General Reflections

Andrea Ahumada Araya: 

As a general reflection, I can say that making different projects during the semester helped me a lot. First, because I learned how to use different applications such as power point, movie maker, audacity, blogger, among others., and it is something very useful when talking as a future teacher. I mean, if you want to be updated with interesting material, you need to be checking at least 3 or 4 new programs/applications for your classes. Moreover, studying about the various approaches that a teacher may have in their classes was something very beneficial for me because I could discover that as I consider myself an instrumental user i can use technology in certain activities within the class and also to motivate students, but teachers need to know and consider other ideas to make the most of a class without depending on technology.

On the other hand, I can say that the session that I took the most of it was "Using Websites" because I could collect all the pages that will help me in the future as a teacher so that I can find different resources that will be beneficial. 

Really, taking this subject was a great chance where I could learn a lot about different topics (projects, applications, websites, use of technology, among others). 

Camila Valenzuela Grollmus: 

In my personal opinion, I think that this subject was very important because we learned how to use programs that on the surface they seem to be user friendly, but the truth is that all of them have some complications and if we know how to use them, they are very helpful in different tasks. For instance, I learned to insert audios in PowerPoint presentations and this is useful and meaningful when we want to teach our students different sounds (vowels and consonants). Also, by means of this subject I collected multiple webpages that are perfect for our classes (I mean, when we plan our classes), full of material, images, exercises, etc.

For me, this subject was pretty meaningful and thanks to it I could see things from another angle, that the programs most people use can be great for us as teachers, and we can give those programs another uses.