Reading Quiz Little Pufferfish

Technology Turns Amiable Once You Know It.

                   Licda. Ana Patricia López Quirós.

High School Teacher and University Professor.

Saturday, March 16th, 2019.

            “Give it a try, it is easy once you practice how to use it.” This is one of the thousands of comments people tell you when they know that you have some difficulties using technological devices.  At the beginning, I got mad at them, since I was learning about technology little by little. However, life leads you to paths that you do not expect, and it has made me take a course about technology.  This dreadful, but amazing course  has made me not only cry, but also feel satisfied with the innovative tools I have learned, since It makes me feel motivated to use all this new knowledge in my English class. Let us remember that we need to prepare our students for their future, so we need to get updated in order to teach them how to manage these useful tools that later in the future they can use and even improve.

 After making an analysis of my doing in technology, I have deduced that I am on stage three which is called Infusion.  I am always use my computer to take practices, videos, songs, etc. Besides, I also use all these multimedia applications a long with telecommunications applications in order to boost the motivation in the class. I have realized I am just in diapers in the efficient use of the wide range of tools that already exist. I strongly believe that what counts is personal willingness to continue learning in this amazing field. The first step a person should do is to stop sitting on the fence and make the decision of giving a step forward to continue improving his/ her abilities in this field. 

           At this moment, technology is not my adversary anymore;  it can boost the quality of my English class. I have already contacted a person who can continue teaching me the incredible tools present on the Web. After finishing my masters, I have two short terms goals: I need to continue advancing with my improvement of English and the second is to learn more about technology. Well, actually there is a strong motivation to do this, for my work is asking their teacher to be certified in these two fields, because this Institution strongly believe that the digital resources can promote the higher order thinking in a way students can feel comfortable with.  So far, there are three striking tools that I learn to use in order to enhance the teaching-learning process. There tools are fotor, blogger and slideshare.

First of all, Fotor website  might be as a positive way to engage students in their own learning process. Fotor  is a photo editor to design collages of your interest. Even though there are some frames you have to pay for, there are some others that can be used for free. This is a user-friendly tools for the people who want to use it.  Students can use this tool for their oral presentations. An important fact is that students learn more if they see images that can make them remember the important ideas studied in class. So, by creating a collage in class, either in groups or individually, students are learning in a meaningful way. Besides, students can develop certain soft skills if they work together in order to create a collage.

Another tool that I would like to refer to is slideshare. This is a tool  to embed works in other sites. As the fotor tool, this is a useful way to make the English class catchier and entertaining for the students. For instance, if you have a blog, you can upload material from other parts of the web in it; in this way, it can be shared by not only students but also colleagues. In addition, students can create their own works and share them with the teacher and among themselves in order to share their knowledge by having fun.

Finally, another attractive tool that can be used in my class is the blogger. This is a platform in which people can publish their works for free. As the other two, it has been designed to be user-friendly.  However, users have to be a little more skillful in their use because he/ she can embed material from other sources. For instance, the writer can embed email, video, photos, or articles.  This feature makes blogger an incredible tool to use in the teacher-learning process because it allows the participants of the process to be more creative, more engaged and more competent in the use of technology.  To make it happen, users need to know about HTML. This is the code language that most websites use.  HTML is used to create pages and make them function; therefore, without the use of this language, the works in blogger could not be as amazing as possible. HTML makes works more beautiful, and appealing for the reader’s eyes. In this way, students will feel encouraged to read and to create their own works in their own blogs.

In conclusion, I urge all those teachers who are not familiar with these three tools to implement them in class. The process of incorporating technology in class is slowly. The teacher has to constantly  practice how to the use of these  tools before  he/she takes them to class, because in this way, he/she will become the supporter for the students.  By using these tools in the class, the quality and the level of professionalism will rise making you feel satisfied of the good work done.