Week 8

This week has been challenging, but interesting, as the previous ones. Week 8 has introduced us to a great number of tools that can help teachers create different exercises, both online and on the computer. It was so exciting to try different tools out while creating either a bingo game, a quiz, a cloze exercise or a matching game. We had a chance to compare them, find advantages and disadvantages of everyone of them and find the right tool for the job.
The discovery of the week was http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ - a really wonderful tool that can help you create exercises on your computer and gives you a chance to post them online. It took me a while to understand how exactly I could create an online link to my exercise, but I managed to do it. It becomes easier and easier to introduce technology into the classroom with such amazing tools which are being offered to us with every week. We just need to try them out, see whether we can apply them in our practice and then enjoy our work.

Weeks 6-7

I am enjoying the course more and more with every day. There are a lot of things I learn every day and lots of discoveries I keep making. I was very excited and thrilled to create a jeopardy game by myself following the instructions I got from the video. It was a really fascinating experience. I am sure I will be using it a lot during my classes and my student will love it.

I found Wallwisher a great tool that can help in sharing information, useful links, articles, books and what not. You can get access to the materials right from the Wallwisher just by clicking on the shared file. It also offers you great opportunities, like planning events, making bookmarks of favourite sites, collecting feedback,etc. I want to find out every option Wallwisher provides in order to use it to the fullest.

I am very excited and at the same time a bit nervous about creating a draft of my project. I hope it will be successful.

Looking forward to week 8. 

Week 5

The week has been very productive and informative. I have learnt about alternative assessment methods such as checklists and rubrics. I have dwelt upon their advantages and disadvantages and the way they can be introduced into the learning process. I think that http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ will help me greatly in creating rubrics on a specific topic and I will start introducing them into my pratice gradually. 

I have been researching this week looking for the right tool to create a class blog and I must say that I see the final picture more clearly already. I will try to make the first step in creating a class blog next week in order to start working and developing it. I hope I will succeed in what I have planned.

Looking forward to the beginning of the next week :)