Sunday, October 9, 2011

Week 2 Feeling More Confident



Two weeks past and I am amazed how much better I am able to organize my work in the class with blogging. My first steps I made last year and the idea seemed very vague and uncertain. This semester in two weeks with our program I have created my two blogs for school students and university correspondent course. They are not ideal (!), far from what I 'd love to have but at least I wrote the A BCD objective for each course, I stated the task and joined the students blogs in a net.
The starting point is here!
In two weeks my university students will come to their autumn session but we have started some blogging already. During our lessons I will be able to hear more from their experience with blog creating and web searching and will teach those who can’t join in on different reasons. I am happy I can do that now for them, as I am able to work with this technology myself.
Another great event related to what we are doing in our program and which  I’d love to share was the first Webinar within the course entitled Shaping the Way We Teach English offered by the Office of English Language Programs, U.S. Embassy, Ukraine. Exploiting Literature in Project Based Learning was the subject of the presentation for the worldwide teachers audience. I was so happy to see Garri, Bin Li on the website! It’s true that e-Teaching is forming a very friendly educational community and I feel I am the part of it. You can find nice tips on project based learning/teaching on the web site http://shapingenglish.ning.com
WizIQ  is of great interest for me and I hope we shall learn more related issues while in the program.

2 comments:

  1. Hi,Olena,I agree with that within two weeks that have passed we started to feel as a commumity ,and find things that we have in common,we were working on my coumtry witj Shaping the way we teach E nglish last year and the previous year with a Fullbright teacher,who came to U ruguay.When I read your blog I feel we hzve a lot of things in common,not only the name which sounds very si,ilar,but also havig crextrd another blog which I never used again,you kmow ,now I feel like revivimg it,it was created with other colleagues,and I feel I have to share things with them too.I congratulate you for your blog , regards Maria Elens

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  2. Hi Maria,
    Nice of you to leave a comment on my blog.Comments are an important part of both the readers and blogger’s learning process. Next week I am going to work with my students on preparing comments for the class mates' blogs. It's not so easy for a reader- you have to do much reading first, analyze what's there and what you like or find useful, then compose a recall, comment. I suppose to use our program comments to illustrate the best practices.

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