Sunday, October 9, 2011

Building Teacher Skills Through the Interactive Web

Week 2: One week more! As the expectations, knowledge has grown a lot!
The ABCD Method to write objectives.
Search Engines with educational purposes.
Wow!
     This has been such a nice week… And it came to an end!!!
     Hello bloggers! Welcome once more to this space for technology and education to be together!!!
     This second week of the Webskills has been very active for me! I have used things that I had not used for a long time; I suddenly remembered why they are so good in my opinion!
     Donna, our tutor, suggested something that is going to be part of my classes for a long long time:


     I think that we, teachers, can find a great deal of very valuable educational information, 100% useful for many activities in the teaching-learning process! As I said in one of my posts on Nicenet (which is, by the way, another great tool for discussion!), the amount of activities teachers and students can obtain from http://www.noodletools.com/ is as numerous as the teachers and students creativity itself!
      Take for example http://www.sweetsearch.com/, which is a nice search engine for students and an on-line tool that I have not been using that much lately. This is a very helpful site for those moments when teachers have those ideas in their minds about topics to use in their classes but then those ideas are not very clear, http://www.sweetsearch.com/ will give you some possible path that could be followed so that your search is a lot more productive!
     Another thing I enjoyed a lot during this week was the increase in the communication among the “classmates” in the Webskills! It has been great to have this very professional group of people with that diverse cultural background helping you when you are “stuck” in an idea!
     This topic on the ABCD method was the one I received more help from my “classmates”! I think, at least for me, it was not very easy to understand and manage, but after some help and a lot of reading I think I finally made it! Let’s wait for the grades…! Jajaja!
     I am looking forward to having next week assignments and start working on them! I really hope that the two or three comments I left on Nicenet can be of help for someone with the same concerns I have and had!
     Please leave your comment! It is definitely valuable for me!
See you in class!
Teacher Henry from Venezuela.
  

1 comment:

  1. Hi Henry,

    Your enthusiasm is wonderful and contagious! I, too, love the support that everyone offers one another during this course. You are in a group of lively learners--it's a blessing to be part of such a group.

    Donna

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