Valeria Alcaraz´s ICT PLE

Assignment 3 Part 3  This lesson plan is aimed at my second-year students in a school where they have their English lessons once a week (the lesson is 120 minutes long). They are at a pre-intermediate level. In the previous lessons, students worked on a unit ‘ When in Rome..’ They read a text about customs and traditions in different countries and what they should and should not if they ever visit that country. In order to expand on this, the teacher asked students to visit the following websites  Interesting customs and traditions all around the world   and then do some research into the same countries mentioned in the text. Students had to find out about each countries customs, traditions. Once they finished their research, students told the teacher what they had learnt. Course: 2 nd year Level: Pre- intermediate Number of students: 21 Length of time: 1 lesson 120 minutes long. Unit: When in Rome…   Students will be working in groups of t...

How to use JustPaste.it  Here is the link to  Justpaste.it What is JustPaste.it? It is a text editor. It is very simple to use. The website looks like a word processor, since it has the same tools used to write and edit a text. You can write your own text on the same page or simply paste it from another web or word processor. Images, videos, or hyperlinks can be embedded to accompany or make the text more vivid and appealing. Once you finish working on notes, you can click on ‘Publish’ and you will be provided a link, which you can use to retrieve the text. The link can be emailed or sent to the social media. A final note, you can save the text you have created in your computer and downloaded it as PDF. What do educators say about JustPasteit? How to use JustPasteit: Once students find the information about Black Friday or Buy Nothing Day (they have to look for information in the websites provided by the teacher). Then they have to ...

Assignment 3 part 2: An enhanced lesson plan  This new and enhanced lesson plan is 80 minutes long. The aim of this lesson is to talk about consumer behaviour. It is aimed at students in 3 rd year in secondary school. They are at an intermediate level. This is the  Original lesson plan  .  In this new lesson, the last activity will be enhanced by the use of a Web 2.0 tool, which will be JustPaste.it First, students read and discuss an article entitled ‘Shop less, Live More’. This text is about people´s consumer behaviour during one of the busiest days of the year: Black Friday. On the other hand, an anti-consumerist organization promotes Buy Nothing Day. Once the text is analyzed and discussed, students will be assigned a day to work on. The teacher will write some questions on the bb:  What do people in other countries do during those days?, How could people spend the day?, What are the benefits of participating for themselves and others?, What wil...

Internet-based Project work and Webquests According to Hockley & Dudeney (2007), Internet-based work correlates to project work, in which the Internet can be thought of as an enormous encyclopedia because it gives learners quick access to a wide array of information. There are four compelling reasons why Internet-based work should be included in the classroom: 1.   No specialist technical knowledge is required. However, this type of work takes time to plan and design. 2.   They are group activities that encourage communication and cooperative learning since it stimulates interaction among learners. 3.   Internet-based project work allows for cross-over with other subjects areas, offering a more ´real-world’ look. 4.   They foster critical thinking skills, which entails learners transforming the information in order to achieve a given task.   Steps to prepare an Internet-based project work: ·        Choose the p...