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Alejandra Guajardo
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| Blog: | Aula de Lingüística | ||
| Employer: | SIL International/ CILTA | ||
| Occupation: | Academic coordinator | ||
| Other roles: | Self-taught learner | ||
| Nationality: | Peruvian | ||
| Languages: | Spanish, English | ||
| Country: | Peru  | ||
| Skype address: | alejacha | ||
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About me ...
I'm Alejandra Guajardo from Lima, Perú, South America.
I'm studying a linguistics master degree in Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. During the last six years I've been working as a coordinator of a post graduated linguistics course focused on minority and endagered languages at Ricardo Palma University in Lima city: CILTA.
From this year I'm participating in an on-line academic program on introductory linguistics courses for our university students, using moodle. Also I started a blog in edublogs called Aula de Linguistica for my on-line students and a page in Aula de Linguistica for my on-line students and a page in Facebook for this blog. I hope these virtual communities could motivate my students with their learning in a virtual room.
Interests
I'm interested in languages, intercultural experiences, education of adults and web 2.0. I spend many time on the internet searching information about moodle, blogs, podcasts and any tool that allow me teaching better and sharing ideas and experiences.
Thank you for this increadible opportunity to learn about wikis and collaborate with this incredible community of educators. I'm really newbie at all of this but I'll do my best!
Professional Background
I made translation and humanities studies at Ricardo Palma University from 1992-1998. During those years I participated in a Spanish - Quechua translation project to develop dictionaries. At the same time I worked as a manager and editor for a well-known bilingual magazine about mining in my country.
In 2004 I started to work for SIL International, a " U.S.-based, worldwide non-profit organization, whose main purpose is to study, develop and document languages, especially those that are lesser-known, in order to expand linguistic knowledge, promote literacy and aid minority language development". This experience has given me the oportunity of understand and see people from other cultures in a total different way. Because of that, I decided to studied linguistics at UNMSM in Lima in order to learn about internal functioning of languages and their closed related links with society. At the same time I continue working as a coordinator of a postgraduated university course "CILTA" sponsored by Ricardo Palma University and SIL International.
As self-taught person I am very curious and persistant. In 2007 I started to research about new education technologies and social web sites. I found a new world. Last year I was chosen by my institution to form a workteam of teachers and develop an online academic program to deliver courses about linguistics by internet. Currently I am devoted to carry on this challenge.
Some researching for my linguistics studies:
Fonological and Semantics study about family relationships in Quechua (in Spanish)
Morphosintactical aspects of the use of "vos" in Arequipa region(in Spanish)
My Interests...
I've had many interests in my life and some of them change from time to time according with new situations and experiences. Sometimes professional and personal interests mix.
Linguistics
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"How many languages are there? Where do modern languages come from? When did human beings first learn to speak? What's going on when somebody speaks with a stammer? Why do people have different accents? How do children learn their mother-tongue so quickly? Which language has the most speakers? If questions like these intrigue you, you could be a born linguist. That's 'linguist' meaning 'someone who practices linguistics', of course, not 'someone who speaks a lot of languages fluently'. Linguistics is the science of language. It is the subject whose practitioners devote their energy to understanding why human language is the way it is. They study the history, acquisition, structure, and use of as many languages as possible - It would be nice to study them all, but life's too short. There are currently about 6,000 languages to choose from."
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Minority Languages
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"A minority language is a language spoken by a minority of the population of a territory. Such people are termed linguistic minorities. Minority languages are occasionally marginalised within nations for a number of reasons. These include the small number of speakers, the decline in the number of speakers, and their occasional consideration as uncultured, primitive, or simple dialects when compared to the dominant language." Wikipedia |
Instructional Design
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ADDIE model
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Education of adults
Twelve Principles for Effective Adult Learning
Moodle
| What teachers can do in Moodle. Read:Teaching Do's
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My favorite places for learning and sharing
Collaborating education communities
- Wikieducator
- Storytelling and Cultures
- Classroom 2.0
- The Open University
- Integrating-tecnologies.ning
- Internet en el aula
Blogging
- Notas de Lingüística
- Aula de Lingüística
- Diplomado CILTA
- Recursos CILTA
- ¿Sabías qué...?
- "Aula de Lingüística" in Facebook
My Projects...
