Entry 2: My PLE

MY PERSONAL PLE


THE INITIAL PLE

This is my initial PLE. You could find there:

• Dialnet: is it very useful database to find academic papers. I used it every day during my PhD.
• English dictionary (Cambridge Dictionary, WordReferences): to check vocabulary, collocations and synonyms.
• Online newspapers (an Italian one, La Repubblica, and a Spanish one, El País): to be always informed.
• Schoology: I use this platform because I am a student of the Oficual School of Language of Pamplona (English C2.1).
• Gmail and Libero: I check daily my 2 email accounts.
• Facebook: it is my favorite social network.
•  UPNA: I use it daily because I check my email, I enter to my aulario and to the sport section.

THE FINAL PLE

This is the final PLE. What I have added:

• Instagram: I opened an account on this social network.
• YouTube: I use it daily to listen to music, watching videos and tutorials.
• Google Drive/Drop Box: since I discovered them, I use it for store my materials (documents, pictures etc.).
• OASport: it is an Italian online newspaper focused on sports.
• The Guardian: I started to read newspapers in English to improve my vocabulary.
• The BBC: I use the section “BBC Learning English” to listen to Podcast and to improve my linguistic skills.

Entry 1: a summary of the course

This entry has 3 sections.

Here it goes the link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qnw0i07tzuzgctv/entry%201%20-%203%20sections.docx?dl=0

Entry 7: The best exercise I created

MY BEST CREATION

In my opinion my best exercise is the IWB lesson that I created with my classmate Katalin Neméth (Kata). We made the best out of this opportunity to learn how to use this innovative tool. At the beginning we found it strange, but we soon understood how to create exercises about our topic. I appreciated not to be alone facing this new challenging task, but to be with a good companion.

What’s more, I really enjoyed working as a team with Kata, because we gave feedback to each other while we were designing and creating our activities. Our creativity boosted, since when one made a proposal, the other one suggested some improvements to the original idea and vice versa. I could clearly see that collaborative tasks help to elaborate a better final product.

For our lesson, we decided to incorporate a Quizlet in order to teach vocabulary about furniture (here you have the link to the exercise: https://quizlet.com/_625sjt), because we thought it would be interesting to employ another web page we discovered during this course. We both think that Quizlet is a versatile and valid tool to teach and revise vocabulary.