Week 8 DISCUSSION: Online Tools to Enhance Learning

An immense march ahead, I've in addition completed this week is creating a blog for my trainee teachers. While I think of the hard time I had creating my own blog but nevertheless that I've accomplished.

I also used the blog to add some grammar points. At the same time I have also used http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ and created a matching activity reporting on the use of SO to add emphasis when we're explaining effects. 

I'm yearning to exploiting Rich Internet Applications and techniques up to a great deal further.





I have read Hot Potato and Edilim as excersise generators which can be used off line and taught trainee teachers how to use them.

I also taught trainee teachers how to create online activities in Educaplay. On the other hand, I have tried ANVILL also. 

Dr. Ashok Kumar

Week 8 TASK: Create an online course or activity

This week I have crated my class blog (https://write2saini.wordpress.com) to help my trainee teachers learning. Through this they can go through and see the current lesson plan and assignments. My trainee teachers know how to use and access if they are out of class or busy somewhere else by just clicking on list of lesson options. Assignment will be posted there on the prescribed interval. Trainee teachers are able to click on the links to see additional materials for extra practice out of the class and especially during the weekends. The trainee teachers are in core English class. They learn Basic English language for communication; especially speaking and listening.

Dr. Ashok Kumar

Week 7 DISCUSSION: More Refections

http://sisaljournal.org/archives/march12/tassinari/

I read the alloted readings on the subject of learner autonomy. In order to give a precise description or connotation of "learner autonomy" is not one of the easy tasks. The term’s approach varies from person to person, depending on what viewpoint one desires to inspect it from. Researchers may have "learner autonomy" and its sisters such as "learner independence", "Self access learning" and many more. Working in groups learners are aware of further protected and assist each other to find out and explain the activities. They further increase their own academic and touching characteristic.

In the beginning learners may find these types of methods more complicated, however as they progress, they get familiar and become extra provoked and self-assured. I used to segregate my learners into clusters and get them engage mutually. My learners contribute to and explore jointly and they develop into skilled learners.

Dr. Ashok Kumar

Week 7 DISCUSSION: Learner Autonomy, Mobile, & One Computer

I gone through the activities for mobile devices, the one-computer classroom and I have developed my Sample as follows. I have divided learners in groups of four, would be invited to formulate an interview to students on the subject of habits routines, likes and dislikes. Learners would apply their mobile phone devices in order to trace the interviews.

• Ø  Learners would develop one file of the potential queries can use during the interviews.
• Ø  Learners would have a calendar day to decide a learner from to make the interview.
• Ø  As the interview is recorded, one group of learners would demonstrate it to the other groups.
• Ø  The tutor and other senior faculty would formulate remarks in relation to the interviews.
• Ø  Learners would have a discussion on the subject of the practice of doing the activity.
• Ø  At the end learners would complete a co-evaluation and self-evaluation tool.

Functioning in groups and the substituting the familiarity action in the classroom would encourage the communication among them.

Who are the students ?

30 Learners flanked by the ages of 25 and 28, of mixed genders.

ABCD objective:

Following the listening to the enlightenment in relation to behavior and custom in present simple, learners would be capable to develop an interview and trace it by means of the appropriate glossary and indented language configuration.

Thus the application of mobile technology would encourage them and would make the activity further efficient and effectual. A number of learners in my group are equipped with cell phones, tablets, iPods and iPads. In my classroom there is one computer and a projector to display the recorded videos etc. 

I have created the following Padlet for Learner Autonomy, Mobile, & One Computer --

http://padlet.com/wall/webskills4drsaini

Dr. Ashok Kumar

Week 6 TASK: Create an *INTERACTIVE* Powerpoint

Dear Sean and Colleagues,

I have developed a comprehensive sketch of my department of English in the form of ppt. This sketch of my department is presented before the joint review mission visited our state to analysis the progress of department of education. Ours is the research and training council therefore we have revealed in our presentation concerning the structure of department, syllabus being taught, objectives of the syllabus, list of books prescribe for class room teaching, detail of language laboratory, detail of works accomplished by department of English during the last and the current academic sessions, developments of training packages, detail of workshops and training conducted during the current and the previous academic sessions, annual work plan which we have to follow for the implementation of the department’s needs and some useful ELT and ICT books to incorporated in the forthcoming training and workshops. I have requested Sean Sir to upload my ppt to the wiki for reflections and sharing.

Dr. Ashok Kumar

Week 6 DISCUSSION: Engaging Students

Hi Colleagues,

Classroom Process

We are planning to initiate with the training/workshop "Teaching Large Classes – Enhancing Learning by Engaging Students" by Rick Finnan and Donna Shaw. I teach and train English language teachers at State Council of Educational Research and Training Uttarakhand, India. Since I teach a group of teachers so I don't look such problems as lack of interface with trainers, be deficient in or underprivileged conversation and need of regular test or marking assignments.

