See the world through the language learning!

Thanks for Clare, Milly and Angie’s great presentation on ICT. I know you all had gone through some pressure to figure out how to use these online softwares(U will/Hot Potatoes) and resources(Podcast/Webquest) these weeks. Now you three may take a nice break!!!

I feel ICT can do a lot of help to students’ learning if teachers are able to utilize ICT well and guild students how to use it. Like hot potatoes and podcast, they could cater for different levels of learners. Most importantly, students could practice language even outside the classroom. From my perspective, ICT should be a tool to help create more independent learners. That it, students are able to choose what they want to learn and improve and meanwhile decide how much progress they want to make. In addition, ICT like webquest, it is a good method for students to share knowledge and communicate with others. These are quite essential abilities in this modern IT society.

In the end, I’d drop few lines on Alice’ ICT learning journey here.

It’s impressive to learn how Alice got to enter the field of ICT at the very start up to now. I found Alice owned some valuable personalities such as challenging and hardworking,too. So, as teachers-to-be like us, shouldn’t we try to go forward learning new useful stuff instead of feeling timid about the unknown world? Bon courage! And keep on going on the way of our teacher professional development.

Dear all,

my link is as follows.
http://del.icio.us/yuewenlin

Through this exercise of using del.icio.us in this week’s lesson, I did explore lots of useful and interesting ESL online resources and added them into my del.icio.us. Somehow I realize modern teachers should use not only teaching materials from printed papers but also from online resources. Maybe it could make both teaching and learning more complete and diverse. Besides, I also find that it’s crucial for me to form the habit of organizing abundant information online. Or it is going to take me even a longer time if I want to search for one specific information later on. This is the thing I’d like to avoid of!

Here are some comments for Group 6.

1. Basically, you prepare many things for this writing class. But, I suggest the structure of presentation be revised. For example, you start with the introduction of writing via concepts from a list of writers and researchers. Then, the class moves to the main teaching parts and ends with summery. I just find this order is not that smooth and cohesive. Maybe the introduction part can be moved to the end of this presentation.

2. Though you combine many teachers’ styles and personalities into your presentation and this indeed brings many humorous effects, I have strong feeling that you are actors rather than teachers to me in this class.

3. Most of time it’s teacher-led teaching. Undoubtedly you all teachers are excellent in acting, as Alice suggests, it will be better for students being actors themselves in front of their peers. At the same time, not only students can practice speaking but their peers can train their listing skills.

4. I, as a student in this writing class, feel that teachers seldom give detailed guidance or rules for me to follow. What I mean is the language parts, such as which adjective words I can describe scenery, and food or even the transitional words. With some basic language skill training, I think students can produce better works with clear logic.

5. Teacher should give us more feedbacks on our pieces of wiring. Moreover, it is not that proper to share writing with peers via reading it out loud, only because I can’t catch all the detailed points whether my peer’s spelling or grammar is correct or not. Besides, it will be nicer if peers can give feedbacks to each other more frequently. In other words, peer comments should be adopted.