tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36640885902012447572024-03-08T11:20:25.332-08:0021st CENTURY LEARNING - A DIGITAL REVOLUTIONSASI RAJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15109470613319697427noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664088590201244757.post-58231222618787528822014-12-11T09:20:00.000-08:002020-04-06T14:26:24.469-07:00AMAZING JOURNEY .......EXPLORING THROUGH THE WEB WORLD!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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with exciting tasks pulling me to
Nicenet, Blogger, Delcious, Our Wiki and pushing me to explore many, many awesome websites and then to
impatiently wait for Ms. Courtney’s feedback on Blackboard......all are
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know why? It is just because of the interesting course contents, challenging
tasks, fullest support and round-the-clock help and the encouraging feedback
and generous appreciation from the instructors, especially from Ms. Courtney and
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SASI RAJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15109470613319697427noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664088590201244757.post-19820517791686972452014-12-11T08:21:00.003-08:002014-12-11T08:21:41.461-08:00Week 10: A great milestone in my professional development! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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journey takes a new turn .......a new start with technology!</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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shall I say now? .....the course has come to an end so fast without even our
knowing it. The e-teacher course has been a superb professional development
program for me. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
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were many, many new things (teaching methods, techniques, innovative ideas, tools,
etc) to learn! The course presented wonderful web tools which would make our
teaching innovative and interesting.</span></span></span></div>
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the topics that the course offered for our learning were very successful and
are of great use to me. Among the many things that I have learned from the course,
I would like to mention <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a few which have
made a tremendous impact on my teaching strategy and style.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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ABCD model objectives – it was an exciting task for me as I have learned it for
the first time. Now I know how to write teaching or learning objectives
according to ABCD model. And I have learned the significance of this in my
teaching. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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Aural/oral skill-building<span class="kix-wordhtmlgenerator-word-node"> was another
important and successful teaching task the course offered. I enjoyed this
completely technology based task and learned to use a lot many powerful audio
tools from the websites. </span></span></span></span><br />
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Creating technology –enhanced lesson plan that I learned in Week 4. I consider
it a great learning experience for me. Now I know how to create
technology-enhanced lesson plan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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Based Learning (PBL) is yet another milestone in my teaching career. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Interactive PowerPoint presentation was
also another important teaching tool that I learned from the course. Now I have
begun to use it in my class.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
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importance of using mobile devices for teaching and learning. This was a completely
new idea for me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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topics such as ‘Learner Autonomy’, ‘Teaching Strategies’ , ‘Learning Styles’,
etc gave me profound insights into the very process of teaching and learning. These
are all eye-openers for me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Finally,
above all, implementing the technology related change in my class and the submission
of my Project Report were the most interesting learning experiences offered by
the course.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">Google drive<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: red;">Crossword Puzzle Maker<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: red;">delicious.com<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: red;">vocaroo.com<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://rubistar.4teachers.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="color: red;">RubiStar</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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SASI RAJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15109470613319697427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664088590201244757.post-82410854205408853042014-12-07T07:50:00.002-08:002014-12-07T07:50:19.838-08:00WEEK 9 : THE MOST MEMORABLE WEEK! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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soon as I received my project report draft with peer evaluation and suggestions
from my project partner Mr. Sergio, I started revising the draft of my project,
based on the wonderful suggestions given Mr. Sergio. It took some time to give
final touches to the report. I read and re-read the Final Project Report and
kept it ready for uploading on Our Wiki. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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like to appreciate Mr. Sergio for his insightful reading of my project and his
useful suggestions. I like this peer evaluation task and it is a great
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on Monday and Tuesday I focused on the reading material. I learned a lot about
the learning styles and strategies of learners from <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Howard Gardner’s “Theory of Multiple Intelligences”</span> and </span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Learning
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by Richard M. Felder and Barbara A. Soloman. After reading these two articles,
I was trying to examine the kinds of learning styles of my students and made a
sort of introspection as to what kinds of teaching strategies I use to match
the learning styles of my learners. It was really a great experience for me. Then
I participated in the discussion on Learning styles and Technology Connections in
Nicenet. It was really a rewarding experience to have Mr.Russell Moon in the discussion.
