ICT in teaching English

Looking for a video which illustrates the importance of using ICT in the classroom of foreign languages, I have found the following one:

I really like it because it sumarizes the main characteristics of the use of ICT in this teaching: from those afraid teachers who are reticent in using them until some of the different applications which can be used. In addition, it is not too much long and the viewer can follow it because, altough the speaker speaks a little bit fast, everything is summarized in written explanations.

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What is a blog?

First of all, I must say that among the given examples of blogs I like most the one called CLIL for Success, In my opinion, it has an attractive appearence what is good because this attracts people's attention. Furthermore, it is not full of long texts and it has a lot of videos to explain different topics. 

From all the sources I have checked, I must say that this one is the source where I have found the most concrete meaning: 'a personal online journal that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption'. But it does not mean that this is the most complete. Maybe, this other source is more complete than the previous one as we can find here something more about the general 'history' about blogs. But I still do not think that this is the best one. Definitely, the one which I think best explains what is a blog is this one. This last source explains it through the definition of a blog by different sources. Then, the autor makes a little summary clarifying even more what is a blog and classifying some words related to this field. 

After having read all these sources as well as the lesson TS3, I think that the best definition of what is a blog is that one made by oneself according to everything learnt from all the different sources. In my opinion, a blog is: a way of expression, an educational tool, a personal diary (sometimes), a digital book of recommendation (about places, food, films, music...) and a long etcetera. A blog can be almost whatever you want.

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Sources:

http://blogbasics.com/what-is-a-blog/
https://moodle2016-17.ua.es/moodle/pluginfile.php/17911/mod_resource/content/1/guidelines2.pdf
http://www.problogger.net/what-is-a-blog/
http://searchwindevelopment.techtarget.com/definition/blog

About me...

Good evening!

My name is Yadira and I am an English philologist although I work in a children's boutique since 2013 . I did my Bachelor's degree in the University of Almería and I finished it some years ago. Nowadays, I am finishing a Master's degree about ICT in the teaching of languages. I just have to finish my final research about the teaching of second languages through mobile devices.

I think that my level of English is better when I speak than when I write. I am used to speak in English because, where I live, the majority of the population and of the customers I have in my job are foreigner. But I am always trying to improve my English level and I do it by myself: reading English newspapers, being in touch with people who speak this language, listening to English songs... In addition, I was living for a month in England when I was 18, a month in Malta when I was 19 and a year in Denmark when I was 22. In my opinion, that was the best way to improve it.

As I have said before, I am finishing a Master's degree about ICT and I use these technologies almost every day. I am used to use my smartphone and my tablet but, sometimes, I prefer to use my e-reader if the texts which I have to read are too long.

Finally, I want to say that this is not my first online course: the Master's degree about ICT is online as well and I have already done other online courses like some MOOC.

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