In two weeks' time, this course will be over. How time flies!
This week, I explored many teacher resources both on- and offline. Among the resources I explored, those that caught my attention in a special way were Google Drive, Google Sites, Hot Potatoes and Web Poster Wizard.
I have had some prior experience with Google Drive, but could not use it effectively until this week. I will use it in my classes for conducting surveys/online questionnaires. With Google sites now, I can create web pages for my classes and even for personal use--as a writer. On such sites, I can conduct online teaching, posting tasks and receiving students' assignments, etc. Hot Potatoes is a site where I can create exercises for practice and evaluation to be used both online and offline. These exercises can be MCQs, Matching Exercises, Gap-filling Exercises, etc.
I used Web Poster Wizard to create a worksheet for practice/assessment of conditionals in English. It is a site where one can quickly create worksheets to be used by both teachers and students. Thus, it fosters interaction and even learner autonomy. My worksheet can be found at Practice Conditionals in English by Kenneth Toah Nsah.
Another challenging but enriching aspect of this week has been the task on sharing our plan or plan draft reports for peer-review. I exchanged my draft plan report with Abeer Ali and he did a great job on it; he corrected some few errors on it and made useful recommendations aimed at improving it. I did same for him. He even suggested that I modify my report into a publishable research paper. What a great suggestion! It is worth noting that we exchanged our documents both on the wiki page for sharing reports and via email cc'ing Donna. This way, we were sure that our exchanges are very, very traceable. Now, I am going to focus on improving the report in order to turn in the final copy at the appointed time. I am also working on two research papers for an upcoming international academic conference on the theme "Re-imagining Marginality in the Global Context" slated for the end of this month at a private university in Ndop, North West Region, Cameroon.It is therefore a very hectic week for me!
However, I have kept on teaching my nephews typing on my laptop. They are really enjoying the experience!
Have this photo taken when I was writing this post, though it is blurred.
Hope all of you are doing great as usual.
Best of love,
Nsah Mala
Cameroon
Hi Nsah,
ReplyDeleteFirst, let me congratulate you on completing you plan draft and getting invaluable input from Ali. Giving and receiving feedback can be eye-opening and really rewarding.
I agree that the teacher resources will be very helpful for our future lessons. I am also planning to use more Google products in my work.
Anyway, I want to thank you for showing initiative for our fellow classmates to become friends on other social networks. You are certainly the friendliest person in this class and an extremely positive person. It's quite refreshing to meet a young person who is full of gratitude and bliss.
I wish you a lot of success with the research papers.
All my best,
Maja
Macedonia
Hello Maja!
DeleteThanks for wishing me well with my research papers.
I acknowledge your own friendliness as you readily and promptly accepted my suggestion and Facebook connection idea.
Your compliments are fuel to my drives and ambitions.
Cheers,
Nsah Mala
Cameroon
Hello Nsah Mala,
ReplyDeleteLike you, I consider this week contains lots of useful resources a teacher can use to develop his classroom teaching environment. I really enjoyed reading your plan report, I hope you will be able to modify it soon and publish it in an American magazine, may be a magazine in the University of Oregon! I am also so grateful for your quick response to check my plan report.
Best Regard ...
Abeer Ali
Iraq
Hello Abeer Ali!
DeleteI also learned a lot from your insightful feedback on my plan report. You made so many valuable corrections and suggestions; I am still pursuing your suggestion to publish my plan report in a journal. Donna too is has always been very helpful and has already suggested journals I may consider for submitting the report.
Be blessed.
Nsah Mala
Cameroon