Week 7 reflection

The week 7 is finished and today is Monday. I would like to share my ideas about last week with you.

The discussion task One computer settings was quite new and interesting for me. I've never thought of using one computer in the classroom and using a computer in the classroom seemed very effective for me. Here is my post on nicenet about this subject:

"Hi dear friends,

Though, I've never used one computer in my classroom, I would like to bring you my ideas.

Usually, modern English teachers are using their own notebooks even if they don't have PC in their classroom so, that is usual thing if we use computer in the classroom. Unfortunately I don't have a notebook yet, but soon I will buy it.

Well, my ideas about using a computer in the classroom. It gives lots of advantages, as teacher can easily show pupils his presentations, videos and can use his room as a lingo phone cabinet if he has no kind of comforts in his school. I mean no need to use a projector, or lingo phone if you have a computer in the classroom.

Moreover, the teacher usually has all his tools in electronic variant and he can easily get them right during the lesson."

I read all other participants posts, all of them were very interesting for me as I found out that many of my course-mates had a great experience in this subject.

The next one: Wallwisher/Padlet. Though, I already used this web tool I found it quite interesting when saw that all others added some useful articles, links, videos and other materials including Learner's autonomy subject. I decide to use it till the end of semester in my school. As it's very nice tool where you can have fun bringing your students some interesting facts and asking them share some other facts in any theme.

In find a partner for peer reading section Robert asks us to find a partner for the next main project. I choosed Pervana from Azerbaijan. Pery is very good friend and teacher with great experience. And I think she is that person from whom I can learn some of secrets in creating project.

The sixth week is finished...

The sixth week is finished and today is monday night.
Now, I am going to write my thoughts and ideas about last week which was also very exciting and had effective materials for me and I am sure for my other colleagues participating in our course.

The topic Discussion includes the theme:Engaging students/large classes.
Of course, this time the discussion was very interesting and I could read how other teachers gave their opinions about Engaging students large classes.

I thought that just some of teachers are having large classes, but many of them have experienced in teaching large auditories in schools, universities... and I liked Dagnogo's message about discipline in large classes.

As for me, I also shared my opinions.

The next topic was extremely exciting! As Robert asked us to create our own interactive Power Point presentation. That was I really wanted to do so long. And as you can see in my blog I've created a "Can chocolate help save the world" presentation. My colleagues were very interested in my PP doc and left their brilliant comments.

This was my reflection for week 6.


 

"Can chocolate save the world?" PP presentation.

Can chocolate save the world from Nasim Sadikov

Week 5 reflection (Very hard and effective week)

Hi everybody who is reading my "Week 5 reflection" in my web blog!

I really appreciate your visit and your comments.

Now, let me share my ideas, reflections about last week which was very exciting and had quite hard tasks.

In "Project step #4 I had to write a solution to the problem that I wrote a week ago. The problem solution should be a technology - related change that means, I need to think wide and to shake my brain so that to solve the "time management" problem in my lessons. Then, I remembered a WebQuest that is a good desicion in my mind. Because, lack of time I couldn't make a progress in explaining the subject to my students. I mean 45 minutes aren't enough for me. So, a project in WebQuest can make it easier as I don't need to manage time for checking homework at the beginning of lesson and giving homework at the end. WebQuest is a nice instrument where I can mark my students by their answers to tasks.

The next one was a week 5 task. The notion "rubrics" was unfamiliar for me until this task. So, Robert asked us to create a Rubric. Thanks GOOGLE! that always helps me in kind of moments. I referred to my friend and asked him to help me with "rubric". Finally, I found this: http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=WhatIs&module=Rubistar . This link gave me enough info about rubric and I could create my rubric doc :)

In discussion topic we had "Assessment. Rubrics and PBL" where we were asked to answer some questions. Again I was thankful to my search engine friend Google, where I found information about PBL (I didn't know anything about PBL before) reading http://online.sfsu.edu/rpurser/revised/pages/problem.htm I tried to guess how to answer the questions and tried my best.

The week was hard but very effective for me. As I learned about Rubrics, WebQuest, PBL lots of things and the most important thing I learned how to use them.

One more thing, about Extra Credit. I've created page on zunal and working on it. For the person who doesn't know many things about WebQuest. it's little bit difficult to start a new project there. But I can do it. My project name is "Talking about the future" which I am going to start with 9 th grades, but I am working on it nowadays and it takes me a lot of time to work with it. 

As I said, the week was successful and effective for me. I am thankful to my course-mates who share their brilliant ideas in Nicenet and Robert who is tries to make us work hard. :)



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Reflection for this week (4 th week)

My dear colleagues and friends.

With respect to Robert and to other course-mates I would like to start my Reflection for this week.

Because of very important project that is starting in our country I couldn't start this week's tasks from Monday. But on wednesday I tried myself in "Class issue, need or problem". I read many messages left by my colleagues and all of them were very interesting. As Robert asked us to write about issues or problems, many participants wrote about problems and issues in their school. Reading some of posts I realized that many teachers have many problems and your problem depends in what area you live. And moreover, some of us have same problems like: Internet connection, motivation, time management etc... 

And about the next project " Discussion, Reading, writing, vocabulary skills". Frankly, it was very hard project for me. As I told you that I had lots of problems last week I was little bit nervous about finishing another project and this one seemed very hard for me. But when I read the instructions I found it quite interesting and very useful. I am very thankful to Robert, for giving us such kind of tasks, because all these projects are making me work on myself (Also we can see it from Mustafa Ahmed Ali's post to my subject: "Hello Nasim Sadikov,

Week 4 is the week of reading by the very meaning of the word reading. We read about reading, how to improve reading , how to develop your vocabulary to develop your reading. All this happened through reading. I think that Robert intended to make us read more to teach us to be a model for our students. I myself liked reading this week more than before. What do you think?". I posted two links and wrote my ideas about them.

The third task was very interesting for me, because I tried myself in creating a new lesson plan but to the ready pattern. I think, we can use this lesson plan in practice. Well, I decide to try it soon.

With respect,

Nasim Sadikov