Dear bloggers,
I would like to thank all of you for your time and attention dedicated to my posts, it meant a lot to me and you contributed to give me good time in this session of learning.
I cannot thank Courtney enough for being the right instructor I could expect, honestly my initial goal was that I just wanted to be part of the thing, and Courtney and you participants dear Hulya, Nataliia, Tahsina, Izela, Mukti, Moni, Bhuwan and everybody made me successful; many thanks, this is why I could not help to say in my first post on nicenet this week that I loved learning and I loved the people.
Nonetheless I read lot of good information on Loti but unfortunately I was not able to access to the survey, from the definitions I got on the PDF document I can say my class is currently Level 5 Expansion and my goal is to reach the level 6 Refine by the end of next semester.
My class being online, the teaching and learning activities are fundamentally technology oriented and I aim to familiarize myself and my students with the use of blog, nicenet, padlet, webquest, ANVILL, PBL activities so that students could carry out learning by themselves in extra curricular environment. I also want to maintain collaboration with my colleagues and Courtney.
I wish lot of success to everyone in implementing whatever technologies he/she plans to improve the quality of his/her pedagogic activities.
As for myself, I am always Dirba this is my African first name, after my father converted muslim his mother insisted they give me Dirba ( THE ONE WHO CARE ABOUT THE OTHERS and it seems to follow me).
I will be more than happy to collaborate in any class exchange project.
Best wishes,
Mariam
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Sunday, March 10, 2013
The Final Project Week
Hello dear bloggers,
I am happy to reach this week of our training in that I have learnt a lot since the beginning and still doing so from what is available on the course platform and also from our nicenet discussion thread. Courtney and our course mates always bring relevant resources to read about, reflect on and post our opinions.
This week 9 consisted in going further about learner autonomy by discussing how to take into account every learner's personal learning style in our teaching profession. Our weekly debates began with Howard Gardner work on Multiple Intelligence provided by Courtney before our mate Krishna from Nepal first post which also clarified the issue of MI and our approach to EFL/ESL teaching to many point of views.
We implemented our own MI evaluation and it showed me the scope of efforts expected from us teachers to carry out a more successful work.
In addition to the final project the good thing that really got me happy about myself is the new tools I realized on http://www.crosswordpuzzlegames.com/create.html , http://www.easytestmaker.com/default.aspx, http://www.toolsforeducators.com/ and the wall wisher. Now it feels like I have always worked with these tools and I wish to transmit the same motivation in using them to my students.
Now talking about the greatest thing, the final project, I am happy I completed it and hope it will be useful to other beneficiaries of the coming ATDOP web skill training. I will always be grateful to those who contributed to my registration and my training in this course. Me and all the students I will teach after this course will be tributary to Courtney and the University of Oregon for I am no more the same teacher thanks to them.
Another great thing is the socialization between mates on the discussion thread, I like reading the mutual encouraging and support in one another post. All the participants are good in manners and also in skills, this is why I am happy and proud to be part of the group.
Gratefully,
Mariam
I am happy to reach this week of our training in that I have learnt a lot since the beginning and still doing so from what is available on the course platform and also from our nicenet discussion thread. Courtney and our course mates always bring relevant resources to read about, reflect on and post our opinions.
This week 9 consisted in going further about learner autonomy by discussing how to take into account every learner's personal learning style in our teaching profession. Our weekly debates began with Howard Gardner work on Multiple Intelligence provided by Courtney before our mate Krishna from Nepal first post which also clarified the issue of MI and our approach to EFL/ESL teaching to many point of views.
We implemented our own MI evaluation and it showed me the scope of efforts expected from us teachers to carry out a more successful work.
In addition to the final project the good thing that really got me happy about myself is the new tools I realized on http://www.crosswordpuzzlegames.com/create.html , http://www.easytestmaker.com/default.aspx, http://www.toolsforeducators.com/ and the wall wisher. Now it feels like I have always worked with these tools and I wish to transmit the same motivation in using them to my students.
Now talking about the greatest thing, the final project, I am happy I completed it and hope it will be useful to other beneficiaries of the coming ATDOP web skill training. I will always be grateful to those who contributed to my registration and my training in this course. Me and all the students I will teach after this course will be tributary to Courtney and the University of Oregon for I am no more the same teacher thanks to them.
Another great thing is the socialization between mates on the discussion thread, I like reading the mutual encouraging and support in one another post. All the participants are good in manners and also in skills, this is why I am happy and proud to be part of the group.
Gratefully,
Mariam
Monday, March 4, 2013
WEEK 8 WORK
Hello dear co-bloggers,
We are now at the end of the 8th week of this training and things are moving at a high speed, I am lucky to work with Hulya, she was the first one to post her project plan for the peer check activity. I learnt a lot from what she did about the content, the process and her perspective. From her work you could know she is an experience ELT teacher at academic level.
