with a little help of my friends...

This week is almost over and I am still running out to design my tech class, I think it is natural to hesitate about what I am doing because most of these things are new for me. ABCD method is easy, but requires practice, and I am not used to plan like this, whit tech components, sincerely my previous tech classes were…. Different, only using the computers for some vague purposes, now the things are clearer for me, the teacher, I hope they will be too for my students. Better planned classes become in a better learning. However some corrections must be done in what I am doing now.

The readings of the week were very interesting I recommend one (not listed, but mentioned)Gerald Fox’s “The Internet, making it work in the ESL classroom”  a mini guide of how he find and recommends  to the teacher how to use the web as allied in the ESL a must read for beginners.  I don’t know my partners but as the weeks go by, my resources and my class ideas are increasing strongly, via their  recommendations. At the moment I write this comes to my mind a video posted at Georgia’s blog, the tech is as simple to use that  we feel scared to broke something when we use it for the first time.

The websites recommended for this week become my favorites, the moment I visit them specially

Lauri’s one, simply and easy to use, a must in further poncho’s classes.

I think that write and read  are very  “brain fortifier” activities, and in my classes thus  the big amount of students and their shyness, we work more in these two abilities, however in my class is always forbidden to laugh about someone else’s pronunciation.

I love to read a lot, it is one of my favorite hobbies, and I share it with my students, trying to plant the seed of reading, (in Mexico the reading level is low:1.5  books per habitant/ year) so as you can imagine it is a hard task even in Spanish, forget about the English baby!

 I use audio-books and the written materials (combined) with my kiddos, some times I select a chapter or a poem and I fix a Power point for them to read for the class  but sometimes they just do not care. But I do not give up, and I am always looking for new and interesting ways to make them read and practice English reading skill, so this week’s links are very useful

Useful because I can select from a lot of web-sites to encourage my students to read and listen at the same time from an extensive (and actualized) collection in the web, also practice some writing. What else can I ask for? 

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