Educational Telecollaboration
What’s a telecollaborative activity?

it is an educational endeavor that involves people in different locations using Internet tools and resources to work together. Much educational telecollaboration is curriculumbased, teacher-designed, and teachercoordinated. Most use e-mail to help participants communicate with each other.

Telecollaborative activities can offer many educational benefits to their participants. The nature of these benefits depends, in large part, on the specifics of each activity’s design, and how well
what the activity makes possible matches the learning needs and preferences of participating students.

What is telecollaboration?

Unit 1

MY BIOGRAPHY

Grade Level: 8th Grade
Subject Area: English

Students of a public school in a neighborhood of stratum 3 are formed in small grop of 30 people.

The purposes of the school are: to improve English level and Icfes results.

The goals of this unit are to recognize the main characteristics related to a biography using the simple past.

OBJECTIVES

1. To use the overall knowledge of the wordl in order to understand different events.

2. To identify some cultural elements presented in simple texts.

3. To produce simple texts with different functions(describing,narrating,argumentating using the simple past) about personal subjects.

4. To tell their own story relating ideas in an appropiate way.

TOOLS

- Famous people biographies(written texts)
-Internet to research information about biographies.
-Posters to present a brief biography of a famous person using images.
-Vocabulary cards to write and consult the verbs in present and past.
-Video presentation abotu a biography.

The students have to confront themselves in oreder to produce their biographies.

LEARNING STRATEGIES

* Grouping, making associations, stucture reviewing, recombing, transfering, seeking practice, self-monitoring, discussing, your feelings and cooperating with peers.

OUTCOME

*Sequence of events

1. Famous people around the world(biographies)
2. Biograpjy structure.
3. Simple Past.
4. Chosing my favorite biography.
5. My biography.

EVALUATION

The students will be evaluated through different activities such as: work in groups, expositions, homeworks, participations and discussions.

Learning Styles & Multiple Intelligences

Learning styles method gives the opportunity to learn in diifferent ways, produce different marerial for our students, in that sense there is a big door to enter to the knowledge not just for one way if not for many. Some of the strengths of this method is that it gives us the chance to change the enviroment of our classrooms.

Multiple intelligences is an excellente way to learn. Students have all the nine intelligences, eventhough as teachers we have to identify wwhat are the ones our students have in order to be the bridge amoung them for learning process.