I don´t know why but for reasons I ALWAYS have to work extra hours. (Like this course, with my web quest) I stop modifying it until I got what I wanted.
I don´t know why but for reasons I ALWAYS have to work extra hours. (Like this course, with my web quest) I stop modifying it until I got what I wanted.
Each
week that passes, I can´t believe how much have I learned!!!
Thank
Janine for this greate course. Thanks to Oregon University and all the people
who are involved in this great project, this is like the Bible says: You just spread the seeds and they will
grow. The seed that you are spreading in
my case is going to deep and too far, it is reaching my students, Mexican
teenagers that through you and me they are going to learn in a better way.
During
this 6th week, that almost finish……I learned how to
make an interactive PPT. I thought that it would be more difficult than it was.
But more than learn how to do it on tech terms, I mean the importance to have
this kind of material in our classes, the way that the students learn is
different, they show more interest for the class. I feel very proud of myself each time that I
see my web quest. This task was consuming task for me. It is not easy to
elaborate it. I had to check many web sites, check the vocabulary, and think on
what could be an obstacle for my students. Check if the sites were inside of my
goal, check if the topic was so close to mine, check the photos if they are the
rights for my student’s age and so on, that is why it took me so long. I did
something similar with other sources, like the videos, I watched them before
and checked everything that I mentioned before. Now what I am planning for next
semester that begins on August, is that at the same time that students are
working at class, they can continue working at home with a PBL or a web quest.
In this way they are walking on different roads that will take them to the same
point, but on a different way with different experience, interactive power
points and also web quest are so useful for kinesthetic, listener and visual
learners.
It was
a good idea to prepare Jeopardy, while I was doing this games I though in other
kind of games that I can elaborate with specific vocabulary words or grammar
topics from my English program.
After watching Batool Jeopardy I
feel kind of frustrated, Batool´s Jeopardy looks GREAT!! , but I am learning, I
am now like my students, and I will like to elaborate an attractive modern and
funny Jeopardy as he did. Mine looks like a beginner student, and very serious any
way I feel proud because is the first time that I do something like this.
Another
difficult part was creating my web quest. When I started with this project I
was very enthusiastic, but now I am so tired, it is because until my web page
was on Janine´s wiki and I opened to see it, THERE on that precise moment I realize
that all my work went somewhere else ( to the CIBER space) , but did not keep there. I think that
AS I AM LEARNIG, I did not make the correct clicks to save EVERYTHING.
So I have to check it again, and to
redo it, but it took me a lot of time, because I wanted it the same as I planned, so I started looking again for all
the sources, such as YouTube videos, music, PPT, and it was time consuming.
The only reason I can find now, is
that, as I do not belong to the tech stage, I have to work twice or more, but
finally I did what I planned to do.
Hello Andrea ,
ReplyDeleteWell frankly speaking I too spend a lot of time trying things out .In fact I still haven't reached a satisfaction regarding designing webquests .But I realized that my students know a lot about using technology so I'm thinking of getting them involved through PBL .
I totally agree with you that this course is incredible ,hopefully it will change the way we teach .
GOOD LUCK
Batool
Hi Andrea!
ReplyDeleteI see your point! We keep on working extra hours... I guess it's because we are teachers and we know it is a never-ending process. I guess it's because we just love this course and we keep learning!
Anyway, it is great to be here! I feel we are benefiting from this online course and enriching ourselves from our experiences.
Best regards,
Roxana
Students do not learn in the same way that they did for example ten years ago. We can blame technology or we can use it to our advantage. We can no longer, however, teach in the same way. Even though digital may be our second language, as digital immigrants we can become more collaborative in our approach, while learning from the digital natives in our classes. Do not feel frustrated about that because you are doing a remarkable action which is upgrading your knowledge all in benefit of your students.
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