Week 8 - Plan, Share and Report it!

What Are You Going to Do with Online Resources?

      This online course has been running for 7 weeks, and at this time I was in the week 8. In fact, it's still 2 weeks left. It’s really a memorable trip, although it was difficult in the previous weeks. My instructor, Donna Shaw, said and assured us that the next 2 weeks will be easy and I can feel it. There are no many readings and there is plenty of time to work on and complete the task. At least, that's what I feel and think. It feels like I just started this online course yesterday. I hope that I can join this online course again in the future. I’ve got lots of things and experiences and it can unconsciously improve the quality of my teaching in English.

PLAN or PROJECT DRAFT SHARING

       This is the week of creating a project or plan report draft. This is the first step that I took; I chose to make a plan report because I do not have class at this time. Unfortunately, the class that I described in the previous week ended two weeks ago, so creating a plan report is my choice. The more important thing is the plan that I created will be shared to my partner, Juan Pacheco, that has to be read and given feedback at the end of this week. I did the same thing on his plan report. The feedback is in a form of checklist. I am not saying that I made the correct plan, but I have tried to create a better draft. Juan’s plan report draft is very clear and leads to what he plans. His draft was so good and I think that’s the draft that has been created by a professional teacher. Yes, Juan is a professional instructor. I thank to him that has helped me to improve my draft which is still not good enough.

THAT'S MY CHOICE

     My next step is exploring technology tools. No reading this time. I was asked to explore all of technology tools that is provided in the website page. The task would be to use one of them to create online class website, exercise, or tool for my class. Nicenet, Blogger, Padlet, Google Sites are the tools that we're supposed to explore. There are also lots of exercises that can be created and used for the class such as word search, bingo, crossword puzzle, board game, multiple choice, etc. I have to confess that this available online resources is like treasures that I've just found. That's an incredible thing. Needless to say, I chose padlet for my online tool's task this week. Like I said in my previous post, Padlet is an online posterboard. The students can share the projects, websites, videos, and even articles. As I write in my plan report draft, I will use this tool (Padlet) for my class in order to students can see and download their assignments. There will be some tasks that I'll upload in my padlet page. So I hope this tool will work for me and my students. I hope they will learn autonomously in the future. 

     This is what I can share to you this week. Thanks to my instructor Donna that has been patient in guiding us to pass through this course and other colleagues that have spared their time to share ideas in facebook messenger and in App called viber. I really enjoy this. This will be my wonderful experience. Please, always keep in touch with each other.

Husni