He made me think about my teaching styles and the techniques I use in my
classroom. Mr. Russell’s suggestions were of great help to me in my classroom
teaching. Many times he challenged us to think deep into the various aspects of
the learning strategies that the learners may use in their academic tasks. His
insightful comments really motivated me to read more about learning styles and
how we can use technology tools to help students become independent successful learners.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I uploaded my Final Project Report in Our Wiki for evaluation. Today morning , I
received the Final Project feedback and rubrics from Ms. Courtney. I was thrilled to
read the wonderful comments and the feedback. My heart ‘leaped out of joy’. It
was really a great moment in my life ! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I visited ‘Shaping the Way We Teach English’ website and I read the
articles on ‘Learning Strategies’. I got more elaborate ideas from these
articles which I used in my second post in Nicenet discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">This
week taught me one important principle of teaching which I will never ever
forget in my life and I will tell every teacher I come across:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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learning takes place when the learning style of the student matches the
teaching style of the teacher. So, teachers, design your teaching strategies
according to the learning style of the student. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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is one more week to go.....the e-teacher course is coming to an end. There is
a sense of achievement on one side but on the other there’s fear or sadness of
losing or missing the joy and excitement that I have had throughout all the
weeks ......amidst academic work and official assignments, always like a curious child impatiently waiting for new things, ready
to take ‘the road not taken’, and listening to the wonderful voices of all the
participants, and Ms. Courtney and other instructors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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thanks to Ms. Courtney and Mr. Russell Moon for making this week a great one.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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SASI RAJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15109470613319697427noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664088590201244757.post-29704149492368368792014-11-30T23:00:00.002-08:002014-11-30T23:09:20.867-08:00WEEK 8 : WHAT A WONDERFUL TECHNOLOGY WEEK!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It was again an important week – Week 8. It was full of
rich learning and practice, putting into practice what I have been learning – all the
new technology tools that have the power to change the way I teach.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Getting ready with the Project Report (draft) for
peer evaluation was a good start for me. I was delighted to go through the
reading materials and have glimpses of the various wonderful websites and technology
tools. Preparing online worksheets, PPTs, Padlet Page and other <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>teaching and learning materials and tools made
me realize how fortunate I am to learn all these new things which are already changing
the way I teach English.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Going through the draft report of the Project of my project partner,
Mr.Sergio, was a great experience for me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Preparing the checklist for peer evaluation helped
me learn and understand some very important things I should follow in the project.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I really felt like a curious child when I was making
my class Padlet page. I thoroughly enjoyed it. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Though I was running short of time as I was busy
with academic schedules and official trips during the week, I was happy that I
was able to finish the tasks. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I was glad to register with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ANVILL, which is again a new exploration for
me into the technology realm.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">On the whole , Week 8 was an awesome one, filling us
and pouring on us all that we need to know and all that we can learn about the
use of technology in English language teaching.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Thanks again to the instructors for their meticulous
plan and efforts in their mission to make me a complete E-Teacher. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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SASI RAJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15109470613319697427noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664088590201244757.post-56055736628653142862014-11-23T12:27:00.001-08:002014-11-23T12:33:29.666-08:00Week 7 : A Challenging and thrilling Week<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: blue;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">It was really a challenging week for me.
