Unit 8 is the two steps to the end  of the course which is pitiable.   I do not have  a lot information about my colleagues learning but  I can say  I learned new ideas and   improved new skills in this Unit:
 Firtst my experience hearing about nicenet  down. I really suprised on  this news and worried also about our task.  Tnanks to Robert  that in spite of   less time he back upped our discussion in google and added all of us there.  I appriciate his job and it gave me hint to  improve further my  webskills.    Even I have a lot of new ideas  and  enhanced my web skills ( I think) but still  there is the room for learning.
 What I  was aware  in thius unit  is to  be cautious and be  ready   to open new  web blogger.
     The peer  feedback idea was familiar  for me from my trainer  job except  the process.  I mean  the process of  choosing a partner through google doc,   sharing our  project plan and reports and receiving feedback from our partner  through wiki  was new for me.   Frankly saying  I was worried  in the process of choosing  partner because when I sent to  one of my colleague  my  invitation she did not respond. But she later explained that she did not really see my invitation.  Therefore I have chosen  another partner , which he helped me to see my  errors  in my project work.  Thanks to him  in spite of  my grammatical errors he managed to read my paper and  gave constructive feedback.  You know, in my nature I do not like writing  long sentence reports. I like to write short and bullet point  reports because it saves my time.  I know it might face difficulty to the reader understand  my view point.  Therefore , I prefer  oral presentation than writing. In oral presentation I  can explain  my view point clearly.
  The other  motivated activity  in this Unit is  preparing tools. This activity helped me  to acquire new web skills  - creating worksheets, flashcards and tests. I developed  test using easy to make test website  for my Grade 7 .I did not share this URL because  I want first to test it tomorrow's my lessons and than share with you all. Other created  materials I have added to wiki.
 I  am aware with ANVIL  . I have used it before  during CE science at our school. It is so interactive way  of communication and video taping website.  During CE course  teachers   speech videotapped and shared with each other. I liked this idea and  planned to use    during  CE English training course in  winter holiday.
 Of course , it needs time,  resources  ( webcam)  and full bite internet.
   What  requires on me only plan, implement into practice , check and identify pitballs  and continue learning ....

 Dear my colleagues,
   I am so excited and  worried. You may ask why are you excited?
I am excited because I am  enhancing my Web skills through  reading,  practicing, doing , sharing and discussing. One of them in Uint 7 is wallwisher and   3D presentations  . These  skills are new for me. I enjoyed  practicing and opeing the site.
 How  I am planning to use  WW:     one of the best idea  is  developing  advertisement board. I request Grade 11 students  to think creatively about their adds on learned topics.  But I am so worried about my schedule  because  when I plan this activity  the comp. lab will not be free. I have to use one computer class where is not interenet connection.  In that moment I have just present how to develop WW and   assign as a homework.  We have in LRC computers  are connected with  interent and my studnets can use  internet and develop  WW and attaching their works. After this activity  I have question: how can we assess this activity? Should I develop rubrics a or  checkilist? Could you help me to identify assessment tool.
  The articles on  developing students independent learning or autonomy learning is so thoughtful. They helped me to reflect back to my class.   You know Grade 11  studnets are already adults. Sometimes I do not give them autonomy when they are doing grammar tasks.   But majority of time  when they do project works,  prepare presentation on the giventopic they are free to choose their time, topics, and plan time. They enjoy  with their learning in this time.
 Thanks to my colleagues sharing powerful and useful ideas  , for exam Csilla, Sam and Tushar.  I will borrow your ideas if you give permission. For example , lino site,  Sam's   webQuest ideas , Tushar one computer clas ideas.
 Yes i know it is so  difficult teaching  in large class from my experience  teaching English   with 30 students.  This number of students for  teaching language is  a lot because  there will not be  opportunity  of participation , speaking and doing activities.  I  learned from this unit  how to use WW,  interactive PPT ( unit 6)  will be helpful in presenting topics and  engage studnets  with learning.
Other insteresting action is  making students pair in analysing each  others   taks, projects. This will help us to see from other eyes and improve our  work.  I was worried about " if my  colleagues did not choose as a partner what should I do". Thanks to Tushar that he  was agreed being my partner and work together in analysing our project work.
 Only one challenge  there will be less  hours for my project  implementation . I can do  planning and thre four hours teaching.  I thik it will be enough for  analysing  pluses and minesus of  my project work.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
 I started making changes  in my project work: for example  I added some presentation and taks  in my zunal.com, developed PPTs one of them I have snet to  PPT presentations , the next one I will send  after  my use, because it needs some changes.
These are URL   for my WW a if it is possible :
http://wallwisher.com/wall/jkgoc6gtwo
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 With regards,
 Gulnara

  What was  useful for me in Unit 6?
Every English language  teacher  applies to  the  course to learn something new , useful  and best ideas which help  to motivate  students to improve their language skills and engage them learning  interactively. I got also for myself some useful ideas. For example  readings about engaging studnets in learning and  interactive lectures,   even they were not about  English language large class teaching , were interestiong.  I  got from interactive lecture reading  one strtategy which named " Just-in -time teaching" where teacher prepares  questions  on  one of the topic from studnets textbooks or sites and  send  those questions to students through  discussion board , internet. Students  read questions  and their texts  answer to them. They come to the next lesson with new idea and new questions  for class discussion .   The video  about implmentation of this strategy was  also practical .
 The next interesting , challenging and more useful  skill which I  practiced  was  developing interactive PPT Jeopardy game for  using in  Grade 11 during revision lesson. I found this activity was so usefulk than other discussions in this Unit because I like to learn more through doing rather than just speaking.

The other task which I have to implement  my project work.  Our studnets now are haviing rest . They start studying  from Monday. I am going to complete  my  all PPT which I have started now and share with my colleagues and use it ion my lessons.

 How exciting and challenging learning !

 Project Based learning   motivates our learners to be more  independent, creative and problem solver.  I used this  idea  in my lessons. One of them   conducting research on different  topics in English lesson. Students  enjoy doing individual tasks. They learn how  to develop questionnaires , interview and prepare presentations.  Now I added  to my this learning   teachnology based projects . Thanks to Robert and Jennine and my colleagues  giving  such a good idea.   I opened  class   in Nicenet  to my students and  workiong on other WebQuest site. 

 Other very intresting  learning was   creating Rubrics and  ideas of using alternative assesments in our teaching.  Rubistar.com  was easily guided m,e how to create rubrics.  I want it  to share with my colleagues in my CE training because   assessment in our teaching is very crucial.  We use "5" mark assessment and it is sometimes became subjective.  Therefore the idea  of using alternative assessment tools like rubrics , checklists and observation sheets will be more objective and  helpful. Students can also assess themselves using  required rubrics or any other tools provided by the teacher.

 I received  very  constructive feedback on  developing ABCD objectives and  narowing my studnets needs  to my project . Thanks to Robert I am working on  my project and developed new abcd  objectives. 

 Now I am working on my extra  WebQuest site  which named  "Let's learn English through reading and writing" as so I am going to work on my students' writing and reading problems. 

  Happy,

 Gulnara