Content Curation: Pearltrees

We learned about the importance of content curation and the difference between bookmarking or adding websites on your "favorites" and using a website like Pearltrees, since here not only do you put together your favorite websites, files, links, etc, and organize them, but you share them with others.  You can also subscribe and collaborate in other people's collections.  This is especially important nowadays since one of the most important 21st century skills are sharing and collaborating.
 
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Analysis of a Textbook: Family and Friends 4

Below is the document I uploaded on ISSUU, Analysis of a Textbook: Family & Friends 4. This magazine includes an analysis of the textbook Family & Friends 4, regarding whether it is a global or local texbook, with theory supported by López Barrios- Villanueva texts: "Minding the Needs of the Argentine Learner: Global Textbooks and their Adapted Versions for the Local Context" (2006), and "Global vs. Local: Does it Matter?". Following is the analysis of a unit in the textbook regarding the visuals used, and what functions they have. For this, we used "The visual element in the EFL coursebooks" by Hill, D. (2003). I then analyzed the textbook's website, deciding whether it was a companion website or a promotional one, based on theory from Reagan, N. & Murray, O. (2203) ESL/EFL Textbook Companion Websites. TESOL Journal, 11(3), 49:52 Finally, I chose one of the units in the textbook and adapted the lesson plan using technology.