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
Eszter,
ReplyDeleteI am glad that you had a fruitful week 6. I like that you gave your students a survey on surveymonkey and asked them to identify their interests. That shows that you value autonomy, which is a keyword in learning these days! So, the majority went with sports. That should be interesting. I cannot wait to see and read about the secrets that you have waiting for us for next week!
You are right in assuming that we are all here for the same reason - to make engaging our students easier and more effective. Since technology is the root of all things these days, it is important for us to become as technology savvy as possible. We have so many great skills that we can share with our students already.
Good luck!
Evelyn
Eszter!
ReplyDeleteI'm so happy to hear that you already used an interactive PPT and found success with it! Your enthusiasm for engaging your students obviously transfers over to them and creates a productive learning environment.
Thanks for sharing the results of your survey. What a great idea for learning about student's interest, and thus increasing motivation and making them more autonomous in their learning.
Excellent work!