It's not Good Bye, only "SEE YOU"

Today It's difficult for me to say Bye.
I don't know How.
It's my opportunity to say
Only Thanks:

Thanks for this opportunity to United States Embassy in Venezuela


For let me meet new colleagues at first, and now new friends,
For offer me new tools to teach.
For to be an Oregon University online student.
For to improve my teaching practice.
Thanks,thanks and thousands of thanks to Mr.Elliot and all his colleagues who support us with their opinions during these last weeks.

My new Friends abroad: I want to offer my home as your home, my door in my country is open and my heart to all of you too.



I want to offer a gift to each of you:

Natasa:I would like give a prize as the Best multi-Blogging teacher, and I
would like to visit your 79years old school:Zaduzbina Ilije M. Kolarca, it
should be amazing,and I think you contagy your Multiple Bloggonality
Disorder,because I don't want to stop.Now What is the cure?

Luisa:Dear Luisa, I would like to share our experience about this course talking
in your city from the Castle of Bragança, and to eat a delicious meat from local
Cows in a famous restaurant:D. Roberto restaurant.
http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/pb/472f7/
http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/5cc4e/472f7/

I would like to send to your address a Venezuela' cooking book to add more
recipes in your kitchen.

Ricard: Dear Friend Ricard I would like offer an airplane ticket to Venezuela to
enjoy our beauty boundaries and can show and apply with a workshop your
techniques as a teacher trainner, we will appreciate a lot.

The: I would like to offer a fishing rod to practice his hobbie in the new world
heritage Catba island and Halong Bay and the link of
my blog to be my follower:http://winterblog-orchid.blogspot.com/, and my
twitter: @orchidf.

Ky: García Márquez's last novel, Memories of my Melancholy Whores.

Nizara:I would like to visit গুৱাহাটী, and to see a beautiful view of sunset across
the Brahmaputra river near Sukleswar ghat in Guwahati.I would like to offer a
Hindi poem for Women,especially for a spectacular woman...Nizara:
A Hindu woman beauty

Translucent neck, crescent forehead,
Bow like eyebrow, doe’s eyes,
Hilly cheeks, cherry lips,
Beaky nose, milky teeth,
With back dropp of cloudy hair
Provide a countenance. It strikes.

Snake-gourd arms, tulip palm,
Snaky fingers, eggi nails,
Dicot branching breasts
Decking out like cashew apples,
Banyan leaf like belly
Provide a profile. It hooks.

Boat like beam, banana stem thighs,
Pomegranate open fruit in between,
Crane legs and the feet
As tapering as the bud of banana
Inflorescence,
Provide a receptacle. It arreats.

Then a woman has no need
To be adorned and ornamented,
To catch hold of a king.
24.12.2000, Pmdi



Shaila:I'd like to offer a New Yoga's book and a pink hat to her "Pink
City" in summer, to visit her Hawa Mahal in Jaipur.

Marina:Oh my god: What gift to you: a big ballon full of thanks to be my peer
partner,and offer your help...and a special singer Jimmy Rushing with his
song:"Good Morning Blues", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgvL4_eWN2M.
Enjoy it Marina.....


Yohimar: My dear peer friend and Venezuela's partner, I want to offer my
apartment hospitality, my friendship and soon I will visit you in your hometown
again to sightseeing in your spectacular city with the most brilliant sun and
famous sunshines in Venezuela.

Yuliya: A pair of skates to skating in Kazakhstan parks and 2 intersting Tolstoy
Quotes: “If you want to be happy, be.” Yulika smile and laugh a lot.and “rest,
nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness…” Leo Tolstoy


Vita:I admire from the first moment for your initial quote:"Teaching is learning
and my students are my teachers". I would like to offer you as a gift a
wonderful swimsuit to your famous beaches in your city, and a big hat when you
go to walk to Malang's temples.

Sinikka:I would like to offer tickets to go with your family to an ice hockey in
Isomäki

Helen:I would like to offer a ticket to visit Venezuela, and I would like to
offer my visit in Sumy to go to your fantastic places there especially:
The fairytale park .

