Week 3 : New friends ,New prespectives

New friends ,New prespectives

This week added bright colours to the course. Those wonderful colours are new friends. Gaining new friends from all over the world give the course new prespectives.  The ownership which prevails the atomosphere is very motivating and exciting. This week also makde the course richer and more valuable as it focued on one of the most difficul skills in teaching and learnig language, oral/aural skills.  Aricles sugges about oral/aural skills opens new windows for EFL students' pronunciation and speaking. Knowing that there are many accents which may be acceptable would enhance students' performance. This new prespectves will mtivate students to pracice English freely and break the barreir of using the language.

This week also was so full of links and site which may help in developing listening and speaking skills that I could't keep up with this huge information.

So getting Delicious link was very useful at this time of the course.

As usual, I enjoyed a lot of what we discussed and learned .


Samira

Week 2 : Links

http://online.cofa.unsw.edu.au/
a very exciting site. It provides a wide range of vedios about using technology in classrooms. It introduces new experience and reflections.

http://australianetwork.com/learningenglish/
Wonderful site. It contains a lot of lessons, podcast, and activities teachers can use in the classrooms

Week 2 : The Magic Box was opened

Week 2 was wonderful, it seems to me as a magic box. I got a surprise from Janine. It was Jubitaergrade.com. I screamed with joy this is what I was looking for: a grade book for my class. My happiness was so great that I didn't notice the low grade I got. My grade comes lower than I expect. The details showed that one of the tasks was missing. Actually, my eagerness to get familiar with this site was much more than my desire to know my grade details. When I surfed Week 2 tasks, I got another parcel full of amazing surprises: Noodletools. I spent a lot of time surfing some of the search engines and thinking of how we can make good use of them in teaching. I went through the discussion on the Nicenet to explore my colleagues' recommendations but to my surprise, most of them advised using Google. I posted my recommendations with some suggested applications in classroom. I recommended: Biography.com, and BBC Special Reports for teaching language skills and Directory of Open access for teacher professional development.  The last gift was ABCD objectives model. Studying ABCD model paves our way to plan our project well. At the end I added some new search engines to Janines Wiki.

I am still waiting for opening the magic box: Technology tools

Week 1

The Citadel, Cairo, Egypt

Hello everybody

Greetings from Egypt

Thanks for technology which makes the world as a small village.

Although I have been teaching and learning English for more than 25 years, this is the first time to be involved in an online course. I am very excited to experience new tools of teaching and exchange my ideas with other teachers with different background. This is the first time to creat a blog. It took me much time to creat it.

I'd like very much to make good use of blog to improve my students' language skills.
lately, I have surfed a lot of interesting websites we can use in our classes and in professional development sessions as well.

Some of them are
http://www.tonybates.ca/2011/10/30/online-resources-for-teaching-and-learning-english-as-a-second-language/

http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/

Have a nice time