Week # 3 - Full of New Resources!

Everybody will agree with the title of my new post. 

When I created my Delicious page and started browsing Donna's Delicious page and the rest of class' ones, I have found a lot of fruitful and necessary web resources for teaching English. Due to our creation of Delicious pages we have one more time enriched each other with on-line sources for better teaching English. All the links I have added will be at my disposal at any time; no need to search in Google or Yahoo for teaching material.  Well, my Delicios links contain descriptions, and that makes me easier look for needed material. So, my Delicious page consists of 26 interesting and useful links, 13 following and 1 follower (this upsets me). Welcome to Nazgula's Delicious page at https://delicious.com/nazguld.

After having read Aleyda Linares' project "Building Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web Project Report", I realized what I should have completed by the end of the course. (See: http://umbc.uoregon.edu/eteacher/projects/200902_E-Teacher_Linares_Honduras.pdf)

Next task was to read at least 2 articles for Week #3. I have chosen "Developing Listening Skills with Authentic Materials " by Lindsey Miller (2003, ESL Magazine) and "The Employment of CALL in Teaching Second/Foreign Language Speaking Skills" By Julia Gong (2002, Faculty of Education, Melbourne, Australia). Lindsey Miller (2003) describes 3 stages while teaching listening skills through Video/CD/Internet/ Radion/TV that would be better using them at class and sharesstep-by-step techniques. Well, the second article by Julia Gong (2002) enumerates pluses and minuses of CALL. It is more student-centered learning, where student learns hor to learn, he does it at his own pace; but, anyway, teacher must direct his/her learning. 

I am happy with Donna and Yellowgroupwiki calssmates! Let's go on sharing, learning and teaching. We are doing great Job!

Hello everyone!

This week I have learned new things, i.e. setting goals for lessons using ABCD objectives and trying new web searching machines. It was a challenging and enhancing experience!

Nazgul

Hello!

This is our Week 1. Reflection. Introductions. Creating blogs.

This week I've been involved in this big endeavour. Here are some thinds I ve done this week:

1.  Learned about our dear instructor - Donna Shaw, PhD. Her instructions are clear and precise.

2. Got familiar with with the course website - https://sites.google.com/site/webskillsuo

3. Filled out the needs assessment survey <http://tinyurl.com/qbdybqs>

4. Joined the class discussion on www.nicenet.org

5. Read Donna's first posting and added my own one to Week 1  - Self Introductions.

6. Posted my favorite quotation about teaching, It reads "Wine gets better with age, but teachers don't"

7. Read thoroughly "Ground rules" and “Guidelines for Discussions and Readings.

8. Posted comments on Week 1. Topic 2 at nicenet.com

9. Created own blog, which is called "Veni, vidi, vici" (Julius Ceasar)

10. I am happy to cooperate with the group and do this course to the end.

Hello!

This is our Week 1. Reflection. Introductions. Creating blogs.

I am really glad to be a  Web Skills yellow group participant of the University of Oregon e-learning course.

Well, nowadays high technologies make all spheres of our lives  much more mobile and enhancing. We begin to think, learn and teach not only locally but also globally. With the help of this course I can share my worldview on teaching and learn from all over the world colleague's thoughts and experiences. It is kind of globalization process.

I would characterize this course like - WOW! - Window On the World of teaching English using web skills.

Best regards,
Nazgul
Kyrgyzstan