The university signed an agreement with a company to use DYNED as a main tool in our English class. This multimedia program was settled to be used weekly, three hours in the computer lab and one hour in a classroom. Following these recommendations, students would develop the four skills simultaneously. After a year, we realized that students were developing the listening and speaking skills more than the reading and writing skills. My proposal, as my final project in this course, is to reduce the hours of computer work to two hours and to have two hours in a classroom. We start doing it this scholar period to see whether it works or not.
These university students are one of the groups that are working under this schema, a blended learning. So they will develop the four skills as we expect. At the end of the period we will see if working 50% with DYNED instead of 75% will be better for the students.
If this schema works, it will be established officially in September.
As a summary of my work, taking this course gave me a wide range of possibilities that we can use in class. All the internet tools can be applied or combined with our English program. I can mention most of them:
- Outline a course using behavioral learning objectives, following the ABCD model.
- Web searching options
- Using delicious to save web links
- The employment of CALL in English teaching
- Preparing lesson plans using technology
- Links to sources for E-books
- Project-based learning and WebQuests
- Creating rubrics
- Creating power point presentations
- Using technology in teaching large classes
- Creating a class on a blogger, a nicenet class, a class survey using google docs, a class website or wiki on Google Sites
- Be part of a class wiki and to have our own blog
- How Learner Autonomy can be fostered
- Applications for the one-computer classroom
- Introduction to ANVILL
- Tech tools that support multiple intelligences
- Learning styles
- Create a final report or project
- Levels of Technology Integration
Some of them will be used in our face-to-face class. Teachers will be trained in those internet tools applicable to our needs.
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