WEEK 8 ANVILL

This week was marvelously interesting and full of excitement. I called it ANVIL as all my thoughts and ideas are around it! Besides intensive reading  suggested, the week introduced us to  ANVILL and to on line event which I missed to my great frustration. Nevertheless, Webinars (recorded) are of much help and I enjoyed them equally for getting to know about ANVILL better and for some training with the tools. ANVILL Faculty Workshop  offers a great variety of tools like Voicethread - a relatively new tool for voice and video annotations,  ANVILL's Voiceboards, which allows a group of people to comment (in audio or video) about a certain topic.

The demo lessons (in the Basic Tools folder) are designed to showcase some of the possibilities of ANVILL. Sample Lessons are a rich resource for the teachers to think of own lessons on the platform. Mostly I like “2009 Inaugural Activities”- a smart and deliberately worked out example with interesting exercises spiced with humour, and great choice of tools to perform the tasks.

I finished my Survey for the Healthy Food Lesson “Diet & Exercise”  and set the time for it to be sent to my students with an appropriate message. Here is a link to the survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx

I reviewed the project Reports of my colleagues Rebecca and Elena which was easy to do using the Checklist for Peer Review. At the same time I am very thankful for my colleagues’ comments on my Draft Report and I am going to finish it next week.