domingo, 14 de noviembre de 2010

Interactive Classes with PowerPoint. How to engage our students into the English World?

Hello Colleagues! I hope all of you had an interesting and wonderful week the way I did. Interesting because I see that every week we pass through is a wonderful knowledge world and in this sixth one "Interactive powerpoint presentations in our classes". Having large or small lecture classes has been a big issue for a lot of teachers who sometimes lose control on them. They do not know how to manage the content of the PPT presentation and make their students interested and involved in them. This is because the classes are not interactive enough and the learning process turns to be very slow and insignificant for some students. 

The idea of implementing interaction in our classes makes students be in a more direct contact with the learning,  and they can undesrtand the class in an easier and  more interesting way. For this reason, it is highly recommended to design PPT presentations that include different activities and tasks where the learners can write, make questions and answers, play with different techniques, use true or false questions, answers selection, etc. 

As for my task project, I already though about evaluating my 8th grader students through a survey. It must be one of my first steps because I need to measure how much they know about technology, programs, web searchers or at least, computers. The survey will contain questions such as: Do you know about computers?, What do you use them for?, Have you used one of them before?, Do you know about internet?, How much do you know about it?,etc. All this questions will be measured by a rubric and it is going to be designed in order to evaluate results. I think this survey application will be for next week. My main goal is to let students know about technological English studies and make them see that it is an interesting,  easy and funny way to learn ESL.    

I wish another succesful week!!! Warm hugs from Venezuela!!!

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