The most useful topics of the course were ABCD objective model and learning styles. The first one helps to focus on the most essential goal of the class, another one is helpful when you want to know your students better or help your students to get to know themselves if they have problems in learning. I also extremely enjoyed discussing search engines, PBL, grading rubrics and engaging students.
I’m already using Nicenet, blogs, grading rubrics, WebQuests, PowerPoint, one computer classroom (on the basic level), and online tools to generate exercises. In the future I intend to use Google sites/docs and ANVILL. It’s hard to say what tools are not relevant, because when you are teaching , you need to possess a wide range of tools, you may not use all of them at the same time, some of them become relevant at different at different time.
In the course, we might have also covered how to work with (edit mostly) movies, but this is my cup of tea, not sure anybody else might be interested in it as much as myself. It might be also useful to work with Google sities not only as readers/users, but also creators/maintainers. In my summer teacher training institute we also worked with podcast, it might have been good for me to refresh my knowledge, but I am sure I can do it on my own when needed.
My thanks to Robert and all other people who made it possible, it has been an outstanding opportunity to explore the web through web, to get to know great people, great ideas. It was great.
Yana,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you - it has been a great course. Seeing all the things you've listed at the beginning of your blog post, it makes me wonder how we managed all that in ten weeks. And how we found the time for all the tasks!
I am also interested in podcasts but they shouldn't be too hard to do with the sites available. Movies, however, are much more demanding. I doubt that you are the only one in this course interested in making movies but maybe it would have required a lot more time and resources than what most people have. I have filmed students' soap opera scenes and presentations on an English-speaking country but the editing was quite time-consuming. It was definitely fun, though!
All the best to you and your endeavors with integrating technology into the classroom!
Leena
Dear Yana,
ReplyDeleteI like your idea of using Google Sites as creators/administrators. I would also include Google Docs. They both can work pretty well together. We can combine them with Nicenet. By the way, do you know about any Google instructional platform? You see, I am still a Google freak hehehe.