Week 7: Learner autonomy and technology

I learned more about learners autonomy (LA) in week 7 and LA can be enhanced in a low-resourced classroom. I learned two articles about LA. I also set an ABCD objective for one computer classroom that will ensure LA. Choosing project partner was another agenda of this week. I an going to share my project with Neary. We will provide feedback to each other to progress with our work. Hope the nest week will much more exciting.

Week 6: Interactive teaching

In this week, I learned another new term "JiTT" (Just in Time Teaching). To make students engaged, JiTT can be very effective since the students are supposed read first and then they come to the class. I really appreciate JiTT because of its simplicity and effectiveness.

The discussion topic of week 6 was about how technology can be used to teach a large class. I went through the valuable comments of my colleagues and and learned about different use of some common e-tools in the classroom.

Power point slide is a very common tool used in classroom. However, using slides might be boring if they are not interactive. This week I tried to make interactive power point slides for my class using blank slides and link. I used the slides in my class and my students gave positive feedback.

Now I am looking forward to Week 7 to come across something new again.

Week 5: PBL and Alternative assessment

I was familiar with PBL and different types of rubrics but I first heard about Alternative Assessment in Week 5. I prepared a Holistic rubric for the projects of Materials design. The students of this course are engaged in PBL. They will learn while doing their project. We have an online discussion forum where students post their problems and help each other giving suggestions. Thus technology is incorporated in PBL. However, online discussion are not lively like their classroom discussion. 

Learning of Week 4

Week 4 was comparatively relaxing for me. The main task was to analyze some websites for teaching reading, writing, vocabulary and grammar. While doing that, I came across many interesting sites that are not only good for teachers but also for students' self learning. I also explore some other posted by other students and found some exciting materials.

I gave a thought to my final project and decided what and how I am going to proceed with my works. I think it will be easier for me now to concentrate on my project.