Week 4

As usual this week was  busy.

• I have read two articles. The first one is called "Using the Internet in ESL Writing Instruction" by Jarek Krajka. Author suggested 3 ways of using Internet to help to teach writing - they are web pages, e-mail connection and creating class websites.  
  The second article was "Using Internet-Based Children's Literature to Teach EFL" by Larry J. Mikulecky. The information about vocabulary mastery as indicator of reading level (independent, instructional or frustrational)seems to be helpful for me and also a method of "five fingers". I liked these assignment ideas and that can foster extensive reading: to ask students to keep a list of what they have read, brief summaries of stories or chapters, and new vocabulary learned; to ask students create their own simple stories in English with illustrations. To practice in it I tried to adapt these activities into my lessons and wrote example of objectives.Also I looked at my colleagues ideas - they were great, especially Luis F. Ruiz, Angels Rodrigues, Jurgita Bertuliene and Belal Elbadry. 
• New thing for me was to create and publish documents through Google.doc   and of course to plan lesson taking into consideration usage of technology https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-Idlt5vTBgcpKRkYHE1abgprat26qSQybLU4GKE8pDA/edit?usp=sharing.
  I liked Lesson Plan of Maria Pitsaki - she used video and it enhanced didactic effect of the lesson. It's so obviously!
• This week we were asked to think about issues of class I have chosen for my project. The main problem here - different levels of English, so I should think which way of using technology can help me to answer different needs of all students and to avoid ...   (you see I'm trying the options of blog -how to make a list and insert images)
  
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Week 3

This week was very busy ! The most important thing for me - I logged in Delicious.com and created my own page http://www.delicious.com/inna.chistyakova.9 .  At first I had some problems because I think URL should be created automatically...
At the same time we were offered to explore and discuss  some web sites  that can be used  for oral skills building. I explored recommended ones and  our colleagues shared with us another helpful links. It's great. I added  them to my delicious page. Here some of them: http://www.listenaminute.com/, http://www.manythings.org/voa/, http://www.esl-lab.com/.

Week 2

A lot of information!!! 

This week I've read articles about Bloom's Taxonomy  then write Objectives for the lesson according to ABCD Model, though I haven't tried this method before. I wrote ABCD objectives  for one of my classes I teaching this year.

I did my first step to Final Project - chose a class  and try to describe  students' interests , environment of my school, goals and students' needs.

We try to review some search engines and analyse their advantages and disadvantages. Here some search engines I like best of all: www.duckduckgo.com, www.bing.com, www.ask.com  

Week 1

This was first week and I could say it was very interesting and useful for me.
I  met  our instructor Robert and my colleagues from different countries through Nicenet tool.
All of them are very friendly and respectful.
I liked that our instructor Robert gives clear instructions that I can follow them easily.
I have read some new and useful information and created my own blog.

Hello, everyone
It's my first blog and to be honest, I thought that creating blogs would be more difficult for me. It looked like a registration of a email-box. I'll write about my 1 week at Web skills course a little bit later. Now I want to learn more about possibilities and options of the blog.