WEEK 5
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"World Wide Web"

My initial reacction to this week reading was interested on the facility that provides the cybernetic tools to develop a class and to be able to impart them through international conferences in different countries simultaneously. This is one of the great advantages that gives us the World Wide Web.

Moreover, it also talks about the amount or percentage of Internet in English at the beginnig and how technology has gone advancing exponencially. About English internet in 1997 it was 80% for 2004 it decreases at 68% in order to offer a more wide variety of languages translation for different cultures or ethnic groups.​​ So that it becomes in a very efficient advance tool for everybody worldwide.

Something that made me want to read more was the receptive communication because there are mentioned the tools that we are going to use with our students in the future and the classification of the 5 websites groups because it was somtehing completely new for me and that thought me which are the ones I will be focussed on in the momment of teaching.

for the time, the internet has advanced and focused more on communication, information and education and has created a more effcient form to learn and share with others our thoughts or information with simple tools such as private conferences through web cameras and audios, making it easier for long-distance communication. To summarize, it is very interesting the way in which you learn so easy and fastand how you can make your students improve when they are learning ESL or even EFL.

WEEK 4.

A useful framework for ELT

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As the name of this week´s blog, since I have been reading about CALL and how helpful it has become for the branches of learning but mostly for teaching a foreign language, I consider that CALL is the more important framework nowadays. Because since it has been progressing, it has become in a tool that can be used for everybody around the world and without taking care of the age, even kids are able to learn a foreign language since they are really young. It is amazing to realize the quantity of websites that are in there. People can pay for a class online to support their learning but also it can be obtained for free just by having networking connection they are ready to browse whatever they want like readings, grammar lessons, podcast, etc. There can be found from basic to advanced tasks to support each level of learning. What surprised me in this article was the reasons not to use internet bacause it says that it can become exaggerated way to teach and that a comprehensive analysis of the research on CALL in primary and secondary school English language education similarly concluded that “the evidence that technology has a direct beneficial impact on linguistic outcomes is slight and inconclu-sive”. But I considered that from that investigation to the actuality, those tools that maybe were not a hundred percent successful, now have been improved in order to overcome the last ones and provide better strategies of learning and are being more used for teaching because teachers have observed that is a good tool for keeping students interested and not boring. The last point that caught my attention was the mentioned ¨branch of CALL¨ which is mobiled-assisted language learning (MALL) it has become in a very useful and eassier device than a computter, and can have at the same time a lot of applications for learning lessons and develop tasks out of the classroom.

week 3

The important integration of blending technologies as an estrategy for teaching ESL.

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Hello there! this week I have learned more about the importance of CALL because with each lecture I got something new in my mind which is going to be completely useful for my future. Something that I'm interested in this week's text was the ease provided by different technological tools such as postcast and RSS, which are simple tools to receive information directly to your computer or on a web page. These tools help us in communicating and teaching to the students, practically postcast has become an important strategy for any new teaching lesson. Through out time, are becoming more essential for our learning and helpful for teaching to other people interested in learning a foreign language.

What surprised me in this article was the evolution of each tool during the time, because when everything started despite the fact that there was no stable, technology terms of these tools managed to establish themselves so that people began to realize that the technology at that time it was used and seemed as an essential tool for learning. The first beginnings of the postcast was an audio of a conference about a dialogue in a foreign language stacked up by a book. Through everything was developed, it began to popularize the mp3 and by this media it began to boom to this technique that has become very useful today.
Nowadays, this technique is still little known by schools but mostly used by universities to increase the learning by listening native speakers in order to reach correct pronunciation. 
Moreover, talking about blending technologies in ESl what surprised me in that article was that it talks about the importance of this tools as teaching teachniques put into prectice at univerisites with the objective of facilitate and optimizate the way of learning. To finish, it is remarcable to mentioned that these methods are very useful and ergonomic for students as well as for teachers because nowadays classes online can be done from whatever place just by having internet access and in that way people have more opportunities to study and work at the same time but also to organize their time and get prepare on the area they want to achieve. Thaks to blending strategies teachers can do their work from whatever part of the world.

WEEK 2. ICT tools and the improvement of              awareness on student's mind.
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Hello everybody! This time I am going to talk about the effectiveness of ICT tools in the moment of teaching a language since students start acquiring their academic knowledge.
My initial impression for this article was curiosity about the results of the research since it had been developed with new language learners. Something that made me want to read more about the article was how useful is the technology in the momment of make students improve their skills. Those students becomes self-confident, independent, responsible and autonomous. Besides, they reach more commitment and awareness in their activities as well as in their everyday life. My favorite quote from the article was a point of view from a student who said: "I can improve every day if I practice; or if I effort myself, I’m going to continue have good results as now". wow! I really loved that phrase! It was really amazing how students felt interested on their own improvement, acknowledge their skills and their weakness thank to the teachers' tools and the trendy activities that they develop in the classroom and outside in order to keep the students interested. Something I learned and that I immediately wanted to share with a colleague was that it is important for us as future teachers to introduce on students minds technological activities and demand responsability to each of them, with the objective of direct them toward success but also, to develop their self-confidence, their desire of growign and go beyond into what they want to reach for their future goals. That's it for this time! thanks for reading.