Almost There! - Week 8

This week I came to realize that working through the project was not so easy but somehow I managed to do it. I got the draft of the final report uploaded and got it reviewed from my peer. I, too, gave feedback to my friend's report. I also created a Nicenet Discussion Board for my students which I will use in the next classes. The WebSkill Course has taught me a lot. I was ignorant about the technology but coming to this point I feel like I have learnt a lot having access to the vast online resources. Let's see what happens by the next week.

Changing Adversity into Opportunity Week-7

Every weeks of Webskills has appeared as packages of unique presents. This week, I learned how to handle the class with one computer to the best. Creating stations and assigning multiple tasks to the multiple groups could be effective way of using single computer for the maximum benefits. The idea of posting a schedule, drawing Popsicle sticks and establishing color-coded groups are also wonderful ways of managing classes where only one computer is available.

In the next article, 'Tech Alternatives for the one-computer classrooms' gave an important insight into the many other alternative ways of teaching. Similarly, Mobile Apps for language learning, Twenty Ideas for Using Mobile Phones in Language Classroom gave us many creative ideas how the materials available to us can be used for language promotion and enhancement.

Next, American English Mobile App. is an excellent resource center for both students and teachers which has thousands of E-books, hundreds of audio books, music, dictionary, language games and many more. Teachers can use them in need.

Moreover, I learned to create my own Padlet and post on it. Similarly, I found Oumar Togola from Mali as my final project partner with whom I will be sharing my project draft, get suggestion and based on it, I can prepare my final report.

Now, I feel like I am blessed.
Cheers!

Interactive Teaching, Interactive PowerPoint and Implementing Technology- Web skill Week-6

No mater how often we write, discuss, talk, share and argue about effective teaching, without real action all these go in vain. This week 6 again came to me as a very new since it made me prepare some slides of interactive PowerPoint which I had never practiced before. The techniques for interactive classes like Think-Pair-Share, Quick Write, Concept Tests, etc. turned to be very helpful and effective.

Working out through the final project is still on. This week I have created a separate blog for my students aiming to improve their writing skills where I will be posting some questions or topics for which they will be sharing their opinions, ideas and knowledge on the blog. Some of them have created gmail account too. Hope it turns to be fruitful.

PS. It's my proposal to all my colleagues; How about getting linked through social media and creating a group on messenger for long lasting intimacy??

Half-way crosses... Still Accelerating! Reflection on Week-5

Time Flies!
It feels as if we have started the web skill course last week but in fact, we are already at the end of WEEK 5!

One of the most amazing achievements in this week for me is creating a rubric for assessing paragraph writing which I am going to implement in my next class. It's totally a very new thing for me but upon creating it, I am pretty much sure that it will maximize the benefits in accessing students more practically and reliably.

Another useful thing is reading Project Based Learning (PBL). It gave a deeper understanding on how to conduct a good project, how can it be made more natural and the best.

Finally, Web Quest appeared to be an amazing online resource but creating it became quite challenging for me.Although,I have already started creating it, I am not sure of the successful creation. Yet, I have not given up!

Cheers!