Communicator+of+English

 = = =Understandings= The EFL educator will understand that developing a personal learning network can help provide the support necessary to become a better communicator of English, both through written and spoken discourse.

=Essential Questions=
 * How can I build a personal learning network (either online, face-to-face, or both) in a way that allows me to improve my English writing skills?
 * How can I build a personal learning network (either online, face-to-face, or both) in a way that allows me to improve my English speaking skills?

=Enabling Knowledge=
 * 1) Current technologies: Web tools
 * 2) Online communities
 * 3) Conferences

**Subskills** = =
 * 1) Computer skills
 * 2) Networking skills
 * 3) Writing skills
 * 4) Speaking skills

**Assessment**
 * Webquest (see an example)
 * Informal discussions
 * Academic prompts

Week 1
This week we will become familiar with the basics of Wikieducator (WE) and begin developing our user page. We will also begin looking at different Web 2.0 tools that can be used to support our own [|personal learning network].

Readings/videos

 * [|Blogs in plain English]
 * [|Wikis in plain English]
 * [|What is podcasting?]
 * [|How to create a podcast]
 * [|Social networking in plain English]

Activities

 * Once you have created an account in WE add a [|user potherage boilerplate] to your user page.
 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">Review the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|seven steps to integrating goal setting for learning].
 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">Add the following information to your <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|User page]
 * My goals for this semester are to finish a certification in competencies here at the UAA, and I did CERTIDEMS sent me the results I passed the exam. I want to be a better teacher by studying more, design challenge activities for my students in every class. Share with my colleagues tips, teaching methodology etc. in this way I enrich my teaching style and I help others.
 * To accomplish these goals, I will do the following:Organize my time and look for information in different sources, as well as get together with my colleagues in a coffee shop and interact about experiences in teaching.
 * As an EFL educator, my greatest challenges are design classes activities that my students understand,enjoy and learn.
 * To overcome these challenges, I will look for additional information related to the lessons in the book,create diverse material, games and make the students to work with different pairs and groups.

**Outcomes**
 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">Create a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|user page] in Wikieducator (WE)
 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">Establish personal goals are to improve as a communicator and as a teacher of English in this university and in every school I will be teaching. I know it will be difficult to do this by myself, but it will be easier if I keep close to my colleagues by means of this tools.

Week 2
This week is an extension of what was covered last week.

Readings/videos

 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 13px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[|Blogs in plain English]
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 13px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[|Wikis in plain English]
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 13px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[|What is podcasting?]
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 13px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[|How to create a podcast]
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 13px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[|Social networking in plain English]

Activities

 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">Once you have created an account in WE add a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|user page boilerplate] to your user page.
 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">Review the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|seven steps to integrating goal setting for learning].
 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">Add the following information to your user page:
 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">My goals for this semester are...
 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">To accomplish these goals, I will do the following:
 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">As an EFL educator, my greatest challenges are...
 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">To overcome these challenges, I will.

**Outcomes**
 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">Create a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|user page] in Wikieducator (WE)
 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">Establish personal goals

Readings/videos
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Activities

 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">Click the //discussion// tab above and reply to the //IAPE Experience// thread.
 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">Create a list of blogs below that are of interest to you, both as a teacher and learner. Feel free to add you own blog as well!
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #3366bb; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Blog-efl]
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; cursor: pointer; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[] This is an example of a teacher's blog--<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #0645ad; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none;">[|Itzel Portal] 21:16, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; cursor: pointer; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[] in this blog you can find useful teaching tips.--<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #0645ad; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none;">[|Itzel Portal] 21:25, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; cursor: pointer; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[] I have had the chance to use this site with different courses, students and for different purposes. With this one, students can work with "word clouds" by their own; these word clouds can be used for warm-ups, presentations, descriptions, and many other purposes.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; cursor: pointer; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[|English as a Second Language for UAA] ;<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; cursor: pointer; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[|English for UVM GLION] ; <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; cursor: pointer; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[|UVM Lab Campus Aguascalientes] -<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #0645ad; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none;">[|Monica R] 12:11, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; cursor: pointer; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[|http://www.tesltools.com--] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #0645ad; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none;">[|Marthagonzalez] 15:44, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; cursor: pointer; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #0645ad; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none;">[|Marthagonzalez] 15:44, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;">Hello, I do not usually visit blogs but I've created one: **<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; cursor: pointer; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[] **--<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #0645ad; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none;">[|AMF] 03:35, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * This site, gives the Ss the chance to, through a very simple procedure, use their creativity in order to express themselves. What I have done with advanced students, is that I asked the to bring their own word cloud for their favorite movie, music or book. In class, Ss are asked to tell each other about ir, describe it. Later on, students are asked to report what their partners had told them. In my opinion, it is a good chance to make Ss practice reported speech.--<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #0645ad; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none;">[|De Santos] 21:58, 8 November 2010 (UTC)--<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #0645ad; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none;">[|De Santos] 21:31, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; cursor: pointer; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[] In this blog you will see the importance of blogs, in this case talking about childre. Why? Remember that children are like sponges and they get everything they see or hear so blogs are very helpful for them to practice the langugae and also to know more aboyt technology. María Flor

**Week 4**

Activities

 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">Go to this <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 13px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[|VoiceThread] and share your thoughts and opinions.
 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">Step 1: Create a VoiceThread account if you haven't done so already.
 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">Step 2: <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 13px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">[|Go to this VoiceThread].
 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">Step 3: Reflect on the following question: //How do you connect with others in ways that helps you become a better communicator of English// (both written and spoken)? Some examples might include conferences, online communities, workshops, etc.
 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">Step 4: Click the //comment// button within the VoiceThread and record your audio or video, sharing your thoughts and opinions and speaking for at least three-to-five minutes.
 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">Step 5: Respond to at least one of your colleague's audio or video.

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