MY WEEK 3
Well, I've done the tasks of week 3 (I hope I did it all right). It took me a lot of time but was very useful.
First of all all I'd like to mention a new tool which I learned this week. I mean Delicious. It's really great! Before Delicious I used to save the URLs that I liked and needed in Favourites of my browser. It works when you are at home but what to do if you are not? So Delicious is very helpful.
Then I looked through some lesson plans. I found most of them very useful. I even tried one of them with my students and was satisfied with the result.
Finally I studied a project report and understood what I am supposed to do at the end of the course. I hope I will be able to create my own project.
So, the week was quite busy, I learned a lot.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Saturday, April 21, 2012
MY WEEK 2
Well, I'm slowly moving forward, trying to do all the tasks. During this week I've done the following. I've tried some new searching engines. I've used NoodleTools. In Teaching Resources I've found an interesting reading task (a text about a tribe and an interective test after reading it) and some interesting information about global warming which can be used in class as part of Power Point presentation ( also there are some useful web resources on this topic). I've used Twurdy, too. And I liked it more. I was searching for poems about friedship for my 8th grade students ang I found lots of them there.
I shood say that first I didn't like NoodleTools. But Celeste strongly recomended it for me and I tried again. And of course I changed my mind. It's a great searching engine, now I can see it. So, it's good to try something new.
This week I've learn a lot about objectives and I wrote my own one: Given the necessary web-links my 9th grade students will be able to create a list of the most popular tourists attractions in Belarus consisting of 15 items. This objective is for the class of 7 students aged 15, the level is intermediate. Thanks to Jodi my objective is clearer now: The students of the 9th form (Audience)will be able to create a list of at least 15 (Degree) tourist attractions in Belarus (Behavior) when they are given the web resources .... (Condition).
And I also described my class. My students are in the 9th form. They are 15 years old. There are 7 of them, both boys and girls. All my students have computers at homes and the access to th Internet too. In our classroom there is no computer but I usually bring my laptop. There is a possibility to project the computer screen for everyone to see but I usually don't need it because my class is not big (only 7 students and they all can see everithing well on my computer). The level is intermediate. We have 5 lessons a week. My students are rather good at English and using the computer and the Internet though they usually do it at home.
So, I'm glad that I was able to do the tasks of this week, well, I hope so. It was really exciting to try new activities ang share ideas with others. I'm looking forward to new tasks.
Well, I'm slowly moving forward, trying to do all the tasks. During this week I've done the following. I've tried some new searching engines. I've used NoodleTools. In Teaching Resources I've found an interesting reading task (a text about a tribe and an interective test after reading it) and some interesting information about global warming which can be used in class as part of Power Point presentation ( also there are some useful web resources on this topic). I've used Twurdy, too. And I liked it more. I was searching for poems about friedship for my 8th grade students ang I found lots of them there.
I shood say that first I didn't like NoodleTools. But Celeste strongly recomended it for me and I tried again. And of course I changed my mind. It's a great searching engine, now I can see it. So, it's good to try something new.
This week I've learn a lot about objectives and I wrote my own one: Given the necessary web-links my 9th grade students will be able to create a list of the most popular tourists attractions in Belarus consisting of 15 items. This objective is for the class of 7 students aged 15, the level is intermediate. Thanks to Jodi my objective is clearer now: The students of the 9th form (Audience)will be able to create a list of at least 15 (Degree) tourist attractions in Belarus (Behavior) when they are given the web resources .... (Condition).
And I also described my class. My students are in the 9th form. They are 15 years old. There are 7 of them, both boys and girls. All my students have computers at homes and the access to th Internet too. In our classroom there is no computer but I usually bring my laptop. There is a possibility to project the computer screen for everyone to see but I usually don't need it because my class is not big (only 7 students and they all can see everithing well on my computer). The level is intermediate. We have 5 lessons a week. My students are rather good at English and using the computer and the Internet though they usually do it at home.
So, I'm glad that I was able to do the tasks of this week, well, I hope so. It was really exciting to try new activities ang share ideas with others. I'm looking forward to new tasks.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Week 1. Reflections
Well, the first week is coming to an end. It was an exciting week and a rather difficult one for me. Exciting because of meeting so many new and interesting people from all over the world. And difficult because I didn't have a blog and right now I'm trying to make it. I hope I'll manage to do it. At least I'm doing my best.
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