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