How to plan using a Web 2.0 resource

Hi everyone! It has been a long time and I am here to let you know what our last practical work was about. In one of our last lessons, we were asked to plan a “didactic sequence” using at least one WEB 2.0 tool. To begin with, I would like to define what a web 2.0 resource is and according to dictionary.com it is “a second generation in the development of the World Wide Web, conceived as a combination of concepts, trends, and technologies that focus on user collaboration, sharing of user-generated content, and social networking”.

My group was supposed to teach present continuous and clothes, so we planned our lesson using Voki, which allows users to create customized talking characters. The purpose was to ask our students to imagine their Vokis were celebrities walking down a red carpet and make their virtual characters say what they were wearing. Then, we would share our Vokis on Edmodo or Facebook.

Reflecting upon this practical work, I may say that we did not make as much use of Web 2.0 tools as we could have done. In fact, in most of our activities we used flashcards to elicit vocabulary and play games. To learn and practise the present progressive, we printed worksheets. The only technological tools we used were an old fashion video on YouTube and Voki. We concluded that we could have made the lesson a lot more modern and technological. Nevertheless, if we have into consideration the reality of our Santafesinian schools, we wonder if we would be able to carry out even a simple activity since most of our public schools do not provide with a computer lab or if they do, they do not have internet connection. Therefore, it is advisable to know if the school where you work in count with the appropriate tools before making your lesson plans.