ALCOBCHILE Trainees: English Teachers from Chile.

My participation in TESOL EVO 2009 (Electronic Village Online 2009)

2009-01-29T08:32:00.000-08:00

These days, the Ministry of Education in Chile through English Program "English Opens Doors" website has posted my actual experience as a participant of Tesol Session on "NNEST (Non Native English Speaking Teachers) in EVO 2009" issues: an e-learning session for English teachers called by TESO L (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) and supported by important guest speakers all over the world. You can see the English Program post here (in spanish unfortunately), and the Official TESOL EVO 2009 website here.

Share Prosperity, right? I introduce Livestation

2008-12-13T05:54:00.000-08:00

These days I have been enjoying this new free application named as Livestation, a TV P2P application media player to watch international TV channels, for example I am happy watching Arirang International TV ( in English) from South Korea, and Al Jazeeda TV from Irak, and many more... You need to download this application for your own system (Linux, MacOs, or Windows) and then create a user account (your e-mail address and a password) and then search for TV channels in different countries or test the first 30 Channels default provided by this application, you can search among 5.100 International TV signals and just add them to your account for free... well if you happen to test this great tool and have any questions write... You can also add TVN Chile International channel and know about us, for searching just write any country's name and you will get a list of available signals... The best for this Christmas time to all!

My experience In 13th Round

2008-12-11T12:50:00.000-08:00

I give thanks God for the wonderful experience I had in Korea. It started in Santiago Chile expecting and exiting, after that my relatives were in the airport worried and giving advices to me in order to be safe in a different culture. It was my first travel abroad and I noticed during my 40 hour flying the wideness of my continent, the beauty of “Los Andes Mountain” and how people and cultures begins to change slowly according we travelled . Sao Paulo was the First and a warm and dancing people filled the plane, after that was Germany and seven hours waiting in the airport gave me time to know the city of Frankfurt, cold temperatures and blond and apparently cold people begins to change the environment .At this point I aboarded to Seul and eastern faces begins to be common like the Asian languages I heard from the people talking aloud.
Western food were changing into eastern food and a large portion of land appeared under my feet. I felt tired but always expecting and exciting.
Uses and customs of people changed slowly and I try to be respectful as corresponding to an invited host.
My Language which I mastered was changing into a new signs system that I don’t understand and sometimes I feel afraid of my illiteracy.
Weather is coldest I expected but it was widely overcome with kindness of many people who make their best effort in order we to feel comfortable.
I think to myself that even people, cultures, tastes and customs may change, humanity is only one, feelings are the same and friendship are always the presentation card of good people. I thanks to god because I had this wonderful opportunity to know wonderful people.

I was really interesting in lectures and i knew people apparently very distant but i confirmed that good people is everywhere, then i ask to myself why humankind is sometimes so divided. We have similar problems in our countries, similar feelings about injustice; same things hurt to us make us cry or laugh. Then today our generations have a big opportunity to use technological media to enhance friendship and understanding through our nations. In the ancient times Marco polo takes years to complete the same trip I did, today it takes only hours and amazingly an e-mail takes only a fraction of a second. We can have information from everywhere instantaneously even in the other side of the world.
I know that thanks technology i can keep this friends with me forever and this is something that Marco polo couldn’t do. Welcome technology at humankind's service

I could know a place that common people visit, it was Jong kung Sa Temple and Nurimaru. To know the common people from Korea was one of my main purposes. In the temple I saw people praying and I realize that god whatever name he takes is the same. People work, pray, and use technology but technology must respect traditions and culture. The soul of people is the soul of technology.

In my opinion, I have learnt a lot, but I saw only a little bit of the complex process of teaching and learning in different economies which belong to apec.
I saw in Korea Technological applications in education, successful experiences, the willingness of this people to work hard and do thinks well. It makes me feel full of experiences which like a seed will grow in my mind and thoughts, apply in my work place, and contribute to educational improvement in my country. I am completely sure this seed will grow.
We left Busan City and move to Seoul, I knew my classmates much more, we sang together during our trip and it was an emotional moment for me. I thought how wonderful would be if the world could understand each other as we did in this short period of time.
Languages, borders, religion have not importance and friendship allows to us working in a collaborative way to benefit the next generations and share prosperity.

