Get to know me!

Hello there and welcome! This blog is part of the subject ICT in ELT from INSPT (UTN), a class given by Lic. Paula Ledesma.  

 My name is María Belén Sanjuán (but you might as well just call me Belén or Belu), a 21-year-old student who loves reading in her free time, adores language and hopes she can create and draw stories for a living one day. I´m a rookie writer, soon-to-be teacher, an animator and a tea enthusiast. And those are only a few things that I can think of to describe myself.

Me and my studies

The first word that I could think of to begin introducing myself was student: I´m, as a matter of fact, always studying. I love learning new things and that is why I´m currently enrolled in two courses of study. One is to graduate as a teacher of English, a career I chose by chance and that I now love and the other one is animation cinema, a life-long passion of mine.

As I´m both an English teacher student and a cinema one, attending all subjects is quite complicated, if not risky as well (I´ve vowed to myself not to repeat the same mistake I made a few years ago of trying to attend them all). I´m attending a few subjects from each course (in the INSPT, many of them from 4^th year, such as Evaluation, Philosophy and naturally ICT) and currently not working.

Teaching experience

To be honest, I don´t have a lot of teaching experience. As I attended so many subjects throughout my first 3 years of college, I could hardly find any time to teach in a school- there were quite a few things on my plate. I have tried teaching friends or relatives but my first real experience inside a classroom was in the 2^nd year practicums and what an experience it was!

Expectations for the subject

This year, I´m finally trying to find something (wish me luck!) to gain some teaching experience so I can say I´m very excited about this subject to gain as much knowledge as I can regarding education and technology. I do have knowledge of technological devices and tools, but I would love to learn how to properly use them inside a classroom in order to make my classes relevant and valuable experiences for the students.

Me and technology

As I said before, I do have lots of knowledge with technology but I can assure that sometimes, I feel intimidated by it. Here´s a short comic I drew (apologies for the quality) summarizing a conversation I had with my sister the other week.  It’s quite unbelievable to think technology has progressed in such way in only a few decades, and everyday something new appears, breaking new ground. And younger kids nowadays are born in a fully technological environment, but tend to forget things weren´t that way just a few years ago. 

Hope we can get to know each other soon! 💜