Week 10 Reflection

The End of Our Technology Journey

Successful topics

Most of the topics we covered during the webskills course are very useful and help us as well as our students' autonomy and skills enhancements such as:

·         ABCD objectives,

·         Blogging,

·         Most efficient search engines,

·         Shared ideas for listening, speaking, pronunciation, reading and writing,

·         Practical Delicious page

·         Tips for setting a project in a project-based learning activity

·         Practical Ideas on Alternative Assessment

·         Learner Autonomy

·         multiple intelligences

·         Technology integration

Useful tools

Unlike my colleagues in this course, some tools cannot be used with my students because of connectivity issues in their area, for examples: Blogs, Pedlet and WebQuest. However, some of them work best for me as I could provide many educational tools to classroom or LRC (Learning Resource Center) such as: Rubrics, Interactive PowerPoint, Flash cards, board games, tests or quizzes.  

If I haven’t faced a problem accessing internet at my school, I thought of many possible solutions to enhance students' skills and autonomy. Gradually, we will work online and at school, we will hold a discussion of their perspectives of online activities.

As for future suggestions, there is none since I learnt from you things I have never heard about. Therefore, I don't have other tools rather than what this course suggested to me and my colleagues.

To sum up, this online course (Building Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web (Web Skills) was a great course which I update my knowledge of the latest technological tools used in education. Many thanks to those who support help and monitor our work during 10 weeks: Russell and Robert. Thanks to my colleagues and their brilliant ideas and shared experience. I hope it is not the last time we work together. 

Best of Luck all, 

Iman, Oman

Week 9 Reflection

Need to integrate varying methods

Through this week I was reading through some suggested articles about 9 learning styles and intelligences our students have.

What I like most in his article "Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences" is how each style is described with best tasks and jobs work with them. I think this gives me clearer images of how to do tasks considering the most common intelligence my students have.

However, through years of experience, I noticed that most of students have 3 common learning styles: spatial, verbal and body movements. Those different styles can be met by using some tools we learned in this webskills course.

As an example of activities considering language and words (listening and reading) are:

-          http://legacy.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html

-          http://www.npr.org/

-          http://www.elllo.org/

For body movements, there are some websites which helps make some board games and flash cards that could consider this stream of students such as:

http://www.lakeshorelearning.com/general_content/free_resources/teachers_corner/flashcard/flashcardmaker.jsp

Final project

I could say it is a thrilling week because we submitted the last version of our project report. My revision was based on comments I was given by my partners: Makram and Hanan. I hope that I did well by elaborating my project idea, tools, procedure and finding I got so far. 

Best, 

Iman, Oman