All about travel

Here's a link your classmate Laura Bahamon wanted to share. It's very nice. There you can find plenty of info for what you need to know about places where you would like to travel to:

http://www.state.gov/travel/

Video: A Day made of Glass (Advanced English UIS)

Here's a very interesting video shared by your classmate Juan Pablo Triana about a vision for the future with specialty glass as its base. Have a look at it and feel free to comment below giving your personal opinions.

CREATING A TIME CAPSULE

Based on what was discussed in our last class, you are going to create a "time capsule", not to be opened before the year 2250, to help future generations understand life as the beginning of the 21st century. Bear in mind the features presented in your book, on page 93. Write your list below this post (comment), including 15 items.

What is the Glottal Stop?

Here a share a video some of my students found and presented about the glottal stop:

A very useful website for pronunciation practice

Check this very interesting website from Cambridge English Online. It's got lots of useful resources to practice your pronunciation and your knowledge of Phonetics (such as games, exercises, printing materials, tests, etc. 

Here's the link:  http://cambridgeenglishonline.com/Phonetics_Focus/#

Reading 10: Media as a medium in Colombian Education: How media and ICT are changing communication and the Curriculum in the school (By Rodríguez, C. and Hine. N., 2009)

Download the document sent to your mails and post a comment answering the following working in groups of max. 3 students:
1. How do you agree and/or disagree with Rodríguez Hine's point of view of how media and ICT are changing communication and the Curriculum in the school?. Provide clear, elaborate argumentation.
2. Discuss and tell which have been the media that has had more influence on your English learning process and how.
3. Which media do you think are influencing new generations of English language learners today? Think of your students, mainly. Mention two or three and tell why.

Next activities for the ICTs course

Here are the activities to come and their deadlines:

- Presentation of Photoshop and Paint: 26th/27th July

- Wikis complete and edited by classmates: 29th July (bear in mind that these wikis will not be evaluated individually, but as a cooperative team work, so I'll take into account your work and the participation of at least 3 of your classmates in the construction of the wikis)

- Presentation last tech tool: August 2nd/3rd

- Last part of the work on Wikis (Class construction of the ICTS's in English Teaching Wiki (http://icts-in-english-teaching.wikispaces.com/):  August 2nd/3rd

- Oral presentation of the projects and handing-in of the written paper: starting on the second week of August  probably.

This information, together with the groups assigned for the last part of the work on Wikis have been also sent to your mails.