My reflections on the second week

Hi Followers,

The second week is coming to a close end and I've delayed my reflection till the very end to come up with all thoughts and ideas that might encounter me through my readings either to the required readings or to your fruitful comments and reflections.

First of all, I'd like to say that we almost all of us have been depending on yahoo and google search engines, but now (and talking about myself) I'm much more confident to use alternative search engines that are either easier, more to the point or faster than google. Definitely this task couldn't be done individually; i mean if I had to try all the suggested search engines by myself and decide on their advantages and disadvantages, I would definitely quit the course. But being done collaboratively, make it easier for all of us to get benefit and learn about all these various search engines.

The way this task was organized, spread and shared, gave me some useful tips about how I can assign group tasks to my own students online and how I can monitor and assess them.

Second, I'd like to comment on the ABCD learning objectives. Most of us (as many of you have commented) are familiar with lesson planning techniques and already focusing on them on daily basis, but the ABCD tips have enlightened me with the necessity on focusing on the ultimate objective of certain teaching in an organized way. Sometimes I concentrate on my students' behaviour or the objective more than their condition. And other times i don't seriously take into account the degree I want them to reach or I don't specify it exactly. Knowing about the ABCD objectives was of great benefit for me.

That's all for now.

Regards

Hala

Hi Robert, Nada, Rahmat, Margarita and Irina,

I'm really glad to read your comments and I feel like day by day we are coming closer to know each other through our blogs.

Margarita, I liked your solution in assigning on/off line roles to solve the problem.

Rahmat, I'm myself wondering too about the suitable students number in such online sessions. I think Robert may advise us out of his experience.

Irina, thanks I searched the suggested website and it's useful.

The third week is approaching...can't wait till see our new tasks.

Cheers

week 1 Hala's blog

Hi all,

Here I'm posting my first reflection at my first blog. I'm really excited about it and I can tell you that it wasn't that complicated to create following the user friendly manual. Creating a blog has empowered me with the sense of creativity and responsibility and as I was creating it, my students were my major point of interest; I can say that it's really easy to ask them to create their own blogs, post and comment. This is what we need to build on in our coming teaching; connecting learning/teaching English to technology and mainly the web which is by itself our students' main interest nowadays.

Looking forward to seeing your comments.

Hala Moukayed