Dear group 310. This is just checking what works and what doesn't in this weblog site in order to help you create your own ones. Wish you good luck in working as innovative teachers and actively using technology in your classroom!


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

  Error correction worksheet   1. Correct the mistakes in the sentences. Some of them are correct! J   a) At the job interview the candidate answered happily the interviewer’s question: “I like to cook, dance, and writing.” b) I am a teacher, I work at a college level. c) “There’s a fire,” she shouted! d) You studied English before you moved to Serbia. e) If something is exhilirating, it lifts your spirits! f) How much days remain until the end of term? g) Its really nice how the neigbours dog wags it’s tail every time it sees me coming back from work. (True story. I pet it through the fence.) h) By the time you finish secondary school, the technology will have developed even more. i) We offer the ‘best price in town’! j) I went to the store but it was closed so I returned home. k) I prefer chocolate milk - it’s tastier than plain milk. l) I was glad to be going on vacation; I need a rest from work. m) “I had a great day at work today”! n) Who dares to teach must nev...
Read more

WEEK 2. WEB SEARCHING TOOLS

I decided to make websurf on all links. We have to get familiar with as many search engines and web directories as possible during our course in order to make the work effective and to be a good source of advice for our students and colleagues. Additionally, as all of us see different search engines are helpful for different purposes like academic research, teaching materials and practical tools for collaborative use with your students. Clusty. I have chosen the topic for the search "Games in English learning", which opened me not only search results, but also divided them into categories like "Kids, students, English Language", ESL games, teaching English, mobile phones e t.c. As I did not clearly understand mobile phone division I explore that one: it explained the technique of playing a game using cell phone and offered to download. Somehow this display of search results is useful, while searching we can narrow the topic ourselves though. It had "Tests and q...
Read more

WEEK 4 REFLECTION

"Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." Francis Bacon DISCUSSION. This week was devoted to studying reading and writing improvement with the help of CALL. We have read several articles related to this topic. Here are links to some of them: http://www.udel.edu/ETL/RWN/Encourage.html This site provides with ideas of using TV, newspaper, telephone books, maps to stimulate reading Renee Ybarra in his article Using Technology to Help ESL/EFL Students Develop Language Skills(http://iteslj.org/Articles/Ybarra-Technology.html) says that first of all when students use e-mail writing they can see what a native speaker has written while answering, then scroll up and down through the message which is visually helps them. Students get self-motivated to write in a new for them way and to communicate with a real native speaker and get a real respond. Often, the students need to feel confident in their new language before putting it into print. So he...
Read more