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.
Hello Diallo,
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on creating your blog. It looks great!
Donna
Thanks Donna because you helped a lot to find my way out. This helps me learned many things on the web.
ReplyDeleteReflection Week 1
ReplyDeleteWeek 1 marked the beginning of Webskills training for teachers. This week Donna helped us by moving with us step by step. During this week we started Learning about the things with which we are about to do by the end of the training. This week I posted my first post on Nicenet the thing I discovered for the first time. Second I was able to create a blog for the first time and I must say that this is already a great success for me. In addition, I was able to post on by blog and shared it with my coursemates but with difficulties. Thank you to Donna here for supporting me. Finally, for me I think that during this introductory week I learned a lot.
DIALLO
Dear all!
ReplyDeleteBefore I tell you what I did this week, I must also let you know that I do not know how to update my blog even at the moment I am writing this reflection on my blog. So what I am doing is writing a reply to a reflection. So help is needed. I asked to Donna and to all but I did not receive a feedback. I have to do this way to be on time about the assignment.
First of all I looked to the different assignments and then set myself a schedule. So I started with the discussion that must be posted on Wednesday on nicenet. And that was about searching engines. What we can say is that week 2 started revealing us intersting things about teaching resources. It was a very innovative week by reading the websearching articles. After posting my discussion I made comments on other coursemates posts. Second, I was to think about the ABCD objectives which seem to be easy to handle but in practice very challenging. I built mine and thanks to Donna I finally got a good one I hope. And I think this is how we must build our objectives to make them clear so that students could understand them very well.
Finally, I moved to the project which was class description. This step allowed us to present briefly our schools in general and our classes in particular. By reading the others' description we can see that we share the same realities with other schools in terms of technology but some schools are very well equiped. I also took time to visit some coursemates blogs.
To sum the week was interesting since we are discovering new things.
DIALLO
Hi Diallo,
ReplyDeleteIn order to make a new post to your blog, look at the top, right side of your blog when you first enter it. You click on the words "New Post." A page comes up where you can type in a title for the post and then your post. When you're finished, click on "Publish."
I hope this helps.
Donna