Dear Donna, colleagues
and Jodi,
What an amazing week,hard one but exciting .
We had Mrs. Jodi for her second visit to our Nicenet discussions.
Our discussion was about technology tools,Technology offers solutions to a diverse set of instructional problems,but it needs careful planning.
planning is key to successfully implementing innovative components into using technology, and this is especially true of e-learning courses ,using technology require planning, adopting new teaching strategies, rethinking and reevaluating assignments and interaction, and redefining what's done in and out of the classroom. Ideally, there would be a discrete set of rules, a sort of checklist, to teaching with technology, but unfortunately there are too many variables. The tools, tips, and recommendations in this guide should provide us the necessary
background to ask the right questions, formulate complete answers, and plan accordingly.As a teacher I should ask my self
How will students connect to the Internet? This greatly influences the speed at which students can download pages or video clips.
How can I ensure students achieve a comfort level with the technology? Keep in mind more experienced students may be able to provide additional resources and give support for me and/or their fellow students.
How can I design my tool for my learners, what is the nature, purpose, the goals for this tool...these questions I think need time to be planned well.
The teacher should be here as Facilitator who guides and directs by asking questions, exploring options, suggesting alternatives, encouraging students to develop and interact. Overall goal is to develop capacity for independent action, initiative, and responsibility.What we are focusing on students' needs and goals.I will try after finishing this course to give my colleges a training course of all what I learned here.This is at least what I can do to improve our teaching in our school {move to improve}
After reading and exploring ,these are some of the sites I am going to usein my classes in the near future.I am still exploring ,I did not finish.
First I created this padlet for my class , http://padlet.com/wall/5b4yao60um
I hope it will improve their writing skill.
http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ I will use it for making different exercises, It's easy to use and lets you create matching, cloze, scrambled sentence, and multiple choice exercises and crossword puzzles.
http://www.easytestmaker.com/default.aspxhttp://www.easytestmaker.com/default.aspx I signed in and I am going to make my tests ,why simply its easier ,quicker with a little effort.
http://bogglesworldesl.com/picture_descriptions.htm I am going to use this site for improving my students writing skill ( a mazing)
http://www.toolsforeducators.com/
https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/nativeplayback.jnlp?psid=2013-05-30.2036.M.333CA6296CC86D7221128FDCEDAC21.vcr
I usually use this site to down load worksheets, flashcards ...etc
http://www.mes-english.com/
Changing needs time, A lot of teachers refuse of implementing technology tools because they think they need special IT background ,nothing comes easily if we try hard we will succeed in implementing the suitable technology tool for our students, but if we refuse to change ..then we are afraid of facing the changing which will happened sooner or later as the world is changing .We all know if we don't make mistakes we will make nothing .
What an amazing week,hard one but exciting .
We had Mrs. Jodi for her second visit to our Nicenet discussions.
Our discussion was about technology tools,Technology offers solutions to a diverse set of instructional problems,but it needs careful planning.
planning is key to successfully implementing innovative components into using technology, and this is especially true of e-learning courses ,using technology require planning, adopting new teaching strategies, rethinking and reevaluating assignments and interaction, and redefining what's done in and out of the classroom. Ideally, there would be a discrete set of rules, a sort of checklist, to teaching with technology, but unfortunately there are too many variables. The tools, tips, and recommendations in this guide should provide us the necessary
background to ask the right questions, formulate complete answers, and plan accordingly.As a teacher I should ask my self
How will students connect to the Internet? This greatly influences the speed at which students can download pages or video clips.
How can I ensure students achieve a comfort level with the technology? Keep in mind more experienced students may be able to provide additional resources and give support for me and/or their fellow students.
How can I design my tool for my learners, what is the nature, purpose, the goals for this tool...these questions I think need time to be planned well.
The teacher should be here as Facilitator who guides and directs by asking questions, exploring options, suggesting alternatives, encouraging students to develop and interact. Overall goal is to develop capacity for independent action, initiative, and responsibility.What we are focusing on students' needs and goals.I will try after finishing this course to give my colleges a training course of all what I learned here.This is at least what I can do to improve our teaching in our school {move to improve}
After reading and exploring ,these are some of the sites I am going to usein my classes in the near future.I am still exploring ,I did not finish.
First I created this padlet for my class , http://padlet.com/wall/5b4yao60um
I hope it will improve their writing skill.
http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ I will use it for making different exercises, It's easy to use and lets you create matching, cloze, scrambled sentence, and multiple choice exercises and crossword puzzles.
http://www.easytestmaker.com/default.aspxhttp://www.easytestmaker.com/default.aspx I signed in and I am going to make my tests ,why simply its easier ,quicker with a little effort.
http://bogglesworldesl.com/picture_descriptions.htm I am going to use this site for improving my students writing skill ( a mazing)
http://www.toolsforeducators.com/
https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/nativeplayback.jnlp?psid=2013-05-30.2036.M.333CA6296CC86D7221128FDCEDAC21.vcr
I usually use this site to down load worksheets, flashcards ...etc
http://www.mes-english.com/
Changing needs time, A lot of teachers refuse of implementing technology tools because they think they need special IT background ,nothing comes easily if we try hard we will succeed in implementing the suitable technology tool for our students, but if we refuse to change ..then we are afraid of facing the changing which will happened sooner or later as the world is changing .We all know if we don't make mistakes we will make nothing .
The second task was
creating a new technology tool ,I created my Padlet http://padlet.com/wall/5b4yao60um ……and named it "Move to
improve" to beginners and young learners and I will collect in it
different activities, articles , games, and active exercises I am going to
create or created before for the writing skill.
The draft project was
the difficult one ,I am still waiting for my partner Sanobar until this moment ..I hope everything is ok with her .I hope she
could upload her draft as soon as possible. ( Dear Sanobar ..I am still waiting…)
for your draft project.
A Word of thanks goes to
D.Donna,D.Jodi and our amazing friends Alexandra Duarte , Iryna Kharchenko
, yuliya shamshur , Amira Ali …..to you all …thank you very much for supporting .
A word of thanks is not
enough may God bless you all.
Enam
Enam
best wishes
Dear Enam,
ReplyDeleteWhat a pleasure to read your blogpost - detailed and informative. This has been the toughest week for all, and the project is not that easy to write even though it has lots of guide questions,
I am also grateful for you colaboration and active participation in this elearning journey. Hope we can still be in touch long after this is all over.
Best of luck and greetings from Portugal,
Alex