Week 1: Reflection
The first week is very exciting but also challenging. There are lots of information about the course and how the participants could participate in. I used the first three days of this week for observing what is really going on and trying to follow the instruction. Although this period is quite hard, especially because I jumped to building my reflective blog while at the same time signed in to the nicenet, I learned through it. I found articles about using blog and google map for teaching English are very inspiring. I think I would use them as well for my listening and writing classes. I believe that my students will also be very excited as I am and find them very useful for themselves. I have to work hard to do this as my students are now in their mid-term exam and will have a two weeks mid-term break after that. How..?Anyway, I am glad realizing that I have this blog. Yes, I have started it already. Here I am now, writing for my first post on my reflective blog. Amazing....
Hi Rina.
ReplyDeleteWould you like to share your articles with us?
Hi Julia,
ReplyDeleteI read the following articles:
Weblogs for Use with ESL Classes - an introduction to blogs and what you can do with them: http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Campbell-Weblogs.html
Sample blogs Teaching ESL to Adults (simplest): http://www.esl-tutor.com/
ESL Class Blog (simple:) http://dvmunca.blogspot.com/
Deborah Healey's reflective blog http://deborah-teachingonline.blogspot.com/
Sample blogs from Fall 2010 and 2009 term's participants on the Blog page for the previours course
You could also read related articles by visiting https://sites.google.com/site/entisarelsherif/research-interests/blogs
and The Internet TESL Journal, Vol. XVI, No. 2, February 2010
http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Franco-Google/
Enjoy the readings :)
Thank you
Hi Rina
ReplyDeleteSince it was new for me, it was like challenging for me, too. Now I have good little experience in essential procedures. I hope you visit my blog every now and then to help me improve mine.
Thank you
Hi friend,
DeleteThank you for visiting my blog. I have a look at your blog. Don't worry, you have started it well. You just need to spend more times to improve the layout. You can do this by clicking the 'setting' button on the 'design' menu on the right side at the top of your blog. Select the template you like. I have changed my template more than 3 times( and may still do) as I tried to find the one I like. Then you can select the layout which shows you how your blog is designed. You can add either information, picture or image to one of the slot, depending on how you want it appears on your blog. Always click 'save' at the bottom before you s view the changes on your blog . by clicking the 'view the blog' on the left side at the top. It is very exciting to see the change and do more thing on the layout. Frankly speaking, I created my blog by 'learning while doing' and now I still do some changes for a better look.
Well, hope this will help, or read Sean last posting about 'creating a reflective teaching blog, and follow the links, I bet you will find it very helpful to improve your blog. Have a try and good luck/. I look forward to visiting it.