Friday, August 26, 2011

Week 10.Final Reflection

This amazing course is almost finished. It was very fruitful for me. I think I was fortunate to be selected to attend this course, it was a great opportunity to learn and to improve my teaching process. I would like to thanks the University of Oregon for this. I would like to thanks Robert for his guidance and help.

I have tried my best to learn more about technology in teaching English language. I spent time reading materials suggested, planned to try new technology and saved good materials, bookmarked wonderful web links for my teaching. All the topics of the course was very useful. I would like to use WebQuest, Rubrics, ANVILL, Nicenet and many others tools  and resources in my future work.

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Week 9. Technology and MI.

After reading this week materials about technology and MI I agree with Mykola that "our teaching practice must be enriched with all sort of learning styles according not only to the teacher's preferences but also to learners' needs". In magazine "Forum" I have read about MI some years ago and from that time I try to use different learning styles in my practice.

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Week 8:Reflection

As Nagwa said, this week was overwhelming. We need to explore many new tools and create some exercises or sites. I created a class on Nicenet. Class name: English for Telecoms and IT. Class key: T3Z9779EZ00. It's for my project group. Also I explored ANVILL with it's amazing tools such as Voiceboard, TCast, Livechat). I created an account there and in a couple of days will create a course.I am going to use this site in my future work for developing students listening and speaking skills.

Much time was devoted to writing draft project and peer reading. But it still need improvement.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Week 7: Learner Autonomy and One-computer Class

This week I read Thanasoulas and Sheu articles about learner autonomy. I agree with them that the very important role of the teachers are giving their students a " helping hand''. I will use in my future work students self-reports or diaries.
Also this week I read about activities for one computer classroom and created a sample activity.
We agreed with Tatiana to be partners to our projects.