I spent time trying to mobilize and organize my students participation on my nicenet discussion thread, what I succeeded but still have a lot to do on my Google classroom. I am really not sure how this one works and I hope to make it because I like it. It's very good to work with Nataliia, thanks to her project I created my nicenet class earlier to provide my students with a space to exchange and debate feedback from her reading project and now I organized my own class catch up activity there.
It is only later on in week 8 that I got the chance to read about ANVILL,to discover a huge opportunity. I can now move my students from their daily platform to ANVILL for activities that integrate the four skills of listening,speaking, writing, and reading. I have just completed my first course on ANVILL.
I also found out lot of worksheets about many topics in business and science and I created a crossword exercise on tools for educators and I am still trying out the easy test maker. I definitely need to do something on wizard.4teachers about the cards to reinforce my courses input and vary activities for my students and I cannot help not to build up activities on hot potatoes.
The Nobel prize publications are very interesting for the development of my EFL courses for the science institute students, and the subjects from the media about Apple and Steve Jobs, the issue of gas price in the USA are interesting complements for the EFL business course. I like the jigsaw activities and the opportunities to hold oral activities on ANVILL.
I am still fixing up and adding items and information on my final project and I hope to get something great out of these efforts.
Many thanks,
Mariam
We are now at the end of the 8th week of this training and things are moving at a high speed, I am lucky to work with Hulya, she was the first one to post her project plan for the peer check activity. I learnt a lot from what she did about the content, the process and her perspective. From her work you could know she is an experience ELT teacher at academic level.
I spent time trying to mobilize and organize my students participation on my nicenet discussion thread, what I succeeded but still have a lot to do on my Google classroom. I am really not sure how this one works and I hope to make it because I like it. It's very good to work with Nataliia, thanks to her project I created my nicenet class earlier to provide my students with a space to exchange and debate feedback from her reading project and now I organized my own class catch up activity there.
It is only later on in week 8 that I got the chance to read about ANVILL,to discover a huge opportunity. I can now move my students from their daily platform to ANVILL for activities that integrate the four skills of listening,speaking, writing, and reading. I have just completed my first course on ANVILL.
I also found out lot of worksheets about many topics in business and science and I created a crossword exercise on tools for educators and I am still trying out the easy test maker. I definitely need to do something on wizard.4teachers about the cards to reinforce my courses input and vary activities for my students and I cannot help not to build up activities on hot potatoes.
The Nobel prize publications are very interesting for the development of my EFL courses for the science institute students, and the subjects from the media about Apple and Steve Jobs, the issue of gas price in the USA are interesting complements for the EFL business course. I like the jigsaw activities and the opportunities to hold oral activities on ANVILL.
I am still fixing up and adding items and information on my final project and I hope to get something great out of these efforts.
Many thanks,
Mariam
Monday, February 25, 2013
WEEK 7 Achievements
Hello dear bloggers,
We have reached the culminating point of our training that requires us a top intellectual fitness condition.
We completed our usual weekly reading and participating in the class discussions, as well as finding links to add to the wallwisher, planning exchange with peer check counter part, developing the technology tools selected for the project with students, and finally maintaining our daily teacher activities.
Alike the previous weeks, we learnt a lot in reading about learner autonomy in theory through Dimitrios Thanasoulas and Samuel Sheu works, for the practice we were instructed by Susan Gaer various approaches to implement learner autonomy especially with One-computer Classroom.
One key determining principle promoted in learner autonomy I praise is the one that promotes learner self esteem.This dimension of pedagogy is also emphasized in Project-Based Learning approach to language teaching/learning.It is primordial for learner to be recognized as a valuable entity in teaching/learning process so it will develop his sense of commitment in learning and by extension in life.
Once again, we received Leslie Opp-Beckman to our discussion thread and she suggested lot of pieces of advises and resources useful for EFL in general and the implementation of week 7 topics.
I created a nicenet classroom and invited my students and friends.
THE CLASS KEY IS: H88K8H8
I am agreeably surprised with students participation both in my discussion thread and Nataliia's while being on vacation, as for the Skype In The Classroom Technology I decided to keep it but did not required students immediate intervention less I should be too demanding to them, in addition Courtney advised Nataliia and I about the issue of time zone difference.
I am more than happy to work with Hulya because I trust her qualities of hard worker and self discipline she shows on nicenet discussion thread and I am still putting things together to obtain an acceptable input to send her for peer check.
So glad to share this experience with you dear readers.
I wish you all the best,
Mariam
We have reached the culminating point of our training that requires us a top intellectual fitness condition.