Right from day 1 I was completely busy with my academic schedules and official
trip to some places. I was sometimes hard pressed for time. In spite of my
hectic schedules I was able to complete the tasks for the week. It is due to
the fact that the tasks were quite interesting and they were quite new. So with
the new found joy, and with the energy and zeal born out of curiosity, I raced against time to
complete the assigned tasks. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: blue;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">'Learner
Autonomy' though I knew a little bit about it, my reading of the article “<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Emerging
Technologies <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>: </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Autonomous Language Learning by Robert
Godwin-Jones </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was an eye opener
for me. I also read some more articles such as David Nunan’s “Nine Steps to
Learner Autonomy” to get a complete understanding about this very important
component of teaching-learning process. I am happy that now I have a better
understanding of this important concept which would certainly help me in making
my classroom teaching more interesting and effective.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: blue;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Then the
tips about the use of one-computer classroom are also very useful for me. Though
I use one-computer class most of the time, these tips taught me how to use one computer
class in an efficient manner.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: blue;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">I was amazed
at the limitless scope and the innumerable ways in which mobile phone can be
used in and outside classroom. I prepared an activity for use of mobile phones
in learning vocabulary in the classroom. I was greatly delighted when I posted
it in Nicenet.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: blue;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Another
important and interesting thing that happened was the pairing for peer review
of our project report. It was really a great opportunity to interact with our friends
asking or agreeing to be project partners. I am happy to be paired with Sergio for
my project work. This was a nice experience. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: blue;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Then
continuing with the implementation of our project in the class, though challenging,
was very exciting. Guiding my students to continue with their reading, writing
and commenting on their blogs and giving feedback on their tasks filled me with
a rush of new enthusiasm and energy of a person who has invented something new.
The whole week offered me, I should say, a lifetime experience in the
field of teaching and learning of English.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: blue;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">A
challenging and thrilling week – Week 7! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now marching towards Week 8......... for more
challenging tasks!<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><strong>Thank you instructors for equipping me with new tech skills every week.</strong></span></o:p></span></div>
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SASI RAJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15109470613319697427noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664088590201244757.post-30097044905566645112014-11-16T10:41:00.000-08:002014-11-16T10:41:39.704-08:00WEEK 6 - REFLECTIONS :LEARNING ABOUT ENGAGING STUDENTS IN LEARNING TASKS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">More learning
.........more about more web tools for engaging students in learning!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week took more
momentum towards my learning more about more web tools that will help me in
engaging students in learning tasks.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The links provided in
the reading section were really wonderful .Those links introduced me to different kinds of
web pages having useful instructions, tips , case studies, reports and projects
about the effective interactive use of technology and techniques, especially
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the use of PowerPoint as an interactive
teaching and learning tool. I have learned a lot of useful tips and minute details about
the use of PowerPoint in the classroom teaching. My visit of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><a href="http://tep.uoregon.edu/resources/largeclasses/usingtechnology.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://tep.uoregon.edu/resources/largeclasses/usingtechnology.html</span></a></div>
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For the first time I have come to know about making interactive PowerPoint. It was a new discovery <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for me <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when I read the articles/materials on using PowerPoint and improving PowerPoint <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to engage the students and motivate <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>students to actively participate in the classroom learning.<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then making an interactive PowerPoint and posting it to our Wiki was also a great learning experience for me. I learned to make it. This EXPERIENCE is going to make a big change in my classroom teaching.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I learned more about how I can use engagement
triggers and tasks in my classroom teaching. I have learned now how to use cartoons,
photographs, images, pictures, video clips, etc to make my class
interactive. I learned more about short pair activities and group
activities to be used in my class. Knowing more about ‘Think-pair –share’ and
its extended activities like ‘write-pair-share’ activity was really
