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Friday, November 16, 2012


 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
<iframe src='http://wallwisher.com/embed/jkgoc6gtwo' frameborder='0' width='100%' height='480px' style='border 1px solid #999999'></iframe>
 With regards,
 Gulnara

5 comments:

  1. Hello Gulnara,

    Taking the decision of honing your webskills and your students' webskills adds a lot to your leadership skills.

    It's crystal clear that you make ful use of WallWisher as a tool to note-taking and conveying messages.

    Peer assessment and self-assessment are effective in making learners reflect about their own learning and hence make decision to improve.

    All the best with the new tools,

    Safaa

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    1. Dear Safaa,
      Thanks for your positive comment. It is good idea to use WallWisher for note-taking and conveying message. I will take into my account. Now am planning it to add students presentation on topic "Adveritisement in our life"
      Thanks

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  2. Hello Gulnara,

    You seem to be so engrossed with execution of your fresh learning. I really admire your passion about your profession. As far as our ideas are concerned we all have learnt so much from one another. We owe equally to one another in the entire group.

    Working in partnership with you is entirely my previledge.

    We will soon start reviewing our projects from next week.

    Regards,
    Tushar
    India

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    1. Dear Tushar,
      Thanks for appriciation! You know our school is open to new ideas and teachers' value also training ideas and try to implement in heir lessons. Therefore I have two roles at my school Profesional Development Trainer and an English language Teacher. Therefore whatever I learned from trainings I always share with my coleagues.
      Thanks for all supportive words.
      We will share our work after finishing revision.

      Gulnara

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  3. It is a truly wonderful learning experience for all of us and I can see you are making the most of it by bravely trying new things. The teaching environments are quite diverse, and that is probably why it is interesting to share ideas with each other in this course.

    Best,
    Sam

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