It is amazing to see the progression of the course work. With the beginning of the third week I felt that I have become a teacher thinking in different lines; more web based, technology based learning and teaching. This week objectives included;
Aural/Oral Skill-Building Websites
This week discussion based on Aural/Oral skill building gave me an insight to the two major skills. I read interesting articles and one such was based on "New perspectives in Teaching Pronunciation" by Maria Grazia Busa` amply discusses about the applied linguistic aspects of pronunciation, how it entered the classroom with the Audio Lingual Method. There is a high demand for these two skills in my country and besides I am personally engaged in a special program launched eying on improving these two skills. Hence, I have a fair idea about onestopenglish website and was happy to join the discussion making a special reference to the very website. I read the comments made by my colleagues which enabled me to think about some other options as well. As always our course instructor Donna facilitated us further with a new website called Voxopop.
Project Task 2
There were some sample project reports for us to follow and comment. Out of the project reports I got inspired by the project report of Nicolici Nadina Carmen which gave me an idea of what we ought to do for the project work. That work inspired me a lot. Interestingly she has discussed the concept Teacher Talking Time (TTT). Nicolici has used a blog to make her students engage themselves in reading. When reading I felt that I should consider the syllabus, the goals of the syllabus, my objectives the class strengths and weaknesses etc. All in all it gave me a good parallel learning opportunity.
Using Delicious.com to Store Useful Links
First I created a delicious account and saved very useful websites here. Until then I used to save all my links in different folders on bookmarks. Now I have the Add to delicious option as well. This in a way lead us to follow links of others and get more options. Hence, I do follow some of my colleagues and some do follow me. It is really an exciting experience. I bookmarked some websites and out of them there are some of my favorites. The task we did for this week gave me a new experience and is something useful as well.
The work we did up to now had inspired me a lot to use more web-related teaching and learning work and I inspired my students to follow different websites as well. Still I read the first and the second week comments and I find them useful for me. Maintaining this blog is like maintaining a diary and as always I feel that it is good to reflect what we do. Week 3 gave me a novel experience and I look forward to get the work for the week ahead.
- Discussion - Aural/Oral Skill-Building Websites
- Task - Using Delicious.com to Store Useful Links
- Project Task 2 and finally the Blog reflection.
Aural/Oral Skill-Building Websites
This week discussion based on Aural/Oral skill building gave me an insight to the two major skills. I read interesting articles and one such was based on "New perspectives in Teaching Pronunciation" by Maria Grazia Busa` amply discusses about the applied linguistic aspects of pronunciation, how it entered the classroom with the Audio Lingual Method. There is a high demand for these two skills in my country and besides I am personally engaged in a special program launched eying on improving these two skills. Hence, I have a fair idea about onestopenglish website and was happy to join the discussion making a special reference to the very website. I read the comments made by my colleagues which enabled me to think about some other options as well. As always our course instructor Donna facilitated us further with a new website called Voxopop.
Project Task 2
There were some sample project reports for us to follow and comment. Out of the project reports I got inspired by the project report of Nicolici Nadina Carmen which gave me an idea of what we ought to do for the project work. That work inspired me a lot. Interestingly she has discussed the concept Teacher Talking Time (TTT). Nicolici has used a blog to make her students engage themselves in reading. When reading I felt that I should consider the syllabus, the goals of the syllabus, my objectives the class strengths and weaknesses etc. All in all it gave me a good parallel learning opportunity.
Using Delicious.com to Store Useful Links
First I created a delicious account and saved very useful websites here. Until then I used to save all my links in different folders on bookmarks. Now I have the Add to delicious option as well. This in a way lead us to follow links of others and get more options. Hence, I do follow some of my colleagues and some do follow me. It is really an exciting experience. I bookmarked some websites and out of them there are some of my favorites. The task we did for this week gave me a new experience and is something useful as well.
The work we did up to now had inspired me a lot to use more web-related teaching and learning work and I inspired my students to follow different websites as well. Still I read the first and the second week comments and I find them useful for me. Maintaining this blog is like maintaining a diary and as always I feel that it is good to reflect what we do. Week 3 gave me a novel experience and I look forward to get the work for the week ahead.
Hello Esala,
ReplyDeleteGreat review! You've said it clearly: this sharing on post is a great way to reflect on what we are doing in this course and in our daily life at work. Congrats.
Juan Pacheco
Colombia
Hello Juan,
ReplyDeleteI feel so happy to read your comment. With the assistance of colleagues like you we learn from each other. Thank you once again.
Esala
Sri Lanka