SECOND REFLECTIVE JOURNEY...

It is 27th January, a fine day. The sun is shining in the sky. I'm in my room sitting in a chair. Sun lights are passing through my windows. It seems they are coming to make me warm. I opened my Laptop to write something. I started to reflect back on my work of second week. I was feeling bad as I had not good experience on second week. I couldn't complete my assignments because of some personal problems. First of all, I requested Courtney to let me do my assignments of week second and it is her goodness that she allow me to do in partial credit. I felt like it is far better for me. Therefore, I did all assignments on third week.

In the week second, we had many important discussion. First of all, we discussed on different web searching tools. I got to know many websites which I didn't know before. Truly saying, I have only visited few sites but it is true that all of them are very useful for us. So, I will visit all of them later on. All my friends had good discussion over it. Talking about myself, mostly I would use Google and I knew only few other websites. Our discussion and Courtney's materials was very fruitful for me. I learnt many new tools.

In the next discussion, we had ABCD objectives. It is a method of writing objectives where A means Audience, B means Behavior, C means Condition and D means Degree. Below are the details of this method of writing objectives:

AUDIENCE: It ask the question who. Who the learners are? For example: it can be students, teachers etc.

BEHAVIOR: It asks the question what. What change behavior do you want to see in your students. If you can't see the change behavior you believe that your objective was not proper.

CONDITION: It asks the question how. In what environment learning will occur?

DEGREE: It asks the question how much. How much the students will get? What proficiency level do you want to see? For example: 100%, 80 % etc.

I have posted my ABCD objective in the link http://www.nicenet.org/ICA/class/conf_topic_show.cfm?Topic_id=878285. I request all of my friends to visit and give me constructive suggestion.

            The third assignment was project work: step one. The assignment was to think about a course that we taught and that would be benefitted from making technology-inspired change. In this task we discussed the technology that we and our students have access to now, both in and outside of school. I had discussed a class "Use of technology to improve creative writing". I proposed a class which can help students' creative writing through web skills where teachers guide learners to create a blog and motivate students to post their creation in the blog each week. Other students visit and provide comments in their posting which help them to improve further.

            In this way we end the week. In the second week, I learnt many new web searching tools, ABCD method of writing objectives and reflect my teaching on use of technology to improve creative writing.