"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.