Week 10 Final Draft.

I cant believe this 10 week course is now about to close and I find myself  far ahead of what I was at the beginning of this course. My understanding of web-based resources and techniques is better and overall  it has made me capable of using web based resources better than anyone else, I can now use the learnt skills and acquired techniques for promoting language skills of my students.
These 10 weeks have brought me closer to the other teachers around the world who are innovating, experimenting and doing their bit to teach English in their own surroundings.

The overall experience of the course has been a wonderful one, all the readings, tasks, assignments and posts on blog along with the final project is worth cherishing in all ways.

Knowing about new sites which can be used to make exercises, crosswords, puzzles, etc has come as a really fun-filled package. I have truly loved all these especially Delicious, Voki, Nicenet, Rubistar, Noodletools, etc are on my favourites list.

Doing all this as a project has also been a great experience.

Above all, I feel really happy that I was selected for this course and I look forward to being in touch with such great instructors as Jodi and Celeste.


Cherry 

Week 9

This week opened with a little less work after the final project finalization phase.
The discussion topic for the week was Learning Styles and Issues related to Multiple Intelligence. We read articles by Howard Gardner and Richard Felder and learned about different learning styles and different needs of different learners. Knowing about the variety or better to say the mini world in our classes was very exciting.
I liked the ideas and tasks mentioned by Richard and Howard. It is really important to allocate right in order to keep up learner motivation and indulge everyone in learning experience.
The various types of learners as indicated by Felder really triggered my thinking to better distribute work in all my classes.

Being engaged in active discussion with Celeste this week was also very inspiring. her questions, ideas, answers are all thought-provoking.

Also working with Miguel for my final project was a good experience.

Week 8 Integrating Course with Project Plan

This week has been a real mental work-out, integrating contents of a course into a project plan is not an easy task. This week brought us three tasks in general- discussing the use of ANVILL and other exercise generators and online tools; creating an exercise; and drafting our project plans.
Let me start with the use of ANVILL it really is a mine in itself with so many features and child friendly interface. Also thought of using Class Site on Google and Nicenet's ICA with Blogging as E-Diary.

I created a crossword using crosswordpuzzlegames.com, found it interesting as first timer.

Posted my project plan and awaiting Miguel's comments. Already posted comments about Miguel's draft.

Cherry