Cultural Diversity

Mauricio’s presentation was about cultural diversity. His presentation was very good; he started his micro-lesson asked us to create a definition of diversity and to read it to everybody. Then he read an official definition of it and some important aspects related with diversity such as; age, race, gender, ethnicity.

I liked his presentation because he showed us the importance of this topic in the classroom, the impact when you create a respectful climate and how students could spread the model you give them. His presentation was good in terms of visual aids, good pictures and videos, but he had too much information in some slides, and one video was too fast to read what it said, I could not read in some cases.

At the end, he said a very good piece of advice, that enclose the complete meaning of his topic; “putting in someone else shoes”, which was a very good close to his micro-lesson.

Stress in Students

Yhincy’s presentation was about the stress in students. Before start with some definitions, she started her presentation with some images that were glued on the walls, and we had to guess what those pictures meant. Then she gave some definitions and the causes and effects of stress.

In my opinion, she did a good presentation, she invited us to participate and the topic was interesting and useful as teachers. She had good tone of voice, and she moved around the classroom asking for attention, using eye contact too.

Less words and more action

Eduardo’s presentation was about Chileans projects to improve English education. He presented us three projects; Innovacien, this project is to modify schools and implement software, videogames and videochats with educational purposes. ChileIdiomas, this project is to create a small English city during a complete weekend and students have to talk, read, write, and listen English all the time. The last project was in Pichilemu, where the surf is implemented as a subject, to prevent drug addiction, delinquency, and other social problems.

This topic was interesting, with new ideas and the slides had good images. He had a good tone of voice and presence, his body language was according to the things he was talking and the title as a message was creative. In my opinion, I like the project of Chile Idiomas, because is funnier and easier than the other ones, and as a teacher, you do not need too much money to carry out this porject, you only need your students support.

Body Language

Yara’s presentation was about body language. This topic is very good, because as teachers, we can give good or bad signs of what we are talking. As Yara said our body is a teaching tool, is not necessary to say the translation of a word if we can demonstrate its meaning trough our body. In some cases it must sound weird and goofy but it depends on the teacher what teaching strategies he or she wants to use.

On the other hand there are some body movements that are useful in the classroom, for example giving eye contact, nodding and smiling, and walking around the room among others. In relation with her performance was good, funny videos, but I do not think it was a micro-lesson, because she talked most of the time, and we were sitting watching at her, without a real activity just some comments of what she was talking

Gallipoli

Language: English
Country: Australia
Epoch and social background: 1915 First War World.
Main Characters:

- Archy Hamilton (Mark Lee)

- Frank Dunne (Mel Gibson)

- Uncle Jack (Bill Kerr)

- Les McCann (Harold Hopkins)

- Billy (Robert Grubb)

- Barney (Tim McKenzie)

- Snowy (David Argue)

- Major Barton (Bill Hunter)

Powerful ideas and values:

- Patriotism

- Friendship

- Perseverance

- Loyalty

- Competition

This movie it was a little bit boring at the beginning, when Archie met Frank the movie starts to be more interesting.

This movie showed the importance of friendship, and the loyalty to his country in the case of Archie. He was perseverant during the whole movie, and Frank was not stay behind, for that reason he decided to follow Archie and to become a soldier to fight in Gallipoli against Turkish who were better armed than them.

At the end, I felt a little bit disappointment because Frank could not arrive to give the message to the Major Barton and for that reason Archie die. I do not think it was a really good ending to put an image of Archie when he is shot. I felt it was something missing. I mean, what happened with Frank? The British soldiers, they really arrived to support the trenches?

Slangs

Jorge’s presentation was about Slangs. He made a good presentation; he presented us very good examples and a good definition of them. This was a micro-lesson, because he presented the topic and then he asked us to participate in his lesson.

He had a good tone of voice, but he did not use the space and he did not do eye contact, he must improve that. Good pronunciation and fluency. I liked his micro-lesson, it was an interesting topic and it was good to learn more about language.

Behind a Social Network Service

Nadia’s presentation was about Facebook private policies. This was not a micro-lesson, it was a presentation. Her presentation was boring and with too much information, she was reading most of the time. In some cases she moved around the classroom to call for our attention but it was not good at all.

I think the idea was good, but the way she presented to us was boring, the video and her tone of voice were good. The introductory questions were quite good, and in some way there are some very good tips to consider from this presentation, such as lack of privacy, gossiping, hackers, etc. The most important thing I could extract was that you are exposing yourself to many things when you accept a network policy service. It is a little bit scary, but it is true.