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Introduction:

Hello eveyone and welcome to my blog! My nam is Francesca Vivero and I'm studying English Teaching Program in Universidad Arturo Prat of Iquique. In this blog, you will find some of the different activities that I did and learned in the development of the course Audiovisual Media Workshop that was taught by my very ingenious proffesor Juan Chamorro Arenas. Hope you like them!

Contents:

Lesson Plan: Using authentic Material

Lesson Plan: Using images in the class

The use of cellphones in the class

The use of camera in the class

The use of images in the class

Pixar in a box: Film Grammar

Comic Time

Storyboard: Where all begins

ETP: Leaning Community 

Objectives:

The objective of this blog is to publish the different activities or task that I develop in my course an especially reinforce or make a review about the use of technology inside the classroom as future teachers of English.

Conclusion

As a conclusion, I can say that in this subject I learned a lot about the using technology for teaching English as a foreign language, and as I mention in a post below, before this course I really had no idea how to manage some technology divices or web sources, but now, I feel more confortabl and I have confidence in what I have learnet and how to use it in a productive and didactive way with my students when I become a teacher.

Hope you like my blog! xoxo

Lesson Plan: using images in the class

Lesson Plan: Unit 3 What's the weather like today? 

Class: 1st grade 

N° of students: 25 

Learning Outcomes:

• Students will be able to identify 5 different types of weather by showing the corresponding image when the teacher name each of the five weather types.
• Students will be able to create a poster related to their favorite weather by drawing and painting it in a blank worksheet.

Development

After the teacher has recalled the vocabulary words already seen by the students in previous class, the teacher sticks on the whiteboard 5 flashcards related to weather, ( SUNNY, CLOUDY, WINDY, SNOWY, RAINY) then, he asks to the students to name each of them one by one.

After this practice, the teacher will deliver 5 medium size flashcards to each students in order for them to identify the five types of weather by showing them the corresponding image when the teacher name each of them. E.g. When the students hear cloudy, they will have to look in their flashcards the one with the cloudy picture and will show it to the teacher. all the student at the same time.

Afterwards, the teacher will give to each student a blank worksheet in which thee students by using the flashcards as a guide, they will have to create a poster that represent their favorite weather.

The flashcards to be used are the following:

The use of cellphones in the classroom: Like or Dislike?

Hi everyone! So in one of my classes we talked about the use of cellphones in the classrooms, (for this, I will attach a very interesting website with a report about this subject at the end of this post).

Personally, I think that as teachers, we must have the use of cellphones controlled inside our classrooms because what would prefer? Your students using their cellphones behind your back or maybe in front of you whil you are talking? Or perhaps to use the cellphone in various activity and take advantage of this technologycal devise? I would defenitively go with option numer two, it is in our mind how to use in a didactic way things that the students find interesting or attractive right?

Like or dislike the use of cellphones?

Comic Time!

In one class, the teacher showed us different websites to create comics! Now, personally, I thought that this activity was so interesting, fun and also very useful to promote our creativity that sometimes we think that we lack of it.

As future teachers, I think that this is a very important and interactive source to use with our students, so if you are teachers or teachers to be, do not be afraid to use this in your classes, I definitively will do it.

Here do you have the websites to create you own comic. Hope you like it!

toondoo
pixton
makebeliefscomix
canva

Storyboard: Where all begins

Hi everyone! In one class, in relation with film grammar, we learned about Storyboards, is a set of illustrations shown in sequence with the aim of serving as a guide to understand a story, I think that trully it is the most important part of creating a story because it is your guide in order to obtain a nice development of your story!

Here is a picture of one! Hope you enjoy it!

Pixar in a box: Film Grammar

Hi everyone! So today post is about, as the title says, Pixar in a box, Film Grammar the art of storytelling, amazing ah?

So in one of my classes, the teacher showed us several videos about film grammar, what is Film Grammar you might ask, well, Film Grammar is a kind of metaphor for the things used to tell a story visually, this means that is how visual ideas are strung together in order to tell stories. Basically, is what the people who work behind camera does in the process of making a movie and before making a movie.

In the class we checked a website from Khanacaemy website in with which we learned about the different types of shots that are for recording, miner and major beats and last but not least because it is the most important, storyboarding.

Here are some examples:

Major v/s minor beats

Major beats are the ones that are use to iniciate a scenene, and there are divided or broke ino a sequence of scenes that will be the minor beats.

e.g.   Major Beat: Guy discovers he's a superhero
          Minor Beat: Guy gets his own "super" name

A shot is a visual representation of a character's action in time. For this, here I will post some videos that contains different shots. Hope you enjoy it!

• This video goes from medium shot to close up shot and then to medium shot again! 

• This video contains a dynamic shot

The use of images in the classroom

Hi everyone! In this post, I will give my opinion about the use of images in the classrooms.

I think that the use of image in the classroom is an excellent strategy to call our student's attention, especially with young and very young learners because by watching the picture it is easy for them to accomplish a better understanding of what the teacher is teaching them and also because is more interactive and didact than just write the words on the whiteboard; by using pictures we will be able to enhance our student's attention and interest in our classes.

Use of camera in classrooms

Hi everyone! As you can see in the title, this post is about the use of camera in classrooms.

As a future teacher, I think that is very important to adapt some of our classes or activities according to technology, and why I believe that? Because nowadays, teenagers are more familiarized with technology, so the use of it in classrooms is a good thing to the learning environment and is a positive way to enhance our student's interest or attention because there are several fun activities or task that they can perform using a digital camera, e.g.



-Tutorials

-Cooking Show

-Tv Show

-Record daily routines activities

-Take pictures and create a poster or logo

-Recording Role-plays


The activities mentioned above are just a few example of a variety of them that we can do in our classes, by the way, if you have other ideas, please let me know! I will be thrilled to listen or read them!

ETP Learning Community

Hi there! In this post, I will share you a video about a project that is called ETP Learning Community whose purpose was to expose students from 11th grade of the school Liceo Luis Cruz Martinez to the English Language in a natural environment and through didactic activities

This project was created by a professor of my career Juan Chamorro Arenas in conjunction with two others professors, Rossana Cortes and Maria Eugenia Avendaño. For the development of this project, they required the help of students of 4th and 5th year of my career, and thankfully I was part of it.

Personally, I think that this project helped me a lot in the development of my teaching techniques and in how to approach to students whose level of English vary from beginners to intermediate. 

On the other hand, talking about the procces of doing the video with my classmates, I must say that it was not an easy procces, eventhough we received a lot of information from my professor, I have to admit that this kind of technology is not a piece of cake for me, but finally we could finish it.

So! here I let you the video that is a summarize of what we did and the people who made all of this possible! Hope you enjoy it!.