Reflections: Week 3
This week's tasks included...
- Discussion: Aural/Oral Skill Building Websites
I enjoyed going through Lindsey Miller's ::"Developing Listening Skills with Authentic Materials". As I went through the document, I could almost visualize my class and our teaching culture in India. So little time is devoted to developing of Listening skills. I liked the way, the author divided the daily communication into the 4 skills and how listening takes up the major part of our daily lives. We are so unaware of it!! Her format of Pre-/ While- and Post- listening will be so useful to my learners. Whatever I go through here, I want to implement in my class, I'm so eager to do so, but I know that there is so much to learn...and I should wait till the end of this course. Ms. Miller has given authentic materials through the use of Technology. While I may not be able to use all of them, but its amazing, what we, today's teachers can do for our students.
- Project task 2: Read and Analyze one sample project and post on Nicenet.
Out of all the projects, the one that I liked most and could identify with was by Tendouinde Bruno Nikiema. Here, Mr. Nikiema has described a large class of 80, and his target is to teach them Letter Writing through the use of emails. I could identify with this for a number of reasons - I have a large class, I teach them letter Writing, I do face many of the problems listed by the author. However, the way Mr. Nikiema has implemented his technique might differ from mine, if I carry out the same project. But, its definitely an eye opener for me, as I never thought that Letter Writing could be taught in this innovative manner.
- Task: Creating a page in Delicious.com and storing useful links.
Using the specific steps provided, I have created a page in Delicious .com. What an amazing web it is! I had no idea the such an easy method is there storing my useful links. So far, I've always searched the Google for any information and never thought of saving it anywhere....naturally my task every time would seem very difficult. Now I have my own page and have started storing important and useful links, some from my course mates and some from our instructor Courtney. Here is the URL of my delicious page:
https://delicious.com/paramita1964
Waiting eagerly to learn and share more with all my friends.......
Hello Paramita!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite part of this week's learning was the aural/oral skills. How important it is for our students to practice both speaking and listening to English, and these tools and sites provided here are a great way to help them out! Of course, I am also eager to share eveything with other teammates!
Also, going through everyone's Delicious sites made my life so much easier into finding useful links faster and easier. Im kind of a "link thief" now looking into how many great links everyone has and surely will use them for my lessons!
Thank you for sharing! Greetings from beautiful Honduras in Central America! :)
Hi Paramita,
ReplyDeleteI also googled and never thought of saving them in one place. Usually, my browser bookmark toolbar is loaded with all the things I want to bookmark but in a very untidy and messy way. So, I found it hared to look up for what I wanted. Now, delicious site has saved me a lot of trouble.
Best,
Sophia
Hi Paramita,
ReplyDeleteYou are right, Delicious is a golden gift.
I notice that we have chosen the same project report. The reasons why you chose it are relevant.
Wishing you all the best
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ReplyDeleteNamastay Paramita Ji!
ReplyDeleteI share your concerns about less time given to the development of aural/oral skills in Indian schools. But we know these are important and we should make extra efforts to help our students develop these important skills along with reading and writing.
You are right about using the pre- while- and post-listening skills. I sometimes use them with my students and they are really useful.
Darshan
Hi everyone,
ReplyDeleteReading your blog, I am interested in getting into details of that project. But the one I read was done by Camelia Pagila and she mentioned a great point which is how to approach student depending on Gardner's Seven Multiple Intelligences. It is a theory which seems to be very useful in teaching. I recommend you look into it.
Thanks,
Waseem Z
Hi Waseem,
ReplyDeleteI'll definitely look into Gardner's Seven Multiple Intelligences. I've done some reading on 'Multiple Intelligences' for another programme, but haven't come across this one.
Thank you.