We completely have the same outlook with the suggestion that "Combining lecture with short, pair or small-group learning activities keeps students interested, motivated, and involved". In every folder lecture may not be a monologue; it's a dialogue. "Teaching Large Classes" (http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/earlycareer/teaching/LargeClasses.html) a number of of the ideas in addition may be applied in classes with one laptop for a class.

Although, by way of technology accessible, it might be more rapidly, easier and further resourceful for the reason that each trainee ought to complete the assignments. By means of PowerPoint presentations and video "support" the lecture, assist perception and continue the enthusiasm. Diminutive cross-examine at the end of the lecture will facilitate trainee teachers composite innovative matter.

Dr. Ashok Kumar

Week - 5 - TASK: Create a Rubric or an Alternative Assessment

My learners are also non-English speakers. Due to be deficient in English-using milieu, my learners tend to overlook their English communication follow up. In this circumstance, in order to endorse their oral English communication, I need a rubric to guide their oral communication skill. You can see my rubric online:

http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=Home&module=User

I will use it to assess my students' oral English performance, directing them towards accurate bearing. I have added my rubric to our wiki also in the "Rubrics" area for sharing.

Dr. Ashok Kumar

Some of My ELT and ICT Books Worth to be Shared

Week - 5 - PROJECT STEP 4: Describe a Technology Related Change

The previous to this project issues which I had declared was "encouraging students to speak in English and poor quality of pronunciation". My learners are excessively introverted to converse in English. I look forward to to discover a novel technique to give confidence them to communicate in English. CALL may be the most excellent alternative to assist in training and speaking dexterity.

I surfed numerous websites, the most interested is http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/2010/07/23/the-1-conversation-game/. This reveals a method to guide learners learning speaking skill in English. It is through the game. This action in fact facilitate learners learning speaking in English exclusive of even knowing it. Some more sites I followed  are

http://vocaroo.com

http://www.onestopenglish.com/skills/speaking/teaching-ideas/

http://esl.about.com/od/pronunciationlessonplans/a/l_minpair.htm

http://www.englishcentral.com

Dr. Ashok Kumar

Week - 5 - DISCUSSION: Rubrics, Assessments, and PBL 2

Project Based Learning (PBL):
It is principally one of the techniques of teaching that permits learners to expand wider perceptive of the theory and values. This technique is applied by Susan Gaer while she trained her learners Folktales. In the course of PBL she did teaching reading and writing Folktales and project too.

1. How can PBL be used to help motivate students more?
PBL encourages the learners further in their learning. PBL changes learners from place to activity for the reason that it motivates.

2) How can PBL be incorporated with technology in your class-or alternatively what limitations are there to using PBL in your class?
PBL can be coorporated by means of technology by application of WebQuest. The competence of WebQuest that is available new and simple to acquire and to apply assists learners to do their projects. WebQuests pull together the most effective instructional practices.

3) What is the role of rubrics and/or alternative assessment within PBL?

A rubric is a straightforwardly relevant variety of valid measurement. A rubric basically provides a list of set criteria. The responsibility of rubrics in PBL is presenting a gauge of excellence of presentation and with this teachers can calculate the learners' presentation and competence.

4) How can PBL, rubrics and/or alternative assessment be used to promote independent learning?

PBL show the way students to be self-sufficient learners. I look forward that at the conclusion, the learners will be in this world autonomously.

Dr. Ashok Kumar

Week - 5 - DISCUSSION: Rubrics, Assessments, and PBL 1

1) Alternative Assessment: It has given confidence to my students to develop into extra sovereign learner.  It further has given emphasis to my students' potential. It has amplified incentive as well. This style of measurement has helped to get a vibrant synopsis of students' educational and linguistic maturity.

2) Checklists : It has supported my learners to develop into further sovereign learners for the reason that they ally strongly with responsibilities and an energetic involvement. 

3) Role of rubrics and/or Alternative Assessment within PBL: They endow with a gauge by means of which to conclude the excellence of presentation on the basis of recognized criterion.

4) Holistic rubrics: They have countered to language concert completely. They have further put emphasis on what the students do well.

5) Analytic rubrics: These are alienated into various categories in lieu of special features of show. All categories have special weights. In this way they make available information to the learner in relation to their strong point and limitation of language performance.

6) PBL: It encourages the learners’ to develop into extra independent learners since it make available ways to help learners to expand language skills by conducting meaningful projects and developing a sense of community. PBL motivates learners to learn language for an idea, furnish significance to the learning and creates enthusiasm and inspiration. 

7) WebQuests: It gives self-assurance learners to turn out to be extra self-directed learners to develop problem-solving and decision-making skills. It is attractive and encouraging to teachers and learners for the reason that it consists of a two-way learning module and necessitates learners to go afar, to investigate, use inspiration, serious thinking skills, amalgamation, assessment of information and coming up with ingenious explanation. A WebQuest can put the power of the Web behind the topic, learners work at their own pace, they explore in additional profundity and the unlike ability and intensity in the class.