Imas: A jazz concert Louis Armstrong "What a wonderful World"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5TwT69i1lU
I would like to share with you a trip in the high speed rail and road Surabaya.

Sagun:I would like to make an interchange electricity from Venezuela to Nepal
and Water from Nepal to Venezuela.What do you think?

Roxana: Roxy new books about Twilight Saga,and a Cd with romantic Venezuela
singers."Pura Vida in Costa Rica" other gift my visit soon in your beautiful
country. A bolero to you: http://youtu.be/2G-04Nf0Sh0

Ariel: I would like to invIte with your wife to visit Venezuela it will be a
pleasure to be your city guide.

Nabira:I would like to offer my strong friendship.

Vijay:My dear Vijay i know you like to travel and me too, so I offer you a tour
in Venezuela and I would like to visit your Visakhapatnam,"the city of destiny".

Robert Elliot: God bless you, and give happines,patience and more knowledge to
you and your family...Thanks a lot.







I hope you enjoy each of them.

I want to tell you my experience in this Winter Course:

I have spread Del.ici.ous usage in my student in high school and University.
I have include WebPosters in my high school 3rd period plan.
I made a proposal to my university bosses to open a nicenet account to use with my students.
I have suggested in my classes new Web Searching Tech and offer more ideas about techniques for searching, and I share with my colleagues.
I'm applying new Aura/Oral skills in my new plans of class for new semester according to my friends proposal in our discussions and tasks made.
I'm applying more rubrics and suggesting to my colleagues design them too.
I'm thinking in apply more project based learning in my high school for reinforce my students learner autonomy, and I hope to apply in University's classrooms and follow the blog usage with the students.
I'm going to continue using one computer classroom lesson, but with new more ideas.
I'm studying hot potatoes, Easy Test Maker and Crossword Puzzle Games to apply next scholarship

Welcome dear friends to one of our best nature boundary of Venezuela:
"Salto Angel" Waterfall.

Multiple Inteligences

We are in our final Winter Course weeks and let's explore our ability to find out in our students hidden talents and think about to promote activities in our plan addresed to reinforce their intelligence, senses, and especial in our subject english their abilities to use words and languages, including technology in this process.

Multiple Intelligences and Technology

Schools and parents know the importance of technology in education. Teachers in schools and parents in homes use computers to enhance their children's education and to develop important computer skills. But we must consider if the technology meets the needs of different learning styles?

Technology does meet the needs of various learning styles.

The multiple intelligences can be enhanced with the use of technology. Following Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligence, teachers can encourage development by providing enrichment opportunities in each of the areas of the intellect.

Integrating Technology in Multiple Intelligences:

Linguistic: Use of word processing programs can help teach language, writing, editing, and rewriting skills. Also the Internet is an invaluable tool in learning. Through e-mail children can improve their language skills as well.

Other applications children may benefit from are:

Word processors with voice annotations.
Desktop publishing programs.
Programs that allow children to create stories, poems, essays, etc.
Multimedia authoring.
Videodiscs to create presentations.
Using tape recorders.

I suggest this web page which offer activities and teories that support our teaching techniques to support multiple intelligences:http://www.casacanada.com/multech.html.


There are different types of intelligences and according to them there are certain professions.



LINGUISTIC: Poets and literacy stylist. Lyric composers.

LOGICAL - MATHEMATICAL: Mathematicians.

SPATIAL: Artists, inventors, film directors, surgeons, engineers, plane pilots, chess players, architects.

MUSICAL: Composers, instruments players.

KINESTHETIC - CORPORAL: Athletes, dancers, gymnasts, jugglers, actors, mimes.

INTERPERSONAL: Politicians, novelists, drama writers, statisicians, lawyers, psychologists and psychiatrists, journalists, leaders, businessmen,teachers.

