Another fruitful and demanding and busy week finished just like the blink of an eye. Days are passing so fast and it becomes very difficult for me to catch. This week for the first time I felt I am really tired. Having some rest after this course would be a good idea for me.
Now it comes the answer of the question “what I did this week”. I sent my final project and I’d like to thank Zlatka for being such a nice peer review partner. This week’s one of the hot topics was creating online course sites and exercises. When I created a class from Nicenet, I was surprised to see that it was such an easy task. Nicenet will definitely work for students in ELT department. They can discuss and share ideas about any of the ELT topics.
I also explored many sites and I liked toolsforeducators best. You can create different kinds of activities but exercises are mostly for elementary level students. These online exercises provide students to continue their study outside of the classroom which in result might encourage learner autonomy. Exercises can be created with only one or two steps but I think choosing the appropriate exercise for students might be difficult and time consuming most of the time. I created an exercise from toolsforeducators but I didn’t like my first experience. The next day, I tried for my second exercise which was a gap-fill exercise and that was better. But I need to work on it because I still have problems. It is a good idea to apply such exercises in my classes and I am sure my students will also like it.
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Dear Gülsen,
ReplyDeleteI'm happy to hear that you found Nicenet so easy to use to create a class. The hard part, of course, is the content - asking good questions and encouraging good responses from learners. If you can work with others in your school to design the content, it often is easier.
As they say, practice makes perfect - with technology as well as in other areas.
Good luck with your future efforts!
Yours,
Deborah
Dear Deborah,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment on my blog. I agree with you the content is very important in such discussion forums. That's why I wrote it would work better for ELT students because I can find more dicsussion topics and they can be more encouraged and motivated. My ELT students' aim is how to improve themselves and they surely now that blogs, webquests, discussions forums could help them however my other students who are studying Enginnering or Management, their aim is to pass the prep class and start their department courses. I think here the classroom/ group dynamics is important to integrate such innovations to our classes.
Regards,
Gülsen