11-02-2013: My impressions ! (Selin)

Hello everybody !

This week was very nice ! Let's me speak about my experience this week !

1/ Well... What I have learnt this week ?

Firstly, the more important thing that I have learnt is  about the story ! Storyline is different to the story ! The storyline is the skeleton whereas the story is the finished aspect of our story ! In other words , the storyline is the form, the story is the content !

 

I have learnt that a good team it is very important ! My partners were very cool : there wasn't any problem with them ! Each of us contributed to the telling-story! Each spoke when it was his turn ! They are really funny and I get on very well with them! I think it is very important because when there are tensions, the ambiance is bad and It may influence in a bad way our work ! Here is the positve aspect !

Summary :

*Storyline is different of story.

*A good team is important !

2/ What were the difficult aspects ?

No doubt : I am very bad when I must to speak english ! It was very hard for me because I forgot all my words ! My oral is poor, usually when I communicate with people I don't konw what and how to say ! It seems to be in my mind, there is no word !

The second point is about the teaching ! Before this course I thought that it was an easy work but in fact it is very difficult, because we must to adapt the story to 11 years old students : each time there was the same question : Is it adapted to them ? Is it hard to understand for them ?

Summary :

*Difficulty to speak in English !

*Difficult to invent a story for 11 years old students when you have 18 ! ^^

 

3/ How to overcome my difficulties ?

I did some searches on Google !

There are many websites which propose to improve my english ! One of them is howjsay.com !(http://www.howjsay.com/) I have only to write the words and I get the pronunciation ! You say magic ?

 

The second solution is that I have to be confident when I communicate with anyone. Note to myself : Don't be anxious when I communicate !

Summary  of my searches :

*Using howjsay.com 

*Being confident

*Watching movies or series in VOST

*Reading articles (New Yok Times, BBC)

*Watching the postcasts on CNN

WEEK 2: Technology : Best friend or best enemy ?

  During the second week we spoke about Technology, and more specially about Technology in Education. This first case shows very well that Technology brings lots of new methods of teaching : texts in caves become texts in books, texts in papers-form, texts in photocopies,ect. Undoubtelly, technology easies the life of teachers ...and also whose of students ! But I have asked a question to myself : what about daily-life ? Is it a good thing ? So, Technology : Best friend or best Enemy ?

   Technology is everywhere ! In houses, in schools, in medecine, in science, in litterature...Technology helps in everyday tasks (cars, dishwasher, mobile phone, computer), it helps a lot in medical research too. It also helps the spreading of information thanks to Internet for example. But technology have also negative points : it can brings diseases : let's take the example of mobilephone which are very dangeroous for health (a test made by scientifics show that because of its radioactions you can can become deaf or you can catch a cancer). An another negative point: we are more and more assisting in daily life … Do we use all of our capacities today ? Undoubtelly human species became more and more lazy...and stupid !
 So what about you ? What do you think about the topic ? Give your opinion !

Summary of our story, difficulty that i've had 11/02/13

Hello everybody, 

Today we begun our story, the communication and the collaboration between us was good. We have succeed to find a good idea in few time.

What do you think about our communication and our collaboration?

Summary of our story:

Narrative: third person
Topic = friendship
Moral = fight against racism

Main characters:
- 1 little brown bear (boy) called Teddy
- 1 little white bear (girl) called Lucy
- 1 little panda (boy) called Romeo

Story: White and brown bears live together in mountains, the top is icy and it's also a place where there is grass on the ground. One day, a panda, Romeo, arrived and nobody know where he comes from. He's not like others, and because of his difference, he's rejected. But Lucy and Teddy decide to be nice and stay with him.
At the end, everybody are together and happy.

PS: Not use the word racism in the story.

One difficulty for me: Difficulty to connect at this blog but with help of my group, it has been resolved.

I think i didn't write everything, so you can create another article or comment to complete what i've already said.

What is your impression about our idea, our story?

I think, for next time, we have to think a bit more of details of our story, to be able to exchange on that in course without waste time.

See you in course!

What is a good story?

We saw in class, last Monday, the characteristics of a good story.

-Illustrations
-Humorous (not something which is too serious)
-Simple story line (don't forget that children can't be concentrated  too long)
-Suspens
-Short and simple sentences
-Happy ending (of course, don't tell them a story where everybody die at the end!)
-Few characters
-A moral
-A specific vocabulary (the story has to be instructive)
-characters they can identifie themselves to.