Wow..., Week 4 is harder than the previous week, isn't it? But I like it. I feel something growing up in my life week by week. All add my knowledge, improve my habits, and increase my creativity and activity. I knew the ground rules for discussion and had friends in Week 1, got new lesson the ABCD Model and Web Searching of many very valuable search engines in Week 2, had a new site that is very delicious because of having menus of bookmarks on Delicious Pages (See mine on https://delicious.com/erhamadina) and Oral/Aural Skill experiences from many experienced people in the world of teaching in Week 3. What happened in Week 4? Let me recount.
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Through this task I got some extremely useful lessons because I knew how to organize my classes by using online references to enrich their knowledge on one topic of discussions or lectures, such as reading online journals, e-books, and other websites. Beside that I knew how to communicate with the students through blogs and send some materials to them via emails, like Liao did in using e-mail to improve her EFL learners' reading and writing, like Mikulecky did in using Internet-based children's literature to teach EFL, like Liang did in using three extensive reading activities for ESL/EFL Students using E-books in her class, and like Krajka did in using the Internet in ESL writing instruction. Through this section I am really happy because I have new Web Pages on Reading, Writing, Vocabulary, and Grammar Links (RWG Links Webskills Fall 2013). It is as interesting and important as the Delicious Pages.
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This is a new brilliant idea of enhancing lesson plans with technology. It is a good step to escape from the traditional ways of constructing and designing the lesson plans. I really agree with this breakthrough. Involving and integrating online technologies to teaching plan is a very creative and innovative tunnel to fulfill our demands in the modern teaching era. Really this program provides us some training to be a professional teacher that use technology for our teaching and learning process in or out of the classroom. Now I know how create a technology-enhanced lesson plan. See the lesson plan I created on
What I did from Week 1 to Week 4 improved my habit of teaching better, increased my creativity and activity more. Thanks.
I totally agree with you Rudi , This program is changing many things in our way of teaching !
ReplyDeleteHi Christine,
DeleteThat's right. We must keep our spirit to pass week by week happily because all we get and have later will improve our life and profession better. Thanks for your deep involvement in this problem.
Best,
Rudi Hartono
Hi Rudi,
ReplyDeleteI am amazed by the number of articles you read and webskill you surfed. You must have learned a lot from doing them. I read some of the articles you read and like Krajka at the most as it contain instructions for using the Internet in ESL writing class. As Christine also said that this program gives significant contribution to our teaching perspective and practice.
Hello Rina,
DeleteThat's right what you said, Rina. We have got a bunch of experiences from those experienced people who developed their teaching and learning with technology. This can improve the English teaching and learning atmosphere more innovative, creative, and interactive. We need a technology to enhance our teaching preparation and process, build our students' habit and behavior to appreciate and adapt to new technologies products and use them in our lives. Thanks.
Regards,
Rudi Hartono
Hi Rudy and Christine,
ReplyDeleteI see what a progress we all have made studying on this course. I have never heard about the Delicious page where we can collect necessary sites so that we will be able to enter our personal pages from any computer.
As for the technology-enhanced lesson planes, they really have given me a lot of extra ideas. I am sure they will really work in Israeli schools where discipline problems are very serious and sometimes it is very difficult to keep the kids quiet and interested in learning. Therefore with the help of technology this problem might be solved, or at least improved.
Hello Julia,
DeleteI agree with you. From what we did during four weeks of Webskill course, we can take advantages for our betterment of teaching and learning preparation, process and products and we hope we can pass the following weeks and end this program well and successfully. Thanks, Julia.
Best regards,
Rudi Hartono
Hi Rina, Rudi, Julia and Christine,
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely Rudi, week 4 has been quite hard. the toughest part has been to draw a technology-enhanced plan since I haven't great experience in this field and this is what I'm longing to learn. Fortunately the readings and links with Sean feedback provided great help.
What a pleasure to keep on learning and adding a new dimension to our English teaching!
Hello Mounira,
DeleteI really agree with your opinion about this program. We get more experiences from many people and lessons from all events displayed. Those can improve our professionalism in teaching and increase our knowledge of teaching and learning using new technologies that we have not got before. Thanks for you appreciation.
Best,
Rudi Hartono
Dear all lovely friends of Webskills Class,
DeleteThanks for your comments on my blog.
Best regards,
Rudi Hartono