Online collaborative writing using wikis- week 8

Wikis as knows as an online resource of information, those are websites in which anyone can write about something specific and share publicly, one of the best know is “Wikipedia”.

The article for this week, describe a little project in which a teacher organize his student to collaborate and contribute with writing ideas to create groups in which the objective was create their own “wiki site”. The teacher divided the class in six groups; each group had a topic that they had to write one page of the document.  Teacher Took a week to checked what his students had written, also students had the chance to checked their own work and their classmate’s work with the objective of improve grammar and lexicon, and finally, the work was posted.

On my own point of view, I think that this was a good idea to promote collaboration and team work; also it was very useful to improve writing. I really like the fact in which students checked their work and the work of their classmate, because that helps to improve their spelling and logic in a document. I really like the fact in which students learned how to create a appealing and professional writing task , I think that this could be a good experience to improve writing skills.  

Internet for reading and writing classes- week 7

As we had already discussed, internet is an extensive tool in which teacher can chose and acquired their own materials to perform an English class.

 One of the articles for this week was focus on literature which is something that helps to the development or improvement of vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension and writing.  I think that The main point and the most useful advantage of using internet to literature is the practice outside the class time, as we know, the time for an English class is around 1-2 hours, and most of the time, it’s difficult for a teacher present everything that was planned, however, teacher can provide to the students the downloaded resources, and students can have their own reading at home. 

Something that I really like from this article is that it give us a list of different ways to performing a reading, with the objective of become more attractive and successful, between these activities are: have students create their own story in English and write summaries of the chapters that they read, as a student, I have seen many of these activities in the coursed that I took and that really help.

On the other hand, the second article describe the use of internet to writing classes, which said that involve web are a good way of motivating students to use English outside the classroom and to make English the part of their daily life. What I really like form this articles is that it explained different types of writing document like, essays, biography and others, this article presented many websites that could help to integrate different materials that help the development of the students and also, I like the way in which it suggest that the web should not be used all the time, internet have to just a way to enrich the learning of our students.