LEARNING REFLECTIVE LOG Nº 3

WEEK 3

      My professor took us a quiz the first one of this semester, it was good because we had to be careful answering the online questions, and I got a good score. The main point of this week was the study of something that I did not know, it was Plagiarism. I had some questions. What is Plagiarism? Who is affected with Plagiarism? These questions were answered, with the explanation of our professor. Plagiarism is to steal someone`s ideas. It is considered a crime.   According to this web site: http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/researchhelp/plagiarism.html. I learned how to avoid plagiarism using Citation, it is to write the author`s name or a reference that the information is not from ourselves. It will give some credit to the author. Paraphrasing and quotation are important when we are getting other`s information, Quotation is the use of (“ ”) quotation marks to show the exact words that someone said or create and Paraphrasing is presenting ideas in our own words, but not changing the sense of the author. It means to make easier to understand the objective why the information was written. I learned it reading the web sites that our professor showed us in the platform. I will apply this knowledge to do any kind of research, I am very happy, because it is a good way to understand that we are able to express anything in our words and we do not have to steal ideas.

       The APA style about citation explain us how to cite any kind of source where we have gotten information, it is very important to learn not just for this class, it is important for all our professional life.

        Finally we did a Power Point Presentation as an assignment, and some partners exposed it. I learned how to improve Power Point Presentations and the correct way to create useful slides. It was a nice week! Thanks.

•       Useful websites:

Cornell University Library. APA Citation Style. Retrieved from: http://www.library.cornell.edu/resrch/citmanage/apa

•    Science Buddies. Writing a Bibliography: APA Format. Retrieved   http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_apa_format_examples.shtml

LEARNING REFLECTIVE LOG Nº 2

WEEK 2

     The use of technology for Learning a Foreing Language is one of the most important matters to improve our knowledge. In this class we were able to learn more about the UTA platform. First of all, averything was a little confusing because it was the first time that I use a platform, but with the correctly explanation I used it well.

     I learned to put a link in the platform, in this case our blogspot`s link, to show to the other participants of this virtual class, and comments any entry that we have, it was easy, i just have to edit some settings in the blog. Something that called me the attention was the Forums, it is amazing to discuss about any topic on the net. it is so useful for me because I can share ideas and my partner could help if i am wrong. Finally, we checked the rubric about portfolios. I agree with the new model of keeping a portfolio, because we will be able to reflect about our job and it is one of the best ways to improve our learning process. Thanks for this week.

    This is a funny video about technology. I hope you to enjoy it.

LEARNING REFLECTIVE LOG Nº 1

WEEK 1

Firstable, I am so glad to start a new level and learn more about the language. I love English so I will give all my effort to get more knowledge.

In the first class, the professor talks about our module, and what we are going to learn in Internet and Multimedia classes. I create my own gmail count, because this kind of account let me register in any important web site, and in the platform that the professor is going to create, and I create a new blog where I am going to show you What I learn?, How I learn? And Why I learn? each week.

The next class, I sent some information in a web site, to be registered in the virtual platform. I opened a message where I found the first pair assignment, where I learned how to evaluate web sites. It important for us to know that because we are going to use the internet a lot, and I have to use the correct information, there were 15 questions about this topic, and answering these questions and criticizing to 2 web sites I will increase my knowledge about rely web pages. It is important to know that in a web site must have author's name and the exact source where the information was made, because wehave to be sure about what we are looking for. Analizing the information and differents pints of view, we will be able to get information, but we have to take care about plagiarism. Thanks a lot for this new level and for these new topics.

Here we have a new link to understand better if we have some problems cheking web sites: 

According to University of Marylan: This is a useful video to learn about web sites.

http://www.umuc.edu/library/libhow/websiteevaluation_tutorial.cfm