At Wikieducator
- L4C26 workshop
- Linguistics Course Guide (in Spanish)(in process)
- "Lingüística sin límites" Course(in process)
- "Notas sobre Pragmática" (in process)
- "Notas sobre Lingüística Cognitiva" (in process)
Translation project at Wikieducator
E-learning projects
"Aula de Lingüística" is an online course in Moodle on Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics and Phonetics. The courses were designed to show a panoramic view of the complex linguistics field.
MY TO-DO LIST
- Continue working on my user page
- Develop a page for the topic: Instructional design in Adult Education
- Develop a page for any topic in Linguistics
- Translate a Wikieducator's page into Spanish
My Reflections... 
About L4C Workshop
¿How was the start up?:
At the beginnig I was very frustrated and sad. I couldn't find the right links to edit and misunderstand some instructions (maybe because my poor knowledge of English language). But then I realized that I had started this workshop with a wrong actitude. After many mistakes I changed my mind and said: "Now I'm a white paper sheet. I don' know anything and I want to learn" After that I 've made positive progress!!--Alejacha 17:46, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
The first online live discussion at wiziq:
It was nice to hear Gita, Gladys, Nellie and other members at Wikieducator. I am impressed for their background and work as educators and their collaboration at Wikieducator.
I feel nervous and a little ashamed to speak in English but everybody make me feel really confortable. Also I found that there's a team working on translate Wikieducator's content into Spanish. This is really important because there are many teachers that can find in Wikieducator an excellent collaborative environment to create educational content but they are limited in someway by language. Of course, I will collaborated with the translator team.--Alejacha 21:30, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
Online Live WiZiQ meeting of the Facilitators and Participants of EL4C26
I am a wikineighbour!
What can I say but Thank you!! It's a nice opportunity to help, make more friends, share experiences and give flowers!!
I will say hello to new participants in L4C on-line workshops and try to help them to develop their user's pages.
I became a WikiApprentice!!
Apprentice: "One who is learning by practical experience under skilled workers a trade, art, or calling"(Werriam-Webster Dictionary). I'll never stop to be an apprentice in life. I thanks my dear facilitators Gita, Nellie and my dear wikineighbour Gladys who shared their experiences, time and passion with each of us. --Alejacha 05:52, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
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For newbies and all of you interested in wikipages I invite you to participate in the Online Learning4Content Workshops. It's an excellent opportunity to learn how to develop content in Wikieducator and also make friends and be inspired for experienced facilatators. Please look at the end of this page for workshops' dates
Hey! I'm a WikiBuddy
It has been a one-month journey since I started my learning process at WikiEducator. It's difficult to me to explain (in English) the significance of this experience in few words. I think I can summarize it as POSITIVE, CHALLENGING, ENCOURAGING and REFRESHING.
I've found an incredible community ready to help and share their experiences and open to new ideas and challenges. All the time I have been supported by Wikimembers, (now WikiFriends!!) but at the same time I've felt completely free to express my ideas and create content.
My commitment is to continue developing open educational content and resources as well as collaborate and help new Wikifriends in their way to become Wikibuddies.
This user page
First, it was an empty page. No templates, no color, no frames.
It was intimidating but at the same time it gave a sensation of freedom. The use of html codes made it easier.
I do thanks to all wiki friends and L4C facilitators who helped me to develop my user page. Special thanks to:
Rima,
Gladys Gahona,
Gita
Dr. Dilip P. Barad
.... because their pages inspired me (and I stole many codes from theirs pages :)...
I feel so comfortable with this space that I've started to mention it as my personal web page in other sites. I'll continue working on it, adding more material and information, trying that this page expresses myself, my ideas and hopes.
P.S. I do recommend you to visit Gladys Gahona's "My Testing Laboratory" in her User page.
My Sandbox
Photos and videos...
Presentation about Peru
Traveling around Peru
 In a fish farm, Central Andes (Huancayo, Peru) |
 Paca Lake at 4,000 meters above sea level (Jauja, Peru) |
 Park of "Identidad Huanca", Central Andes (Huancayo Peru) |
 Macchupicchu (Cusco,Peru) |
Video about Peru
My mom's children
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Mafalda: I love this girl!!
