Instructional Technology- Diego Menjivar

Rank 3 This blog is based on the article:"Twenty Ideas for Using Mobile Phones in the Language Classroom" Wilfredo, a 58 old teacher for a little ville on the country side of El salvador, is teaching his routine social studies class to teenegers. All the expirience that Wilfredo has, is helping him to not loss his students attention at all, sadly when wilfredo turns to write something on the board, all the students do the same movement to the beat of the dependency, everybody heads down to "check" a little piece of plastic with lights.... the question is: Can wilfredo do something to changes it? The best way to develop a process, whatever the field that we talk, is through the dependence of the masses, cell phones nowadays became symbiotic, humans can't realize one day without them. This pose one question: It is possible to focus cellphones activity in a really useful way? Let's find out.... Education as I mentioned before, is in that little line be

Rank 5 This blog is based on the article: "Online Collaborative Writing Using Wikis" When I started to read this article, my childhood came back to me for a while... I remebered my primary school years, one teacher leave us the homework of write our own "personal diary" why? well maybe because this "wiki" activity is that exactly. The same methodology is apply it, the only difference is the technology attraction. According with Richardson A wiki is a website where anyone can edit anything anytime they want (Richardson, 2006). A strategy that can cover all the writing skills is too good to be true. In the article some writing strategies are presented basing the didactical and methodological rate on one simply, but effective, source. First, two of the main ideas are: Improve the writing skill and collaborative writing. But, let's disarm this. Improve writing skill. What can be more atractive than show someone else my own ideas about my o