Time was one of our main weakness. We needed more time to reflect about our experience, take more time in our visits, be more accurate in our reflections notes and make a better quality job and of course to know those normal people who is the soul of this economy.

Education is the most important richness of a nation. Planning and having a vision of future of education is like gold in hands of a craftsman that means projecting the main bases of a nation, and make sure of the increase growing of richness, wisdom, and independence.

I am thinking and reflection to myself and probably it will continue during a long time about this experience. Cultures are different but you have shown me that all is possible and it depends on the people. They have built a country again with effort, sacrifice of every kind and made a new and powerful nation. The secret....work hard and believe it is possible, and everything is possible if you believe it.

I thought how to share my experience with my colleagues in the office, with teachers, students and many people, how to transmit about their big effort, their collaborative work as a nation, their national proud, the soul of Korea. I hope to convince them as i am that we can be a bigger nation too. Planning more, working hard, being wiser, working the gold of education like the craftsman.

I love my country too as they do and my wish is to apply what i learnt, and sincerely try improving the education in my environment. May be saying the country is too big to me even the 5th region but from my place if i believe it is possible it will be. Not to be waiting for money, budgets or some difficult issue but from myself, start the first step and going walk.
Thanks

Peru say "Welcome to Apec 2008 these days!"

2008-11-22T12:05:00.001-08:00

OUR GIRLS meeting our national president: Mrs Michelle Bachelet in 2007.

2008-09-01T13:54:00.000-07:00

Can you see Elena and Janette?
In the upper picture, look on the right side, the second person after our national President... It's Janette!
And in the lower picture, look on the rightside again, wearing an awesome dress, right next to our national President: Elena!
The president met them before their last year's trip to the UK scholarship.

Congratulations, Janet!! I invite you to meet Janet's website

2008-08-24T21:10:00.000-07:00

Thanks for supporting us with your information about National System for Evaluating English Teachers this term.

Link: New Janet's Website

Happy New Year

2007-12-28T06:50:00.001-08:00

Thai Dance in Pusan University, Nov. 1st 2006.

2007-05-13T17:04:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Michael for he let me know that Thai friends don't have access to youtube, so I have the same video in GoogleVideo at this link here

And thanks Mike for sending me to a website where you can get the lyrics of Loy Krathong Festivity in THAI and English so everyone can remember that nicest moment with the video and singing in Thai language as I've already done. The best to all.

A momentary lapse of APEC 2004: In Santiago de Chile.

2007-04-07T19:20:00.000-07:00

21 APEC leaders wearing chamantos, a traditional Chilean poncho, during the APEC 2004 summit held in Santiago de Chile. Image taken at the Palacio de La Moneda.

From left to right: President Vicente Fox of Mexico, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi of Malaysia, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia, Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa of Hong Kong SAR, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of Thailand, Special Envoy Yuan T. Lee of Chinese Taipei (Taiwan), Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei, Prime Minister John Howard of Australia, Prime Minister Helen Clark of New Zealand, President George W. Bush of the United States, President Ricardo Lagos of Chile, President Tran Duc Luong of Vietnam, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of the Philippines, Prime Minister Paul Martin of Canada, President Hu Jintao of the People's Republic of China, President Vladimir Putin of Russia, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan, President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea, Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare of Papua New Guinea, and President Alejandro Toledo of Peru.

Source: (Chilean government site)

Good Job, Jannett!! Excellent Webpage.

