I've been working hard on my project plan as everybody this week and I am glad I've managed to do it on time. Deadlines are the hallmark of the American system of education for me because in Russia "deadline is not the line that you cross but the line that you go along".
I worked on my webquest to guide students through their project for UK Studies and developed it from sctratch. It still requires polishing and thinking over but all the main points are included. You can see it here.
I think that I can use it not only for my distance course but within regular course as well.
Also I reflected on multiple intelligence concept and decided to go ahead and foster adressing different learning styles in my lessons. I noticed that when I used songs students got more engaged and the remember the material better because songs have rythm that sticks. Once we conducted a technology enhanced lesson in the boarding-school for orphans and I invited some of my students as volunteers. We used a computer lab in the school and every child had his/her own computer to work on. We used some songs and vocabulary games from British Council (you can find them here) and after the lesson my students told me they can't help humming the simple song we used everywhere (I can run, I can jump and run and I'm having lots of fun, I can run, Can you?). That's just illustrates that songs can stick in our mind and help remember simple grammar rules.
So I decided to find some songs to teach grammar to address musical learners. This semester I am teaching grammar to 1st-year students and we have LOTS of material to cover in one semester - all the nominal parts of speech and all the verb forms.Another big problem is that we haven't had an entrance exam in English this year and the students' level of English varies greatly from elementary to upper-intermediate in one group.
Influenced by this week's readings, I tried to find the videos or songs I can use to liven up my lessons and after some time I found out that I am listening to Present Perfect examples in songs and enjoying myself. I couldn't help singing along! Hope my students will do the same.
By the way, I saved some of the links to grammar songs on my wiki, so feel free to use them.
I worked on my webquest to guide students through their project for UK Studies and developed it from sctratch. It still requires polishing and thinking over but all the main points are included. You can see it here.
I think that I can use it not only for my distance course but within regular course as well.
Also I reflected on multiple intelligence concept and decided to go ahead and foster adressing different learning styles in my lessons. I noticed that when I used songs students got more engaged and the remember the material better because songs have rythm that sticks. Once we conducted a technology enhanced lesson in the boarding-school for orphans and I invited some of my students as volunteers. We used a computer lab in the school and every child had his/her own computer to work on. We used some songs and vocabulary games from British Council (you can find them here) and after the lesson my students told me they can't help humming the simple song we used everywhere (I can run, I can jump and run and I'm having lots of fun, I can run, Can you?). That's just illustrates that songs can stick in our mind and help remember simple grammar rules.
So I decided to find some songs to teach grammar to address musical learners. This semester I am teaching grammar to 1st-year students and we have LOTS of material to cover in one semester - all the nominal parts of speech and all the verb forms.Another big problem is that we haven't had an entrance exam in English this year and the students' level of English varies greatly from elementary to upper-intermediate in one group.
Influenced by this week's readings, I tried to find the videos or songs I can use to liven up my lessons and after some time I found out that I am listening to Present Perfect examples in songs and enjoying myself. I couldn't help singing along! Hope my students will do the same.
By the way, I saved some of the links to grammar songs on my wiki, so feel free to use them.
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