Apps for good

This is being an exciting term at the Escuela Profesional Javeriana: we launched the project "Apps for good" in the Administration Assistant class. The teacher’s team have been doing the training and working on the planning for about two months and we were ready to implement it.

But you probably wonder what Apps for good is… this is how Rodrigo Baggio, CDI Apps for Good, Founding Chairman & Founder CDI Global describes it:

“Our goal is to transform the way technology is taught in schools; to empower students from all backgrounds to seize the opportunities of our digital age and create solutions to the problems they care about, using technology”.

This is our experience so far:

Business is fun: Shopping in Madrid II

This is the analysis the different groups made of their pictures:

Business is fun: Shopping in madrid from sarasacristan

Then, they presented it to the Administration and Finance class:

Good job, CONGRATULATIONS!!

Business is fun: Shopping in Madrid

My students in the International Trade Class (Year 1) took pictures of the English language used by high-street shops in Madrid. They tweeted them using the hushtag #shoppingepj and their group number. Some students also tested the new Google translate App. Now we need to analyse the information. These questions can help you:

1. Where were the signs?
2. What kind of signs were they?
3. What is the target?
4. Why do you think they are in English?
5. What did you learn by working on this project?

Don't forget to prepare the information to show it on the English Corner!!

Translate Apps. Are they helpful?

Can you imagine trying to take the metro in Beijing with all the signs in Chinese? The new App launched by google could be really helpful when you visit countries where you do not know the language.

Are you interested? Watch this video by The Guardian trying the application in Times Square.

As you can see it does not work for Chinese jet ;)

Work in class:

What situations do you think translators can be useful?

What problems can you have using translators?

What other tools can we use if we speak the language?

Have you tried wordreference or linguee?