"Building Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web " Week 10. Farewell :(

Hi everyone,

First of all, I want to say thank you for everything. I am really pleased to be a member of this course. It seems like only yesterday that we were writing our first blog posts and now we are at the end of the week. It would be hard to say goodbye. The course was interesting and interactive for all. I learned many interesting and useful things for me. And the members of the course were friendly and always ready to help each other.

As for our instructor Donna, she is the best and amiable person I have ever seen. She is really an experienced and intellectual instructor. She is the best specialist of her work.

Tasks and assignments were very interesting and essential. I learned a lot from this course.

In future, I would like to take part in online and face-to-face courses which will be organized by Oregon University, especially with this team.

I wish you happy adventures, fantastic new friendships, amazing experiences and the journey of a lifetime.

Best regards,

Madina

Uzbekistan

"Building Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web" Week 9

Hello everyone,

I would like to say thank you to our great instructor Donna and my dear colleagues. Even though it is week 9, all participants completed their tasks as it was in week 1. We all enjoy doing tasks. Because, we are sure they will be beneficial in our future.

I am really glad that we will continue sharing our thoughts and experiences permanently.

This week we have been focused on learning styles and technology. And on nicenet we had a guest Jeff Magoto. He introduced us new tool ANVIL. This tool is so convenient that any teacher or student with network access at class in office can use ANVILL to listen to news watch video the clips or submit video based tasks.

And also, I would like to meet my great and well-experienced colleagues at face-to-face courses.

Best regards,

Madina

Uzbekistan 

"Building Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web" Week 8

Hello everyone,

In spite of all busy week, I had found some strength and courage to finish this week. Besides, all this course members were close to each other. We have created Web Skills Yellow group on Facebook. In addition they helped me to accomplish my tasks. I thank all of them.

This week we have been involved with discussions on nicenet. There we discussed about technology tools. And I created WebQuest.I consider technology tools can motivate students and help them enhance their knowledge. Moreover, it is very easy to assess students via them. Furthermore, teacher will save their time and organize an interactive lesson.

I could not finish my Plan draft yet. But I will do it. I do apologize for this.

Best wishes

Madina

Uzbekistan.

"Building Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web" Week 7

Hello everyone,

The days are passing and we are near to the final project. I have to mention once more that I am very lucky to be in this course because, I am learning many new things from this course.

This week I have had 4 main tasks:

Week 7 Discussion #1 – Learner Autonomy

Week 7 Discussion #2 – The One-Computer Classroom

Week 7 Task – Padlet

Week 7 Project Task #6 – Find a Partner

In the first task we discussed about autonomy learners who takes responsibility and obligation for their own learning. It takes as its starting point the idea that students are capable of self-direction and are able to develop an independent, proactive approach to their studies In our field, learner autonomy is very essential.

As for The One-Computer Classroom we read about activities for the one-computer classroom, mobile devices, and some strategies and applications and described it what have we done, and how did it work.

Next, I added a link to an article and video on our Padlet page. It is very easy to use Padlet in the class. We can add there any format of materials videos, pictures etc. Even, students can add their scores as well.

As a finding a partner I will be partner with Yaowapa and Zenaide so, we are 3 and I very thank them for adding me their group.

The young are quick of speech.

Grown middle-aged, I teach

Corrosion and distrust,

Exacting what I must.

A poem is what stands

When imperceptive hands,

Feeling, have gone astray.

It is what one should say.

Few minds will come to this.

The poet’s only bliss

Is in cold certitude—

Laurel, archaic, rude.

Best wishes 

Madina 

Uzbekistan.

"Building Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web" Week 6

Hello dear colleagues and Donna,

We passed another wonderful week! In spite of busy days we all keen to do our interesting assignments.

In this week we have been involved with nicenet discussions. Here we were familiar with PowerPoint to Increase Interactionand we discussed about interactive and standard PowerPoints. It was very interesting to read about others opinions on this issue and to give my opinion.

Next we discussed about Interactive Teaching & Large Classes, What techniques and technology could you use to make your large classes more interactive?

As for us we bring technology ourselves and use it in the class. We do many quizzes games and pair and group work.

