Nadina noticed that the basic needs of her students are related to reading. She found a study in Romania which proved that more than 50%of the teenagers who read a text are not able to understand it, or to say what the text is about. At the same time, her students' vocabulary, both in English and Romanian was poor and they were not able to express what they wanted to say.She decided to use the technology to motivate her students to do more reading and writing and thus to improve their reading and writing skills. Students found them more interesting than a traditional text-book and participated in them with a lot of enthusiasm.
Our next task was to create our "Delicious" account and use it to store our favorite resources, which we find during the web-search. Excellent tool; it makes your professional life so much easier! I can't believe that I've never used it before! It's a must!
Finally, this week's web-search was so inspiring! We were guided to the sites which not only use the latest state-of-the-art technology but also contain a lot of useful ideas and exercises to use in the classroom. Amazing again! Right now my head is so full of ideas that it looks like I'm going to have a headache from this before I go to school on Monday!
Hello, Alicja
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, this week has been very interesting in the webskill course. I read a project made by a teacher from Honduras and she also had to face different problems while working on her project; particularly her students' lack of computer knowledge and unwillingness to use computers in order to improve their English skills.
I think it is interesting to know what other teachers had to face while working on their projects because those situations can help us learn from their experiences and start thinking about what we would like to do.
The task we had to do about DELICIOUS was very helpful. That tool really helped me organize my links.... and the best is that I will never lose them and I can share them with my co-workers and students.
Sincerely
JC
Dear Juan Carlos,
ReplyDeleteI'm very happy to hear that many of us enjoy this course as much as I do! I have to admit this is one of the best courses I've ever attended and the people who post here make truly fantastic mates! I'm so glad and honored to be part of this community!
The other thing is that many of us are also fantastic bloggers and I find it really needful to go to their blogs and read what's new. Your own blog is such a good example! I love the things you write and the way you are always creative about it.
Please, keep posting and I'll be the faithful follower!
Regards,
Alicja
Hi Aian,
ReplyDeleteI too excited to read your Blog post and what are different things that we have learned in this week really its a week of amazing learning experience mostly I was inspired with the different project works prepared by our previous participants and they are very supportive for us to prepare for final project report on time.
Have a nice day,
Vinay
Dear Alicja
ReplyDeleteYour blog is a smooth read. I appreciate the way you compress the matter and present it in a lovely short post like this. Great! Of course, this week has been really fantastic. Reviewing a project report is an essential exercise before writing one ourselves. It certainly develops our insight into using various webtools in a language classroom. The articles we read familiarized us with the latest research and tools available to guide and enable us to make our teaching more effective. The discussion we had on Nicenet was fruitful. The point that you raised and the reply you posted in reply to my reply made me think over my statement. Thanks!
Blogging is always fun. This time I have asked two questions to all in my blog. Please visit my blog and answer the questions. Bye!
Dev
Dear Vinay and Dev,
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot for your contributions and clever observations. It's great to hear you both find it interesting and enjoyable to read all the blogs and comment.
Let's keep posting!Let's make our blogs more insightful!
Regards,
Alicja
Thats right
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