Blended Model and

e-learning

Camila Barrera – Lissete Gajardo – Alejandro Moreno

Describe your experience

It has been a good option to work our learning via online because we can work at any time of the day from our home or anywhere we have internet access.

Also, is convenience for us because it has combinations of different styles of learning such as listening , writing and reading. It is a interactively meaningful learning environment and it emphasizes bringing together of the online and face to face with our teachers and classmates to communicate us.

http://www.cambridge.org/us/esl/touchstone/student/index.html

Advantages and disadvantages

Advantages

Interactively meaningful learning environment.Learning emphasizes bringing together of the online and face to face classroomInteractive content enables you to create high interest, accountability, and real

assessment.Enhances individualization, personalization and relevancy

Disadvantages

Little time to do the activities.Too many activities.Lack of internet (have not internet).There are not communication between pairs physically.

Suggest strategies to motivate on-line students and build on-line presence. Search the web and come up with your own creative ideas.

Include feedback: specific comments about a student’s work. Teacher should send a message to students of their tasks. Even if a grade is poor, it should be constructive and supportive feedback.

Example: The different mediums allow users to interact in ways that suit them as blog, because it allows the teacher gives specific comments about their tasks.

Elaborate a weekly message or video: to post to the course home page. Doing so demonstrates to students that as teacher is involved and engaged in the course.

Example: A video where teacher shows examples of the tasks, or messages when the students don´t understand the tasks.

Academic Resources: Provide encouragement and suggest additional resources helpful.

Examples: 1: VISUWORDS: Online Graphical Dictionary: http://visuwords.com/

2: ESL-GALAXY: you can find material and games for your students: http://www.esl-galaxy.com/

Example: a) Pirate board games: http://www.eslgamesplus.com/adjectives-antonyms-esl-vocabulary-grammar-interactive-pirate-waters-board-game/b) Irregular verbs Hangman: http://www.eslgamesplus.com/irregular-verbs-interactive-hangman-game-for-esl-grammar/

Write a comment summarizing your ideas

Doing tasks online is good to learning if you have internet from your home, because you can do it any time day but it is a bad it if you don´t have internet or other site. This tool allows to communication and connection with classroom, and the students know teacher is involved with them. Also a blog as tool to give tasks or resolve doubts of your students allows a continuous help to the students. We can also create debates here with our students.

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