INTRAPERSONAL: Mystics, revolutionaries, adventurers, telepathics, psychics, philosophers

http://alita-wwwalita.blogspot.com/2010/09/multiple-intelligences-and-careers.html




Multiple Inteligences:
Intelligence is defined as "ability or abilities to acquire and use knowledge for solving problems and adapting to the world." (108) By solving problems, intelligence offers a way in which to learn different methods of recieving information. Each of us exhibits different levels of intelligence( IQ) and also parts of our brain are more developed than others(multiple intelligences).The nature of intelligence involves: "the capacity to learn, the total knowledge a person has aquired, and the ability to adapt to new situation and the environment in general"
http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Intelligence(s)

Shaking Hands

Few days to finish this Winter Course, A wonderful experience!

Today I have two partners ΜΑΡΙΝΑ ΚΟΛΛΑΤΟΥ (Greece) and Yohimar Sivira (Venezuela),a virtual team, to help each other to review our final project, it is adorable to know that two colleagues using technology could be your handhelper in an important task like this.Be confident and friendly,are the most important value in this team to get the best performance with ourselves.
I'm happy because points in common join us: Likes such as Nik Peachey webpages, tesol webpages, jazz, and pop music, EFL teachers, women and participating in this Winter Course.

I hope you like this especial blog and we could make a huge work with our projects this week.



Yohimar Sivira Blog Link:http://weeklyreportwebskillswinter2012.blogspot.com







Marina Kollatou
Her Blog Link :http://marina-kollatou.blogspot.com/

I found nice Quotations about peer work:
“I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing.”
Shania Twain

and I think it is the most real and important for me:
“If all your peers understand what you've done, it's not creative.”
H. Heimlich quotes
Thanks for be my peers Marina and Yohimar.

Tool and Learner Autonomy:

I will show my high school students blogs links about science themes that we are developing in this II period 2012.

Topic:HIV
Students blogs

http://vih-enfermedades-humanas.blogspot.com/

http://conelvihnosejuega.blogspot.com/

http://element917.blogspot.com/

http://notidiarioplus.blogspot.com/view/timeslide

http://www.rkobaby.blogspot.com/



My 4th year students show their autonomy in a "Biotechnology Fair",Unit 4 in their book talks about FERMENTATION and I asked for them to create a fermentation product follow the steps record them and prepare a public oral presentation to the high school in english and this is the result, technology is not applied here but some of therm used search engines to get recipes or procedures about FERMENTATION.

Dairy Products:



The process:

Masata: Fruit fermentation

GRAPE WINE:

























My online exercise is about American Holidays created using:Web Poster Wizard.


http://poster.4teachers.org/worksheet/view.php?id=160992


I would like to suggest:http://edu.glogster.com/ it is a web link to create interactive poster too.

Orquidia

Learner Autonomy & Independence

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This week I will take into consideration my student role in the learning process.I would like to start with Holec (1981: 3, cited in Benson & Voller, 1997: 1) who describes Autonomy as ‘the ability to take charge of one’s learning’.
Teachers always have a inner purpose in their teaching process :

"To form a student with Autonomy in their learning process and independence attitude to face task, project and classroom activities"

The autonomus learner in our classroom should be:

a self-activated maker of meaning.

an active agent in his/her own learning process.

The autonomus learner should have a (pro-) active role in the learning process.

Taken from seven main attributes characterising autonomous learners (see Omaggio, 1978, cited in Wenden, 1998: 41-42).

David Little’s terms, define learner autonomy is: ‘essentially a matter of the learner’s psychological relation to the process and content of learning…a capacity for detachment, critical reflection, decision-making, and independent action’ (Little, 1991: 4)

I think teacher must work with constructivism theory in our classrooms to give opportunities to their students to choose aims and purposes and sets goals,each opportunity to write rubrics with themselves in each activity; choose materials and tasks; exercises choice and purpose in organising and carrying out the chosen tasks; and choose criteria for evaluation.In my classes usually I offer options to them and ask for them their own ideas, they like offer to me iddeas like debates in groups, mental map ,or mind map about themes studied as way to evaluate, real project like science fair, right animals , and so on..

I'd share this link about this topic articles:

http://learnerautonomy.org/articles.html


Our students in this century want to have freedom in their families and more in their classrooms. Why don't we encourage them to use academically and we could be an optional friend or tutor more than a evaluator teacher?

