Welcome to Lifelong Learning Centre Blog "English for Adults". As a teacher of English as a Foreign Language I have created this blog with the aim of providing my students with most of the materials and activities worked in class and extra videos and exercises.
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Chicago film review
Chicago" continues the reinvention of the musical that started with "Moulin Rouge." Although modern audiences don't like to see stories interrupted by songs, apparently they like songs interrupted by stories. The movie is a dazzling song and dance extravaganza, with just enough words to support the music and allow everyone to catch their breath between songs. You can watch it like you listen to an album, over and over; the same phenomenon explains why "Moulin Rouge" was a bigger hit on DVD than in theaters.
The movie stars sweet-faced Renee Zellweger as Roxie Hart, who kills her lover and convinces her husband to pay for her defense; and Catherine Zeta-Jones as Velma Kelly, who broke up her vaudeville sister act by murdering her husband and her sister while they were engaged in a sport not licensed for in-laws. Richard Gere is Billy Flynn, the slick, high-priced attorney who boasts he can beat any rap, for a $5,000 fee. "If Jesus Christ had lived in Chicago," he explains, "and if he'd had $5,000, and had come to me--things would have turned out differently." This story, lightweight but cheerfully lurid, fueled Bob Fosse, John Kander and Fred Ebb's original stage production of "Chicago," which opened in 1975 and has been playing somewhere or other ever after--since 1997 again on Broadway. Fosse, who grew up in Chicago in the 1930s and 1940s, lived in a city where the daily papers roared with the kinds of headlines the movie loves. Killers were romanticized or vilified, cops and lawyers and reporters lived in each other's pockets, and newspapers read like pulp fiction. There's an inspired scene of ventriloquism and puppetry at a press conference, with all of the characters dangling from strings. For Fosse, the Chicago of Roxie Hart supplied the perfect peg to hang his famous hat.
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
Questionnaire "COLLABORATIVE LEARNING IN ADULT EDUCATION"
DEAR STUDENTS HERE YOU HAVE THE LINK TO DO THE COLEARN QUESTIONNAIRE.
THANKS FOR YOUR COLLABORATION:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1J6oeKhySzRfmMhJeY4C3gfCdOnRyZfHczFKyMfkMZiM/viewform?edit_requested=true
Sunday, 12 April 2015
COLLABORATIVE LEARNING IN ADULT EDUCATION
Artículo para la publicación en Delegación
El C.E.PER. “Valle del Guadalhorce” y sus distintas Secciones de Educación Permanente de la comarca del Guadalhorce se encuentran en su segundo año de participación del programa europeo Grundtvig centrado en el aprendizaje colaborativo en la educación permanente.
En este proyecto participan un centro de adultos de Enez (Turquía), una escuela privada de enseñanza del inglés a adultos “online” situada en Wadowice (Polonia) y una organización vecinal sin ánimo de lucro de Wersterstede, cerca de Bremen (Alemania).
Este proyecto tiene como objetivo reunir a diferentes educadores que sean capaces de poner en práctica una metodología de aprendizaje colaborativo en diferentes entornos de aprendizaje para alumnado adulto. La tarea final consiste en elaborar un dosier con toda la información teórica, técnicas, herramientas y buenas prácticas relacionadas con la experimentación del aprendizaje colaborativo en nuestras aulas para que sirva como modelo a aquellos docentes que quieran aventurarse en la implementación de este enfoque metodológico.
El proyecto se está desarrollando teniendo en cuenta tres etapas bien diferenciadas:
1.- Conceptualización del aprendizaje colaborativo: recopilación de información relacionada con este enfoque, análisis de las herramientas y técnicas a poner en práctica y el diseño de tareas colaborativas.
2.- Aplicación de las técnicas de aprendizaje colaborativo: implementación de los recursos y técnicas en los distintos planes de estudios y entornos de aprendizaje, tanto en Cultura Emprendedora, Uso básico de idiomas y Uso básico de las nuevas tecnologías principalmente.
3.- Evaluación del grado de efectividad del proceso: puesta en común de todas las experiencias, evaluación de las herramientas y técnicas utilizadas, evaluación de los resultados.
Una vez todo este proceso esté terminado se procederá a publicar en todos los medios posibles el dossier sobre el aprendizaje colaborativo.
- See more at: http://lnx.educacionenmalaga.es/bilinguismo/2015/03/26/colearn-el-aprendizaje-colaborativo-en-la-educacion-de-adultos-grundtivg/#more-5725
COLEARN, COLABORATIVE LEARNING IN ADULT EDUCATION
GRUNDTVIG PROGRAMME
TWO YEARS PERIOD 2013/2015
SUMMARY
Our project is aimed at bringing together educational practitioners willing to adopt Collaborative Learning Approach in different learning environments.
By applying CLA to teaching different subjects and organising various events, educators will be able to provide adult learners with:
a. - Opportunities to study more independently or from one another.
b. - Coach them in the skills they need, which will lead to increased motivation to learn, greater retention of knowledge, deeper understanding, and more positive attitudes.
The concrete objectives include identifying the current state of the CLA across participating European institutions, sharing good practice with a variety of CLA techniques; compiling a set of pedagogical tools; involving adult learners in various events based on CLA.
The project is to be implemented in three stages:
1. -The CLA identification: compiling all available information related to the approach, analyzing the relevant teaching materials, defining the CLA activities and making survey reports on the subject.
2. –The CLA modelling and its application to different learning environments: developing and applying relevant teaching techniques and materials.
3. -The final stage will include assessment the CLA effectiveness - checking whether the set of materials is complete enough, consistent and workable, which will be followed by their dissemination by organising workshops on adopting the CLA, held by every project partner for the adult education providers in their area.
The final products will include the project web page and the project Virtual Community of Practice, survey reports, open lessons (filmed), a manual 'Guidelines for using Collaborative Learning in different disciplines in a variety of adult learning environments.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
- To identify, through relevant research, the current state of the CLA used by different types of adult trainers in their respective learning environments;
- To share good practices and add value to the CLA (methods, tools, materials) and vary our educators’ repertoire;
- To find better ways of engaging adult learners in the learning process as well as in the project work
- To promote a variety of methods/techniques, including learners working together in and outside of class by applying Collaborative Learning
- To explore Collaboration Tools that can be used to support CL - not only classroom technologies (computer, projector, whiteboard, document viewer, etc.) but also Online Web 2.0 tools (blogs, wikis, social networking, Google tools, etc.)
- To compile a set of pedagogical tools and develop 'Guidelines for using CLA in the adult learning environments';
- To organize workshops on applying CLA in Adult Education for adult educators in the partners' regions.
Monday, 26 January 2015
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