Importance of pictures in Social Media

Reading Activity

Worksheet N. 3

Nicole Sánchez-Abigail Quezada

Objectives: Students will read an authentic material, which is an article with  more than 225 words

Instrucctions: Here you have a piece of an article related to the importance of pictures on social Media, first skim the text so you can have a global idea of what the text is about, then, scan the text in order to find more specific information, underline cognates with blue marker and words you do not know with red marker. http://blog.gremln.com/2012/04/17/picture-perfect-the-importance-of-images-in-social-media-marketing/

 

Importance of pictures in social Media

 

Images are quick to digest and easy to remember. Cliché as it may be, a picture really is worth a thousand words, and there’s no faster way to get all one thousand of those words across than to put them in an image. A picture can tell a much deeper and more emotional story than your status updates ever will, especially when you’re posting via Twitter, where you’re restricted by that pesky 140-character limit. Linguistics professor Mark Lieberman says that the average length of a word on Twitter is 4.8 characters…so if a picture truly is worth a thousand words, than tweeting that picture one time communicates your thoughts better than 34 separate tweets.

People just seem to like interacting with photos. Your social media fans and followers are more likely to retweet, like, share, or comment on your post if it’s image-based. And when it comes to digital marketing, this interaction is key. Each time a fan engages with one of your posts, she puts your company on display to her own social circles. Social media interaction can be a huge catalyst for brand growth, and since photos are the best drivers of that interaction, strong images can really accelerate brand success.

Reflection 4:  Class observation “Opening a classroom door” 

1. what was the role of the teacher?

The teacher's role is try to make the students paying attention, she doesn't  scream , but most of the time she found herself rising up her voice.

2. what was the role of the students?

They were listening the teacher's instruccions , some of them were writing on their notebooks, others were just using their mobile phones or drawing.

3. what were some characteristics of the teaching/learning process?

The teacher uses listening activities, repetition,grammar translation,she tried to encourage students to participate in the classroom activieties which was an extremely difficult work.

4. what was the nature of student-teacher interaction?

A lot of threaten was allowed in the classroom, it was the way in which she could show more power than the students. I really think that power is important on that kind of schools.

5. what was the nature of student-student interaction?

The worst I have ever seen in my life. They behave very badly they have no respect for their classmates at all. The girls were so vulgar that I could close my eyes and imagine that I was talking with wommen older than me.We create some rules and they started to behabe in a better way. For example one student said that girls should show respect for them too. I totally agree with him and I told them that I you want respect you have to be respectfull with the others.

6. how were the feelings of the students dealt with?

It seem to me that they feel a bit bored, an axious too, because the teacher didn't tell them what the class was about, the level of the book they worked was not acoording to their level of knoledge, they were threaten all the time with the fact that if they didn't payed attention they were going to be suspended or they will have to bring their parents, so they work under pression all the time. I can't imagine how uncomfortable that will be.

7. how was language viewed?

Well some of them think that is boring but they commonly say the same thing about others subjects, but there is a little group that actually enjoy the language and say that is fun but I think that they don't have the skills to develop the language properly.

8. how was culture viewed?

To be honest, if I understand the question well, there wasn't much culture in the group, some of them enjoyed the activities for moments but the rest of the class didn't seem interesting in any subject, I asked them but they were very demotivated, so I t was quite difficult, but at the end I asked to other teachers what to do, and they recommend me a very good movie "Simon Birch" and they enjoyed the movie because it was fun, and emotional and related to their age.

9. what areas of language were emphasized?

Grammar, vacabulary ,listening and a bit of speaking.

10. what language skills are emphasized?

Writting, listening, speaking, grammar but most of the time grammar.

11. what was the role of the student's L1?

Very important, they didn't speak in english unless they have to repeat something.

12. how was evaluation accomplished?

They have grade for everything they worked on class the teacher told me that you coudn't make a quiz because they neve studied, it was better to make everything in class, they get point for that work and at the end that was their grades.

13. how did the teacher respond to student errors?

She didn't correct speacking error just grammar error on the worksheet she tell them, what was wrong but she didn't explained why, she said this is wrong changed it and the student usually went to another student and copy the right answer.

14. what techniques did the teacher use?

The teacher uses translation.

Spirituality & Practice: Book Review: The Circle of Life, by Joyce Rupp, Macrina Wiederkehr

Spirituality & Practice: Book Review: The Circle of Life, by Joyce Rupp, Macrina Wiederkehr

This is an articule that I found interesting talking about nature as "the classroom of the heart", sometimes we can't find the answes to some problems and we have ,to go back to the basic things like nature.Today I feelt that it was going to be imposible for me to manage or  control people, kids, teenagers younger 15 years than me. I don't have a solution, maybe if I take a look to the nature I could find something that worth for me.

Reflexion 

 What is your learning style? 

 My learning Style is to explain other people what the topis is about What strategies do you use/ have you used to help you learn English? Listen to music, karaokes,the bbc online,on tv, and read aloud and on the bus way home. What is your past experience of learning Enlish? Almost nothing, I learnt a bit of german when I was 11 to 14 years old I just remember the songs.

Reflection

 How did the age, ways and context in wich you learnt English influence your success at learning? 


In my own experience I think that influences a lot. I was influenced by my mother when I was a child to listen The Beatles music,and i think that this exposure at a very early age is the reason why I don't had problems in learning a second language. When you are a kid is easy to aquiere new language, you don't have the interference or tranfer problem, that we do have when we are older.

Reflexion

 I disagree with the teacher that sais " It is difficult to use different correction techiques with different students",maybe it is, if you are not interested in your students, which is the case of a lot of teachers I have met during my life as a student. But I think that is not too difficult to get a picture of the students even in the first class. Once, i had to prepare a class for the group, and I inmediately notice what were the principal student's characteristics, maybe at the beggining you are going to pay more attention to the truoble makers and the most participative ones, but then, you will have the opportunitie to met the rest of the class in just a few classes more.This is very important if you want a succesful learning. For example if a student is shy and maybe he didn't talk too much in classes, is going to feel embarrased in front of the others if you correct him in a very notorious way. So, I think that part of the teacher's role is to pay attention to the student's need to improve their English learning experience.

Reflection

Well, for me, as an future English teacher,the most suitable of all the English methods is a combination of all of them,because I need to know a bit of everything I need to know how a sentence's framework is , what does the words means in the second language.

 My students are not motivated at all. The don't seem to find any reason to learn a second language. For the formal teacher and for myself is extremely difficult to teach them because they don't want to learn,but, there are some of them, which seems to show a little bit more of enthusiasm about learning english.

 They seems to prefer production of the S.L instead of repetition, translation, or grammar focus. I totally agree whit them. I understand why I have to learn al the grammar rules but, I think that sometimes the classes are too grammar focused, structured we don't use language in context we just work with a book every day, how wonder we are going to do something different with our students? Is not that we don't have the resources now internet can help us to make something different.