Week 4

“Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.”

UNESCO

     I'm here again to share with you new thing that I learned during this week. I have been feeling so exhausted this time because every day this semester becomes harder, but I have to continue without quitting. I'll try to do my best to get my goal.

     During this class we learned about a useful online tool called DIIGO. This site makes possible to highlight important parts of a webpage, to use sticky notes and to store relevant pages that could be helpful without loosing the URL. It is also used as a social network to share information and webpages about different topics. It is easy and free, so you can try to use this interesting site. I learned to use it because I opened my own diigo account, and I'm searching for pages to store into it. I could use those pages to do researches in a better way, and to exchange information with other diigo users, because they could help me with more pages and advice to do a good job.

     While we were learning about diigo, teacher Wilma asked us to join into a discussion forum. This forum contains a special website about UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) and its labor through the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) to expand educational network around the world, specially in places where is difficult to get access to those kind of sources. To get this goal, UNESCO is guiding teachers to be prepared on how to use ICT in a better way, and to share their knowledge with people through many member organizations in different countries that use the ICT. It is necessary to be a trained teacher, because this world needs at least 9 million teachers to reach the majority of places that do not get access to the ICT yet. Our society is changing constantly because the technological progress, and is important to know how to use it in order to be informed and have a better education than in the past. To make it possible, as teachers we have to be prepared and be able to use ICT, in this way we can teach effectively and interactively, we can offer new sources and materials to get our students' attention and be ready to face new challenges along the time.

     In conclusion, we have to face with new challenges as future teachers, and there are many tools available to develop our skills and be better teachers. Is important to make conscience about our society and all the technological advanced we have, because they will change faster than now. Those tools could help us to develop a better way to teach and learn, or could be the opposite if we don't know how to use them correctly.

     Well, that's all for this time, I'll be back next week to continue sharing more about this world, called Multimedia and Internet. I leave some pages where you can find more information about UNESCO and its labor with ICT.

                                                                                         See ya.
                                                                                            VeroElis.

UNESCO official site:

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/themes/icts/teacher-education/

Videos about UNESCO and ICT:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m7w3gcGFQ8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIMP_kILc_I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0pyle44P-I