Week 5

Week 5

During this week I created a sample rubric on grading my student's oral presentation

Here is a link
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=ShowRubric&rubric_id=2508601&

The rubric has the following categories: content, fluency and coherence of speech, awareness of audience, language, response to questions, stayed in time limit.

You can also use it for grading your student's final PBL presentations. 

Week 7

Week 7

This week I read some resources related to the topic “Learner Autonomy”.

We also discussed the question “What could a teacher do to encourage greater autonomy in students, with and without technology?”

Finally I created an activity for a one-computer classroom  that promotes learner autonomy. 

Have you heard about Padlet tool that allows people to share information in one location, on a virtual wall?

Go to http://ru.padlet.com/russellmoon/Webskills_W15

It is an example of a pad let wall, a nice tool to engage students in fruitful intellectual activities.

Week 8

Week 8

This week I created a test at http://www.easytestmaker.com

This program “Easy test maker” helped me to create, format and grade tests.

I am planning to use this multiple choice test in the course "Corporate Culture" for my upper-intermediate students.
I think that multiple choice tests are certainly one of the effective and efficient ways to assess learning outcomes.
Here is a link to the test I created
http://www.easytestmaker.com/Test/EBE85BA13E424A11910080B3E53FCF79

Week 9

Week 9

This week I read about learning styles / multiple intelligences and how these can be catered to through technology.

I read the following articles:

1. Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence

http://www.niu.edu/facdev/resources/guide/learning/howard_gardner_theory_multiple_intelligences.pdf

2. Richard M. Felder “Learning Styles and strategies”

http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILSdir/styles.htm

3. Learning strategies

http://americanenglish.state.gov/resources/shaping-way-we-teach-english-successful-practices-around-world#child-298

If you want to know more about your learning style go to

http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html

One of the tools to enhance students’ abstract vocabulary skills is Wordle. It is a free Web application that allows creating a word cloud based on the frequency of words on a particular text. A teacher may start a lesson with a cloud already created before the lesson.

The following links

http://piktochart.com

http://www.easel.ly

https://www.canva.com

would make an infographic project enjoyable and convenient for the students to create one of their own projects and publish them online. 

Week 10

Week 10

During this week I’ve learned that a teacher passes through different steps while introducing technology into the classroom. If you want to find out what level (tier) of technology integration you belong to, please, follow the links:

The information provided at “State of Washington: Tiers of Technology Integration”

http://www.k12.wa.us/edtech/techliteracy/techinttiers.aspx

and “University of Southern Florida: The Technology Integration Matrix”

http://fcit.usf.edu/matrix/matrix.php

This information will help you to learn more about your approach to integrating technology into teaching.