Building Teacher Skills Through the Interactive Web

Week 9: Projects put into practice!

          We are up in week 9, time flies when we’re having fun!

          This Webskills course has been such an interesting and fulfilling experience for me as a teacher, I have to admit though that I need some time to assimilate and put into extensive practice all of the things I have learnt up to now…!

          This 8^th week has been quite interesting, and it also has put me into rush times. I finally sat down in front of the computer to finish the ends and odds of my project. I am working with this, in my opinion, great tool that is called JING.

http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html

          This is the site I used to download the program on which I am basing my project. This program is called JING, and it helps users demonstrate through real use the way something works in a computer. Once the user is ready, once the program has been downloaded into the computer and once the user knows what is going to be said (recommended), the program is launched and what happens next is great. My students are having the www as their principal source of work. They have to select a web site they find interesting and explore it extensively, then they have to explain other users how the site works and all the things it offers. The students have to create an oral explanation and then record their JING where they’ll be listened while seen working with the site.

          I also had some activities with the class blog with my students and the results I have seen from them have been great. They are very creative students and proactive when working on some project or something technology oriented. Our blog class is (one for each section):

http://getoutoftheclassroomwithteacherhenry.blogspot.com/

http://moveintotechnologywithteacherhenry.blogspot.com/

          This week was also a moment for peer evaluation, which is a very difficult thing to do. After reading and studying a peer’s work, to give an evaluation or a comment about it is not easy, I hope I did that right. All of these things have I have done in a moment that coincides with the end of the first school term, which made it all a bit more challenging.  

          What is teaching but our lives in a constant movement and changing?

          I hope I have done everything right. Any comment would be kindly appreciated!

Kind regards,

Teacher Henry from Venezuela.