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.
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
Hello Gulnara,
ReplyDeleteTaking 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
Dear Safaa,
DeleteThanks 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
Hello Gulnara,
ReplyDeleteYou 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
Dear Tushar,
DeleteThanks 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
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.
ReplyDeleteBest,
Sam