interesting. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Week 6 was a really a
great week in the sense that it helped me to anayse the techniques that I use
in my class and some of the new techniques that I learned from the websites
which were provided by the instructors and choose which ones would be suitable and useful
to my class. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<o:p><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week offered me an opportunity to </span></o:p><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">put into practice what I am learning
from this E-teacher program - the implementing part of the technology related
change in my class. Yes. I was able to start implementing the project in my class. It was a
delightful experience helping students create their own blogs and getting their
blogs links by email. Seeing their blogs and them getting motivated beyond my
expectations was a rewarding experience for me and a great achievement. This
experience made me realize that technology does wonders in the field of teaching
and learning if we know how to use it .</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no limit for
joy and wonder.........during this week. It should be only experienced..... learning
and using technology and techniques to engage students in their learning tasks!</span></div>
SASI RAJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15109470613319697427noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664088590201244757.post-11230520543496201562014-11-16T07:33:00.001-08:002014-11-16T07:35:45.372-08:00IMPLEMENTING THE TECHNOLOGY RELATED CHANGE IN MY CLASS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>In my technology related
project, my main objective is to use technology to motivate students in reading
and writing tasks/activities. I would like to find out whether technology and
internet resources would provide high level motivation and interest in reading
and writing tasks. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>I made some changes
in my original project step in order to get more focused. First, I got my
students create their own blogs and send their blog links to me by email. Keeping
in mind the course objectives of my class, I wanted my students to read their
lessons on their own. I asked them to read the lessons from their e-textbooks available
online in the text books publisher’s website. To start with, I asked them to
read three lessons (two short stories and one short biography) from the online e-text book. Then I asked them
to write a short summary along with a brief comment on each of the three lessons and
post them onto their blogs. Most of the students have completed the reading of
the lessons and the posting of the summary to their blogs. Once all the
students have completed this task, each one of the students will visit at least
five blogs of their classmates, read the summaries and write comments on each
of the posts in the blogs. </strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>I have visited their blogs and I have found them
awesome. My joy finds no bounds when I see their marvelous blogs in terms of
design and content. I have already begun to feel the change that is happening because of technology. Students
who are not at all interested in reading these lessons using the text books and
would not be interested in writing tasks in the classroom are showing a lot of
interest and are writing wonderful reviews in their blogs.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Writing comments in
the blogs would certainly be another interesting activity for them. This will
be their next task, which is an impossible task in the classroom, given the
nature and the size of the class. </strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>There is more to do,
peer evaluation and introducing the students to rubrics for evaluation, reading
more online and making more posts......during the next week. They are writing
their mid-term exam conducted by the school next week but I hope they will find
time to do their reading and writing tasks.<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Week 5 has been a great week, full
of practical tasks, reading and brwsing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Reading of the articles</span>“</span><a href="http://americanenglish.state.gov/resources/english-teaching-forum-2005-volume-43-number-4#child-637" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Maximizing the Benefits of Project Work in Foreign Language
Classrooms</span></a><span style="color: blue;">” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by Brulent Alan and
Frederika L. Stoller and “</span><a href="http://www.ascd.org/cache/publications/educational_leadership/sept10/vol68/num01/Seven_Essentials_for_Project-Based_Learning.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Seven Essentials for Project-based Learning</span></a><span style="color: blue;">” by John Larmer
and John R. Mergendoller about Project-Based Learning (PBL) gave me a lot of
insight into the understanding of the Project-Based Learning. Though I have
heard about PBL I had not had<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>much
opportunity to learn more about it till I learned about it this week through
reading of the articles, websites and case-studies. I enjoyed learning about
PBL and I can say with certainty that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
have got greater understanding of PBL now and I have decided to use PBL
frequently in my classes hereafter.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Another important task that I am delighted to mention is to learn about ‘alternative
assessment’ and ‘rubrics’. Reading articles about ‘alternative assessment’ and
visiting web pages to learn about<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘rubrics’
and web-quest were interesting experiences. Though designing alternative
assessment tools and rubrics are a bit difficult tasks, I have grasped their
value and significance in the 21<sup>st</sup> teaching/learning scenario.