8) Incorporation of PBL with technology in class: Learners build interviews by means of skype, record an oral testimony and post it on a personal blog, put in order role-plays, observer them and send them, inscribe online interrogate about a topic, short and long term WebQuests. I apply technology and its reimbursement to provide the learners prospect to put into practice the intended language.

I have also tried WebQuest. It is the technology which makes better students wisdom. I would like to share you my WebQuest link "http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=219971".

Dr. Ashok Kumar,

Deptt. of English Language,

State Council of Educational Research & Training, Uttarakhand, India.

Week - 4 - More On Reading, Writing and Vocabulary Skills

Hi Colleagues,
I went through incredibly motivating and valuable although a few websites and articles on reading, writing and vocabulary and I could use them with my classes and in technology enabled lesson plan. These URL links are :

http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/SearchWorld

http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/BookPreview?bookid=gowgran_01060036&r

oute=asia&lang=English&msg=&ilang=English

http://fog.ccsf.edu/~lfried/grammar/grammar.html

http://fog.ccsf.edu/~lfried/grammar/yesnoquestions2.html

http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~lfried/call/fillinstory1.html

http://fog.ccsf.edu/~lfried

http://fog.ccsf.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/lfried/quiz.cgi?quiz=noun2

http://fog.ccsf.edu/~lfried/grammar/articlestest.html

http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~lfried/grammar/NounClausesGoodEnglish.html

http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~lfried/grammar/goodenglish3.html

http://fog.ccsf.edu/~lfried/grammar/present.html

http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~lfried/call/fillinstory1.html

http://fog.ccsf.edu/~lfried/grammar/am-is-are.html

http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~lfried/grammar/goodenglish1.html

http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~lfried/tests/sanjosegrammartest.html

After exploring different pages I went through various stories, grammar, tense related exercises for children from different ages and classified by topics. I chose various books for children.

My ABCD objectives:   
C: After exploring the various websites" A: Students C: will be able to prepare a lesson plan for pupils D: with an 85% correct sequence of activities and creative exercises.

DR. ASHOK KUMAR

Week - 4 - DISCUSSION: Reading, Writing, and Vocabulary Skills

Hello Colleagues !

I went through very interesting and useful but an small number of websites and articles on reading , writing and vocabulary and I am going to tell you what I thought of them and how I could use them with my classes. In this continuation I have chosen an article written by Larry J. Mikulecky, Indiana University, Bloomington (Bloomington, IN, USA) about, 'Using Internet-Based Children's Literature to Teach EFL'. URL of this article is http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Mikulecky-OnlineChildrensLit.html. It describes how internet component could be utilized to enrich our knowledge because it could provide students with a variety of choice, variety, authenticity, and regency as well make available the students a large number of children's and young adult literature one line. Internet helps and overcomes the problems of free access to highly expensive books.

Thus, free and inexpensive Internet resources now allows teachers and students to more easily use children's and young adult literature to gain the benefits of extensive L2 reading. This will help to use, enhance and application in the EFL classroom greatly. After exploring different pages I have preferred a useful site for the Children's Digital Library, http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/SearchWorld, which makes available the widest selection of materials in English for different levels. This page reveals a number of stories for children from different age groups and classified by topics. This site has illustrated children's books in many languages and more than 1000 illustrated children's books in English. Books on the site can be searched by continent, length, topic, reader age and several other useful descriptors. One of the advantages is that it is sometimes possible to find material in English about topics with which EFL readers might already be culturally familiar. 

ABCD Objectives:

C)Website is given to the class. http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/SearchWorld, after exploring the "Grandpa Fish and The Radio authored by Venkatramana Gowda and illustrated by Srikrishna Kedilaya. An illustrated story of The Fish Family.

A)Student – Teachers.

B)Will be able to select children's books to use in first form and plan lessons which integrate them.

C)With a correct sequence of activities and creative exercises of more than 85 % accuracy.

DR. ASHOK KUMAR

Week - 4 Nicenet is one of the nice nets

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Dr. Ashok Kumar

Week 4 TASK: Technology Enhanced Lesson Plans

Hi Colleagues,

I have tried my best to create a lesson plan incorporating technology to teach grammar to trainee students. This is one of the innovative and glinting feelings of ornamenting lesson plans with ICT. It is positive and mist constructive step to move forward from the long-established traditions of making and crafting the lesson plans. Application of online technology to teaching plan is extremely ingenious and up to date. In fact this series of exercises present various instructions to be a certified instructor. In this way I can use technology in my teaching and learning route in or outside of my classroom. As an effect I am competent enough to generate a technology-enhanced lesson plan.

The following is the link of my lesson plan : 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HtdsgYJ0QXWmCdsN5hd6ck4aGlQGpqqY9PelZXvjIfo/edit

I have organized my lesson plan in the direction of integrating ICT tools using my personal laptop and internet connection. I have prepared Plan B in the case of power cut off or bad internet network connectivity.

All are requested to remark and review my lesson plan please.

 
Dr. Ashok Kumar

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