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"Mafalda is a comic strip written and drawn by the Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado (pen name Quino). The strip features a girl named Mafalda (5 years old at the time of the comic's creation)who is deeply concerned about humanity and world peace and rebels against the world as it is." (from Wikipedia)
Feedback and Notes from my WikiNeighbours
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- Thank you Benjamin for your invitation to collaborate. I've visited your page and I found it full of high quality content and activities. I'm interested in America's native minority languages and Mexico is a blessed land with many native languages, some of them with very complex grammar systems. I hope I can go there some time in the future. Congratulations and best wishes from Lima, Perú.--Alejacha 02:21, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
- Wow, Alejacha. You are doing a great job. It's wonderful to watch how your pages are developing on Wikieducator. I hope you will share your teaching experiences with others. Thank you. --Nellie Deutsch 18:57, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you Nellie. I feel inspired for each one of my wiki friends and the excellent content developed. I will continue working and sharing with everybody. All the best. --Alejacha 22:15, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you for encouragement. let's hope we shall keep doing the staff the same way. :) Vukasin
- Thank you Vukasin. Helping each other we learn much better my friend. By the way, I recommend you to visit Gladys Gahona's "My testing Laboratory". It has good examples for different templates and resources for our wiki pages. --Alejacha 03:14, 5 June 2009 (UTC)--Alejacha 22:15, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
- Hello Alejandra :-) I am glad to have you as my wikineighbour and i'm surely going to disturb you a number of times asking my queries. --Amanpreet kaur 17:00, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
- It will be my pleasure to colaborate and share with you my experiences at any time. Don't forget to show your paintings and drawings :) Best wishes --Alejacha 03:14, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
- I loved the changes you made on my user page. There is one more change i want to bring in my user page. I want to increase the size of the quotation 'a bird sitting...' on top of my page without making it a heading. Can you plz help me out?--Amanpreet kaur 13:47, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
- Amanpreet, the codes that you are using are ok. There was just a little error is the font size. You wrote: font-size=20pt; and it should be: font-size:20pt. I've already corrected it and it worked. If you want to increase it more, just change the number of the font size. I like the colors you are adding to your page :)--Alejacha 19:31, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
- Hola, Alejandra. Gracias por su mensaje. I am working my way through the tutorials, and I am sure that I will be asking you for help! Ciao. Brian Fahey
- Bryan, I'll be more than happy to collaborate with you at any time. And nice picture!! Muchos saludos--Alejacha 01:49, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
- Un placer conocerte Alejandra. Una excelente página web, muy completa y con un diseño cuidado. Muchas gracias por tus saludos. Un fuerte abrazo, --Dario.nuno 15:03, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
- Darío muchas gracias por tus comentarios. Eres muy amable. Vi que tienes una gran experiencia en tu campo con muchas publicaciones sobre diversos temas de psicología. Ojalá te animes a compartirnos algo acá en Wikieducator, ya sea en inglés o español. Será un honor poder colaborar contigo en lo que necesites. Cordiales saludos desde Lima, --Alejacha 00:17, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
- Hola Alejandra! Wow! I'm really impressed with your user page, congratulations! Thank you very much for being my WikiNeighbour!
I didn't study Linguistics but Psychology and I'm very interested in Psychology of Language, in particular, my focus is on assessing prosody. I think your user page is very interesting! Great job! Un cordial saludo, --Pastora Martínez-Castilla
- Gracias Pastora! Thank you for your kind words. Great to know that you are interested in psychology of language. It's a very vast and fascinating field of knowledge and related with linguistics indeed. It would be wonderful if you add content about this topic on your page!! I would like to prepare some small courses (like a notebook) about language adquisition. Maybe we can collaborate together!. Un caluroso abrazo desde Lima, --Alejacha 00:43, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
- I'm enjoying watching your page develop. Keep it up. --Nellie Deutsch 05:40, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
- And I enjoy every moment at WikiEducator and sharing with all of you. Thank you for encouraging me Nellie. --Alejacha 00:49, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
- Dear Alejandra, You have set an example of a good WikiNeighbour to Amanpreet. I have solved her template problem (small syntax errors). It has been a pleasure watching you get deeper into this community & adding useful links to your page. Warm wishes.--Gita Mathur 06:14, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
- Dear Gita, happy to know that you help Amanpreet to solve the problem. And nice to see how fast wikifriends answered offering help. I enjoy every moment at Wikieducator and feel honored to collaborate with people all around the world. Thank you for this incredible opportunity. --Alejacha 03:05, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
- Hi Alejacha, Sorry dear am so late, but really wanna thaank you for your good wishes, n nice words of appreciation.I really like your userpage, nice font, n information so well organized....keep it up buddy.--Yanubha 07:47, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
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