This week we work on our project plan ( Building Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web) by using the Project Report Template posted on Projects page. The overall goal of the project is to plan and implement a change related to technology use in your classroom. In my case I have a group of advanced learners who struggle getting relevant information from readings, this makes it difficult for them to learn the contents of the language curriculum course.
Therefore, I planned to create a wiki to help my students to overcome this problem by setting two objectives:
- Provided with exercises and online resources proposed in this wiki, advanced learners will be able to strengthen reading comprehension skill by skimming and scanning articles and readings, with a 90% of mastery.
- Provided with exercises and online resources proposed in this wiki, advanced learners will be able to strengthen the writing skill by applying strategies to summarize relevant information from readings and articles, with a 90% of mastery.
It was a challenging task because we were asked to to offer evidence as to how successful the technology experiment was in addressing the original class problem , as well as how we think this technological change well help to improve our class. Then, we were asked to share our draft project report or plan with our partner by posting it on the course wiki, in order to get feedback and advice on how to make this project successful.
Regarding the Discussion & Task I use the Crossword Puzzle Games to create a crosswrod puzzle about a list of key terms related to curriculum design. Then, I created a lesson using blendspace https://www.blendspace.com in order to gather resources for a lesson titled “Language curriculum design overview” where I put some resources. The site I created is this https://www.blendspace.com/lessons/AANEM6CgXX49Yg/edit.
The material included in this site is for advanced learners who are in the curriculum course. These tools allow to emphasize student centered pedagogy and accommodating student diversity. By having access to these resources, learners will direct their own learning in a more constructivist way because they will be the ones who will manipulate the tools and study the contents to apply them in real contexts, which will motivate them.
Hi Partner,
ReplyDeleteI notice with happiness that you have summarized the week very well, including everything we did. You are conducting a great project, and seeing your perfect mastery of technology tools, you will certainly do much for your students in this course.
If you have time, show me some tips to insert links and videos in my blog as you did in yours.
Thanks a lot and congratulations for your great job.
"See you"
Best,
Vital
Cote d'Ivoire.
Dear Vital,
ReplyDeleteI really liked the methodology used in this course. We had the opportunity to learn a lot from all our partners. All the participants created interesting and innovative tasks and projects applying contents that were presented each week and others that were added on their own.
I am glad to share with you how to add videos in the blog.
1. First , look for a video that you would like to add in your blog
Delete2. Then, look for the share icon. Click it and look for embed code. Copy it
3. After that, go to the blog where you want to insert the video
4. Look for the icon HTML which is up to the left next to compose. Open it and just paste there the embed code.
5. Update the blog and that is all.
I hope that this information help you.
Good luck!
Alba