Hi everybody,
This week again was a fruitful week for I think all of us.
I could try out several tools that were new for me. I have created a class on Nicenet and one on Web Poster Wizard. I am definitely going to try both of them out starting from next week on.
I felt a bit overwhelmed this week even though I enjoyed all the new tools and trying them out but somehow I had the feeling all week that I just do not have time for everything and I felt I forgot something. Hope I did not.
I plan to do a revision on what we have done so far during this course and try to organize things in a way that they are logical to me. I also plan to use all the new tools with my classes the word searches and crosswords I can create very easily and very fast.
Eszter
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Monday, November 19, 2012
Week 7 Learners autonomy
Hello,
Nice to be here again. A bit late... (I have some problems with my health.)
Learners autonomy is one of the most important things for me. I would like to help my students become independent learners. To help learners become more and more independent in their studies is one of the teachers tasks. It can be achieved only when the student and the teacher is there at the same time and willing to cooperate.
With one of my groups we have just started the process and taking our first steps on the road. What I can see right now that not all of my students are ready for this change. Some of them love and others just do not come with us. For those who hesitate and are not willing to collaborate I do not force them. I hope to see them joining us when they realized what they are missing out on.
I will be back with one computer classroom soon.
Eszter
Nice to be here again. A bit late... (I have some problems with my health.)
Learners autonomy is one of the most important things for me. I would like to help my students become independent learners. To help learners become more and more independent in their studies is one of the teachers tasks. It can be achieved only when the student and the teacher is there at the same time and willing to cooperate.
With one of my groups we have just started the process and taking our first steps on the road. What I can see right now that not all of my students are ready for this change. Some of them love and others just do not come with us. For those who hesitate and are not willing to collaborate I do not force them. I hope to see them joining us when they realized what they are missing out on.
I will be back with one computer classroom soon.
Eszter
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Week 6 ENGAGING LEARNERS!!!!!!!
Hello everybody,
Almost at the end of week 6. I really liked this week's most important topic engaging students.
For me and I know for all the teacher's out there, students are the most important part of teaching. I can not hide the fact that behind all what we are doing there is a wish to make our students enjoy and be active participants of our lessons. Behind all of our effort there is one reason engaging students.
This week I have learnt a lot more about PowerPoint presentations and also tried it out with my groups and yes it did work. They immediately knew where to focus their attention when the blank slide appeared on the screen not to mention how great discussions came to light when they saw pictures. Good to see how I can use ppts more effective and engage my students at the same time. It gives meaning to ppt. Engaging students and the role of the teacher is really an issue to talk about.
My project and the changes this week. All my students created a Gmail account as I have asked them to do so through our Facebook group. I have also done a bit of survey with the help of www.surveymonkey.com. The result of my survey was that four of my students would like to learn more about sports, two of them would like to learn about travelling another two would like to work with free time, one with cultures and one with food. I have made my decision and we will work on sports in this project and for our upcoming projects we are going to work with the above mentioned topics as well. For the group and for a bit of studying space I have done a centraldesktop workspace, which is available for 15 days and we started to work there. My students first task is to collect as many interesting things from the web as they can. I told them it could be anything even videos, pictures, posts, blogs, news, articles (and they were told to keep a record of their sources). In the upcoming week we are going to work in groups and use some more interesting tools to come up with our end product! Let me keep it as a secret till next week's post.
I can not wait for the next week to get our new assignments. Good to be in this group!
Thank you all!
Eszter
Almost at the end of week 6. I really liked this week's most important topic engaging students.
For me and I know for all the teacher's out there, students are the most important part of teaching. I can not hide the fact that behind all what we are doing there is a wish to make our students enjoy and be active participants of our lessons. Behind all of our effort there is one reason engaging students.
This week I have learnt a lot more about PowerPoint presentations and also tried it out with my groups and yes it did work. They immediately knew where to focus their attention when the blank slide appeared on the screen not to mention how great discussions came to light when they saw pictures. Good to see how I can use ppts more effective and engage my students at the same time. It gives meaning to ppt. Engaging students and the role of the teacher is really an issue to talk about.
My project and the changes this week. All my students created a Gmail account as I have asked them to do so through our Facebook group. I have also done a bit of survey with the help of www.surveymonkey.com. The result of my survey was that four of my students would like to learn more about sports, two of them would like to learn about travelling another two would like to work with free time, one with cultures and one with food. I have made my decision and we will work on sports in this project and for our upcoming projects we are going to work with the above mentioned topics as well. For the group and for a bit of studying space I have done a centraldesktop workspace, which is available for 15 days and we started to work there. My students first task is to collect as many interesting things from the web as they can. I told them it could be anything even videos, pictures, posts, blogs, news, articles (and they were told to keep a record of their sources). In the upcoming week we are going to work in groups and use some more interesting tools to come up with our end product! Let me keep it as a secret till next week's post.
I can not wait for the next week to get our new assignments. Good to be in this group!
Thank you all!
Eszter
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Week 5
Dear All,
Another busy week is behind us.
I have learnt about webquest and I have to say a big thank you for Ina. Ina you made my life easier this week and you just felt what I really needed help with.
Webquest, PBL, alternative assessment are things I definitely going to use in my teaching. I have already tried PBL but due my fault as a teacher I was not successful. Now I am going to do it in a different way.
First I will do a needs analysis about the topic for PBL.
Second I will choose the most wanted topic.
Third I will give myself time for preparation and do it step-by-step and design tasks just right for my students.
Fourth I will let my students have enough time to do their tasks.
Fifth I will let them use their mobile pone for a change and hope to see how it goes.
This is what crossed my mind and yes now I know where I made my mistakes when I first tried out PBL. Even though my first try turned out to be a failure I do want to try it again and implement it in my teaching practice with the other things I am learning right now!
Thank you Courtney for all your help and advice! I love this course and I do not want it to end....
Yours,
Eszter
Another busy week is behind us.
I have learnt about webquest and I have to say a big thank you for Ina. Ina you made my life easier this week and you just felt what I really needed help with.
Webquest, PBL, alternative assessment are things I definitely going to use in my teaching. I have already tried PBL but due my fault as a teacher I was not successful. Now I am going to do it in a different way.
First I will do a needs analysis about the topic for PBL.
Second I will choose the most wanted topic.
Third I will give myself time for preparation and do it step-by-step and design tasks just right for my students.
Fourth I will let my students have enough time to do their tasks.
Fifth I will let them use their mobile pone for a change and hope to see how it goes.
This is what crossed my mind and yes now I know where I made my mistakes when I first tried out PBL. Even though my first try turned out to be a failure I do want to try it again and implement it in my teaching practice with the other things I am learning right now!
Thank you Courtney for all your help and advice! I love this course and I do not want it to end....
Yours,
Eszter
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