We completed our usual weekly reading and participating in the class discussions, as well as finding links to add to the wallwisher, planning exchange with peer check counter part, developing the technology tools selected for the project with students, and finally maintaining our daily teacher activities.
Alike the previous weeks, we learnt a lot in reading about learner autonomy in theory through Dimitrios Thanasoulas and Samuel Sheu works, for the practice we were instructed by Susan Gaer various approaches to implement learner autonomy especially with One-computer Classroom.
One key determining principle promoted in learner autonomy I praise is the one that promotes learner self esteem.This dimension of pedagogy is also emphasized in Project-Based Learning approach to language teaching/learning.It is primordial for learner to be recognized as a valuable entity in teaching/learning process so it will develop his sense of commitment in learning and by extension in life.
Once again, we received Leslie Opp-Beckman to our discussion thread and she suggested lot of pieces of advises and resources useful for EFL in general and the implementation of week 7 topics.
I created a nicenet classroom and invited my students and friends.
THE CLASS KEY IS: H88K8H8
I am agreeably surprised with students participation both in my discussion thread and Nataliia's while being on vacation, as for the Skype In The Classroom Technology I decided to keep it but did not required students immediate intervention less I should be too demanding to them, in addition Courtney advised Nataliia and I about the issue of time zone difference.
I am more than happy to work with Hulya because I trust her qualities of hard worker and self discipline she shows on nicenet discussion thread and I am still putting things together to obtain an acceptable input to send her for peer check.
So glad to share this experience with you dear readers.
I wish you all the best,
Mariam
Saturday, February 16, 2013
WEEK 6 WORK
Hello dear co-bloggers,
It's so amazing that we are already done with 6 whole weeks, the good thing about it is that we used the time constructively. I seldom learn lot of skills in little length of time like I do in this training.
We are adding more and more knowledge with the massive links we take from one another post and put on our delicious pages, and articles and resources of the week program. This is a must if we want to optimize our competences and be more effective as today's EFL instructors. The only thing I regret is that I don't have enough time to go through carefully all the posts on nicenet and links on the platform for I know I am losing something whenever I don't do that.
This week I learnt about engaging students in large classes management with "using technology(webquest,PBL, CALL...) in teaching large classes" especially with Donna Shaw and Rick Finnan work.
In fact,the use of online assessment tools with the opportunities offered on blackboard make me dream of easier times in managing my grading work. We definitely need machine help somehow because the application of the new teaching methods brings along more assessments and feedback to provide.
I liked Haidar and Tahsina opening the Week 6 discussion on nicenet with very engaging and concerned tone about the issue of large classes management.
I am getting familiar with names like Courtney, Nataliia, Izela, Hulya, Tahsina, Sharmila, Alina, Mukti, Haidar,Bobby as if I meet them in real time.Nataliia is so careful and cautious, she seems to be the most respectful of the instruction about our posts,she is not too long, too lecture like in her style; she drew our attention Izela and I about the quality of our webquest documents we did not finished properly. Izela is a champion good reader and brilliant thinker. Tahsina always brings relevant observations on my work.
I designed a second a Power Point document about teaching and learning Argumentation and Persuasion ( a post reading activity), the first one I did was my Education Science Master Degree defense document.
As for my final project work, I continue to think and explore the potential technologies that are more suitable for my third year business class(nicenet discussion thread, skype, dropbox, webquest, rubric, PPT, prezi so on and so forth). After sharing Nataliia's project document, I am more relaxed, I now know I can make it easier than I believed.
Look forward to sharing more findings.
Warmest Regards,
Mariam
It's so amazing that we are already done with 6 whole weeks, the good thing about it is that we used the time constructively. I seldom learn lot of skills in little length of time like I do in this training.
We are adding more and more knowledge with the massive links we take from one another post and put on our delicious pages, and articles and resources of the week program. This is a must if we want to optimize our competences and be more effective as today's EFL instructors. The only thing I regret is that I don't have enough time to go through carefully all the posts on nicenet and links on the platform for I know I am losing something whenever I don't do that.
This week I learnt about engaging students in large classes management with "using technology(webquest,PBL, CALL...) in teaching large classes" especially with Donna Shaw and Rick Finnan work.
In fact,the use of online assessment tools with the opportunities offered on blackboard make me dream of easier times in managing my grading work. We definitely need machine help somehow because the application of the new teaching methods brings along more assessments and feedback to provide.
I liked Haidar and Tahsina opening the Week 6 discussion on nicenet with very engaging and concerned tone about the issue of large classes management.
