NILE- Day3

Today has started with a very nice listening activity from www.breakingnewsenglish.com.  Although I have been using the site for a long time, I have learned two very nice traits of the site. As it comes to the activity, we took notes while we are listening. Upon listening the audio, Russel made us use our notes for the "text jumble" activity. Then we had another great activity called "missing letter". Both were engaging and fun activities that helped a lot of language processing go on. 

In the next session, we went deeper in Edmodo. We talked about how we can make the most out of "the wall" of Edmodo. We came up with some great ideas like:

• Posting pictures, videos etc. to have students describe it. 
• For feedback.
• By using "poll" option to start an activity, to get feedback etc.
• Word of the day
• 3 word story competitions. (3 words but not related to each other like pineapple- society- jacket)

Also Russel talked about the rules while we are using the wall:

1. We should be careful about the length of the activity.
2. We should give model answers to avoid misunderstanding.
3. We should know how to generate content or get from the other sites.
4. We should care about the quality of the questions we asked.

Aysun <3

NILE- Day 2

The day has a started a bit late for us, as we were not be able to cacth the bus and also there was an unexpected break of the the stop driver. Anyway as we get to the course, it had already started with a group discussion on "favourite technology-why they like it etc?

Except for the "Memrise" I have already known and used the other tools/websites. I have share my experiences on Voice thread with my colleagues and they seemed interested.

In the next lesson we talked more on blended learning, what it is and what it is NOT. Because most of the educators think that it is pure technology integration and technology revolutionise  the education. These thought are NOT correct as tech integration and technology use in the classroom is just rubbish without pedagogy.

We also talked about DELIVERY and PROCESS in blended learning. Apart from spoon feeding, delivery and the process of information can be done in an authentic way in which students can interact and the teacher becomes the facilitator.

What's more we talked about VLE's- Virtual Learning Environments.

In the last session we mostly talked about Edmodo, which I have experience on. also I have also written and presented a paper on the topic in Italy 2 years ago. We have practised different options of Edmodo. For example we created posts, polls, quizzes by using the website. Here I found a nice video on the basics of Edmodo, have fun ;)

The Edmodo Guides for Teacher from Muhammad Afif Hendrawan

Note to myself: I will make a presentation on Voice thread on Thursday, and I'm really excited about it ;)