Week 10

Very sad to say that this is the end of the course. I would like to thank my country Nepal to select me for the course. Thank you very much to Oregon University to organize this kind of online course and give us opportunity to learn many useful things. Thank you US Embassy. Thank you Robert to be a ideal instructor, with you the course would be nothing. You were so helpful all round the course. Thank you so much dear class mates to be always helpful and cooperative.

The course is useful to deal with the students with modern technology. I did not know that I can do so much with the technology. Keeping bookmarks in Delicious.com is wonderful. Planing a project in Web Quest and setting Rubrics was the great job. It made my projects more easier and marking more objective. Links shared were very much useful. Making a power point presentation was not new for me but a systematic one.  Learning about search engine was a good job. I did not know that so many of search engines are present. I learned how to use and act according to ABCD objectives. I learned how to engage a large class room systematically. I learned how to use one computer in a class room. I learned how to create online course using nicenet. I learned how to make my wall and use it as the class wall. I learned howto use Google documents and plan a lesson here and so on.

At the end of the course. we have prepared a report. It was an interesting and challenging task to me. I had to read a partner's report then commented on him and did changes in my report according to his suggestion. I liked to do this task very much.

At last, I will advice my future participants to do the course with full dedication and interest. It is a useful course to update yourself professionally and use the modern technology in you teachings.

At last dear friends would miss you all...
Thank you so much everybody..

Aparna  

Week 9

"Seeing is worth a thousand times hearing."

A link between intelligence and second language learning has been reported by several researchers. Over the year, many studies using a variety of IQ tests and different methods of assessing language learning have been found that intelligence levels were a good means of predicting how successful a learner would be at language learning. Furthermore, some recent studies have shown that intelligence may be more strongly related to certain kinds of second language abilities than other.                                                                                    

Teaching aid and materials include any material, program or machine that can be used to help the teacher present or explain his/her lesson better. They are to help teacher save time effort and arouse interest on the part of the students.

Pictures and photographs can be used to stimulate the students to speak and as a basis of writing exercise. They are useful for teaching vocabulary and to familiarize the students with foreign culture. Posters include complex pictures or series of picture that can be displayed simply by sticking on the wall with the help of cork board or flannel board or by using multimedia and padlet wall. A good power point presentation worths a large lecture class. Over head projector can be used to present the drawn or typed materials to a large language class. Effective way of video can assist the teaching/learning of a language class. With the advent of internet, all aspects of education have been influenced. We can find any teaching aid here and use them in more effective way. Learners can view them even after the school, in their free time and in the time of studies at home. They can even search more effective and useful one and share to the class. These way students become more active than teachers and the learning becomes child centered.

This week I learned that we can use technology according to the student’s intelligence. The week was very much busy for me I read the comments given by my partner and followed what he said. I made the final draft of my project report and have submitted it. Now, we are at the end of the course, just one week is left.

Aparna   

Week 8

Students working out for power point presentations in groups.

This week was very much busy for me. I learned many interesting things and went through many useful sites. How to teach online was something difficult for me but the sites like: http://www.easytestmaker.com  http://poster.4teachers.org  http://bogglesworldesl.com/  http://www.toolsforeducators.com/  http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ helped me a lot. I found them useful for teachers. Writing report, this week kept me very much busy. I have worked hard on my report and waiting for comments from my course partner Ricardo. I have read his report and learned many things from him which will help me in my final draft of the project. Online video discussion was something new for me. I was keen interested to take part but due to electricity problem here in Nepal I could not. I went through  it afterwards and found my classmates are  working very hard. Their discussion with Jeff Magoto was wonderful on webinar on ANVILL. We can find it here:
http://tinyurl.com/mar1-anvill-webcast

Students busy in their group works

I created pddlet wall for my class here they can share their links, images, videos according to the topic being taught in the class room. Every one in the class can go through this link. Students would be independent in their searches and would feel free to write something or draw something and put on the wall to share with other classmates. For this I motivated my students on making short power point presentations in the class and presenting it in small groups, then they had to share it on the wall.

As a whole it was a busy week for me..

Aparna