This week is very intense for me but I really enjoyed fulfilling the tasks. I am going to use rubrics straight away to assess opinion essays of my second year students. Indeed, they are my fruitful ground for implementing and trying different Web tools. I started to use BreakingNewsEnglish with them, teacher's blog, wiki, voxopop, voicethread, worlde, esl-video, students' reading logs. They are mostlt computer literate and it helps a lot.
Webquests and rubrics are the next exciting thing I am going to try. When exploring different webquests I found out many that are close to the topics we are studying, for example School trip to London or Grand Canyon tour.
When I come across some interesting link that is relevant to our curriculum I save it with the help of wiki, so that I have a mini course as an addtition to traditional textbooks. You can see it here http://tspu.wikispaces.com/teachtechlinks.
The project that has to be half ready (it's week five, guys!) is still note very clear because in my case it's going to be a plan and students I will encounter next semester might be very different from what I expect now. Still I feel it is necessary to introduce more technology into distance learning courses and change the whole perception and traditional norms foor such students. What I mean by saying this is that students have very few hours right before their exam session in winter and in summer and most teachers limit to teaching only the few hours planned. I would like the course to be more practical and useful allowing students to develop professional and general competences we write so much about in our university nowadays.
Webquests and rubrics are the next exciting thing I am going to try. When exploring different webquests I found out many that are close to the topics we are studying, for example School trip to London or Grand Canyon tour.
When I come across some interesting link that is relevant to our curriculum I save it with the help of wiki, so that I have a mini course as an addtition to traditional textbooks. You can see it here http://tspu.wikispaces.com/teachtechlinks.
The project that has to be half ready (it's week five, guys!) is still note very clear because in my case it's going to be a plan and students I will encounter next semester might be very different from what I expect now. Still I feel it is necessary to introduce more technology into distance learning courses and change the whole perception and traditional norms foor such students. What I mean by saying this is that students have very few hours right before their exam session in winter and in summer and most teachers limit to teaching only the few hours planned. I would like the course to be more practical and useful allowing students to develop professional and general competences we write so much about in our university nowadays.
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ReplyDeleteI'm glad to read your post and you enjoy the techniques we have learnt.
I like also rubric, it gives details how learners will evaluate themselves to be able to learn by doing, too.
Eman
Hi Stasya!
ReplyDeleteYou've created a great wiki page! I'm really impressed to find that you're actually implementing the techniques in your class.
Do you know that there is a free software out there through which you can create your own IMAGINATION VOYAGE just like 'Grand Canyon Tour'. It is called Quandary. The address is http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/quandary.php
Hope you'll find it useful.
Muhammad Rashid
Hi Anastasia,
ReplyDeleteGood to know that you making good use of wiki for your students.I would like to know more about how week 5 went on for you.
Hi Anastasia,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your post and I learned a lot from it especially when I visited your wiki. You are very good at applying immediately what we learn on this course. It is also rich with practical links for both students and teachers.
Khadija,
Morocco