Understanding alternative assessment and rubrics in the correct perspective with
the help of technology has been a real great experience for me and it has
injected into me new strength as an e-English teacher. Designing and preparing
rubrics for a writing task using </span><a href="http://rubistar.4teachers.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://rubistar.4teachers.org/</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> was an awesome experience
for me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Yet another interesting experience I had was writing technology related
change that I would implement in my class (which is a project step). Initially
when I started thinking about how and in what way and what change I would like
to implement in my class with the help of technology, it was very difficult for
me to give shape to my plan. But after much thought, I was successful in
writing it. I felt it was a challenging task. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">On the whole, the week’s tasks were both challenging and interesting. The
week offered practical tasks and challenging activities and introduced me to many
new things and areas of digital learning.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Thank you, all participants and the instructors for the great week.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Best</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Sasi Raj from India</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
SASI RAJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15109470613319697427noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664088590201244757.post-40027025895977291322014-11-02T08:36:00.001-08:002014-11-16T05:28:17.763-08:00WEEK 4 – A GREAT WEB JOURNEY!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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has really been a great week, full of challenging tasks - searching for
interesting interactive websites for reading, writing and vocabulary skill
building, description of my class issue/problem for the project, writing a
technology enhanced lesson plan, etc.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> </span></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;">Each
task was a learning experience for me ,especially using websites for teaching
reading and writing. I found the wonderful web tools and the marvelous interactive
websites that I visited during the week <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are
quite interesting for me and the experience has now begun to give an entirely <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>new <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>dimension to my teaching profession.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: 12pt;">I thoroughly
enjoyed writing my technology enhanced lesson plan .It took a lot of thinking
and planning about the outline of the lesson and the websites or web tools that
I want to use in my technology enhanced lesson. I felt a bit strenuous while
preparing the lesson but I was greatly delighted when it finally took shape. It
was a great rewarding experience.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> </span></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;">Describing
my class issue was also a wonderful task which helped me to get a profound insight
into my classroom setting, teaching, type of students, teaching/learning goals,
etc. I have learned what an action research project in the field of teaching is
from my describing my class issue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
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the whole ,it was an exciting journey through various websites, web pages and
web based tasks <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which make me feel that
I am on my way to become an e-teacher.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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many thanks to the instructors for their efforts in designing interesting web
based tasks and activities.</span></span><br />
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SASI RAJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15109470613319697427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664088590201244757.post-37158828405408906962014-11-01T10:45:00.000-07:002014-11-16T05:35:18.572-08:00TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LESSON PLAN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">8<sup>th</sup>
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30</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
students of mixed ability students, age<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>12-13 years old<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(For introduction and revision of the vowel sounds -
previous unit) </span><a href="https://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/phonemic-chart-ia.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">https://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/phonemic-chart-ia.htm</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(For minimal pairs) </span></span><a href="http://davidbrett.uniss.it/phonology/vowel%20sounds/IndexofMinimalPairs.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">http://davidbrett.uniss.it/phonology/vowel%20sounds/IndexofMinimalPairs.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="color: blue;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(For </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>vowel sounds<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>i: i )<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(beat/bit,
heed/hid, leap/lip, reach/rich, seek/sick, read/rid, weep/whip)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
</span><a href="http://davidbrett.uniss.it/phonology/vowel%20sounds/beat%20bit%20mini/MinimalPairsBeatBit.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">http://davidbrett.uniss.it/phonology/vowel%20sounds/beat%20bit%20mini/MinimalPairsBeatBit.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="color: blue;">
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(cot/caught, fox/forks, often/orphan, pot/port, shot/short, spot/sport) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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sounds : <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ʌ<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>æ ) (cat/cut, mad/mud, match</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">/much,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">
lack/luck, matter/mutter, cap/cup, slam/slum)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">OTHER MATERIAL</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Worksheets having the minimal pair words
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">i:
i, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ɒ ɔ: ,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ʌ<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>æ</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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students (audience) will be able to identify the same sounds (behavior) in all
the minimal pairs having the same sounds (degree).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TECHNOLOGY OBJECTIVES: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After listening to the
audio recording of the vowel sounds from the interactive websites (condition),
the students (audience) will identify the same sounds (behavior) in all the
minimal pairs given in the interactive websites (degree).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">PROCEDURES</span></b></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">: Steps of the presentation of lesson <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- <br />
1.First, students will listen to these vowel sounds on the interactive websites</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>i: i,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ɒ ɔ: ,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ʌ<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>æ </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2. Then, they will
repeat the sounds (say the sounds aloud)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3. Then, they identify
the sounds in the minimal pairs given in the interactive websites</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">etc.(This is an
assessment part)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">1. Students listen to the vowel sounds on the
interactive websites and repeat them aloud <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">2. Students listen to the vowel sounds and identify
the sounds in the minimal pairs by clicking on the correct word.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ASSESSMENT: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Students take a formal test by clicking on the
correct word having the sound they hear from the interactive websites and see
their grades on the websites immediately.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">BACK UP PLAN: (</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Plan “B”) <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: blue;">Work sheets having the minimal pairs
along with phonetic symbols of the vowel sounds that the students are going to
learn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b>HOMEWORK / FOLLOW UP:</b> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Students
will prepare a set of minimal pairs for the vowel sounds that they have learned
on the interactive websites.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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SASI RAJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15109470613319697427noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664088590201244757.post-39818574858776438542014-10-26T22:41:00.000-07:002014-10-26T22:48:15.233-07:00MY REFLECTIONS -WEEK 3<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A FLIGHT BACK THROUGH WEEK 3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Yet another important and interesting week I had.....Week 3.So many interesting things to recall and reflect on ..... The aural/oral skills development tasks and the related websites are really a new discovery for me. For the first time in my life, I have visited such interesting and powerful interactive websites which provide awesome resources for developing aural/oral skills. I was really amazed by the remarkable features these websites have. After browsing these websites I have become more confident in teaching sounds of English, pronunciation, word stress, etc. Now I can easily teach my students aural/oral skills using interesting websites.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another important task that filled me with boundless delight was saving the websites links in Delicious.com. It was really great discovery and an interesting task for me, which will go a long way in my teaching career in having a great mine of websites links.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Reading the </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"><span style="font-size: small;">two articles “Teaching Pronunciation to Adult English Language Learners” by Kirsten Schaetzel <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Using Original Video and Sound Effects to Teach English” by Shahla Yassaei was a wonderful experience for me. It would help me in teaching listening skills and speaking skills using digital tools. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got a better understanding about teaching of the aural and oral skills using web technology.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"><span style="font-size: small;">I also learned a great deal about the kind of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Project I need to do as part of the e-teacher program by reading past Final Project reports. Reviewing the past project was a great learning experience for me as it gave me an insight into the kind of work I am expected to. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"><span style="font-size: small;">In short , I would like to say that again I had a wonderful week full of interesting learning experiences.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"><span style="font-size: small;">Best<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"><span style="font-size: small;">Sasi Raj</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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SASI RAJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15109470613319697427noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664088590201244757.post-30956624627183052622014-10-19T01:54:00.000-07:002014-10-19T01:55:30.841-07:00RECOLLECTONS: WEEK 2 - AN EMPOWERING ONE! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="kix-wordhtmlgenerator-word-node"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red;">Week 2…..a great week! Full of activities …starting from Web
Searching to Project Step. I had a great time busy using the internet browsing
websites and web pages. Every time it was a new thing that I learned during the
week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="kix-wordhtmlgenerator-word-node"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red;">Web Searching task has
been really an eye opener for me – taking me to a completely a new world of
wonders and surprises. I have come to know about the wonderful new search engines
which took me to a whole new world of websites or web pages which were quite
relevant for my search and topics. I have been really wonderstruck at the power
of search engines. I have been able to prepare lesson plans and web materials for
two of my class lessons using this web searching task. This experience has
