Week 04 Technology Enhanced Lesson Planning

This week was very difficult to me; I was very busy shifting from one office to another in the English Department in SUST. I was also busy watching T.V monitoring the uprising taking place in Egypt. Doing assignment was tedious job but educative. Reading those articles about technology enhanced lesson plans was a good practice although we do that all the time, but frankly my colleague assignments has shown me very useful websites I have never heard about.

Week 3: Oral/aural Skills

This week we delve into incorporating CALL in ELT. We discussed using authentic materials in listening for different activities and levels. We also covered the appropriate websites that could be used in aural and oral. I also come acquainted with the bookmark websites like delicious.com, google.com/bookmark and technorati.com.

It is high time to enlighten learners and colleagues to widen the scope of using CALL in classroom. 

I find the discussion on nicenet and the reading of my colleague blogs was very useful and idea- creating. I also added my delicious page on the wiki site. I bookmarked many websites I consider very useful and helpful.

week 2 of "webskills"

Now week two is ending, beside making a blog and sharing my views with wonderful teachers across the world I had the chance of practicing instructional objectives. For the benefit of my colleague http://itc.utk.edu/~bobannon/practice.html is a web site of where you can take practice exercises on instructional objectives. Knowing Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives is another merit especially the digital verbs.

week 01 reflections

week 01 reflections

It is a very important point of time in my career to use blogging as a teaching tool. entering the gate of educational technology is a real challenge to me. In fact, previously I used to teach without incorporating technology in education, but recently i had the curiosity of using multimedia and powerpoint presentation in my class.
It is high time for me and my colleague in this course to get the benefit of using these vast weapons creatively. To all my colleagues in this course sing with me and chant:

Ring out the old-fashion monotonous style of teaching
Ring out the fear and phobia of the high-tech

Ring in the new gate of technology
Ring in the new method, style and fun of modern teaching

blogging and computer skills

My experience with trial and error in blogging remind me with what happened to an exasperated customer of Dell Computer company, the customer says " i could not get my new Dell computer turn on". After ensuring the computer was plugged in, the technician asked her what happened when she pushed the power button. Her response, "I pushed and pushed on this foot pedal and nothing happened." The "foot pedal" turned out to be the computer's mouse...