Besides, I read the article "How to create memorable lectures". It describes three phases of the learning process: keeping students' attention, giving them opportunities, to review and apply important concepts. And Just-in-Time Teaching  also very essential technique which is useful for both teacher and students.

Here lectures are scattered of short activities that command students to use the information or concepts presented in the lecture. In Just-in-Time Teaching, students react electronically to web-based assignments, due a few hours before class. 
And also, it is very essential for teachers, since it can help them to manage with time.
 

And in the next task we created our PowerPoint slide show that includes 1-3 interactive elements, ConcepTest, QuickWrite, hyperlinks/jumps to other sections of the PPT show based on student responses.  Here I created my Subject-verb agreement PowerPoint slide with its quizzes. It was very interesting and hope it will help me students to enhance their skills.

Best regards,

Madina

Uzbekistan

"Building Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web" Week 5

Hello everyone.

This is my subsequent post for our online course. This week was very interesting and incredibly essential for all of us.

First of all, we had a guest on our nicenet discussion. Her name is Kelley Pierce. She works at the University of Oregon, American English Institute. And we I have discussed with her about project-based learning (PBL) and WebQuests , and how can rubrics, alternative assessment and project based learning encourage our students to become more autonomous learners. I read her and my colleagues ideas and I find that all the given instructions are useful for both students and teacher. Then I gave my own opinion in this matter.

As for the next task on nicenet discussion we had Project task. Here we described a problem that we would like to solve with the help of technology tool. As I mentioned on the nicenet discussion I have problem in my writing class. Time is limited and we cannot share or opinions. So, with the help of  109 B Writing Class Blog we solve this problem.

The third task was very interesting I like it very much. It was Extra credit card, here we created our WebQuest. On each our WebQuest page we uploaded materials which we are going to teach our students.

I consider, that our colleague Wadha’s WebQuest is in the first place. It is exceedingly good and quite essential. Hence, I have to mention that his WebQuest can motivate not only students, but also teachers as well.

http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=244364

Next, we worked on the rubrics. We made our rubrics and upload itto the rubrics page. Furthermore, rubric makes students self sufficient, autonomous learners, as well as it can provide guidance to teachers on possible assessment categories.

http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=ShowRubric&rubric_id=2439493

All the given tasks are very necessary for all of us thus, I am very satisfied with them.

Best regards,

Madina

Uzbekistan.  

"Building Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web" Week 4

Hello everyone,

To tell the truth, this week I was very busy and I could not complete the tasks in time.

First of all I moved to another country and I could not use internet. I very apologize about this.

In this week we have been involved with Writing, and Vocabulary on www.nicenet.com. Here I read Karajka's article about using the internet in ESL writing instruction I got useful information for my class.

And also, we completed our final projects . As for this task we had to think about problems that should be solved using a NEW technology tool. My students are freshmen and they are very shy to speak English. And I think can help them to enhance their speaking skill with the help of a NEW technology tool.

And the next task was about “How to Write a Technology Enhanced Lesson Plan”

I wrote my lesson plan and uploaded it to the Lesson Plan page on our wiki and I read several of our course mates' lesson plans.

I like very much Nazgul and Husni’s lesson plans.

You teach me, I forget.

You show me, I remember.

You involve me, I understand.

                                    Edward O Wilson.

So, I am very grateful to Donna that she involved us with these tasks.

Best wishes,

Madina

Uzbekistan.

"Buliding Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web" Week 3

Hello everyone,

This is my 3rd reflection. In this week I have been involved with interesting tasks such as nicenet discussion - Aural/Oral Skill Building, Read a Sample Final Project and creating delicious page.

I like very much Delicious page because it is really new for me and then I can easily look for needed information or material.

As for Aural/Oral Skill Building I like very much Lindsay Miller's opinion and the title is "Developing Listening Skills with Authentic Materials". In this article she wrote about how to develop listening skills effectively and advised to use authentic texts. As for recommendation I recommended http://www.bbc.co.uk  http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/topic-group/speaking-and-listening. I find it is very useful for all levels and can enhance students' listening skills.

