Nilufar Begibaeva's Writing Improvement Toolkit

This week 3 was so informative for me in tems of getting knowledge about speaking and web resources. I tried some site with my students in my lessons but there is too much information just for the too short perios of time that I think sometimes I am a backward student in this DL course. So these are sites I wouls recommend to my students and my colleagues to practice speaking and listening. 1. I used http://www.manythings.org/ to practice speaking. My students of the first year enjoyed the quizzes provided there and while doing testing pronounced the given words. They like it because the correct answer they get immediately and the scores are counted. In the first year of study a part of each lesson devoted to phonetics so studying phonetics using this web site was fun for them. There is a link which leads you to watching video (that is beneficial for listening to watch gestures and expressions to understand better) and after one can practice sounds as many times as he want. The most t...

I always faced difficulties with storing web sites. As I have never heard about Delicious I wrote a message with copied and pasted links in the content of the message and sent it again to my e-mail then saved it into separate file inside my mail. That was the way I had my favourite links always with me. Some useful links I keep on my web site on teachnology.com but it is so time consuming to update the site for me. So you can imagine how I am glad to have Delicious with me! My address on Delicious is http://delicious.com/nilufarb70 The reason why I like Delicious.com: 1. Even if I kept my links in my e-mail box using Delicious.com saves me steps to find my links because I do not open e-mail, find file with links, open it and then find necessary one and follow it. 2. Delicious.com is your mini search engine where using tags you may easily find appropriate link. 3. You are able to see ho many people saved this link for their bookmark (following link http://www.uoregon.edu/~dhealey/techt...

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...

(Audience) The class for which I have developed ABCD objectives consists of 13 students of Psychology Department, all of them are female, age of 19-22, second year of study, 4th semester. All our students pass State exam on English at the end of their 6th semester, 3rd year of study. As we do not have appropriate environment to practice speaking outside the classroom, we do not have native speakers at all in our city, their knowledge of English considered basic , although most of them study English at schools. In addition two months of the academic year they spend picking cotton (September-October). We begin studying Phonetics and Grammar in the first year of their study by "English text-book", N.Bonk. On their second year of study students use books, published in Uzbekistan in collaboration with Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education and British Council "Word Wise". This book contains 15 Units, each of it involves all skills: reading, writing, liste...

Hi there. I received a lot from other posts about education facilities and digital literacy of students my classmates teach. I would like to follow Juliet’s template of the description of her school and class. I consider it gives full picture of both environment and conditions you teach. 1. Overview There are 5 higher education establishments in Andijan, the city where I live. We do not have private Universities. Our Andijan State University consists of 8 faculties, where study about 7000 students. This year is the last one we have our students study correspondently, government recognized these study ineffective and stopped it. University has about 300 teachers and lecturer that disseminated into 35 Departments . I work at a Foreign Language Department (Chair), with my 20 colleagues-teachers of English, French, and German. Official language in Uzbekistan is Uzbek, Russian is the second language and English along with German, French, (in some schools Hindi and Urdu) is taught as a f...

Participation in the first week discussion and reading related articles let me know better about blog history and possibilities in teaching English. I decided if a teacher is creative enough he can use each feature for his teaching advantage. Looking and studying others' blogs set me thinking about my owm blog design. I do not know still many features of blogs but during this course I hope to be confident with this.

I am proud of being one of the students of the Distance Learning Program offered by the US Embassies worldwide. Happy to meet in cyber space my highly motivated colleagues from whom I can also learn useful things and tools related to our work in addition to the knowledge our teacher Deborah provide us with. This orientation week has given me much in terms of using Nicenet and analyzing ribrics. My expectations of this course are great and I wil do my best to meet our teacher's expectations as well.