Week 4 Reflection: My Journey with Ups and Downs

This is my reflection of experience earned fromweek 4. It include simply the tasks I permormed, things I learned and some ways to implement the knowledge: 

Tasks I Performed:

As first, with reference to discussion –reading, writing and vocabulary, I went through three articles namely ‘Using the Internet in ESL writing Instruction’ by Krajka, ‘Three Extensive Reading Activities for ESL/EFL students Using E-books ‘by Mei-Ya Liang and ‘Using Technology to Assist in Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading Comprehension’ by Andreea I Constantinescu and gained sufficient knowledge about teaching reading, writing and vocabulary. Secondly, I entered into the multi-skill websites and got hundreds of activities and materials to teach language skill in integrative way.

I entered to the main gate of ESL Independent study Lab-Michael Krauss( URL: http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html) and let into different portals for listening, speaking, reading writing pronunciation, vocabulary grammar etc with hundreds of web pages ranging from beginners to intermediate levels. Similarly, there are vary useful video clips in Lauri’s ESL website (URL: http://fog.ccsf.edu/~lfried/writing/studentwriting.html) especially for beginners. There are portals for teaching listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary.

Moreover, I got so many very useful resourceful web pages and URL from the course and articles.

After I went through the articles and web pages I recommended the best for my students’ to develop reading and writing with ABCD objectives for each.

For project task: 3 I posted on Nicenet describing the class and students to remind the audience about the necessary context and shared possible concerns/ issues and problem in carrying out project work.

I prepared a technology enhanced lesson plan and posted on Nicenet and blogging and commenting are my another usual tasks during this course.

Things I learned

Having done these activities I learned that there are thousands of web pages that can  easily be used in classroom teaching.  I learned a model of  technology Enhanced Lesson Plan  as I prepared  and shared it with my e-friends. Most importantly, I realized that, technology has become the inevitable things in modern teaching classes. The teacher who do not have / use the knowledge of using technology: WEB SITES, E- MAIL AND WEB PUBLISHERS  will be regarded as date expired.

Ways to implement the knowledge Teaching:

 I will provide students web links and ask them go through and do the task

I will teach writing, reading pronunciation and other aspects of language through internet and E-books.

I will prepare technology- enhanced lesson plan and teach interactively.