domingo, 22 de mayo de 2011

My Week 7 Blog 

Dear Robert and friends,

Time really flies! I can´t believe myself we are just finishing the seventh week of our productive course. It has certainly  been a  hard working time. I´m impressed to see how knowledgeable and professional colleagues there are around the world. It´s being a great experience to share opinions, to exchange important tasks, to learn a lot  from them all.

During this last week, we have discussed real facts such as: one computer classroom, learner autonomy, and one computer class lesson. A great variety of tasks have been posted by colleagues who have shared their own experiences  and  their  particular ways of exploiting the resources they have at hand.

I´ll be definitively starting my final project tomorrow. I have already made up my mind about it. I´ll be working with young adult students of 4th level, who will be in charge of organizing themselves in groups to build-up puzzles including the structures and vocabulary periodically learned. Every two units finished, they will be writing instructions and illustrating a puzzle to be completed by their other groups in a kind of a contest. These puzzles will be set in Power Point and posted in their own blogs which have to be likely created.

This productive task has as a main objective to review the  previous knowledge, to  learn by doing, and to reinforce the new knowledge. Students will have the opportunity to  think critically, solve the problem of finding the right words , given a clue, a definition or instruction; and struggle trying to be the winners of a smart competition.   

This task would be kind of a demonstration of autonomous learning. Students will be working with motivation, will be taking active and reflective approach to the language, will be making decisions, acting independently, assuming responsibility, planning, deducting, inferring; and even getting assessment after finishing their tasks and contests.

Warm regards,

Dolores

2 comentarios:

  1. Hi, Loly
    I am glag to work with you

    you have reason, this week has been productive and practical
    We wiil be ready to teach with other strategies, websites offer a lot of new alternatives.
    We have to practice in our classes and with our students.
    I consider that we are autonomus learner. Imagine all of websites that we are exploring in order to complete the tasks.
    Continue with enthusiam and in the future you will see the fruits.
    Please complete the project and send us
    I would suggest that your project wiil be checked by me.
    Mory's project by you and Zoila's project by Mory.
    Are you agree?
    the best
    Zoila
    Ecuador
    the best

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  2. Dear Loly

    Yeah, you are right, time is running so fast, but it is a fact that we are learning important issues really valuable and interesting, sometimes I feel like there is little time to learn too many things but we are still growing... that is important.

    Marcos

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