One computer in Class:

It is my simple way to introduce technology in class, I'll would like to share a plan to create a collaborative example to write stories, using Charlie Chaplin videos and my 9th grade high school students cand describe the setting, plot and scriot for each scene..It will be an example from other ideas that I used to develop in class.

The Lion in the Cage

Only 4 steps

Large Classes


Example of one large class.I usually try to teach one or two class in open spaces like parks, museums, or different places to get more enthusiasm, confidence and new ways to be in contact with nature or ourselves.
SDome times develop dialogues and I record them or I go through different groups recording and checking their performance in next class I show them using my pc in class.


Woao!!It is incredible,we're just in week 6,Only four week to finish this Winter Course.This course looks like as semester in a normal course,becuase we have been applying all theories studied,and share our experiencces in a collaborative way as we 're sharing a physical room...But look around you:It is a Virtual group in a virtual room,with a moderator as tutor and technology as means to communicate, to evaluate,and to practice knowledge learned from our own discussions and tasks.We're in front of our next four steps to finish and a strong chain among our colleagues in this course.

Large Class in this class is a specific point that in my case is a model of clas that I live everyday in High school and University:Patience,Creativity,dynamics,and activities to group are the clue of this kind of rooms.

What do we need to control Large Classes?

Alastair Grant, a Teacher Development Manager in Buenos Aires, looks at the challenges in managing large classes of teenagers, and suggests ways to ensure successful lessons,I used the items to explain my own elements in my are classes:

Monitoring:our activities warm up,task,evaluating by ourselves with leadership.

Environment:To control reources in class is important to the teacher and students to develop an effective class.

Discipline: As teacher in front of large classes we need to take the control to get our goals.

Interaction:A big weakness like discipline, we could lose interaction with all students and it is not positive to keep the control of the discipline,we should organize activities that encourage interaction with teacher and students,students and students,etc.


Evaluation:Most difficult part,we want to live or to be in a hurry in our home and free hours...Let's introduce technology as our helper in this important point.

http://oupeltglobalblog.com/2011/08/30/teaching/

I found an UNESCO booklet about large classes that offer intersting suggestions:

Challenging Opportunities
Teaching large classes is a challenge, but it can also offer many
opportunities for you to improve your teaching and to make it more
enjoyable and rewarding for you and your students.

Evaluating learning and teaching in large classes, so that you can
provide good opportunities for students to show what they are
learning, and you can reflect on your own teaching practices.
Please remember, however, that there is no “best way” to teach
large classes. You must develop the approach that works best for you
based on your teaching style, the characteristics of your students, and
the goals and objectives of your lessons and curriculum.

I invite you to read more information about to manage Large Classes (http://icfe.teachereducation.net.pk/resources/res15.pdf)
The Dakar Framework for Action adopted at the World Education
Forum in Senegal during April 2000

MY LARGE CLASSES PHOTOS:

PNFA Technical Administration 2011-2012.



PNFA Bachelor in Administration 2010-2011





Pnfa:2008 - 2012

Saint Valentine's day in a Winter course!

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Happy Saint Valentine's to all my friends!

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Saint Valentine's Day, commonly shortened to Valentine's Day, is a holiday observed on February 14 honoring one or more early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine. It is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards , I want to offer my blog for all my friends in this Winter Course.







This lovely week one of my main task is to create a "Rubric"

Rubrics help me and my students to be objective, clear,sincere with the assesment and help to my students to develop the best performance in their evaluations.As teacher a Rubric make me my evaluation process easier because I follow the pattern and I can observe specific elements to evaluate and adjust criteria and the degree of each of them according to my main goal or purpose in the class.

According to:TLT Group (Teaching, Learning and Technology group:It is a nonprofit organization) explains what is a rubric and found it a complete definition:


" A rubric is an explicit set of criteria used for assessing a particular type of work or performance. A rubric usually also includes levels of potential achievement for each criterion, and sometimes also includes work or performance samples that typify each of those levels. Levels of achievement are often given numerical scores. A summary score for the work being assessed may be produced by adding the scores for each criterion. The rubric may also include space for the judge to describe the reasons for each judgment or to make suggestions for the author".





