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
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