WEEK 4 Reflections on the Endeavour.

This week brought lots of joys and  pleasure from the work done. I have read all the articles suggested  on Reading/writing skill-building websites, practiced in preparing a technology-enhanced lesson plan and realized it conducting a lesson in my Form 10 groups. I find it very handy to use ABCD objective for planning my lessons and use the Lesson Plan with Technology Template for writing my Lessons plans. On the web sites suggested for browsing there are many excellent collections of content-rich sites on the Internet. I've included my favorites to my Delicious page which I enjoy so much! I am sure all the pages can be used by my students who want to learn about a particular topic. I shared them with my colleagues and pre-teachers from the university.  They all showed great interest to use Web resources to supplement classroom lessons and were eager to see how to integrate Web resources into their teaching. I got very useful hints and ideas on teaching from the posts on Nicenet which I always read with interest. I thank my e-Teaching colleagues for their generous reflections on the blogs. I brought my knowledge to system having read the articles about using CALL in writing and reading activities. My students’ groups’ blogs become the place for  Real writing interaction: the problem might be for students without computers to have the letter typed, but  we solved the problem by arranging the computer lab for self-access after classes and  by having some more computer-advanced students help the less skilled, in this way adding the collaborative element. I expect that comments and letters sent to my students may lead to close cooperation and real friendship, and certainly they increase students' cultural awareness and teach them how to appreciate different cultures.