Well, this week was a bit challenging as I think there were more readings, and to make my life even more difficult my internet was and still is slow.
This week I started feeling Oh my God I was so web illiterate, I thought I knew Internet possibilities and regretted that I haven't chosen 0 for all the answers in the survey which Donna gave us at the beginning of the course.
So this week I have learnt about Delicious! I have created my own, it is www.delicious.com/nodira How I have lived without it! It is great! I used to usehttp://www.openstarts.units.it/dspace/bitstream/10077/2850/1/bus%C3%A0.pdf the Favorites tool in my Internet Explorer, but when I change the laptops I keep losing the links.
Then I have learnt about PRAAT from the article on Teaching pronunciation It took a lot of time to figure out how it works, but I finally succeded in recording my voice, then viewing its spectogram. It is fun, it looks like the music editors I think they have.
Then I have read the project report by Aleyda Linares from Universidad Pedagogica Nacional Francisco Morazan of Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Now I have an idea what should the project report be like, it is not that difficult as I have thought. It is well written and easy to follow. She has created a blog for her class on teaching grammar
https://alegrammarwork.wordpress.com/
I liked the idea of a class blog, I think first I learnt about a class blog from Stasya from our course. It contains lots of resources on teaching grammar.
Well, I have learnt a lot and am happy that I succeeding. We are using Jupiter for accessing our grades, it is a great tool! I have 100% for all the tasks. But last days I started thinking does Donna assess the quality of comments, posts or just gives percentage to the quantity?
At the beginning we were sent the rubrics for assessing the comments, the grades were excellent, good, poor as far as I remember. Is Donna using these rubrics to assess the comments?
That intrests me because I am thinking how I will assess my students, will I count as a completed task if someone just posts one or two sentences.
Nodira
Hi Nodira,
ReplyDeleteNice Reflections. It seems that you've had a week full of learning. One thing I must say that "Alexander the Great was once a crying baby." We are novice in the world of web and with practice and learning, we will enrich ourselves.
Hi Nodira,
ReplyDeleteI am glad you have just "started" feeling web illiterate. I have had this feeling from the first day we started the course, and even if I stopped saying it, I still feel it!
Thank you for sharing your experience with the PRAAT. For some reason, I didn't think it would be interesting but now I do.
Concerning the assessment part, I also have some difficulties doing it objectively. I keep feeling that I might have unfairly assessed my students, and this bothers me.
If Donna could help with that or plan it for the coming weeks, it would be useful for all of us I guess.
Ghada