MY WIKI PROJECT

UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA.FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES Y EDUCACIÓN.

COMISIÓN DE ESTUDIOS DE POSTGRADO.MAESTRÍA EN INGLÉS COMO LENGUA EXTRANJERA.

ICT IN ELT.

Presenter:Gabriela Delgado

Universidad Central de Venezuela.Facultad de Humanidades y Educación.

Escuela de Educación.

Professor:Evelyn Izquierdo.

EUS Amazonas Context

The School of Education has other teaching centers in different regions of the country where this career is offered in a distance modality called EUS (Estudios Univesitarios Supervisados).

Students have to study the subject by their own using the instructional material offered by the department of Foreign Languages, and I travel to Amazonas every two weeks in order to meet the students to clarify doubts and assess students’ progress.

Procedure:

o The first session face to face class of the semester the teacher will

explain students how to use their instructional material and what is the

purpose of the wiki.

o The teacher has to ask students’ e-mails in order to include them in the

wiki.

o The teacher will explain students how to access the wiki and give them

some training in the computer lab. If there is no possibility of teach

them in the lab, a tutorial will be sent to students instead.

o The wiki will be fed weekly, so students can work pararell with their

regular classes.

o Any doubt or inconvenience that students may have will be discussed

by the e-mail.

The artefact: What is grammar express?

 Grammar express for you is a wiki that was designed for English I students, who want to have additional practice in grammar apart from the explanation and exercises from the book.  The idea is that they can go deeper, and understand better the use of some important parts of speech and grammatical structures in order to improve your reading comprehension skills.

It contains the most important aspects that are described in the instructional material but presented in a funny and interactive way which includes videos and other useful resources that can complement distance classes.   

The artefact:

Sidebar:It contains several links:• Welcome• Site

description• About us• Sylabus at a

glance• Activities

Frontpage:It contains the presentation of the wiki

The artefact:

• Follow-up activities• Extra tasks

• Objectives of the lesson.• Activities

Lessons :

Assessment:

Students’ progress Checklist

My Name   

Yes No

Grammar    

Do I know how identify sentences in simple present in a text?

   

Do I know when to use auxiliaries when using the simple present?

   

Do I recognize questions in simple present?

   

Can I recognize sentences with contractions?

   

About the activities Yes No

Do I understand all the activities?    

Do I do the extra activities?    

Do I think that the activities are easy to do?

   

Can I use what I learnt in my reading activities?

   

Things that I need to improve:

References:

LeBar, Z. (2014) What are Wikis, and Why Should You Use Them? [Online] http://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/what-are-wikis-and-why-should-you-use-them--cms-19540

Washchauer, M., Shetzer, H. y Meloni, C. (2000) Internet for English Teaching. Virginia. USA. Ed. TESOL. (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) 

Unesco (2008) ICT Competency Standards for Teachers. [Online document] Retrieved from: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/00562/156207e.pd1f

Thank you for your attention!

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