1)What is a social network?
Social networking is the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighborhood subdivision, if you will.
Although social networking is possible in person, especially in the workplace, universities, and high schools, it is most popular online.
This is because unlike most high schools, colleges, or workplaces, the internet is filled with millions of individuals who are looking to meet other people, to gather and share first-hand information and experiences about cooking, golfing, gardening, developing friendships or professional alliances, finding employment, business-to-business marketing and even groups sharing information.
2)Which are the most common networks around the world?
Myspace,Facebook,Twitter
3)What are they used for?
To gather and share first-hand information and experiences about cooking, golfing, gardening, developing friendships or professional alliances, finding employment, business-to-business marketing and even groups sharing information.
Tuesday 24 May 2011
Tuesday 10 May 2011
WEBQUESTS
What is a WebQuest?
Search for the word "WebQuest" in any search engine, and you soon discover thousands of online lessons created by teachers around the world. What is a WebQuest? A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented online tool for learning, says workshop expert Bernie Dodge 1. This means it is a classroom-based lesson in which most or all of the information that students explore and evaluate comes from the World Wide Web. Beyond that, WebQuests:
* can be as short as a single class period or as long as a month-long unit;
* usually (though not always) involve group work, with division of labor among students who take on specific roles or perspectives;
* are built around resources that are preselected by the teacher. Students spend their time USING information, not LOOKING for it.
How to create a Webquest?
Creating a WebQuest can be very simple. As long as you can create a document with hyperlinks, you can create a WebQuest. That means that a WebQuest can be created in Word, Powerpoint, and even Excel! If you're going to call it a WebQuest, though, be sure that it has all the critical attributes.
A real WebQuest....
* is wrapped around a doable and interesting task that is ideally a scaled down version of things that adults do as citizens or workers.
* requires higher level thinking, not simply summarizing. This includes synthesis, analysis, problem-solving, creativity and judgment.
* makes good use of the web. A WebQuest that isn't based on real resources from the web is probably just a traditional lesson in disguise. (Of course, books and other media can be used within a WebQuest, but if the web isn't at the heart of the lesson, it's not a WebQuest.)
* isn't a research report or a step-by-step science or math procedure. Having learners simply distilling web sites and making a presentation about them isn't enough.
* isn't just a series of web-based experiences. Having learners go look at this page, then go play this game, then go here and turn your name into hieroglyphs doesn't require higher level thinking skills and so, by definition, isn't a WebQuest.
Search for the word "WebQuest" in any search engine, and you soon discover thousands of online lessons created by teachers around the world. What is a WebQuest? A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented online tool for learning, says workshop expert Bernie Dodge 1. This means it is a classroom-based lesson in which most or all of the information that students explore and evaluate comes from the World Wide Web. Beyond that, WebQuests:
* can be as short as a single class period or as long as a month-long unit;
* usually (though not always) involve group work, with division of labor among students who take on specific roles or perspectives;
* are built around resources that are preselected by the teacher. Students spend their time USING information, not LOOKING for it.
How to create a Webquest?
Creating a WebQuest can be very simple. As long as you can create a document with hyperlinks, you can create a WebQuest. That means that a WebQuest can be created in Word, Powerpoint, and even Excel! If you're going to call it a WebQuest, though, be sure that it has all the critical attributes.
A real WebQuest....
* is wrapped around a doable and interesting task that is ideally a scaled down version of things that adults do as citizens or workers.
* requires higher level thinking, not simply summarizing. This includes synthesis, analysis, problem-solving, creativity and judgment.
* makes good use of the web. A WebQuest that isn't based on real resources from the web is probably just a traditional lesson in disguise. (Of course, books and other media can be used within a WebQuest, but if the web isn't at the heart of the lesson, it's not a WebQuest.)
* isn't a research report or a step-by-step science or math procedure. Having learners simply distilling web sites and making a presentation about them isn't enough.
* isn't just a series of web-based experiences. Having learners go look at this page, then go play this game, then go here and turn your name into hieroglyphs doesn't require higher level thinking skills and so, by definition, isn't a WebQuest.
Webquest
What is it?
A Webquest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet, optionally supplemented with videoconferencing.
How to make one?
Webquests may be created by anyone.These can be created using various programs, including a simple word processing document that includes links to websites. The first part of a Webquest is the introduction. This describes the WebQuest and gives the purpose of the activity. The next part describes what students will do. Then is a list of what to do and how to do it. There is usually a list of links to follow to complete the activity.
A Webquest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the internet, optionally supplemented with videoconferencing.
How to make one?
Webquests may be created by anyone.These can be created using various programs, including a simple word processing document that includes links to websites. The first part of a Webquest is the introduction. This describes the WebQuest and gives the purpose of the activity. The next part describes what students will do. Then is a list of what to do and how to do it. There is usually a list of links to follow to complete the activity.
