Week 3.... Reflections : CALL & Delicious

Week 3 of the course was really demanding with so many readings to do.

Firstly, as a step 2 of the project task I had to read  project reports  from past Webskills classes. Then I posted my comments on one of the reports on Nicenet thread.

Secondly, I created a page on Delicious  (www.delicious.com). It is a social bookmarking site where one can save URLs of different websites. I have found it quite helpful as now I will be able to access my bookmarks from anywhere and from any computer.

Thirdly, we were introduced to CALL  which focused on oral/aural skills. I must admit that I am already familiar with CALL and have been using it in my teaching, still, with technology its never the final word, one learns new things everyday. Therefore for the task I read a few articles on CALL given to us for reading and selected the one by Miller  to improve the listening skills of the students with the help of technology. Next, I explored a few websites and selected onestopenglish which I think will be useful to teach speaking skills to my students.

Furthermore, I browsed through a list of other websites provided to us and selected a few that can be useful in my teaching context. One of them is Randall's ESL Lab and the other is Blurts. I have found these two sites very comprehensive to teach/learn listening and speaking skills.

Browsing different sites, going through lesson plans, project reports and articles on CALL helped me gain quite a lot this week.