Week 8 is coming to its end and it has passed faster than the previous ones.
As for outcomes of this week, I should admit that it was not very easy to implement a technology related change into my work, but it was much more difficult for me to describe it, and not to forget about anything. I am very grateful to Izela for finding time and being extremely attentive to my report. Being obsessed with launching the project, involving students and coordinating all the work, I missed some very important points in my report. So, the idea of peer-reviewing is very effective, now everybody of us has the chance to look at our projects and reports with “fresh eyes”. Thanks to Izela’s suggestions I am going to improve my report greatly.
As for our Nicenet discussions, I am very thankful to Mariam Kanla for her participating and help, as she invited a very nice friend of hers, Lynn Rosen from New York to communicate with us. Lynn writes books and was so kind to suggest her stories for the students to read and discuss. I am going to prepare some comprehension exercises on some of her works and discuss them with my students next term. Hope, we’ll stay in touch with all our e-classmates and organize much more projects online and not only online.
According to our curriculum, my students are finishing English classes on February, 27, but they still have 2 hour a week of autonomous work. So, they have got their marks for participating in the Nicenet discussions , but they will continue reading and completing online comprehension exercises. Unfortunately without participating in Nicenet discussions any more as we have a very strict curriculum as for their autonomous work. As usual, I use Quia for reading, listening and grammar assessment. Having met Wizard and Padlet, I got a new idea how to share links to my exercises with my students in a more appropriate way, as these services allowed me to organize all my e-stuff in one place. In addition my students can publish their woks just in one click. They used e-mail to send me files, presentations, etc. And I always had a lot of problems with my e-boxes overflow and so on. Now with Padlet it's extremely easy and my students are happy that they are not now to send a lot of copies to me and each other as we can just share our Padlet link.
As for ANVILL, I have already mentioned on Nicenet that it’s a very short and busy period of time to study this powerful resource. As for me, I need much more time and concentration to use it more effectively. I have understood from the articles and recommended resources that the tool has a lot of useful functions and is of great value, but I need to think over how to prepare something really interesting and engaging for students and helpful for me. It’s the first time for me to hear about the tool and as I teach ESP to prospective computer engineers and it’s very difficult to surprise them with something new on the Net, so after having finished our course, I am going to learn how to work with the tool and I would be glad if I met my e-classmates on the pages of ANVILL service. I have already saved it in my Delicious.
Our weekly task was to create "e-something". So, I have prepared some interactive materials about Films and Movies for my intermediate first year ESP students.
I used these services to prepare it:
1. Puzzlemaker to create Films Word Search
2. Quia Web to prepare Reading and Listening Comprehension Exercises
3. Wallwisher/Padlet to create Film, Film, Film WallWisher
4. Poster 4 teachers to prepare Films and Movies Worksheet
5. Wordle to create
6. Prezi to prepare Prezi example "My Favourite Movies and TV Shows"
Our weekly task was to create "e-something". So, I have prepared some interactive materials about Films and Movies for my intermediate first year ESP students.
I used these services to prepare it:
1. Puzzlemaker to create Films Word Search
2. Quia Web to prepare Reading and Listening Comprehension Exercises
3. Wallwisher/Padlet to create Film, Film, Film WallWisher
4. Poster 4 teachers to prepare Films and Movies Worksheet
5. Wordle to create
6. Prezi to prepare Prezi example "My Favourite Movies and TV Shows"
Regards, Nataliia
Dear Nataliia,
ReplyDeleteI'm really happy to see you and Mariam work on a project together. This is one of the most precious parts of this course I believe, as we would never had the chance to meet each other and conduct projects together if we haven't had met in a course like this.
As I have written on my comment on the Nicenet thread, I liked your work with the new tools of this week. I use films in my language classes and your studies gave me new ideas about using films as a teaching tool in language classes. I wish you all the best in your future studies.
Best,
Hülya
Dear Nataliia,
ReplyDeleteCongratulations for your extraordinary work! I really admire your professionalism and expertise with new technology tools.
I was very happy and honored to have had the opportunity to read about your final project while doing a peer review of your first draft report. All I can say is that you have done an excellent project and I am glad if I helped you with my benevolent suggestions to make your final report even more complete and successful.
Among the numerous tools we had to explore this week, I also liked Padlet and Wizard a lot. I completely agree with you that they are very useful for providing you space to keep your teaching materials and students' works all organized in one place. I have seen the activities and materials about films and movies you have created for our weekly task and I really like them. They are professional and inspiring for others.
I wish you all the best in your future work!
Kind regards,
Izela
Dear Nataliia,
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for giving me and my students the opportunity to learn from your project and share the practical technology tools you designed. As I said on my blog this week 8 it is really good to work with you because you have this sense of communicating your engagement and talents; of course my students will be glad to see the feedback of their participation in your project, as for myself I will be available to collaborate with you and our other friends even after our training.
I am impressed with the amount of activities you designed with an apparent easiness and also your generosity to share.
Gratefully,
Mariam