Sunday, May 29, 2011

WEEK 8 REFLECTION

TOOLS - ONLINE EXERCISES / FIRST DRAFTS

It has been a very busy week for me, however I want to finish it by doing my best and expressing my pleasure and positivism about my knowledge about teaching tools to provide my students with a wide range of possibilities to develop their skills by means of on line courses, exercises, tests, surveys among others .
I want to refer to ANVILL which I see it is very productive and useful to enhance the speaking skill by the templates for lessons' designs where we can place audio and video files to open the speaking tasks. There is also access for speech applications like discussions in blogs and forums. It is definitely a nice tool for our teaching and learning process.
I do not have to omit the part where we have the possibility to make our own online exercises. I am really happy to have access to this kind of opportunities that technology provides since it helps us change the concept of teaching into a modern and active one. I did not know that we have the possibility to create our own online exercises with the feature that we can adapt and apply them according to our students' necessities and topics.

This week I also wrote my first draft report about my technology change in classroom and it was productive since I made a summary about the activities we were and are making to promote and motivate students to reading by themselves without being graded. This is the first time I use technology this way to enhance students' skills and promote their interest to reading. I have tried other exercises but using technology is being better that before. I hope to finish it successfully.

Finally, I hope the suggestions provided to my partner help her to be successful in her project. Additionally, I need to express my big desire of achievement for my colleagues in their final projects!.

Best,
Mory-Ecuador

2 comments:

  1. Hi Mory,
    Nice introductory words. You are so positive!
    I didn´t know either that we could have the possibility to create our own online exercises. That´s something really challenging.
    Your project draft about technology change motivating students to read without being graded and with the help of technology, is practicable and feasible. Congratulations!.
    For sure the kind suggestions you gave me for applying in my project,are very useful. I hope to finish it successfully. I thank you very much again, and I wish you the best with your project too.
    Warm regards,
    Dolores :) :)

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  2. Hi Mory
    We both share the same feeling. This week was very busy for me, but there are many types of technology I have learned this week, and these tools will facilitate the establishment of exercises and activities, in the past I was taking a long time in the establishment of a single activity, but now with the know on creation tools, online activities will become more practical ease.

    Zainab
    Bahrain

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