It has been a very busy week for me as a teacher and as a student. I have been invigilating exams last week and this week. Now we are on to correcting the hundreds of scripts. This is the part of our job many don't like doing especially when it comes to correcting students' essays.
That notwithstanding, I had to complete my project draft by Wednesday. We had a guest moderator, thank God for using him to bless us with rich materials and for the webinar, I was anxiously waiting to be part of it on Thursday just to be disappointed with connections for two day. Thank you Robert and Jeff for for making it possible for some of us who were not opportune to participate, or watch it life, to still watch now. It would have been a wonderful experience for me because I have never taken part in a video conferencing.
Well, this week I had an opportunity to read about ANVILL, an online tool which is very good to enhance opportunities for spoken language practices with voiceboards and Live Chats. It also has a bulletin board system where teachers can post lessons on particular subjects. This will allow students to work on their own by making video recordings of themselves speaking the new language. I like the tool because it contains quiz ans survey tools to help me as a teacher, assemble media-based assessments geared for different students.
This week I had an opportunity to create an online course site - Nicenet. It is not very easy conceiving an exercise or a task supported with online material. I gave my students a writing task to encourage them improve on their writing skills. They have to write a biography of Nelson Mandela. On the whole I can say that I am now equipped to teach a class with innovative materials using the internet if the logistics are there.
After this course I will have a lot of time to perfect my web skills.
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