Body language… By Yara Faunes.

As Yara said to us body language is more productive and is a very important tool that we have to train to express what we want to say, but with our bodies. Body language helps to get physical contact and visual mode; however our bodies exaggerate as she demonstrate in the videos that she showed us which represent some gesture that could be useful to know.

When we teach in schools our body represent all we as a person, for example eye contact which is the most important skill that we have to develop with our students and in the other hand our facial expression has to be represented in the right way I mean to control in the different situations.

The presentation that Yara gave was well prepared and structured; the topic was also important and interesting for us.

Less word and more actions… By Eduardo Maldonado.

Eduardo talked about three projects which are very related to us, these were Innovacien which is about to the effective use of technology, Chileidiomas based on weekends in english and finally Pichilemu which will considered surf as a subject in their schools.

These projects are connected with English language in terms of educational aspects and show us how funny would be learn in different ways. We as teacher have to find the alternatives to get our students engaged, but at the same time learning contents and these examples help us change the common strategies used nowadays.

Behind a social network service… By Nadia Palma

Facebook, the most popular and very used webpage to get information and news from people who has an account.

Nadia showed us two videos which realized us the negative effect of the webpage so, having considered these effects, we as teacher, have to guide our students to be careful about the information that this webpage acquire from everybody… that is why Nadia mentioned some important such as: Read the terms of privacy, do not publish home address or phone numbers, Accept people that you really know and keep the profile as private.

In the presentation Nadia was very self-confidence, she has control of the audience and the topic too, she also made me realize these important aspect for me on my facebook account.

Slangs …By Jorge Pierola

The presentation that my classmate gave us was quiet similar to a micro lesson, but was is important?

I think that the topic is interesting and good to know it; however I think that is not fundamental. He started asking if we know what slang is, but not many of us knew it, the he gave a definition what slang is… Personally, I did not know much about it, I mean, just some word and the amount of words that he told us were too many so, I could realize that some of them are very interesting to know, it was funny.

According to the presentation he knew about the topic, but he was well prepared. I think that his presentation was messy, but engaged.

Instituto Nacional… By Gustavo

Being an important school, Instituto Nacional is not a relevant topic to be presented as micro lesson as my classmate did it.

Nevertheless I think that this school is one of the best of Santiago, but what is the secret that make it different?

Despite of content of the presentation the questions that come to my head are many some of them are… are the teachers the responsible the level of the school? Or is the selection process that make it one of the best public school?... It could be both; however, I think that most important roles are the students and their interest, because if students are not worried about their education, they are going to be in some other school which the level lower than the school that accomplish their goals.

In terms of the presentation, Gustavo was very nervous so, it does not make a good performance of his ex-school, but he did a good use of the video, the management and the time.

Obesity and sedentary lifestyle… Stephanie Bravo

We have been hearing about obesity for years, but are we doing something against this problem?

As Stephanie mentioned and showed in a video, in USA there are too many children who do not practice sport and eat unhealthy food. Personally, I think that Chilean children obesity came from their homes and also from advertises which are always showing attractive images and cheap products in junk food.

If we, as teachers, help their students telling all the time not to eat unhealthy food or incentive them to do more exercises… Are they going to believe us? I do not think so; I think that this problem is a school and management level in terms of sport programs, sell healthy food in kiosks or teach healthy habits as a lesson plan so, we can help supporting these proposal but we can not make a change.

Relaxation techniques… By Daisy Barril

The techniques about relaxation have been popular in these times; However Do we use them?

The presentation that Daisy gave us was very important for us, she started asking questions about the topic like a brainstorming then she told us about the objective of the relaxation techniques.

Nowadays, we are living in a very stressful society, but who help us?

That is why we, as teachers have to help our students from the beginning I mean in their early years with psychology and these useful relaxation techniques which the most important are deep breathing and visualization.

In terms of the presentation, Daisy was not look confident about her topic but she tried to do the best.