FOURTH REFLECTIVE JOURNEY..........

It is Thursday, I'm happy in the sense that I completed my assignments early this week. Mainly, we had three assignments. One is discussion on how to use technology on reading, writing and vocabulary skills, next is thinking about the class and students that we described last week, describing the issues, needs and problems that technology might help and at last, developing technology enhanced lesson plan.

First of all, I worked on discussing how to use technology on reading, writing and vocabulary skills. For the purpose I read an article "Using the internet in ESL writing Instruction" and reviewed of it. This article was very helpful for me. It provided lots of information. It has contained many websites which were very useful for my language classroom. Likewise, I read other given articles too. They were also equally helpful. After reading all the articles I felt the day became productive. Those were really knowledgeable. In the same thread, we had to visit the websites and find out its importance and mention it in the thread as well as we had to choose a topic and write ABCD Objectives. For the purpose, I went through http://www.manythings.org/  Interesting Things for SL Students.

Interesting Things for SL Students has targeted for the beginners to learn English as a Second language. It has an access of Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing as well as Vocabulary, grammar, tongue twisters, crossword puzzles, Idioms, Podcasts, jokes and especially voice of America which we have been talking from last week. Among them I chose pronunciation from speaking section. For practicing the pronunciation lesson given in the link, I wrote following ABCD objectives: (c) After practicing the lessons rigorously which is provided in the link, (A) the students (B) will have pronounced the words (D) 95 % accurately while speaking. At last, I shared above link in our course wiki under RWG links. In this section Courtney proposed us to visit more sites which were fabulous. I enjoyed visiting them.

Secondly, I worked on thinking about the class and students, we described last week and wrote the issues, needs and problems that technology might help. Last week I had talked about the importance of blog in creative writing but this week issues and problems of the classes which are to get permission from guardians, to get permission from School administration, limited time, have to complete course on time, mix- ability in learners, problems in enough Internet speed in the School and problems of enough computer per students.

Thirdly, I developed the technology enhanced lesson plan as per Courtney's suggestion. At first, I was confused how to develop it but the model Courtney provided and the information of Baltimore County Public Schools Office of Instructional Technology helped me. After developing lesson, we had to upload it on Google doc. At first I was confused how to do but helping template given by her helped me. Finally, I did.

For me, this week became very relax, cool and enjoyable. I wasn't in pressure like last week. I learnt many things; developing technology enhanced lesson plan, it is needless to say that every week I get chance to learn new and new ideas from my friends and instructor. Thanks to them. I think I'm being habituated in the course and stared enjoying to read the post, comment on the post, improve the things of self, surf new sites, explore new things, try new things and so on. I have started feeling that I wish I could get chance to be with them not only ten weeks more than that.