creating a
class site
- Like previous, week 8 was started by reading various resources on the web and to explore them in depth. Our task was set to create a class site or make online exercises. Online classes can be created using Nicenet, blog on www.blogger.com, a class survey using Google docs and website or wiki on Google Sites. Using Nicenet is easier and effective for discussion.
- I created it and it is obvious that the students where I have been teaching have difficulties using internet. My students sometimes go to cyber café and use face book and other social media.
- I created a blog for my students especially Grade 8, 9, and 10 to practice and improve in their learning behavior. Its link is http://learnfromremote.blogspot.com/ . It is online exercise not a class. It is targeted to the students who sometimes go to the cyber café. This site is also available in mobile friendly version so that many students can access through their general mobile and android devices. The site provides students with appropriate materials on the basis of their curriculum. It will be a resource for them.
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Online tools for enhancing learning
Our teaching and learning system is still traditional due to lack of technology. Recently we are interested in it since it is emerging slowly in developing countries. Technology has made the teacher's life easier and saved their time in doing their work not only faster but also accurately. What I found interesting is Make exercises online to print out http://www.toolsforeducators.com/ that helps us create word search, bingo, crossword puzzles, and board games for language learning.
I was interested in this type of tool. Another was "Lanternfish"
to create flash cards, bingo games,
matching, multiple choice exercises to print out. http://bogglesworldesl.com/,
Easy Test Maker (paper tests) , http://www.easytestmaker.com/default.aspx
are very helpful sites for the teachers.. These sites generate test and exercises that
give relief to the teachers and opportunities to learn for students. Cross word
puzzle maker http://www.crosswordpuzzlegames.com/create.html
is one the fantastic sites.If we want to make poster online or print, there is http://poster.4teachers.org/teacher/index.php?teacher_id=208311
.These are very useful for me because I
prepare the materials online and use offline. If these sites are used honestly by a teacher,
it won't take a long time to expertise
in the field of teaching. The technology has promoted the learner autonomy.
Some interesting features are Make exercises online to print
out, Exercises to use online or offline on a computer or to print out with hot
potato game is useful game and software, Web Poster Wizard are designed
posters.
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ANVILL and Voiceboards
ANVILL stands for A National Virtual Language Lab, and as its name suggests, it's a modern web-based audio and video.
Voiceboard is
a modern technology tool which is accompanied with ANVILL and used for language
practice orally. Discussions, audio journals, pronunciation exercise and other
forms of oral language are practiced with this tool. This tool was developed By
Jeff Magoto who was a guest instructor in our training this week. This tool
enables using multimedia communication such as audio and video. I felt some
problems using it because of slow Internet .
Project Task
This week,
we posted our first draft project on our
class wiki. Now we are working on pair to peer review.
Hello Tika,
ReplyDeleteYour posting is great and so very informative. I do understand the limitations that you are facing as a teacher related to the use of technology in your class. It is the same in my country. We are a developing nation and the use of technology in classes is burgeoning. So we have to do with what we have. For my part, since we cannot fully make use of computers at school, I intend to make the students work at home as most of them have internet facilities at there.
But of course we need to stress on the blessings of technology in general. No need to spend long hours preparing our lessons now. Our life has become so easy. Of course, we need to organize, plan and be selective in what we are going to give our students. We have the power to change the traditional ways of learning and encourage our students to move slowly but gradually towards a more technology-centered culture- which in turns leads to autonomous learning.
Good luck for your final project,
Regards,
Jennifer.
Hello Tika!
ReplyDeleteFirst of all thanks for your comments on my draft, I`ll try to follow your tips to make it better.
This week was a very exciting one, first because of the drafts and besides, we have learnt the tools introduced by our guest instructor
Jeff.
I found some toolsreally useful, for example: http://www.toolsforeducators.com/ , www/bogglesworldesl.com/ , http://www.easytestmaker.com/default.aspx
Regarding ANVIL, I have surfed the web and tried out some activities set by the moderator. Now I know how such labs can be used in the online course.
I have visited your blog , it is very convinient and I hope your students will enjoy it!
Have a nice week!
inesa
Hello friend Tika,
ReplyDeleteI hope this week has been of a lot of benefit to you and to everyone. You also gotta a point regarding our student being traditional and fixed on old means of studying. But that is what teachers are there for. We are there to make a change. I also like the idea of using nice net in teaching which is better than blogger. You know our internet is so slow which makes it difficult for our students to use blogger. Thanks for the suggestion. I hope you enjoy week 9 as well. Can't wait to read week nine's discussions and assignments. C U THERE, Bro.
Faithfully yours,
Waseem Z.