Dear reader,
This week has been much more productive and quite hectic
as compared to the previous one since the earlier one was just a warm-up for me
as a learner and I hope the same to other course mates. So my learning
repertoire in this week list is pretty rich and beneficial at the same time.
The
first task was to go through different websites listed generically on the
database of www.noodletools.com which was bookmarked on the website of
Distance learning as prescribed by our co-operative course instructor, Robert
Eliot and the entire team members. I am very thankful to them. Those websites
were:
www.academicinfo.com
, www.infotopia.info , www.allexperts.com , www.searchusa.gov , www.witcombe.sbc.edu , www.jurn.org , www.biography.com
, www.who2.com, www.education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopaedia,
www.pressdisplay.com ,www.maps.nationalgeographic.com
,etc.
In these websites we can define our
topic, find quality results, do research in a specific discipline, get the
timeliness of information that one needs, facts of person/places/company, look
up for opinions and perspectives, need a specific type of media, etc.
As we had
to reflect what websites we used previously, except google as 'scene-setting',
we also had to find out the pros as well as the cons of the websites of our
choice. In that case I wrote about some websites, such as answer.com, jstor.org,
wikipaedia.org and even google.com.
The
next task was to write out the 'abcd model' of five behavioural objectives of
any teaching content, which could be of even technology classroom. Here 'c'
stands for conditions of teaching item, 'a' for audience, 'b' refers for
specific behavior and'd' means degree of mastery. Known as the 'Bloom's Taxonmy', these action
verbs help all the concerned people for planning the objectives in order to
carry out the related activities for accomplishing them. It was another very good
learning of different examples under cognition (comprehension, application and
synthesis), psycho-motor and affective model of learning. Although I learned
these all in my third semester under the course 'Curriculum Designing and
Materials Development' while developing chapters and defining the goals and
objectives of each and also practiced in a writing session, but those were
found to be vaporizing. As I mentioned earlier for my previous learning on
these all, it was not a can of worms for me to write out though it took some
time for thinking some specific verbs on my own and tallying them against the
Bloom's Taxonomy. These all paved a fine way for me to develop good objectives aligned
with Bloom. My learning was honing on and on!
Thenceforth I had to develop
an objective under each domain of taxonomy of my any teaching activity which I
taught in the class. This gave me good time to reflect back to my class and the
good activities carried out and rooms to improve. I pictured out my teaching learning
milieu and individual learning vis-à-vis technology, and figured out the possible
ways out for further improvement on the posting.
I commented on a nicenet
posting made by one of the course mates, Maheshwor from our nation. He was good
at writing the objectives of his classroom teaching, yet I found little
proportion for improvement and recommended to be more specific.
Thanks for reading.
Young & Yummy Yubaraj
Kathmandu,Nepal
In a 'Teacher Training Internship Programme' ,Fourth Semester '12 at Kathmandu University, Lalitpur, Nepal
