March 16th
The online course on building teaching skills through the interactive web has come to an end. It was a real eye opener to me. First of all I found a huge amount of websites devoted to teaching with some useful material for my classes. Secondly I got acqainted with incredible tools that can be used in online or CALL environment. Finally I found myself in the community of outstanding and highly devoted teachers who inspired me to put more efforts into my job and approach it creatively.
On the other hand I wish I had more time to analyse all the material presented to us and perform my tasks more successfully. Honestly I didn't expect that online learning takes so much time. Yet I should bear in mind that it has been my first time in a course in English with the international audience and this might have influenced the speed of my performance too. Nevertheless I do not regret taking part in the course, because time spent on it was an investment into my professional development and future carrer prospects.
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Sunday, March 10, 2013
March 10th
This week I watched several new video presentations made by my students. The first one was quite weak, obviously lacked some editing. But the second one was just excellent. Everyone watched it with great interest from the beginning to the end . The speaker was rather serious, though the video itself contained some funny elements, nevertheless the whole presentation appeared well balanced.
This week I had to submit the final draft of my project in the online course 'Building teaching skills through the interactive web'. I don't have big hopes concerning the evaluation, but I am happy that I took part in this course, since it was very informative and certainly very useful. I also learnt about educational context in other parts of the world and could gain some new ideas from my colleagues teachers who deal with the same educational situations. So it was worth a try.
This week I watched several new video presentations made by my students. The first one was quite weak, obviously lacked some editing. But the second one was just excellent. Everyone watched it with great interest from the beginning to the end . The speaker was rather serious, though the video itself contained some funny elements, nevertheless the whole presentation appeared well balanced.
This week I had to submit the final draft of my project in the online course 'Building teaching skills through the interactive web'. I don't have big hopes concerning the evaluation, but I am happy that I took part in this course, since it was very informative and certainly very useful. I also learnt about educational context in other parts of the world and could gain some new ideas from my colleagues teachers who deal with the same educational situations. So it was worth a try.
Sunday, March 3, 2013
March 3rd
Last week I saw the first video presentations made by my students, and I must confess that I quite liked them. The only disadvantage was that we could watch and respond to them only in class. Some presentations were very scientific, others rather informal, but all were very informative in content. I realised that to make an academic presentation interesting to watch is not an easy task. It depends not only on what you say, but how you say it. Anyway, I believe it is a good practice for my students. Besides, I created a new blog for this purpose, which could allow comments from student pairs. I am planning to transfer all presentations from the previous site to this one. I hope it will work. Also I was acqainted with a new tool for audio/ video material online- ANVILL. It seems rather impressive.
Last week I saw the first video presentations made by my students, and I must confess that I quite liked them. The only disadvantage was that we could watch and respond to them only in class. Some presentations were very scientific, others rather informal, but all were very informative in content. I realised that to make an academic presentation interesting to watch is not an easy task. It depends not only on what you say, but how you say it. Anyway, I believe it is a good practice for my students. Besides, I created a new blog for this purpose, which could allow comments from student pairs. I am planning to transfer all presentations from the previous site to this one. I hope it will work. Also I was acqainted with a new tool for audio/ video material online- ANVILL. It seems rather impressive.
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