In the final project I had to look at the sample project reports on the course website and read one example final project report.

 read Tendouinde Bruno Nikiema's description, he is from American Language Center, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. His main purpose from the project was to find out "Using new technological tools to activate the students in reading and writing,
to make them more active in communicating and sharing opinion promoting their interest and motivation"

I really like this project because it was for students’ benefit.

Every week I am learning something new. So, for this I thank Donna Shaw, Oregon University and my colleagues around the world.

Best regards,

Madina

Uzbekistan.

"Building Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web" Week 2

Hello everyone,

This is my second week. I am very glad to post you about my next step. In this week we got 3 main tasks on www.nicenet.com :  Websearching,  ABCD Objectives, Project Task #1: Describing a Class.

Websearching- The first task was really new and interesting for me. Because, before I did not know that there are more than 150 websites concern to education on the internet. However, from the suggested site “www.noodletools.com ” I have found very essential and tangible search engines for the Best Search for My Information Needs. I used to use www.google.com but now I can recommend several extremely informative and incredibly good search engines such as Bing ,Ask.com, Google Real-Time, Times Topics, Google.scholar. All are focused on academic purpose.

ABCD Objectives- Moreover, I have been familiar with ABCD model Objectives. That was really the great thing that I did in this week. I found that objectives should identify a learning outcome, should be consistent with course goals and should be precise.

There are 4 parts of ABCB Objectives:

1.     Audience (A) – Who are your learners?

2.     Behavior (B) – What do you expect them to be able to do? This should be an overt, observable behavior, even if the actual behavior is covert or mental in nature.

3.     Condition (C) – How? Under what circumstances or context will the learning occur? What will the student be given or already be expected to know to accomplish the learning?

4.     Degree (D) – How much will be accomplished, how well will the behavior need to be performed, and to what level? Do you want total mastery (100%), do you want them to respond correctly 80% of the time, etc.

I consider, this model is very clear and nice; thus we can easily identify our goal through the detailed, observable and measurable ABCD objective. Meanwhile, I am going to use this method for my class.

As for Project Task #1: Describing a Class, in this task we had to think about a class that would benefit from making a technology-inspired change. As it was asked I wrote about my class, my students’ ages and their technology devices which they bring in every lesson. Accordingly, I am very sure that my classes will profit from a new technology tool; therefore, it is beneficial and can motivate students to study hard.

Although, it has only been two weeks, day by day I am getting great impression. Each task absorbs me with its well-organized and glorified assignment. Hence, it elicits my students success. I think myself, as a successful girl, because I am a member of this course! Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge with me.

Best wishes

Madina 
Uzbekistan.

"Building Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web" Week 1

Hello everyone !

I am very pleased to be a member of the course “Building Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web”. It is really wonderful to share our knowledge with well-experienced specialists. This is my first online course I have ever had.

I am a new teacher at Uzbekistan State University of World Languages and this is my first Academic year.

As I am a teacher I really like teaching. I admire teaching because I love seeing students understand something new and I enjoy teaching because this job encourages my own growth since, to do it well requires my own continuous education. I am fond of teaching because, I want to be among students and help them. I prefer teaching because, I adore this quote “In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.” Whatever my belief is, a good teacher continues to be a student.

Moreover, I assure this will not be my first global education. Since, I found tasks and assignments are acclaimed and professionally organized and could engross me. Also, the ground rules and rubrics are very fair and clear. This week I have been involved with Self Introduction, filling out Assessment survey, and I have joined the Class Discussion, read Donna’s and other participants’ posts. Besides, I have created my first blog.

Frankly saying, blogging was a little bit difficult for me. Nonetheless, I am eager to know what I do not know. Thus, I did it. Accordingly, in future I will teach my students how to create their blogs. And I see, having a blog is much more better than having an email. Because, through the blog we can create our own Interactive Online Classes therefore, we will turn from Traditional Method to Modern.

Even, it was just a week I got great impression from the course. So, I thank Oregon University and our amiable instructor Donna Shaw. Also, I thank all my friends around the world.Thank you for sharing your experiences and thoughts.

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm”

Best regards,

Madina Irgasheva

Uzbekistan.

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow,
Learn as if you were to live forever"
                               M.K.Gandhi.