Friday, February 27, 2015

Week8

Exploring more tools and finishing the 1st Draft 


This week's task on Nicenet is to select the most appropriate tool to create some exercises to get students more opportunities to collaborate with a teacher. As I have already had my own class website on Google Sites, I tried a new tool which is Padlet. It is going to be an online class board for sharing and posting interesting files, videos, downloadable handouts relevant to my English class.The link to my classroom Padlet board is http://padlet.com/supapornm1/uuy2fwjf45z1 . It is easy to creat a Padlet and easy to use, too. Moreover, I made vocabulary exercises online to print out from http://www.lakeshorelearning.com/general_content/free_resources/teachers_corner/wordsearch/wordSearch.jsp, which is easy to use and allows me to create vocabulary puzzle just a click away. There are many suggested websites to facilitate material preparation of the teacher who wants to make a classroom funnier with games and to offer students interactive online activities. I hope to explore more next time.

This week, most of my time has been spent on finishing my first draft of the project report and peerreviewing. I would say that time flies so quickly -- I can't believe we are approching the finishline. I just finished peerreviwing Lina's 1 st draft report and she did an excellent job to make her report clear and elaborately written. Following the project report checklist for a peerreview, I have realized some weakpoints of my report. I've not made my report clear enough and missed to answer several questions. Lina, I am sorry -- please be patient with me and my report:)

Regarding using infographics in my class, I'm sure that I will incorperate it in some other language learning activities in the future. Fortunately, I've found a website for interactive infographics and it must help make my students more excited to learn English with interactive infographics. Here is one (http://magazine.good.is/infographics/vitamin-atlas#open)  that I'm going to bring to my class in the near future (after a mid-term exam week), please have a look and think about how you would apply it into your classroom.

Ta, Thailand
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3 comments:

  1. UnknownFebruary 27, 2015 at 7:52 PM

    Hi,
    It was really nice of you to shared about your selected tool.
    Please dont worry much about your draft project report,as there is always a room for improvement. I too did not do well in my draft copy.
    Anyway cheer and all the best!!!

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  2. Lina RMarch 1, 2015 at 2:44 AM

    Hi Ta
    It has been enjoyable working together with you in peer reviewing of the final project draft. You work hard enough to complete the draft in time. Your draft is great while your comment on mine is constructive. The Infograph idea is enticing. I am sure your students will be motivated and enjoying it. One thing I would like you to try and explore, that is composing exercise or test through Hot Potatoes. It has so many styles we can design and we can publish the exercise we created on line as well.

    Best
    Lina

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  3. Prodhan Mahbub Ibna SerajMarch 1, 2015 at 9:22 AM

    Hi Ta

    I have also selected nicenet for my students. Similarly I think that it is one of the best ways to keep students engage with their lesson in the class and out of class.

    Prodhan

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