Week 3 reflection

Hello to all!
Ouph! Time is running. Week 3 already finished but it was a worky one.

I hope that I finally find the right way to update my blog.  I struggled more than a whole week to succeed. And this is part of technology I think.

Now to come up with the week blog firstly I read the different resources for reading assigned to us:  Aural/Oral Skills, Teaching Listening Skills, The Employment of CALL in Teaching Second/Foreign language Skills by Julia Gong.
I also visited some English Learning sites. All of these in a peak priod of school activities: tests, marking, planning lessons, extra school activities, etc.
This week I posted the discussions, discovered Delicious for the first time, read and commented on a Sample project report. This one inspires me and I hope this model will help me in my final project.

What I learned this week is considerable. Through the reading I learned that there are many ways to help students or learners improve their listening skills. For example by giving them some techniques. There are also resources for teachers mainly through the use of CALL. The use of CALL creates new Learning environment and motivation for learners.

The way materials are presented is very helpful in teaching.. we can use the sites to plan our lessons, to find exercises for students. And concerning technology the example of the use of e-mails, nicenet, Skype in the sample project report can be exploited to introduce technology for teaching purpose where internet and other related equipments are available. But where technology is not available other techniques can be thought of.

DIALLO

Dear all,
This is my very first time to create a blog and I feel very happy too because I have added today some new skills in my knowledge of computer science. For this I have to thank those who give me this opportunity that is to say the University of Oregon. What I learned is that next time it will be easy for me to create a blog. Even now with the instructions it wasn't difficult for me to create my blog. But next time I do not need intructions again.
Using blogs for class has many advantages. First of all blogs give the possibility to discover more resources concerning English through the internet. In addition, blogs allow online exchange both between students themselves on what they did in class and also between students and their teachers. Secondly blogs can help students remember their assignments and also serve for a basis of self-study resource. Finally, a blog can be created by and for the whole class to serve as a record of what students did in class especially discussion topics and also to share with other classmates in other countries where they have friends.
Using blogs for class is very interesting for this can develop students' will to learn but I fear this could work everywhere due to local realities. In my case for example the students level in using the internet is not good. This is due to the problem of availability and training. Even some teachers do not use the internet either because they do not have access to it or they did not have training. So I can create a blog for my class but the students will get problems to use it. That's why I think that we can still develop other efficient ways for teachers in addition this course.