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This
week has been characterized by new helpful increasing knowledge. In my case, knowing about new search engines besides "Google" has been more than
an experience. My classmates are really smart and proactive. The have shared
different links for academic searches. For example, Nino Tarkhnishvili suggested "Glean Comparison Search" http://www.gleancomparisonsearch.org/index.php . This web browser provides lots of
professional articles which are categorized according to experts' viewpoints.
Besides, another useful search engine for my students was provided by Jasmina Ðordevic "10x10 / 100
Words and Pictures that Define the Time" http://www.tenbyten.org/info.html . This web page provides 100 picture
scans that represent different international updated news. Each picture is
associated with a word that can be a name, and adjective or a verb. It is great
for designing learning activities. I also did
my own web search and I found another valuable search engine named “Lycos” http://www.lycos.com/ . Lycos offers all kind of information including
academic abstracts and complete articles on language issues that we can use in
our classes. As a matter of fact, these three web searchers will be considered for my next classes and following courses since I plan to improve my students' reading materials and searching sources.
On the
other hand, two tasks were accomplished this week: ABCD objectives and project task.
The former made me learn the revised version of Bloom’s Taxonomy, which
includes digital learning objectives and one additional learning level
(Creating Level). Based on this taxonomy, all of us learned how to design a
learning objective for one of our classes taking into account the learners and
instructional setting. In fact, the
article on “Writing Objectives” reminded us that the students’ behaviors and
expectations are closely related to the teaching and grading processes.
Furthermore
the latter, the project task, became the first step to our final project. As I am teaching a semi-distance course for
the first time, I feel eager to design new, interesting and challenging activities
for my students. Then, I decided that I will develop my final project on the
graduate course “Teaching language Skills”.
This course
is really motivating for me! Thanks a lot!!!
Dear Mary,
ReplyDeleteI just want to say that the 10x10 was not my finding. I just explored it after Sankarakumar and Vinita had mentioned it. Thank you very much for pointing out the mistake I made by not giving the two the credit for suggesting it in my post on Nicenet. I guess that all the reading and excitement over new ideas, regardless who they are coming from, can make us a bit neglectful at times.
Yet, it is great to be a part of this wonderful group.
Jasmina