Ciao!
All'inizio, presentati!
Come ti chiami? Che classe fai?
ivana
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Hi everyone!
We have reached the final week of our course and I am feeling a little sad. I got used to doing weekly tasks and I am sure I am going to miss them.
What I have learned so far in this course? I was introduced to many interesting and useful web tools, and I will use some of them in my teaching.
I like a lot Prezi presentations, they are very dynamic and are not so linear like PPts.
I also like WebQuest. The lessons obviously need some time preparing, but I think children will benefit from it.
RubiStar is also great. Making rubrics with this tool is so easy, I am sure it will be of great help for me in the future.
Delicious is also useful, instead of remembering all the passwords for different pages, you can only remember one - that of delicious.
There are also many different sites that have already prepared lessons. Some of them are yet to be explored in more details. I have left that for the future time when there will not be weekly tasks to do.
To conclude, I am glad and grateful for the knowledge I gained and hope that the future participants will know how to make the best of the course.
Greetings,
Ivana
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Hi everyone!
Here is a short reflection I have on this
week's topic. I was familiar with the multiple intelligence concept before, but
what was new to me from this week was Felder's classification of learning
styles.
I was surprised to find out how I can relate to some of his
types. Anyway, what I liked the most is the statement that everybody is
sometimes both types from any classification. I guess it depends on the
situation...
I also took a quiz on what type of learner I am, and I wasn't surprised with the results. So here they are:
Ivana
Saturday, November 24, 2012
OMIĆ |
Hi everyone!
This week's reading was very enlightning. I found some of the online and offline tools very
helpful.
I was already familiar with Hot Potatos, especially for creating
word searches. What is a real revelation of this week is:
because it made making crossword puzzles, board games, word
searches... so easier than with Hot Potatoes. If you want, you can chech some of the made exercises on the Class wiki.
Easy test maker http://www.easytestmaker.com can be extremely useful. There are so many
different types of questions, and is surely one of my favorite tools of the
week.
There is also 4teachers,
it can be a great source for ideas.
All the mentioned tools can be used with my young learners
but only as prepared and printed exercises for doing them individually. If I
intend to do them online, I would have to use already tested one-computer technique.
As for the Nicenet classes or Class Blog, it is rather clear
why I cannot use it with young learners, but I intend to do a Class Blog for my
Italian Class. As a matter of fact, some of the things learned on this online
course, will be extremely useful for my Italian classes also.
Ivana
Friday, November 16, 2012
I forgot to mention, here is my short lesson plan to be done in one computer classroom. Feel free to comment it and criticise!
The ABCD objective
would be:
A: young learners (3rd grade)
B: will reproduce and accurately use parts of the city vocabulary
C: in exercises projected from a computer
D: with no pronunciation errors
B: will reproduce and accurately use parts of the city vocabulary
C: in exercises projected from a computer
D: with no pronunciation errors
This is the lesson
plan:
- Introduce parts of the city using city plan from a book and using flashcards (teacher)
- Practice pronunciation of some difficult words (orally with teacher)
- Listen and do a listening exercise where the children hear the sounds of city places (like church bells, train arriving at the station, actors from a film, children at the playground...) and guess and write the place (class CD - children)
- Do worksheets on a projector/tv connected to a computer (the children are chosen from a dropdown menu the correct word using a mouse one by one)
- Imagine a town, give it a name and draw a plan of it making sure the town has places learned during the lesson (if there is time left, if not, the children will do it for homework)
Opatija, The Girl with a Seagull |
Hi everybody!
I started this week considering the idea of learners authonomy contradictory. Why? I offered many reasons in my Nicenet posts, most of them springing from the fact that I mostly teach young English learners and the idea of "indipendency" given to young children is difficult.
shortly, the reasons I gave were:
- if the children are left without any guide, they wion'tt do
much of what they are expected
- it is hard to learn something when you
know you are supposed to do so; it crushes the motivation
- the children as well as the teachers, are bounded
by the curriculum first, there are subjects and topics they are supposed to
learn and we, as teachers, have the obligation to “teach“ them the mentioned; this somehow excludes indipendency.
So, my only solution of this might be to let the children
choose the way they will learn something. Their autonomy would consist in
the fact that the teacher could offer various sources on the same subject to
achieve the same goal. The teacher could also provide them with some techniques
to ease the process of learning.
To summerize, the most important that I as a teacher can do
is, try to inspire them to love the language I am teaching. I think that only
this could light the sparkle in them to pursue the knowledge on their own
outside the curriculum they are forced to follow. And to do that, boredom must
be excluded, they must be willing to participate in the class
activities that should primarily be interesting, fun and sometimes inspired by
technology.
Ivana
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