how you can do in this situation because you as teacher have to have a neutral opinion.
I think that teachers are also parents, friends, sources because you can learn many things from your teacher and teachers can learn many things fromn students.

jueves, 25 de febrero de 2010

Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking is a method for Internet users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources.
In a social bookmarking system, we can save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.
In the process of teaching Social Bookmarking can be useful as a way to access a consolidated set of bookmarks from various computers, organize large numbers of bookmarks, and share bookmarks with contacts, so this allow students to check some activities that can be useful for them, to reinforce the knowledge.

sábado, 20 de febrero de 2010

Social Networks

A social network is a social structure made of individuals or organizations by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige.
Research in a number of academic fields has shown that social networks operate on many levels, from families up to the level of nations, and play a critical role in determining the way problems are solved, organizations are run, and the degree to which individuals succeed in achieving their goals.
The network can also be used to measure social capital the value that an individual gets from the social network.

lunes, 8 de febrero de 2010

Diseño Instruccional

Today I learned about Diseño Instruccional this is a sistematic, structured and planning process that allow us to create materials and this help to the learner using the technology.
The D.I is use through online education, it can be semipresencial or non-presencial; and exists different models of D.I like ADDIE, HAWAFIN AND PECK, DAVIS, DICK AND CAREY and Gagne and each one of them have many fases.

jueves, 4 de febrero de 2010

Las NTIC

In the class of today I learned about NTIC; They help us in the exchange of information, but in a different way that some years ago, in the past when we want to communicate us we need a telephone, fax or a letter. In our days almost all the people have access to these tools.

A plataforma educativa is a virtual space that have a lot of tools like portfolios, blogs, announcements,etc; but which is the benefit of all these? Well we as students and in a future as teachers have to have a relation with technology because tecnology is a way to have access to the information but in a easier way and with these we allow to the students to be more independent from the teachers.

In conclusion we have to be more practical and create students more independents, and teach them all the things that they can do with these new things.

jueves, 28 de enero de 2010

Google Site

Today I learned first how to create a site with the tool that google offers, in order to do this I had to have a e-mail in GMAIL because we created the site in google, after I can acces with my e-mail I learned how to create a site.
When I create my site I had the option of personalize my page it means like put a theme in my own site.
Then I learned how to create pages in my site these pages could be web page, anuncios, archivador or listas, it depends of the purpose of the page. When I create my pages I learned how to classify them, maybe if I want an Arcivador inside of a web page I can do that.
I think that this tool (site) is going to help me to have an order in my learning because I am going to report the development of my knowledge, and also it is going to help me to show the evidences of my work through of images, documents, etc.
I can share information with many people about some topics and I can check other sites.
In conclusion I learned how to use a new tool that is going help me a lot because now I can have like an electronic portfolio.