Week 3

Congratulations all of you!

It was such a delicious and fruitful week spent together!

I would like to thank all my colleagues in this valuable course for their generosity and help. This week I’ve learnt a lot of things through creating a delicious page, bookmarking, searching about aural/oral skills and reading projects of previous participants, but especially from your posts and ideas.  

             Before this week, I knew nothing about most of the interesting sites you introduced to the group mainly delicious.com. I used to bookmark my favorite sites the old way saving them on a word document or sending them to my email box.

 Now I am happy with the new skills I acquired. I learned how to use delicious.com effectively and I started sharing it with my students and colleagues around.

         Concerning the websites for EFL teachers, I’ve learned some bits through my ELT community here in Agadir that initiated some training about this topic before especially within the Pedagogical Research Unit (PRU), which I am part of. I am also very grateful to the people in my webskills class for sharing the best ideas, websites and classroom practices they’ve got. It was a great opportunity to learn more about the best ways to teach aural/oral skills through the web.

Finally, I’ve looked through some previous participants’ projects and found out some similarities with my classroom situation, my students needs and my action research focus. I came across some problems that were raised in my classroom and went through the solutions the participants tried.   

To sum up, this week was a trigger for me to start working on the following steps of my project and an occasion to discover more my instructors' & colleagues’ virtues!  

Week 2:

During the second week of this very fruitful course, I’ve learned so many things; I reviewed the way I create learning objectives for my students and I tried using the A B C D model (Audience, Behavior, Conditions and Degree) the way they are named and organized in the course.

 Learning objectives should be clear, concise, and focused on what learners should be able to do after they‘ve completed the instruction. As Johnes, 1997 states: “Clear objectives can help the instructor design lessons that will be easier for the student to comprehend the teacher to evaluate”.

Now, I am highly motivated to start a new technology-inspired change in my classroom. Therefore, I surfed the internet looking for better opportunities for my students to enhance their active learning and trigger their critical thinking.

I would like to thank all my friends and classmates in this course for sharing their best practices, their successes and also their failures. I hope to read more from them in the coming weeks.

 Many thanks to Jodi and Sherie for their ongoing support and encouragement!

Week 1

Dear all,
Welcome to my reflection blog! I would like to express my gratitude to Jodi and Sherie for their constant support to all the participants. After trying many times, here I am with my blog. I hope to make it full of pertinent ideas.