Ending and the Eighth Week

This eighth week enabled us for some invaluable experiences. Let me present a reconnaissance of. 

The Project

In black and white, it was a drafting-process of our project task. Tatsiana and I were peer. We shared our project task and gave feedback to each other. I got very invaluable suggestions from her and adapting it. For this, I want to pay a heartfelt thanks to my peer. Righteously, I am undergoing a great deal of works on it. I thought that my project manifesto would be implied in the classroom, but I was wrong! Very surprisingly I have to shuffle it as per the learners' way of learning!

In most syllabi, the course pack is blamed to being learners-unfriendly citing many constraints while here we are practicing something better: Starting from where they are, a quote I was enlightened of in reading at my university course. So, I'm prompting my 70% of the learners for course accomplishment, yet I fear for its less implementation! Thus, I feel for decreasing the scope and sequence of my course curriculum. On earth, I learned this from Tatsiana, my peer's project. She really deserves my next 'Thank you' note.

Online Tools and My En-rich/hanc-ed Technocracy

In praxis, this week I used three online tools for interactive web-based teaching,viz. Anvill, Nicenet and Classwiki. Having created an account on ANVILL, though I could not participate in the webinar by Jeff, I came to know that we teachers could enable our learners for recording their pronunciation and having playback for. Thus,it promotes a sort of autonomy for them. More than this, the ANVILL doesn't allow for more than five people's access resulting proper utilization of it unlike other web-based messenger tools. Above all, it demands a great deal of patience for its proper functioning. 

For the purpose of project task too, I opened a nicenet class entitled An Orient Webskills, 2013. It will be a dashboard for discussion between Ss and I and among themselves. More than that, I shall be utilizing this for evaluating them as well.

The next tool is the course wiki.It beexists on https://sites.google.com/site/orientwiki2013/classroom-pictures/home. Here the students shall upload their addresses of blog, assigned course resources and other tasks. In overall sense, it works as a storehouse for we all the course team. For just habit formation, I have done some minor changes on the course site by uploading the assignments.

The course key of the nicenet entitled 'An Orient Webskills,2013' is 3344726A25. This serves as main assignment dashboard for my learners.

 

I'm revitalizing both of them while working with the students as I've unavoidable excuses albeit I am trying my best to the fullest. While doing so, I am having 'Reflection in Action' for the tasks. Look, how easy it is to be a student of Robert's Class! On the contrary, it's a hard nut to crack from a teacher's spectacles. You manage almost everything for them , though their work is not less than yours, taking the possible matching outcomes of the course goals!

In Devanagari, we term teacher as a गूरू ,Guru, etymologically one who puts off the veil of darkness of every know-nothing.

Learners' Background
 

Students who would use it are of mixed ability. More than 60% of them are in autonomous ones accompanied with a computer or have access to the internet, while 30% are above average and the remaining 20% are passive both from technocratic touchstones and learning styles.
 

Towards the end of the course, we have really accomplished a lot. The repertoire is getting wider and bigger day by day! The volume is high albeit the range is comparatively low. Alike the previous weeks, this eighth week has given us more and more horizons: A Postmodern Touch to Our Teaching!  


 Thanking you!