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