Alba's blog: ICT AND CLASSROOM DYNAMICS FOR CLIL

     The cloud ,   a general term for the delivery of hosted services over the internet, enables companies to consume a compute resource, such as a virtual machine, storage or an application, as a utility -- just like electricity -- rather than having to build and maintain computing infrastructures in-house.      The cloud utilities I use every day are Google Drive Documents to work in group with my classmates that do not live in my city and when I was at the high school,   I used Dropbox since a teacher shared all the handouts of his subject on this platform.       On the one hand, the cloud presents many advantages , but the main ones are convenience and reliability. Saving a file to the cloud ensures that you'll be able to access it with any computer that has an internet connection. The cloud also makes it much easier to share a file with other people, making it possible to collaborate over the inter...

           I would like to teach the English language in Secondary Education using different methodologies with the aim that  every student would be successful in the subject as well as identify himself/ herself as a competent speaker of the language, a good learner or even just a learner since I have witnessed frequently how the needs of the students have not been taking into consideration.            One of the methodologies I think that can be more adaptable to the different needs of the students is TBL (Task-based learning) since the  language will be studied is not  pre-determined by the teacher but  by what happens as the students complete a central task, in which the lesson is based. This approach, apart from  arises from the students' needs, is a strong communicative and it is enjoyable and motivating.           There is a huge variety of ways ...