Thursday 28 April 2011
a)Styx.
b) Thank you very much (Mr. Robot). Later, when you have time, I'd like to know your secret.
c)Kilroy Was Here.
d)Kilroy was here is an American popular culture expression often seen in graffiti. It is a bald-headed man (possibly with a few hairs) with a prominent nose peeking over a wall with the fingers of each hand clutching the wall.It is widely known among U.S. residents who lived during World War II.
e)Post-modernism.
b) Thank you very much (Mr. Robot). Later, when you have time, I'd like to know your secret.
c)Kilroy Was Here.
d)Kilroy was here is an American popular culture expression often seen in graffiti. It is a bald-headed man (possibly with a few hairs) with a prominent nose peeking over a wall with the fingers of each hand clutching the wall.It is widely known among U.S. residents who lived during World War II.
1) Open the following link and open the file Mr Roboto.
2) Once you have the file opened, click on the blue link Mr Roboto to open the video in a new window.
3) Listen to the song and fill in the blanks.
Mr Roboto Gap Filling Exercise
4) WEBQUEST
a) Which band sang this song and in which year? . Google it.
b) The song starts with these words: Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto Mata ah-oo hima de,
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto Himitsu wo shiri tai,
Visit this link and find out the meaning: What does it mean?
c) What was the name of the album which contains the song?
d) Who is Kilroy? Find info by searching the web!!
e) Somewhere in the song the lyrics mention the word MODREN and that's not a mistake for "modern" Go to
2) Once you have the file opened, click on the blue link Mr Roboto to open the video in a new window.
3) Listen to the song and fill in the blanks.
Mr Roboto Gap Filling Exercise
4) WEBQUEST
a) Which band sang this song and in which year? . Google it.
b) The song starts with these words: Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto Mata ah-oo hima de,
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto Himitsu wo shiri tai,
Visit this link and find out the meaning: What does it mean?
c) What was the name of the album which contains the song?
d) Who is Kilroy? Find info by searching the web!!
e) Somewhere in the song the lyrics mention the word MODREN and that's not a mistake for "modern" Go to
5) Now, let's play for a while. You are going to create a Robot. Enter any of the links below!!
This is mine!!
By Analia
Tuesday 29 March 2011
Computers
To start with, from the late 20th century to nowadays computers have been developing incredibly fast, up to a point in which we have became almost totally dependent on computers. It is important to mention the fact that not just computers have been in a continuous development, but also everything that relates to technology itself has been advancing, in terms of complexity, for example cars, mobile phones, etc. and I believe that in a near future everything will need computers in order to work correctly.
On the one hand, dependence on computers has its benefits, such as faster and more accurate communication, the ability to work with digital media and files, which makes it easier to pass files from one computer to another in just seconds. Computers are used everywhere at any time. In hospitals, offices, schools, restaurants, supermarkets, etc., you can see new models, new features and new uses every day.
On the other hand, the consequences of being dependent on computers may result harmful in many ways for humanity. For example, the use of computers takes a lot of time out from people lives and that is why many people complains about computers, by saying that kids, for example, instead of going outside and play football, stay at home playing computer games or chatting.
All in all, it can be said that computers are beneficial to humans up to a certain point, as it have its positive and negative consequences.
Germán Barbeito.
On the one hand, dependence on computers has its benefits, such as faster and more accurate communication, the ability to work with digital media and files, which makes it easier to pass files from one computer to another in just seconds. Computers are used everywhere at any time. In hospitals, offices, schools, restaurants, supermarkets, etc., you can see new models, new features and new uses every day.
On the other hand, the consequences of being dependent on computers may result harmful in many ways for humanity. For example, the use of computers takes a lot of time out from people lives and that is why many people complains about computers, by saying that kids, for example, instead of going outside and play football, stay at home playing computer games or chatting.
All in all, it can be said that computers are beneficial to humans up to a certain point, as it have its positive and negative consequences.
Germán Barbeito.
Computers
In this time of technology we're more interested to see the social network and play computer games than in see friends or play a football match.
Young people are loosing the contac with friend because it's easier go home and chat with eight friends at the same time or with people who they don't know than go by bike to your friend house.
There are many fact that demonstrate that people need to connect in social networks and its make the face-to-face contact obsolete (We can say that people are loosing us because of computer and technology).
Also, there are a new addiction and it is computer addiction
And the dependence to the computer is more day by day.
In the new generations the computer has sustitute telephones, television and many others means of communication.
In my opinion we have to back to our roots and use again the personal contact because it have thing that anything its going to sustitute.
by Juan Manuel Fontanarossa
Young people are loosing the contac with friend because it's easier go home and chat with eight friends at the same time or with people who they don't know than go by bike to your friend house.
There are many fact that demonstrate that people need to connect in social networks and its make the face-to-face contact obsolete (We can say that people are loosing us because of computer and technology).
Also, there are a new addiction and it is computer addiction
And the dependence to the computer is more day by day.
In the new generations the computer has sustitute telephones, television and many others means of communication.
In my opinion we have to back to our roots and use again the personal contact because it have thing that anything its going to sustitute.
by Juan Manuel Fontanarossa
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