My Rubric for a Poster Presentation:

There are many Rubric Builders,and I decided to work with a pattern of "Builder Constructor" from the site: www.teach-nology.com,to evaluate my students oral presentation about a poster and to evaluate the poster design I took as example a pattern from University of Kansas showed by Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Assessment and Rubric Information.In webpage: Recipes4sucess,there are more patterns to evaluate posters too.

My specific example is:

Student Group: Endangered Animals.5th Science “C”. Orinoco Crocodile.
Grammar to be studied: Don’t/should/shouldn’t



Criteria to be evaluated during the oral presentation:

@ Helping:

The teacher observed the students offering assistance to each other, in the moment to answer questions.

@ Listening:The teacher observed students answering according to the main question ,and understood evaluators questions.

@ Participating:
The teacher observed each student contributing and helping each other during the project presentation.

@ Persuading:
The teacher observed the students: defending, and rethinking ideas in front of the audience and teachers’ evaluators.

@ Questioning:
The teacher observed the students interacting, discussing, and supporting each other during all presentation of the team.

@ Respecting:
The teacher observed the students encouraging and supporting the ideas and efforts of others.

@Sharing:
The teacher observed the students offering ideas and reporting their findings to each other.


Examples of Poster Presentation:





Endangered Animals:









Biotechnology Project:





U.E.N.Nicanor Bolet Peraza Poster presentations:

High Schools Halls:

PBL : Project Based Learning

PBL is a synonim of "Authentic Learning Activities", that encourage teacher and students to work together and to start collaborative activities, respectful attitude and independency in teams of work. Teacher and student can find solutions to problems and they can make a real evaluation plan where their english learning skill could be reinforce or learned in an effective way with or without technology included.
PBL must take into considerations elements that show that is a real PBL, I will introduce this statement:

(http://pbl-online.org/About/whatisPBL.htm)

Project Based Learning is generally done by groups of students working together toward a common goal. Performance is assessed on an individual basis, and takes into account the quality of the product produced, the depth of content understanding demonstrated, and the contributions made to the ongoing process of project realization.

Project: Recicled products.
5TH YEAR High school students.
2011-2012



Dress made of newspaper pages.






Write Saint Valentine's PostCards:
High School 9th grade.




Next February 14th I'll celebrate Saint Valentine's Day writing postcards to friends out of Caracas.

I'll use a friend rubric' criteria as a pattern to build up my own pattern to write postcards if she doesn't have problems my partner Marina, designed letter Rubrics using Rubistar and each criteria could be adapt to evaluate postcards too.

Advances in Week 4th.

This week will be reflexive and each of us could offer advances in our model of project.

We are keeping in touch in order to learn new ideas from web links, methodology from models of projects,and growing our worlwide friendship.

In this week I met my partner in Venezuela Yohimar Sivira, it was a nice meeting, talking about what are we learning, how to improve our own career, our expectaction, it was a huge meeting!




Twitter has been my way to use computers to enhance the teaching of writing, and vocabulary in my class, my highschool students have been happy using it.
I would like to share a photo about their presentation about Means of transportation' presentation, which was share by twitter and they found the information looking for in differents web sites suggested in class for me.

I suggested Jarek Krajka links such as: www.go.com and 10 steps to write argumentative essays.

I used ideas from:Technology Enhanced Lesson Plans, to design my own plan in a week in two real classes.


I want to say T H A N K S, to all my friends excellent web sites links and tech plans to follow as examples.



Topic: Means of transportation: High School Students

Delicious!!!

Happy Chinese New Year 2012!

This week will be Del.ici.ous, because,it starts The Year of the Dragon!!





Today is The first day of Chinese New Year 2012 (Chun Jie / 春节 2012).It will be celebrated in many countries and it's a time for us to welcome longevity, wealth and prosperity and to eliminate any negative chi from the past.One of 2012 year characteristics is the intensitivity and unpredictability

In Chinese tradition, each year is dedicated to a specific animal. The Dragon, Horse, Monkey, Rat, Boar, Rabbit.Last year I celebrated chinese New Year in Sidney (Aus) and New Zeland with the Rabbit festival.








