Presentations, September 29th

Today we had two presentations again, one by Francisca Nuñez and other by Nadia Palma, one was very good and the other was really confused, then we go to the lab to work in our blogs.

Nadia Palma in my opinion, got confused about the presentationn because she did a common presentation, she did not discriminate between a microlesson and a presentation. She had terrible errors in the PowerPoint and her tone of voice was very low. The topic of her presentation was “Behind a social network service”, that I think it was an interesting topic but she did not know how to carry it out. Nadia had in her PowerPoint a lot of information and the teacher talking time was too much.

On the other hand, Francisca Nuñez showed us confidence in herself, she looked very confidence on what she was saying and everything was very clear. Her topic was very suitable to us as teachers, due to games are a very good tool to teach anything, especially English. The PowerPoint had very nice colors and she gave us some keys only to detect what she was trying to tell us. The student talking time was precise, and she did a very interesting and funny game that was "WHO WANTS TO BE MILLIONAIRE"

Presentations, September 8th, 2009

Today the presentations were only two because Mr. Litman wanted to go to the lab. But we couldn’t, therefore we participate in both presentation that were very nice organized and attractive

María Ormeño did her presentation about tools to teach English, this presentation was not a microteaching, was only a presentation but a good one. She asked questions like what tool will you use to improve writing in the classroom? Which I think is a very good question to make us think about our future teaching. She was precise in the minutes of presentation that were 15 minutes, also she spoke very well with voice projection and good use of English. She walked around the classroom.

Paula Villaseca presented the topic: “English only movement”. I believe this topic was attractive to us, it was new and at the beginning we did not know what was this theme about but I think it was good in spite of some errors in the PowerPoint and the use of space. She used a video, a very good resource to engage us at the beginning and it gave results. Paula also had very fluent English and kept eye contact the whole presentation.

New presentations, September 1st, 2009

This was the day that I presented, I think I did a good job especially because of my classmates’ and teacher’s comments but my mark does not reflect that, I am very frustrated for that reason. But also two classmates presented. The video, which is added at the bottom of this post was as a introduction of my microlesson "The power meddia can have".

Romina Bosán talked about “classroom management strategies” I think that she did a good presentation but it was only a presentation, not a microlesson so I think that that is not a positive aspect. The topic was good even we had already learnt about those strategies that is why I was not very motivated with her topic. Romina has a very good tone of voice, she speaks very well and that day she looked very confident.

Camilo Opazo’s presentation for me was very boring, it was about studying abroad and she did a very long listening, the presentation was too much long and Camilo’s voice too low. The PowerPoint was confusing because of the colors and the images. The slides where dirty and it had too much reading. Most of us lost our attention in the presentation and we where doing nothing in relation to the presentation.

Gallipoli, the movie.

This movie is based on the First World War in Turkey, specifically in Gallipoli and tells the story of two Australian athletes who join the army to fight for Australia and the Britain Empire and tells the cruelty of the war.
At first they were not friends, but then in the war they love each other very much. This was something that call my attention very much, because the relationship they have in the story is very close, they are very good friends since they join the army to the end.
I got very moved with this movie, I cried a lot because is very hard to see how cruel is the war and how the war destroy the dreams of the two young man, and that make me think on all the wars that exist and have existed in the humanity and how lucky I am of being existing in this times and in this country due to millions of people have participate in wars.
The performance of Mel Gibson was extraordinary and also look very handsome.
I am thinking on the end of the movie, and how tremendous was that moment for me, because I jumped on my bed screaming run, run, run! terrible, on those minutes I was very distressed, but in spite of all the tension I had watching this movie, I think is a great movie and also the soundtrack could not be better.