I woke up rather drowsy hurrying up to the class and carrying my heavy laptop to discover that I forgot to charge it. I decided that it would be more practical to use the available computers which are just fine and working well. The first thing I did is to pick up one of the handy newspapers which are located at the reception and on the first page this article caught my eye (our teacher, Dr. Anthony pointed out it as well):
the article talks about the recent reforms that are made in schools concerning curriculums and ways of teaching.. which concentrates more on analytical and problem solving skills.. as it stated there are some resistence .. well as they say nothing is easy to the unwilling.. but I hope that change is for the better..
In this lesson, and the next lesson also, we are covering these points:
1. ICT as mind tools
2. Student-centered learning
3. Blogs
4. What to do if you have only one computer in your class
As the instructor pointed out there are lots of information and facts popping up every day and today's information is possibly considered outdated tomorrow. So we have to equip both ourselves and our students with tools to sort out information, analyze, criticize and evaluate those information.
So why is it useful to use blogs (comes from the word web-log = blog) in the classroom? One of the reasons is to extend the wall of the classroom. It is also a fun and interesting way to motivate learners, especially if you involve parents by making children show them their work done in the class. It is far easier to invite parents to their children's blogs rather than inviting them to the classroom. In addition if you give your children a paper to give to their parents, chances for that paper to be delivered is limited but if you post it in the classroom's blog, parents will surely be notified.
Of course before using blogs some ettiquies have to be learned concerning appropriate content, language and behavior when making or commenting on blogs.
During the lesson, the instructor provided us with some tricks and innovative ways to use Microsoft word as a visual aid
When I got back to work I tried to search for blogs and I pumped into a site which lists top popular blogs around the web..they can be useful if you want some inspirations and good ideas to be added to your website.. you can check it here
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