Week 10 Experiences

Final Experience

Building Teaching Skills Through Interactive web (webskills) 2013 which was started on 7^th October 2013 to 13^th December 2013.The course was 10 week long. I was concerned about finding some ways to solve some of the problems I am facing in my class. The countries like Nepal are now emerging to use technology in education. There are too many discussions about computers and internet. Most of the Nepali teachers are still computer illiterate since using technology is expensive for us. It has not been established as our need, it is luxury for many people. Until it becomes our compulsory teaching tool, there is no possibility of technology development and won’t be used in the schools. At least some changes have been made, many of our schools have 1 0r 2 computers for official use. Some of them have internet connection and some are looking the way to connections. The government is aware to offer the computer education to the pupils of the nation and recently computer subject has been added to the course of class 6 that will be upgraded every year in upper classes. It is a hopeful symptom about technology that its demand is increasing.

 In this context, I got the chance to take this course. I must express my gratitude to the University of Oregon USA for this golden opportunity which directly helped not only my professional development but also whole district and neighboring schools and teachers to adopt technology in learning.

This course provided me opportunity to meet and get to know with 25 language teachers from around the world with whom we shared our experiences. We discussed the topic and expressed our views in a fully autonomous environment within clearly designed and guided lessons by an expert instructor. We very much enjoyed the 21st century learning style and evaluation system using technology.

 We started our task creating an Academic Blog that is one of the technology tools in which we have reflected our weekly experiences. There is nice net to discuss and acts as class. We discussed about Self-introductions ground rules for discussions; and rubrics. Some of the topics that we learned during the course are as follow:

• ·        We learned to write objectives in ABCD model.

• ·        We   created and used delicious page to save links.

• ·        Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)

• ·        Rubric, Assessments, Project Based Learning ( PBL ) and Webquest

• ·        Engaging students in large class.

• ·         Interactive Classes or PowerPoint.

• ·        Learner Autonomy, The One Computer Class and use of Mobile devices.

• ·        Learning styles and multiple intelligence.

• ·        Project ( a teaching plan using technology.)

Thanks

Best

Tika Subedi

Final Experience

Building Teaching Skills Through Interactive web (webskills) 2013 which was started on 7^th October 2013 to 13^th December 2013.The course was 10 week long. I was concerned about finding some ways to solve some of the problems I am facing in my class. The countries like Nepal are now emerging to use technology in education. There are too many discussions about computers and internet. Most of the Nepali teachers are still computer illiterate since using technology is expensive for us. It has not been established as our need, it is luxury for many people. Until it becomes our compulsory teaching tool, there is no possibility of technology development and won’t be used in the schools. At least some changes have been made, many of our schools have 1 0r 2 computers for official use. Some of them have internet connection and some are looking the way to connections. The government is aware to offer the computer education to the pupils of the nation and recently computer subject has been added to the course of class 6 that will be upgraded every year in upper classes. It is a hopeful symptom about technology that its demand is increasing.

 In this context, I got the chance to take this course. I must express my gratitude to the University of Oregon USA for this golden opportunity which directly helped not only my professional development but also whole district and neighboring schools and teachers to adopt technology in learning.

This course provided me opportunity to meet and get to know with 25 language teachers from around the world with whom we shared our experiences. We discussed the topic and expressed our views in a fully autonomous environment within clearly designed and guided lessons by an expert instructor. We very much enjoyed the 21st century learning style and evaluation system using technology.

 We started our task creating an Academic Blog that is one of the technology tools in which we have reflected our weekly experiences. There is nice net to discuss and acts as class. We discussed about Self-introductions ground rules for discussions; and rubrics. Some of the topics that we learned during the course are as follow:

• ·        We learned to write objectives in ABCD model.

• ·        We   created and used delicious page to save links.

• ·        Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)

• ·        Rubric, Assessments, Project Based Learning ( PBL ) and Webquest

• ·        Engaging students in large class.

• ·         Interactive Classes or PowerPoint.

• ·        Learner Autonomy, The One Computer Class and use of Mobile devices.

• ·        Learning styles and multiple intelligence.

• ·        Project ( a teaching plan using technology.)

Thanks

Best

Tika Subedi

Week 9 Experiences

Week 9 Experiences

Discussion: Learning styles

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·        Week 9 passed, thanks for that. This week was memorable for me in many ways. I was just started to click the link tech tools that support multiple intelligences http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic68.htm  my place plunged in darkness due to electricity problems. The problem is still the same . My computer has stopped working and has not been recovered till now. In spite of many obstacles, I could participate the class.

·        The reading resources this week were effective with and without technology. I read the articles identified by Howard Gardner about 9 intelligences that support classroom activities.

1. Verbal-Linguistic
2. Logical/Mathematical
3. Visual/Spatial
4. Bodily/Kinesthetic
5. Musical/Rhythmic
6. Intrapersonal
7. Interpersonal
8. Naturalist
9. Existentialist

·        I learned that understanding different learning styles is an important part of effective teaching. There are a number of different ways of exploring learning styles. The article http://www4.ncsu.edu/  from Richard Felder explores the impact of different learning styles on classroom performance. Teachers need to know about miscellaneous  classroom situations in terms of students’ mastery of knowledge, their learning styles and their intelligences.

• I found Learning styles online quiz - learn about your own learning style
  http://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-learning-styles-quiz, and more on learning styles from Richard Felder http://www4.ncsu.edu/ very useful resources for the teachers There are so many articles about Learning styles and implication for teaching.

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Final Project

·        I prepared a final project and uploaded it on our class wiki. The project is a plan to teach my class 10 students in writing formal letters particularly application in response for an advertisement. I made a plan to this with technology tools that I had never used before in my classroom. I planned to use powerpoint presentation with a laptop , multimedia projector and a mobile device to teach this topic. My peer partner Waseem gave me his valuable comments on my project. I ‘d like to acknowledge Waseem for his great suggestions to make a final project. I have also posted my powerpoint slides and rubrics for assessing the students’ performance.

Course Evaluations

·         This week, I filled out a course evaluation form that I have received information about how to find the survey and the link in an email from the University of Oregon, AEI Distance Education program. This is my first online training.