Week 4 - A Good Writer is a Good Reader

How do you feel when you go diving and see a variety of different kinds of fish?

     Admiration is what I feel at this moment. How many different things varied that I got this week. I realize that there are so many websites that are circulating on the internet. The websites can be used to improve my skills in teaching English and can be used by students to improve their English skills.

     My task in this week begins with the reading, as usual. There are some articles that I read. The articles contain amazing activities to improve the reading, writing and vocabulary of the students. They have detailed goals that can lead students to read authentic e-texts with synthesizing and evaluating online materials. Teaching writing with 3 basic elements of web pages, e-mail connection and create a class website. Some ideas that can be applied to the teaching of writing with the help of the Internet, such as writing a letter to a friend, a formal letter, a biography a description of a person, and so on.

Read, Explore, Apply

     In the article that I read above, there are some very useful websites for English teachers EFL/ESL classroom. They are websites that provide so much of the best Internet resources for students EFL/ESL and the organization is by skill area and language level, websites that provide free, interactive, and printable English lessons, websites containing quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles, word games, proverb, slang expressions and other computer assisted learning activities to learn English either as a foreign language or as a second language. I am thankful and grateful to this webskills course, as well as the instructor, because they give me quite valuable experiences and that is a deep impression for me.

A Foundation of the Class

    You and I definitely have the same opinion that as teachers, instructors and administrators we are deeply familiar with writing Lesson Plan. Technology-enhanced lesson plan was my next task. Writing a lesson plan is not easy and I realized that especially at this time technology has been growing rapidly and it will be used to help students learn English. Integrating technology into the classroom and how we choose and use technology wisely is important. The objective and classroom needs that are driving the choice of tool are very important. Students need to learn the purpose of reading, writing, history, science as well as how to use the internet for research, how resulting in a power point presentation and even designing a website are the most important things. I am sure that you and I will agree that the technology is very helpful for students in achieving their learning goals.