2007-03-11T09:59:00.000-07:00

Congratulations my dear Jannet! I ve visited your personal website and it's an excellent work, really a good job. Thank you for mentioning Chilean ALCOB members and linking the most interesting websites for APEC. I recommend that you visit Jannet's Website and give feedback to her e-mail at janipeg2@gmail.com or to our Alcob Chile groups' email at alcobs_chile_APEC2006@googlegroups.com

Using Chatroom as a tool for supporting English Teaching

2007-03-07T12:34:00.000-08:00

Since July 2006 I have been working with a new project on Avatars and Chatterbots all this to aim at the idea of using these virtual characters in a chatroom area to encourage the use of English language and check people's competence in using English as a second language for studying or training. Supported by Pandorabots and Media Semantics and a Chilean Telecommunication Company, which wants to be anonymous for the time being, I have just planted a core idea: introduce this new virtual tool in English Training or as support for Chilean students of English as a second language in Highschool and College level in the southern institutions .
In this new challenge, I have been studying AIML (Artificial Intelligence Mark Language) artificial and enrolled with virtual images supported by Oddcast, in a second stage these characters will include chat voice and better animation techniques. I christened my first Chatbot Character as my little daughter's name: AMAYA and a second character is coming soon to work with my highschool students from Castro city, at Liceo Francisco Coloane. If you want to practice English as Second Language with my daughter Chatterbot AMAYA, and also send me some feedback about your personal experience using this tool just click this link.

APEC e-learning Training Homepage posted Chilean and Indonesian Alcob blogsites

2007-02-07T18:58:00.001-08:00

Thank you Korean friends, we will be posting after holidays (February fully) more interesting news for you.

LA CUECA: the National Chilean Dance style.

2007-02-02T11:37:00.000-08:00

As we exchanged work, parts of our lives willingly, ideas, problems, proposals, money bills and coins, food recipes, projects, and cultural national background such as: dressing, proverbs and language contests, songs, some delicatessen sweets, books, and dances. Well, we presented our National Dance during the cultural evening in Busan City, South Korea, unfortunately we didn't take the customary suit and dress for our dancing couples. When dancing La Cueca, the male partner is named El Huaso and the female partner is named La China. They both wear their traditional garments including a long white handkerchief each one. So Leo was El Huaso, and Marcela was La China and made a nice couple for dancing La Cueca. Have a look at this short video performed by national couple of Cueca dancing. La Cueca is taught at schools in both levels due to a School National La Cueca dancing Contest every year.

Memory: last meeting 2 weeks ago but first one in 2007

2007-01-30T17:17:00.000-08:00

As soon as I get Leo's pic I will include it with this one.
There you can see Chilean Alcobs at work during our expositions presented during English Summer Town 2007 event of the Ministry of Education, where we showed our experiences as new Alcob Trainees and our participation in the Apec e-learning Training Program in November 2006. We exposed topics related with: Apec and Chile's participation, PBL approach, E-learning and ICTs practical tools in the classroom, PBL workshop, IPTV resource, and Korean culture and Apec cultural projects.

Preparing our Post Reports

2007-01-30T14:08:00.000-08:00

Any Alcob trainee during January 30th at 23:55 p.m.

APEC e-learning Training Program

2007-01-27T12:01:00.000-08:00

Just want to introduce you Professor Yang W. Kim and his amazing staff, who made all participant Teams (China, Indonesia, Thailand and Chile) feel the best at home, with warm welcoming volunteer students from Pusan University, in South Korea. Thank you very much Korean friends.

Well, just I'd like you to send feedback...

2007-01-25T20:24:00.000-08:00

We want to welcome every one interested in our Alcob goals as Alcob Trainees and English Teachers supporting EOD National Educational Program of the Ministry Of Education in Chile. This pic shows our Graduate Ceremony, in Busan City, south Korea.
ALCOB means APEC Community Builder(s) and we (50) agreed in November 2006 to assist Teaching practices and developing e-learning skills applied to classroom enviroments. We presented 08 projects to APEC. APEC means Asian Pacific Economies Cooperation, Chile is an active member of this organization, established in 1958 in Canberra, Australia.
We will inform about this ALCOB goals in our country or economy and let you know about specific e-learning projects and grants offered by APEC.