Delicious

I like the reasoning behind delicious. I would find it useful in the future. Right now I wouldn't use it because, I do my research, homework and web surfing on the same computer. I have the bookmarks of the websites I visit often. So delicious would be extra work at the moment. However, it will be useful to share websites with public or friends. this will be an easy way to redirect friends to certain information I want them to look for.
Hiram

WEEK 4

what do you think about Spreadsheet? Is it useful? Would you use it in your classroom?

I really like using Spreadsheet. It takes a little bit of time to set it up, but once is done you can just enter the grades and gives you the average right away. Students may be able to see right away how they are doing in the class. I will use it in my classroom on every assignment.
The calculator works, but it is not as fast. Implementing the spreadsheet will help all teacher save some time adding grades, since there is other things that required time from teachers.
Hiram

Week 3: MS-Word & Inspiration

Here are some of the options that I find interesting about Inspiration. Inspiration creates an outline of their work, this will be a great idea for students to learn to set up outline in the traditional hierarchy. The auto arrange is great, how many times we arrange a diagram and as it grows it stops making sense? this is a great tool to reconfigure the diagram when is too large. The transfer of videos, notes and links is a tool that can make it easier to add information to the diagram. Inspiration is a great visual tool that can be use in the classroom. Again, the typed outlines and the handouts in the typical classroom may not be sufficient for the new generation to have fun and learn at the same time. I will use Inspiration in my classroom as a language learning tool. I can have the students have definitions on words a create diagrams, the diagrams can include short sentences, and if possible add pictures related to the sentence or word.

The writing activities in the bilingual classroom are fundamental. I really like Inspiration it seems like a great technology tool. This program can help me with the vocabulary, sentence structure and examples of how to use adjectives, verbs and nouns. Language learning requires practice, Inspiration is a fun way of getting the students to support one another by reviewing each others diagram while learning from the vocabulary cover from each student. Since time is limited, each student can cover one topic and presented to the classroom in a creative diagram with links and videos to support the topic. I would ask the students to use the blogger to review the others diagrams by giving a positive feedback.
Hiram

A short summary about who I am

My name is Hiram, I am from Durango, Mex. I moved to the United States when I was 12 years old. In High School I picked up tennis, which eventually will take me to many places and meet many people from all over the world. I play for Eastfiel College, We got second place at Nationals, My brother and I won the Doubles title, and I was a finalist in singles. While I was playing tennis, I also though tennis. Another of my passsions is horses, I currently help my father train TB horses. I hope to become a Spanish teacher after I take a break from school and travel around a year or two. For now, Let's get through this semester.