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 Nazgul,
ReplyDeleteYou are right. I agree with your Week 3 post because we have added several websites to our delicious. We have learnt a lot this week.
By the way, I visited your delicious and found you added several websites to it.
Congrats.
Yaowapa
Thailand
Hi Yaowapa!
DeleteDid you like its taste? It's delicious, isn't it? :)
Best, Nazgul from Kyrgyzstan
Hello Nazgul,
ReplyDeleteI also agree with you. Student-centered environments focus on students’ interests and their learning styles. In this type of class approach, teachers assume another important role: they become leaders who guide students’ learning, and at the same time they promote autonomous learning.
Juan
Colombia
Hello Nazgul I totally agree with you. Congratulations your reflection is excellent.
ReplyDeleteMadina
Uzbekistan
Hello Nazgul
ReplyDeleteI couldn’t agree more with you that Delicious has great potential in education. The tag feature is incredibly useful in finding not only materials but also like-minded teachers with whom you can easily connect in order to share interesting web-based content.
Dear Nazgul,
ReplyDelete"Language classes are no longer teacher-centered" we keep on saying this but unfortunately I still visit classes where teachers of English are doing it rather traditionally; teachers lecturing "about" the language, not really teaching it. When I speak with such teachers and advise them to change their methods of teaching they claim that students prefer it this way. Contrary to what they think, students now are equipped with all the tools necessary to do all the research they need and carry out assignments easily with the help of their iPads and smart phones. So, what we actually need to change some teachers' false ideas about teaching and learning. Traditionalists still exist and their help is needed but they need to update their teaching methods and tools.
regards,
Wadha
Kuwait