Billy Elliot

Billy Elliot is a shy boy, living with his proud miner father and older brother Tony during the political and social unrest of the 1984 miner's strike. Times are hard the men of the house spend their days on the picket lines clashing with the police, while Billy navigates the minefield of adolescence and takes care of his increasingly senile grandmother.

His life change when he met Mrs. Wilkinson, whose teach dance in a Box Gym, where Billy try to learn boxing….Billy changes the boxing gloves by the ballet slippers, but the social and familiar surroundings will force to him to do it secretly.

Touching comedy obtained 3 nominations' Oscar and to become the international success of the British cinema in the year 2000.

The movie show us, in a good way a young boy that change his “lifestyle” created by his father by another one, the dance, the movie show us the perseverance that Billy uses to be happy, despite of his father´s opinion.

Recycling

First of all Daniela use background music to present her microlesson…..

I think that was a good way to motivate and introduce the spectators (classmates) into her theme. She uses a lot of resources to demonstrate that we are working in a bad way, I mean, for example, when we are cooking, generally we throw the rest of vegetables, plastics, cans, and more things to the same bag, it is too bad for us, because and according to the Daniela´s presentation, for example, a plastic bag, is delayed 500 years in degrading itself.

Daniela Showed us some videos related to the pollution, that was amazing, we can see a lot of damages that the human provoke into the environment, she gave us tips to recycle, reduce and reuse.

In my opinion Daniela´s Presentation was amazing, was clear, the audiovisual material that she used was good, her effort was demonstrated in her microlesson.

Technology / Telecommunication and Teaching

Cristobal Presented this important topic taking account our futures plans ....how to be good teachers.

First of all Cristobal gave us a definition of technology and telecommunication, he showed us a timeline about the evolution of the technology, finding the telegraph, phone, computer, beeper, cell phone, cd player, and more......

In my opinion, I think that using technological recourses to teach is a good way to engage our students, for example if we want to teach culture we can use the computer and go to the Google earth and show to our students what is the origin of the word "wood" for mention something.

According to Cristobal´s Presentation I can say that was a good presentation, despite of Cristobal presented technical problems, his presentation was very clear, very easy to understand, very enjoyable, easy to follow. At the end of his presentation, Cristobal showed us a video related to the use of technology into classroom.

Have we lost the respect inside the classroom??

Evelyn presented her topic in a good way, because she started asking us about the punishment, showed us a pictures about the year 1969 and 2009, she made a contrast between both situations, in the case of the picture of year 1969, the student were punished by their parents about their marks, in those years the students were bad, because they no studied for their test, quizzes, etc. By the other side, nowadays the teachers are the main problem into the scholar system, because teacher give bad marks, not the students won them.

Evelyn showed us some videos related to the educational environment into classroom, were students were attack to the teachers and vice versa , were the behavior of the students were not good, some of them punished their teacher, throwing paper balls to him, chairs of the classroom, throwing backpacks, copybooks, in my opinion about to the lost of the respect on the part of the students towards the professor, I believe that it goes in the education that the students bring of their homes, that provoke this behavior into the classroom.

According to the Evelyn´s presentation, I think that was marvelous, is an important topic that we have to know as future teachers, we have to maintain the autocontrol in those situations…… her presentation was good, she used a lot of materials to presented a good theme, Evelyn gave us some tips related to her presentation, I think that is a good way to teach and to be a good teacher in the future.

Obesity and sedentary lifestyle

My classmate Steph presented a good theme, the Obesity.....

First of all Stephanie showed us some videos related to the her topic, where we could see a lot of child eating a lot, no doing excercises, just they were watching television, playing games, eating junk food, drinking coke, in my opinion was disgusting watched through her videos babies BIG babes doing nothing, the problem is..... the fault is of the parents??

Is a controversial topic, Stephanie, showed us some graphics related to the people around the world that are obese, in USA the quantity of people that consume junk food have been growing up day by day, the quantity of calories have been increase about 3654 calories per day, in my opinion I think that it is too much, for that reason in EEUU a big part of the population is FAT......

In my opinion, we as future teachers, we can help to our student to prevent the obesity, trying to teach in a good way natural values, for example, try to consume vegetables, fruit, milk, chicken, fish...... and try to persuade our student to prevent the obesity into the scholar community desmosntrating with real facts.....

Stephanie´s presentation was good, was very good, but they betrayed it to the nerves and they caused that Stephanie forgot information that provoke contradiction in her presentation, the resources was good, the slides pretty cool, methodologically speaking I think that was poor, because her words were not connected with her presentation, despite of, were clear but was sometimes bored and an slow presentation.

Relaxation Techniques

My classmate Daisy Barril talked about the Relaxation Techniques, Daisy started her presentation asking some questions about her theme, and for example, what are the relaxation techniques?

After the question, Daisy answered us about the main objective of the relaxation techniques, because as a she explained before, we as a Teacher we have to know more about that, because we will work with persons, with child, adolescents, so we have to know when they are tired, bored, and using these relaxation techniques with our student to stop the stress, angry, pain, for example. Daisy show us some slides about the most common techniques:

1. 1. Deep breathing
2. 2. Visualization

According those tips, we can use them to take a break and think about myself to relax me and to be able to continue with the daily routines. In my opinion her topic was amazing, but the way that daisy explained us the topic was not good, she showed herself uncomfortable presenting, very nervous, in my opinion, Daisy demonstrated not dominion of the theme, for that reason I think that her presentation was not clear.

Gustavo´s Presentation

My classmate Gustavo Rojas today talked about his school, he made a presentation giving us information about Instituto Nacional, Gustavo started his presentation talking about the history of his Ex-School, for example, who was the date and the name of the president during the creation of Instituto Nacional, Gustavo mentioned that Instituto Nacional was the first public school with the first score in educational process also my classmate gave us some information about the age, for example, a newspaper of that age was "El monitor Araucano" that wrote about the celebration in August 10th 1813, Mateo de toro y Zambrano was in the government.

In my opinion my classmate showed a poor presentation , because his comments about the topic was without fundaments, he showed a poor dominion of the theme, despite of his slides were good, but Gustavo did not take advantage of them. Gustavo was very nervous presenting his theme.

II Semester

Last week, we were working with Mr. Litman...

We talked about the present Semester and he gave us the schedule about topics, the movies that we will have to watch soon......

Some of us talked about feedback concerning to the last semester, about tasks, marks, and the blog... was a good instance to be critic in front of us and the teacher.... was a good idea to speak and be to honest with our learnign process.