Technologies and Learning

I work as an IT teacher, my students sometimes have to write in a blog, they can program a simple website and they use Moodle on a daily basis. I have a prefered CMS for every situation. When I need to create a fast website or blog to publish some information they can use "Google Sites", "Wordpress" or "Blogger" On the other hand "Moodle" is the best solution for LMS, I tried "Google Classroom" and although it is very simple, it still lacks power. We do not use Drupal or Joomla CMS, there are for professional and powerful solutions.  Students learn basic HTML and CSS to undestand some basic concepts. In my opinion is very important that they know how these systems works internally.  

Comparing some websites using different CMS, I personally prefer Drupal and Joomla sites. I think these systems are very popular, thus with Drupal or Joomla we have more templates and options. PHP-Nuke is an old CMS system and in my opinion websites look so old-fashioned. The website in the example is not responsive (automatically adapted to de device size) and nowadays I think this is very important. SPIP and Zikula sites are very simple and templates are not very atractive. Websites based on "mestre a casa" are very similar and the do not use modern templates like Drupal or Joomla. I think this kind os sites are more focused on content and information than on the aspect. Finally Moodle site is an option, but like in the previous sites analyzed all web sites using Moodle are very similar and for a company we need be different and more atractive than the other one. To sum up, as IT Teacher having enought experience using some CMS, I prefer Drupal or Joomla for profe...

Joomla is a wonderful content management system, I tried it a few years ago and it is very powerful. On the other hand, I think there are simpler solutions for teachers like WordPress, which although it is a blogging system, also implements a basic CMS. Joomla implements a menu system for a little complex. If you do not need a very complex website, I prefer Wordpress, and if you need a sophisticated website, you can try Drupal. This CMS has many add-ons and extensions, you can customize the look from the large list of templates and there are many resources to help you on the Internet.  

The term CLOUD is referred to a lot of online services that are hosted on computers around the world and connected to the internet. The user can store information, use applications or request services from anywhere, furthermore the user do not usually knows about how and where  the information is physically. The main advantages are: - Costs : There are a lot of free services, and if case you pay for a better service, prices are lower compared to local services because hardware resources are shared between different users. - Management : Online services are managed by a company and we don't need to be worried for the server and services management. - Modern architectures : hardware, software and net infraestructures are updated to the latest technologies. - Agility : cloud work allows to share information easier, and is the perfect way to implement co-working. The main disadvantages are: - Security : Our data is not in our servers, information can be hacked or the vendor ...

I teach Basic Vocational Education (F.P. Básica) Students at this education level are very demotivated and fustrated with the traditional educational system.  I mainly use collaborative methodologies. I work in groups very often, I use the  flipped classroom, and instead of explain a lot of theory I prefer the "learning by doing" technique. They have to interact all the time, and sometime we use apps like "kahoot" to improve the interaction with new technologies like tablets or mobile phone that they love. The main advantages of this king of methodologies are that are funny, fast, and you easily get their attention, but as a disadvantage I can say that the teacher need to prepare a lot of resources, have to spend much more time than with traditional classes and the use of new technologies inside the classroom must be very supervised.

Computer related Word Map

Expression " at any rate " (whatever happens or is happening) Results from Corpora:

Thesaurus   lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning For example, word " keyboard "  

Word " Mouse " Oxford Dictionary https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/mouse Webster Dictionary https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mouse WordReference   http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=mouse learnersdictionary.com http://www.learnersdictionary.com/definition/mouse   All the online dictionaries are very useful and complete. They have excellent features: you can hear the real pronunciation, users can comment  the information and in some cases you can ask for questions or additional information about the word in a forum or chat. My favourite online dictionary is wordreference, i like beacuse you can find a lot of real examples os using the word or expression you are looking for in a specific context and users feedback a lot of information.  

I teach the "Microcomputer Equipment" subject in a vocational education course related to Telecommunications. The subjects that students have to cope with are: -Common Telecommunications Infrastructures in Housing and Buildings - Domotic Installations - Applied Electronics - Microcomputer Equipment - Infrastructure of Data Networks and Telephony Systems - Basic Electrical Installations -Sound installations - Closed Circuit Television and Electronic Security               - Training and career counseling - Business and Entrepreneurship The type of linguistic exchanges that the students need to use in the class: (questions, answers, presentations, descriptions, definitions, narrations, problems, etc.)  -Work with technology vo cabulary and users manuals that are mainly in english language. -Video-tutorials and presentations explaining technologic processes -Speaking actitivities in groups -Questionaries abou...

How to use ICT smartly to improve learning? ... that is a good question, but the answer is not only to fill the classroom with gadgets and digitalize all the resources, we need to change our thinking and learn to become a knowledge-based society  ;)

A blog is an online resource that helps teachers to be in touch with students. The blog works as a "whiteboard" where teachers can add articles, information, and resources as images, videos o web links. It consists of paragraphs of information, opinion or diary entries displayed chronologically. The main advantage of a blog is that students can interact with the teacher. For example, in this way teachers encourage shy students to participate. A blog implements by itself some useful features as serach possibilities, indexing, referrals, alerts, etc. Setting up a blog is very easy for a non-technical teachers and is a very felxible and powerful solution as a educational resource. Teachers will user the blog to motivate students. Studen will be able to respond by writtign comments to the blog. A blog could be used to interact between different groups inside the class. Finally I think is a good way to improve writing skills and the use of appropiate language, avoiding the us...

Hi!  My name is Juanjo López I work as IT Teacher in Alcoy. I studied computer science at the UA a few years ago. My level of English is B2. Due to my studies and my job I have a lot of experience with computers, gadgets and general new technologies. Smarthpones, tablets and internet services are my daily work tools. I use to visit this websites very often: Gsuite google services, Moodle, Wikipedia, ArduinoBlocks, Blogger, Google sites, etc. Here I am at work.... ;)