Tuesday, January 21, 2014

My reflection (Week 3)

Hello..... Every one,


One thing  I should mention is  that with each week the tasks are getting even more interesting but at the same time more complicated. It was quite a lot of reading. But I enjoyed it . Really, it was  interesting for me to explore the suggested sites, in particular those aimed at developing listening and speaking skills. 
I liked http://www.real-english.com.Also Randall's ESL Cyber Listening lab. It provides pre-listening, while-listening and post-listening activities and as well as listening tasks for all levels.
For pronunciation I use www.howjsay .com,really its practical.but this week I learned that there are other websites .Such as:
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglishis also useful. But it's mostly for practicing pronunciation 
I always use http://www.esl-galaxy.com/speaking.html as you can find practically everything there and it's very convenient with downloads and a lot of  interactive games. 
Another site which I really prefere is http://busyteacher.org/ with thousands of printable worksheets and powerpoint-presentations.
All the above mentioned sites can be used for students' .As a teacher
you can decide which one is the best for your students.
 I think I will continue exploring all the links the coming weeks.
Another interesting thing was creating my own page on Delicious.com and saving at least 9 bookmarks. I am grateful to D. Donna ,it seems that there is something new every week,something  amazing like Delicious.com 
After that ,the third task was reading
InteractiveWeb Project by the Author: Nadina Nicolici from the Lorin Salagean Techn ical High School in Drobeta Turnu Severin, Romania.
Project: Project Report for Lorin Salagean Technical High School.
I really liked her project.There are many things in common between her students and mine. English was their third learning language ,her students in general are having problems with reading (more than five of them) also speaking and writing .The same with my students. Also another thing is in common their love to use internet for playing games as my students. Building Teaching Skills through the Interactive Web When she created and integrated the blog in her teaching, she realized the activity was totally different from her previous English classes, first of all because it was entirely based on technology: no textbooks, no notebooks, only the whiteboard and the computers., everything she needed, at a click's distance. At the same time, the blog included some useful links which 
her students could access very easily, to find out what they needed. Involving technology in her classes was something new .
She really did an excellent job.
I hope I could make use of her project to help my students.

For me, (Creating a blog) as anew project.
I think my students would love this idea, and their interest in English would be increased 
English lessons will be more interesting. I think they would be enthusiastic about this and curious to try it out. 
I think the blog could become a good tool for informal learning, as students would learn by 
discovering and having fun at the same time, combining both pleasant and useful things.
That was all for this week,

A fruitful week,hoping that the coming weeks will be more interesting .
Best wishes to you all my friends.
 Yours....Enam


Friday, January 17, 2014

My reflection about week 2( Web skills Winter 2014)

Good evening every one,

Really a fantastic week  full of energy and the welling to learn too many new things,thanks to our trainer D. Donna  Shaw  for The Web skills Winter 2014 course .It is a motivating one.
Our first discussion was about Web Engines
"Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need" really the best title for Noodle tools.Thanks D. Donna I learned today something new while surfing many of the engines such as http://www.academicinfo.net
http://www.intute.ac.uk/search.html
http://www.bing.com/ and
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/ .I prefer the last one because the subjects here are classified and you select what you need.
One of the most important advantages for Web searching engines is that they offer a wide variety and quantity of information resources.

(We all  must be very specific when using a search engine,more words mean less results).
Our second task was ABCD Model for Behavioral Objectives
After reading about the ABCD model,"How to Write Clear Objectives" I watched a Ppt  presentation
http://www.slideshare.net/ashleytan
,it was  very helpful to me  when I planned my ABCD objective. 
The most interesting one was task 3 ( Describe your class now) 
I like teaching very much,teaching is a work of heart. I hope by the end of this course  that I can help my students to overcome their weakness in speaking and writing English  . 


 I wish you all a lot of luck , success and joy while working for this course.
    Enam......

Friday, January 10, 2014

A new chance: A word of thanks

A new chance: A word of thanks: Really, and frankly speaking it is my first blog, yes it is the first time for me. Maybe it is not perfect, because I had to do it by mys...

A word of thanks


Really, and frankly speaking it is my first blog, yes it is the first time for me. Maybe it is not perfect, because I had to do it by myself. I should thank Donna for the very detailed instructions to everything I have done so far this week. I Know I am the slowest member in this amazing group, still I will not give up .I will do my best in the near future if you give me the chance and the help.
I feel that I will need more time and more practice to make my blog more professional.
Again my  thank to D. Donna for her help and support.