Week 4 Reflection

Dear all,

I’m very appreciate all your comments. Thank you.

This week was given us for thinking and analysing different technology –enhanced study activities and then creating technology-enhanced lesson plan for our students. To say the truth I seldom write such a detail lesson plan, so it took me much time to create it according the template. And when I conducted a lesson, I felt myself very selfish having some technology alternative (in case things don't work as planned). I read participants’ posts about problems they faced and think that students are becoming lazy, don’t want to make any effort just to read or find some information, they need a “lesson candy” – something exiting and with good results. But “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them (Aristotle)”.A teacher with a new technology tool just can help, but students should work hard for improving their English. Are you agree?

Hello,

Week 3 was very productive. I read very useful articles about aural /oral skills, surfed a lot of interesting sites, created Delicious site, explored Project works. I think about my Project and how to do this Project without students (I'll see them in October). May be I can invite them to take part by e-mail. Not all, but some of them may agree to take part in the project. May be yes? May be not? I'll try... It's 2 a.m. in Arkhangelsk. Time for sleeping. And 2 p.m. (Oregon time).

 Good afternoon!

Week 2 Web-searching

Dear participants,

I was happy to receive and read all your comments. Thank you for your advices. It’s so exiting to have your own blog! For this week I did many usuful things:  knew and tried websearching tools, created my own ABCD learning objective, analysed my group for Project , communicate with other participants of the course.Yesterday I watched the film “Julia and July”. The film contrasts the life of chef Julia Child in the early years of her culinary career with the life of young New Yorker Julie Powell, who aspires to cook all 524 recipes in Child's cookbook in 365 days, a challenge she described on her popular blog . And I think that we do just the same as Julie. We have 10 weeks and about 30 recipes to make our lessons modern and effective with help of web-technologies. And we should describe and analyze our work on our blocks. I can wish all of you “Bon appétit!”

Week 1 Reflection

Hello everyone!
The course is well-composed. There are a lot of useful materials on the course website, but unfortunately I haven’t enough time to study all materials carefully. It’s unusual for me to study on-line. I thought that it’s easier than face-to-face learning, but I was mistaken. It is very difficult to manage your time and to explain my family that I need evening time for learning. I have some problems with making my blog – Internet Explore interrupted the connection every time when I tried to write my post. But I was happy to  all my small victories: participating in class discussions and making my own blog. Thank you very much for clear instructions.