I was ecstatic to see my grades of week 1 so I started the 2nd week with new enthusiasm. Well...this week was quite productive. I have learnt so much in this week. Firstly I will mention the treasure I came across...Noodletools. Wow! such a wealth of search engines and other related sites and all categorized under their respective fields.We were asked to surf the site and select one search engine and utilize it to its fullest. So I selected Truveo to search for different videos related to language teaching. Furthermore, on Noodletools I found that we can even subscribe to and use bibliography making software, so very helpful for citation and writing bibliographies in APA or MLA styles.
Secondly, we were engaged in the step 1 of project task, which was to describe our students and setting of the class and technology available both to teacher and students in detail.
Thirdly, we were given a task to formulate an objective for our students for teaching anything from their course. This was done in Pennsylvania State University's ABCD style (Audience-Behavior-Condition-Degree). I must admit, it was a new and different experience for me. I was quite apprehensive in the beginning, then i went through the readings provided to us and understood quite easily what entails ABCD. And finally when I formulated and posted my ABCD objective on Nicenet it was much appreciated by Donna. Again, it gave me a great sense of accomplishment.
While going through the discussions about different teaching scenarios of my fellow course participants, I am quite amazed to know that problems faced by EFL teachers are the same everywhere, no matter in what part of the world you are teaching.
Ciao!!!
Secondly, we were engaged in the step 1 of project task, which was to describe our students and setting of the class and technology available both to teacher and students in detail.
Thirdly, we were given a task to formulate an objective for our students for teaching anything from their course. This was done in Pennsylvania State University's ABCD style (Audience-Behavior-Condition-Degree). I must admit, it was a new and different experience for me. I was quite apprehensive in the beginning, then i went through the readings provided to us and understood quite easily what entails ABCD. And finally when I formulated and posted my ABCD objective on Nicenet it was much appreciated by Donna. Again, it gave me a great sense of accomplishment.
While going through the discussions about different teaching scenarios of my fellow course participants, I am quite amazed to know that problems faced by EFL teachers are the same everywhere, no matter in what part of the world you are teaching.
Ciao!!!
Hi Akifa
ReplyDeletethanks for your nice comment on my reflection. I am honored and relieved as I thought it was too long but we did a lot this week didn't we? I really wonder what is coming next. Good luck with the tasks of next week.
Best, Nehir
Dear Afika,
ReplyDeleteI cited you on my blog this week as I felt the same about the marks on Week 2! I hope you don't mind.
It really is a relief to hear that we are not alone in our struggles and fights. We all seem to be dealing with the same problems. But this nice group of teachers is really trying to overcome all the barriers that we come across.
In your blog post you mentioned bibliography making software. I was wondering if you'd be so nice to share an URL of it.
Thank you.
Keep up the good work!
Kind regards,
Karolina
Dear Nehir,
ReplyDeleteThanks and best wishes!
Dear Karolina,
I feel honored to see that you cited me on your blog :). Here is the URL for bibliography making software on noodletools. I'm afraid its not a free software.
http://www.noodletools.com/tools/index.php
Akifa