An Open Mind

It talks about the new way of learning for free through the media. There are some conferences uploaded by ITunes in which students can be able to watch it like if they were studying the same course but without any grade. This program, project has helped many people out of England to learn and be able to assist to those classes by online in order to open and making smaller and smaller the gap of education for those who does not have the tools and resources to study in those places. What is more, what this article tries to show us is the new way of learning, in which it might pretend to make a better education for everyone.

At the beginning, this idea of uploading and having classes for free on the internet was only for educators, nevertheless, the most people who are interested in those courses have being students from others careers, other universities and now from other countries around the world. One of the good advantages of this method has been that many people with low economic resources, people who stay at home and to those teenagers who want to go to school. Therefore, with this new way of approaching knowledge, those people who are not prepare or do not know how schools work, through this Open Mind program they can be prepare for going there.

English Courses:

The Open University http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/course/l185.htm

I decided to show you this page because this course is very interesting if you want to improve your English Professionally. It means that through this course you will be able to develop an academic language which can help you to find better jobs and work easily in the 4 skills that we have been dealing with through out our career.

MIT OCW http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/foreign-languages-and-literatures/21f-223-listening-speaking-and-pronunciation-fall-2004/ I chose this course because a good way to improve a new language is by improving the productive skills, specially speaking because you can communicate and interact with others.

Utah http://english.usu.edu/UG-englisheducation.aspx This course may help you to find good ways of teaching English to your students. They do not only teach you the theory, they offer you how to put it into practice.

ASHLAND University http://www.ashland.edu/programs/integrated-language-arts-education This course is based on helping you to teacher English through arts, specially literature to those students who are in 7-12th grade. I chose this page because this course teaches you how to teach English through arts in a specific group of students.

Creating a Rubric

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Here you have my rubric. If you can not see very well, you can see it in this webpage http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=CustomizeTemplateDownloadFile&

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Naty

Reading - Analyzing Information : Analyze Teacher Name: Nathalie Velasquez Student Name: ________________________________________

CATEGORY	4	3	2	1
Identifies important information	Student lists all the main points of the article without having the article in front of him/her.	The student lists all the main points, but uses the article for reference.	The student lists all but one of the main points, using the article for reference. S/he does not highlight any unimportant points.	The student cannot important information with accuracy.
Identifies details	Student recalls several details for each main point without referring to the article.	Student recalls several details for each main point, but needs to refer to the article, occasionally.	Student is able to locate most of the details when looking at the article.	Student cannot locate details with accuracy.
Summarization	Student uses only 1-3 sentences to describe clearly what the article is about.	Student uses several sentences to accurately describe what the article is about.	Student summarizes most of the article accurately, but has some slight misunderstanding.	Student has great difficulty summarizing the article.
Identifies opinions	Student accurately locates at least 3 opinions in the article and gives a clear explanation of why these are opinions, rather than facts.	Student accurately locates at least 2 opinions in the article and gives a reasonable explanation of why these are opinions, rather than facts.	Student accurately locates at least 1 opinion in the article. Explanation is weak.	Student has difficulty locating opinions in an article.