What I learned and What I thought
1.
Discussion: Online tools for
enhancing learning
First, I regret to say that I could not
join the webinar by Jeff. It was held in
small hours of the morning in Japan. I
have been treated at home and I am not a night owl by birth. I hate time-zone
difference! In addition, I was late for
the discussion of this week and had hard time catching up with my e-classmates,
but I could learn a lot from their discussion.
For example, Blerta and Elmira showed me how to use Nicenet and a
paper-based alternative. Actually, I
made my “Nicenet class”. I cannot wait
the time when I come back to school! I
am sure especially three 10th graders will enjoy it. I also learned how to use Voicethread that I
have not used before. ANVILL was a sort
of overwhelming technology for me. It might take me a lot of time to get used
to it. “Hotpotatoes” is helpful tool for
me to make quizzes or activities both on-line and off-line. I taught a 5th
grader, a 6th grader, and three 10th graders. In each class, students are very interested in
English and sometimes want some more activities to do by him/herself. I hope these might promote their autonomy.
2.
Task: Create an online course
site or an exercise to use online or offline
I made a class-wiki on Google. Actually I gave up making wiki several times
because it was not easy for me to understand how to make it. So, this was my 5th or 6th
challenge. I was very glad to get an
affirmative comment from Robert, and look forward to using it when I come back
home.
3.
Project Task 7: First draft and
peer review
I managed to write my first draft for the
final project plan. My proofreader,
Andi, gave me a checklist for my draft with very helpful comments. Only a few days left to the deadline of the
final project, but I will do my best to complete it. My final project is full of what I learned in
this course and from my e-classmates and what I thought about my students. I hope this project plan reflects on her
individualized syllabus for the next school year.
4.
Others.
I am sad to say that my health condition is
not so good, and I could spend only an hour in total, not continuously at most
in front of computer and not every day. I
hope I can spend more time this week and learn much more. Only two weeks are left including this week
to the end of this wonderful course!
Toward the end? goal? of this course...
I feel I can see and grasp something.
Hi Maza,I guess you and all of us have learned a lot of new things from last week.I personally thought that I was going to be able to attend the webinar but things are hard here at that time and I had classes. ANVILL, NICENT AND BLOGGER were my main issue this week. Congratulation for sharing all of this information, it gives me more ideas about my activities in class.
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Yariela