really helped a lot in my teaching this week’s class and I have a learned an
important and great skill which is very much required in teaching English in
this technology- rich world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="kix-wordhtmlgenerator-word-node"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red;">Writing ABCD model of
objectives was also yet another exciting experience for me as I have never done
before that way. So I have learned the advantage of writing the ABCD model of
objectives and I have learned to write how to write teaching or learning objectives
according to ABCD model. It was really a great learning experience for me. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="kix-wordhtmlgenerator-word-node"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red;">Writing the class
description for the project was also another important task that gave me an
idea of re-thinking about my whole class in terms of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>its nature, composition, background, learning
goals, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="kix-wordhtmlgenerator-word-node"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red;">The whole week has been
a rewarding experience for me while reading the posts of other friends on the
Nicenet. I have learned a lot from the experiences posted on the Nicenet. I
have come to know about the different class settings in different countries through
the project task posted by all our friends on the Nicenet. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span class="kix-wordhtmlgenerator-word-node"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">On the whole, Week 2
has filled me with rich learning experiences and I thank Ms </span></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;">Courtney</span><span class="kix-wordhtmlgenerator-word-node"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="kix-wordhtmlgenerator-word-node"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">and the other
instructors for their meticulous plan, help and cooperation in making Week 2 a
grand success for me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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SASI RAJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15109470613319697427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664088590201244757.post-19118769300198096722014-10-11T16:07:00.000-07:002014-11-16T05:32:25.395-08:00RECOLLECTONS: WEEK 1 OF THE E-TEACHER PROGRAM<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><strong><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">RECOLLECTONS: WEEK 1 OF THE E-TEACHER PROGRAM<o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">First of all, I would like to express my profound gratitude
to the US Embassy and the Regional English Language Office (RELO) in India for
giving me the rarest opportunity to participate in the online course “ Building
Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web”. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">I feel it is a life- time experience for me to be a
participant in this course. The email informing me about the acceptance of my
application filled me with overflowing joy. After the registration, I felt that
the course would be a very difficult task but at the same time <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it filled me with excitement because of the
nature of the course and the tasks involved in it. The name of the course “
Building Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web” fascinated me very much
and I knew pretty sure that I was going to learn something entirely new. Though
I am not a web savvy, the passion to learn web skills gave me the impetus to eagerly
wait for the course to start. I joined the Discussions for Week 1 very late as
I was on an academic tour and I had to race against time to complete the assignments
for Week 1. The instructors were very helpful and gave instructions and
information related to the course tasks and assignments well in advance. I
would like to thank all the instructors who took extra effort to inform me about
joining the Discussions in time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">There was a range of tasks and
activities during Week 1. We can not take the course very lightly. I started
with the visit of the course website to explore the whole range of tasks,
assignments, weekly schedules, etc. Then I filled out the needs assessment
survey. These two tasks gave me sufficient information about the scope and
nature of the course.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">I joined the Discussion on Nicenet
only on Friday as I was on an academic tour. It was a wonderful experience entering
Nicenet , creating username and password and making the first post on the Discussion
– “Introduction”. I was really wonderstruck at this .Then I went on to create my
blog on the blogger. My heart leaped out of joy when I succeeded in creating my
blog. Then I linked my post on the blog to the Wiki. Then I posted my comments
on the Ground Rules for Discussions. All these web-based tasks gave me a series
of thrilling experiences which filled me with wonder and awe. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">On the whole, Week 1 has been full of
delightful interactions with the web. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">Now looking forward to learning more in
Week 2.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">Sasi Raj from India</span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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SASI RAJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15109470613319697427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3664088590201244757.post-51971039599816506982014-10-11T06:50:00.002-07:002014-10-11T06:50:36.397-07:00AN AWESOME EXPERIENCE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Lucida Sans","sans-serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span style="color: red;">MY EXPERIENCE OF CREATING A BLOG</span> </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #0000cc; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Creating a blog, wow!
An awesome experience that filled me with boundless joy. A dream-come -true
experience for me when I finally succeeded in creating a blog.Many, many thanks
to the e-teacher program and the members of the faculty. The experience of
creating the blog set me thinking about the tremendous impact that the the
digital tools and the webs are going to make in the filed of teaching and
learning in the 21st century. The experience has taught me the power of the
internet and the web-skills which are already revolutionizing the learning
experience of students and making learning a delightful experience.<br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<span style="color: #00b050;">Sasi Raj</span></span></div>
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