Week- 7 Reflections

Week - 7 My Reflections:

This week I came to know about a new tool that I can use  my class to make my students independent learners.i.e. wall wisher. This I am going to use  in my class to encourage my students to post the questions there.

Another task is to write an activity to use one computer to inspire the students to become autonomous learners.There I came to know how students are motivated  to learn if they have given a chance to participate themselves in class room activities.This task has taught me a new role teacher is playing in 21st century class-room.

Next task is to find a partner,Mr.Daniel  accepted me as his  partner thank you Daniel .

Project Task:This week I searched for information about my project i.e. E-Portfolios and Blended learning. I came across some jewels, I got enormous and  edifying information  in these websites.

 URL is :

https://stonybrook.digication.com/sbu_eportfolio/What_is_an_ePortfolio

Another link I searched here is Blended learning.Here is the link for it:

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/02/the-basics-of-blended-learning.html


 During my project work I stated creating kid-blogs for my students, I made them to create their profiles by uploading their photos and shown a video of a story "The Greatest Treasure Hunt"
and asked them post the summary of the story to their blogs.

I recorded some of my students presentations i.e speaking activities using my laptop webcam and posted to their blog to maintain online record of their performance,here I used the tool Drop-Box to upload videos.

Project Report:I am going to  finish  first draft of  my project report by the end of this week.

Thank you Donna and all for helping and encouraging me to complete my project.

My Kids Blogs Please visit and give me your valuable suggestions to improve my project as well as my students performance.

Cheers,

Vinay

Blended learning in Plain English:


Basics of Blended learning:

One Computer Lesson Plan

Hello All,

 9th class students of age between 13-14 years studying in regional language in rural India.

I am going to use this lesson in my project.

One computer works better if we don’t have computer lab and internet connection. It also helps the teacher to monitor the students’ participation in the class-room; during these activities students’ concentration is unbroken, they are curious to watch stories/videos. 

One computer technology allows the interaction among the students through group activities and discussions. There is a much scope for students ‘oral presentations like role-plays and dramatization.

Here the teachers’ role is only a facilitator. He/she initiate the discussion and supplies the hand-outs, monitors and co-ordinate the class room activities so naturally it enhances the autonomous learning.

ABCD Objective: 

After watching the story  ” The greatest Treasure ” in their class using computer (Condition), students (Audience) participate in discuss with their friends comprehend the theme (Behavior) to complete activities given at the end of the lesson to get A grade above 7 points (Degree).

Speaking: 1. Suggest a different title for this story. Why do you think that this would make a good title? (Individual activity)

 

Thick Questions:

Write possible question and answer them. (Group activity)

What is the main idea of this story? What details from the text support the main idea?

 

Write 5 words from the story and use them in your own sentences.

 Write 10 sentences summarizing the story.

Week-6 My Reflections

Week-6 - My Reflections:

 Hello All,

This week  I learned how to create an interactive power point, creating stand-alone interactive tasks is my life ambition I never thought that power point can be  made interactive since last two years I have been trying/searching on internet to make interactive tasks for my students for that I tried micro soft  "LCDS" program to create Standalone Activities but its difficult and time consuming then I tried “ Course lab” software again I failed to accomplish my task now I got a good weapon to make stand-alone interactive activities on my own to use it in my class.

Thank you, Donna for bountiful resource to create interactive lessons of our own.

Here is the interactive power point prepared by me:....

Writinganinformalletter 090323062144-phpapp01 from Vinayadhar Raju
 

Next task to commenting on other participants post I really appreciate the posts of Sonia, Alex Baltazar, Ayman Hegazy .Particularly the discussion with Ayman Hegazy is strengthen my knowledge of language teaching thank you Ayman for nice discussion.

My Project Task:

 I have started my project implantation from 1^st February onwards but I struggled a lot to move forward because of so many problems like power cuts, creating emails, preparing collaborative blog for my students, slow internet connection and repair of system etc.

Last week I gave a quotation,

"If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem."                                                                 By   Jiddu Krishnamurti

Certainly its true I got a solution i.e

http://kidblog.org/home/  

This tool allows me to create students Blogs without emails it’s cooperative to:

    Create classroom discussions

    Learn digital citizenship

    Practicing writing skills

    Create an e-portfolio

    Reflect on learning

    Formatively assess writing

Here is the link to my kids Blog:

http://kidblog.org/Class9EM/

This has made me to bone up my project report, class blog and assignments and everything I am busy with these tasks see you then until next week.

Vinay

Week-5 My Reflections

Week-5 Reflections:

This is a week of ear-piercing experiences  most of the tasks assigned to us are very interesting and useful to heighten my knowledge of class room teaching the project task gave us an opportunity to go practice here itself.

I prepared rubrics using rubric star and started using the same rubrics in my class blog. I made a webquest on importance of Republic day in India and posted it to my class assignments folder. Everything I learned here is very helpful to accomplish my project.

Initially  I was hostile to prepare webquest and after preparing it I wriggled a lot to publish it in our add link section whenever I tried to click on link It appears “ sorry it is not published “  then I click the help in zunal.com then came to know how to publish the webquest to mark it public.

Discussion task is enthusiastic and promising, project based learning websites are very innovative and thought provoking.

While performing the Project task I bump into a lot of implementation problems to make my students work with the technology and  internet.

Power cut, internet connection errors, Google verifications etc., a lot more to say……….

Finally

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.                                                                 By   Jiddu Krishnamurti


vinay

Week-4:My Reflections

Hi All,

Greetings from India.

 It’s hard to believe that we are at the end of the forth week, this week I have gone through the reading tasks, I spend much time on reading the articles “Using the Internet in ESL Writing Instruction by Jarek Krajka” and “Three Extensive Reading Activities for ESL/EFL Students Using E-books by Mei-Ya Liang" here I made a mistake that without reading Donna’s instruction, I posted in nicenet then she made some suggestions to improve my post.

My next task is to prepare technology linked lesson plan this task has made me joyful  because I have been doing this in my teacher training sessions so immediately I found a video which I have used in my class i.e. ‘the first well’ story form YouTube. And made a lesson plan on a topic how videos can be used in ESL class room to make our teaching effective and posted it to nicenet. I got an appreciation form Donna, it’s stimulating and appealing. 

Task – 3 is to describing the students and class room problem that can be resolved using technology, teacher related  or a students related here I have chosen “ E-portfolios” but I am afraid whether I can do that with in four weeks, I don’t know but I hope that at least I will do my best.

Last but not the least is to commenting on other co-participants posts. I commented on Alicja’s post here I came across the free educational tools that can be installed to teach 21 century skills like gaming, movie making, photo editing software, and these tools enlighten my knowledge of educational technology.

Finally Blog post here it is…

Please post your comments ….

Have a Good day,

Vinay