I wish all Chinese Families a very happy and prosperous Chinese New Year 2012.






Delicious' week for me, because, to learn to use a new web tool to keep as a treasure our more important, interesting and useful links for us and classified them according to our particular themes , needs or interests will be Fantastic.I'm a new user open to learn its advantages.


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My del.ici.ous' link: http://delicious.com/orchidv/http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif


My highschool students from 9th grade will show us how to use Technology in class:

I'll Invite you to prepare your corn porn:

My CALL is You Tube: It has been my magic tool in highschool.

Highschool:9th year (public school)
age:13 - 15y.
Objective: To describe a place to spend holidays.








Music Playlist at MixPod.com

A New Step!

My second Week a new step to follow in this stair called:

Winter's Course!

Our first task evaluate search engine, has taught me a lot: New tools for my ELT classes and to renew old ones that I have been using....

I want to offer my avatar, I prepared just to all my partners can see how can we add our own voice and image to our blogs. Really my avatar looks like me and you can enjoy my voice:



Our Second Task:

Bloom is our best friend as teacher, he offered us a great handhelper "Bloom Taxonomy", it is a valuable resource to write abcd objectives.

I decided to work with my weekly class and my challenge is to include to my E.S.P course in administration, new and real topics take from internet using specific search engines like business.com or auyantepuy for Venezuela examples, to be translated posting in an edublog and they can develop collaborative work and reading and listening comprehension with audio links and can write their own comment in english including their own mistakes, which will be acceptable for me because it's really hard when they don't have a high level in english proficiency.
My students don't have multimedia rooms neither Visual aids nor WIFI,in class I use their mobile phones as resources to search information inmediately from internet, and to share links wih them to use in class.

What are the students needs?

Last Friday I introduced them the idea of this project and they decided to accept because they want new strategies to learn and new technology tools to use in their future as Administrators.Let's open an Edublog!

Who are the learners?

Section 01:



Section 02




They will be a cooperative group of work, and I will be the guide of them.

I offered my example to open a blog for both sections to make a diagnoses about this new goal.(I used blogger, but I offered bligoo,wordpress,dinstudio,and inube, too)
My example:

http://englishedublogs.blogspot.com/2012/01/idiomas-iipnfa-section-02.html

Our bibliography guide is our book: Business and Management editorial Richmond. Units 4 and 5



They'll use each lesson theme to get new ones from web to paste and translate and explained in final oral presentation.They will design their own presentation card to offer to their classmates their links to follow and write their comments.

Example of first lesson to be used:






What is the setting?

Colegio Universitario de Caracas it's located on Caicara street and Libertador Avenue, Chacao - Caracas, Venezuela.
Web Page:cuc.edu.ve





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This weekend students will open their blog and their profile.I want to invite you to follow my blog to see their advances.....

Welcome to Orchid Reflective Winter's Blog!

Teacher's day in Venezuela & Martin Luther King in United States

Today it's a pleasure for me open this blog just when in Venezuela we'll celebrate next January 15th "Teachers's Day", this date is really important for me because To be a teacher requiere each day to be a student, and American Embassy and Oregon University is offering this opportunity to be a student to grow as a Teacher, thanks for this gift that I'll try to share with my colleagues and friends.
I would like to share these quotes;

"The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book." - Anonymous

"Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another.
And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures" - Eugene P. Bertin

We must celebrate Martin Luther King day too,with our attitude being a leader as he was, a Leader with our students, in our classrooms to teach each of them to defend their rights and to grow as leaders, citizens who defend their rights and help each other without discriminations.
We could share Luther King most famous speech

I Have A Dream...

Each teacher must have a dream a daily dream to encourage their students to learn and to understand the value of life, people, family and country...

Happy Teacher's day in Venezuela & Martin Luther King In United States.




This Blog will be my new web notebook to write the results to this new technology learning process, and it will help to more teachers interested in to get tips about technology usage to be include in their classes.

"Time is gold"

and Oregon's Clock will show how soon this course and each homework should be finish:http://">

My New Friends Locations:This is a Worldwide Course because all participants in this course will build skills in English language teaching with technology to be spread around their cities where they are:


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