Week 4 Reflection

Every week is taking us ahead but with very less notice that we are approaching the gate to our final destination. Connection and the flow of task is  progressing so swiftly that we hardly feel a pinch of boredom, instead full of new experiences and knowledge but yes keeps us intact.

Week 4 has been different for us because of a person who despite of her own scheduled joined us as a  guest moderator in our discussion. I thank  Andrea Banickius for joining the group this week and for especially liking my line in Nicenet.

The first task of week was to read articles and search other websites that will be useful or can be integrated in classroom to help students acquire skills in English language. I browsed two websites "Lauris ESL Website" and "Interesting Things for ESL Student", and both got so many stuffs that are unimaginable worthy for students and teachers practicing different skills to learn in English language. Activities in both the websites caters to different level of learners but nevertheless the core concept of the websites is to provide a bountiful resources through games, puzzles, quizzes, audio & video, questions and pictures making a self-assessed activities and motivating learners. The first task also carried forward on developing and enhancing our knowledge on framing ABCD objectives which was of course worth practicing.

Second task was completely new to me but  did make a lasting impression. Though it went tough on me to make a technology enhanced lesson plan but it was well deserving to make one. Without the additional resources and references given for the technology enhanced lesson plan it would not have been  possible for me to  make such lesson plan. What I learned is that any interactive websites (techonology) in lesson should be incorporated to help in learning but not  to get the essence of technology itself. It was  also interesting to find out the alternative of the lesson/activity if the technology fails in class. All the components of the lesson plan are well furnished to tack are of a classroom teaching with or without technology. 

The last one, was ideally leading us to our final project. It was very important to identify the problem that we have in our present classroom and how and what are the means to overcome the problem. Its not only about the using technology to the issues but  it should be leading us  to make use of new technology to address the issue.  I  also learned that our class situation, types of learners and particularly the issues has to be clearly mentioned to find, create and collaborate technology to overcome many problems with our students.

No the least, this reflection itself is so much witty that makes us think, reflect and  rags us at the end to combine a whole week learning. 

Good Bye Week 4!