My Professional Development

I would like to have some recommendations to improve specifically the needs. I really don't know how to identify my needs. For me is very difficult to identify my needs and relate them to the standards because at this moment I'm not working formally as a teacher. So I will very thankful to receive some recommendations from you.

STANDARD

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning Creativity.
   

   * Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers:
   

   SUB-STANDARD
   

   d. Model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.
   

   CURRENT ABILITY
   

   I use audio and video clips in order to improve my knowledge on different areas. For example I use Teachertube and Youtube to learn how to use different medias, most of the times I look for tutorials or to watch experiments on the usage of different psychological theories, for example the experiment of Piaget's experiments. Also I recently learned how to download free podcast from ITunes store into my IPod.
   

   NEED
   

   I need to identify the web sites where to find
   

   GOAL
   

   Given a selection of Educational Psychology podcasts, I will be able to listen a podcast once a week and write a summary or a reflection on what I listened and the educational implications
   

   MEASURE
   

   By the end of this year (2010) I will listen at least 1 podcast every week and by the beginning of next year I will set my schedule in outlook to have reminders to listen the podcast.
   

• Itunes.com
  
• www.stager.org/podcasting.html
  
• www.epnweb.org
  

SHORT TERM PLAN

1. I will look for different podcast related with educational technology and psychology.
   
2. I will create a selection of the best places to find podcast related with educational technology and psychology.
   
   1. I will listen the podcast selected at least once a week
      

   LONG TERM PLAN
   

   1. I will took notes while I am listening the podcast
      
   2. I will write a reflection on what I listened and the educational implications
      
   3. I will post these summaries into my blog in order to share the podcast and the review with others.
      

   ASSESSMENT
   

   I will be successful when I have set up my schedule in outlook (OU email account) as reminder to listen a podcast every week and be able to write at the beginning of next year at least 20 reviews of the podcast that I listened and published on my Blog.
   

STRATEGY FOR MY TARGET AUDIENCE.

I would like to use the program Audacity, because the majority of the students that take Spanish at the University of Oklahoma need to use this program to record short oral presentations with the directions of his/her professor give to them. Also in the students that I tutor, they are enrolled in Spanish on-line courses. They already know how to download the program and the support program for audacity that is lame in order to export the file as MP3. But I would like to focus my lesson and the strategies that I will use in the editing of the audio file, because I believe that if they learn how to edit their oral presentations, they will have the opportunity to create a variety of versions and cut and paste the best options.

Text Book - Teaching English Language Learners through Technology - page 105 and 106

Kidspiration Video

Feedback Reflection - Kidspiration

The feedback that I received from my peers was very helpful. The software that I choose for this assignment it Kidspiration is software for teachers and students to create concept maps, visual math tools and improve reading and writing skills of the students. Last week I presented to my peers a draft of the steps and directions manual on how to use the software and also a video that support the written manual. They gave me good observations and suggestions. At the beginning by video-tutorial did have audio, so I took this suggestion and I added audio to the video that I did, as I said in class I don’t like my tone of voice, so publicly I want to give thanks to Danielle my friend that she help me to add audio to the tutorial video. Also I add more detail steps to the written manual. I need to say that I really enjoy doing this assignment because I not only learn how to use one software, but I also learned how to do videos of screen shots and how to add audio to the video. As well I posted in my Wiki and Youtube, I saw this assignment as an integrated project of all the things that I learned in this course.

“Pay it forward”….like the movie!

This reflection I want to start it, saying that changes can be made depending how much do you believe in them. Sometime ago, I came from Venezuela to Oklahoma because I wanted to learn how to the things in a different way. In my country the things are running pretty bad but I believe like in the movie "Pay it forward" the changes not necessarily need to be done in macro in big scale. If you help just one person to make changes in education, that person can repeat the same action in other person.

After DR. Bonk's presentation I went out with many thoughts how this professor with many connections can help Latin America specifically in Venezuela. One of the ideas that came to my head that day were how big corporations can help disadvantaged communities to have libraries (lets called a place to read books) and also have access to Internet. This is just an idea that can impact in many.

Too many technological things???

During the discussion that we have during class about Dr. Bonk's presentation I thought about yes they are many technological applications, softwares, and even gadgets that can do the same things. It is like the Ipad, the Kindle, and the Sony Reader these are just examples of technology pieces that basically do the same, those are electronic devises for digital reading. So, I think that this happened in order to conserve the principles behind the market theory of supply and demand. Also I believe that not depend on the things to be educational per se they solution can be presented by people related in the educational field.

Review of www.download-esl.com

In this web page you can find different things like PowerPoints, videos, worksheets and quizzes that can help and support the lessons. Also they offer for free podcast and MP3 and MP4s.

I check this web site and I found it very interesting. As ESL myself and ESL teacher in Venezuela, because I was English teacher for preschoolers, this type of web page can help a lot to support the lesson plan. For example one of the units that my students always where very motivated to learn was "The Animals", and in this page I found I section just for K-12 (http://www.english-4kids.com), where I found PowerPoint with sound and images of farm animals, also they have worksheets that can support the written production of the students of the English language.

The web page I found it well organized and the navigation was pretty simple and the menu on the left side help the navigation.

Besides all the activities that this web page provides, they also include MP3s files for practicing pronunciation with American English accent. Finally I can say as ESL student/ex-ESL teacher I can recommend this Web page.