I am getting familiar with names like Courtney, Nataliia, Izela, Hulya, Tahsina, Sharmila, Alina, Mukti, Haidar,Bobby as if I meet them in real time.Nataliia is so careful and cautious, she seems to be the most respectful of the instruction about our posts,she is not too long, too lecture like in her style; she drew our attention Izela and I about the quality of our webquest documents we did not finished properly. Izela is a champion good reader and brilliant thinker. Tahsina always brings relevant observations on my work.
I designed a second a Power Point document about teaching and learning Argumentation and Persuasion ( a post reading activity), the first one I did was my Education Science Master Degree defense document.
As for my final project work, I continue to think and explore the potential technologies that are more suitable for my third year business class(nicenet discussion thread, skype, dropbox, webquest, rubric, PPT, prezi so on and so forth). After sharing Nataliia's project document, I am more relaxed, I now know I can make it easier than I believed.
Look forward to sharing more findings.
Warmest Regards,
Mariam
Saturday, February 9, 2013
WEEK 5 NEWS
Hello dear bloggers,
We are still moving forward in reinforcing our pedagogic capacities through the two key processes that define this E-teacher professional development training:
Connecting teachers through exchange and collaboration.
Familiarizing teachers with the most recent approaches to EFL teaching.
This week 5 program taught us Project-Based Learning, Alternative Assessment, new model of teaching and learning, rubrics, WebQuest and also the first step in responding to our final project technology related solution.
We share experiences of PBL in Susan Gaer, and Don Doehla works. Susan Gaer demonstrated the value of PBL in educational success with Asian cookbook, folktales book production in adults EFL class for Asian immigrants in the USA and also the newspaper publication experience with Latino EFL students in America.
Don Dehla experiments PBL with foreign language other than English, he shows in the PBL of recipe book, children stories book, ABC book production how his students' improved at a point to be able to attend a collaborative class with students of the target language countries.
The new model of teaching and learning EFL comes along with new ways of assessing pedagogic activities, among these new assessment tools rubrics are very objective and have the potential to cover the width of any activity in term of multidimensional view or multidisciplinary scope.
WebQuest is nonetheless interesting so far, we can say it's a completely virtual form of PBL which provides a whole pedagogic kit to develop teaching and learning activities.
We now work closer like teachers' of a same school, we know each other style of redaction, level of teaching, final project domain, give advises and make suggestions. We really care for each other.
Kind Regard,
Mariam
We are still moving forward in reinforcing our pedagogic capacities through the two key processes that define this E-teacher professional development training:
Connecting teachers through exchange and collaboration.
Familiarizing teachers with the most recent approaches to EFL teaching.
This week 5 program taught us Project-Based Learning, Alternative Assessment, new model of teaching and learning, rubrics, WebQuest and also the first step in responding to our final project technology related solution.
We share experiences of PBL in Susan Gaer, and Don Doehla works. Susan Gaer demonstrated the value of PBL in educational success with Asian cookbook, folktales book production in adults EFL class for Asian immigrants in the USA and also the newspaper publication experience with Latino EFL students in America.
Don Dehla experiments PBL with foreign language other than English, he shows in the PBL of recipe book, children stories book, ABC book production how his students' improved at a point to be able to attend a collaborative class with students of the target language countries.
The new model of teaching and learning EFL comes along with new ways of assessing pedagogic activities, among these new assessment tools rubrics are very objective and have the potential to cover the width of any activity in term of multidimensional view or multidisciplinary scope.
WebQuest is nonetheless interesting so far, we can say it's a completely virtual form of PBL which provides a whole pedagogic kit to develop teaching and learning activities.
We now work closer like teachers' of a same school, we know each other style of redaction, level of teaching, final project domain, give advises and make suggestions. We really care for each other.
Kind Regard,
Mariam
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Hello everybody,
Welcome to the course week 4 blog, After learning about the pedagogic status and the value of CALL in many dimensions with Julia Gong and Lindsay Miller last week, Mei-Ya-Liang and Jarek Krajka are teaching me practical and adequate approach to CALL integration in EFL teaching with concrete examples and references for resources building. I am implementing the procedure of use of CALL to enhance an EFL lesson in the lesson plan template and I moved forward in my perspective of the final project as I am detecting the issues at the origin of my courses that could be fixed with CALL.
Best Regards,
Mariam
Welcome to the course week 4 blog, After learning about the pedagogic status and the value of CALL in many dimensions with Julia Gong and Lindsay Miller last week, Mei-Ya-Liang and Jarek Krajka are teaching me practical and adequate approach to CALL integration in EFL teaching with concrete examples and references for resources building. I am implementing the procedure of use of CALL to enhance an EFL lesson in the lesson plan template and I moved forward in my perspective of the final project as I am detecting the issues at the origin of my courses that could be fixed with CALL.
Best Regards,
Mariam
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