Another overloaded class with the ease of the familiar. I’m trying to remember the order in which the different software and programs were introduced, since I’m blogging late. If I’m not wrong in this class we kind of jumped stones in the river without getting our feet that wet. The first, I think, it was Skype, because I felt so relief to go over something very familiar at the time, I had been using Skype to video chat with my step daughter who was teaching flamenco and belly-dance in Japan for five months and very homesick. This tool could present an incredible opportunity for my students to communicate with students from Spanish speaking countries, exposing them to a real communication in the target language plus the benefits of sharing cultural facts to enhance their learning.
We also visited Elluminate, this is another incredible site, they have a program called Fire & Ice, “ Clasrooms without walls. Education witout barriers. Learning without limits.”
This program connects schools from around the world, in which teachers and students collaborate to participate in socially relevant topics. This program reaches the most remote places in Asia, Africa and South America, which is the reason why it caught my attention, since for me teaching a language is more than teaching how to speak, read and write, for me teaching a language is opening a window, if not a door to a different culture and its richness. In this class we also went over the I-chat, very similar to Skype, but in this case is a program for Macs. I know we were introduce to something else, I apologize professor if I’m missing something, this goes to show you how well did you use each second of our class time.
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