Week 6

This week was a serious week. We fished information deeply and we came over practical steps. I started reading about - engaging students . - dealing with large classes . - making effective discussion interactive. - interactive website. - making interactive PPS fro effective teaching. I also prepared my own PPS which is reading lesson with multi-choice question . I tried to apply what I learned from the UO reading resources in our main site . I shared my PPS at our wiki. The most important task was project step 5. I, by consulting my instructor Robert, could limit my project technology-related change to solve the problem I stated in my project which is that my students are behind the other regular university students in English language skills and need access to extra resources and self study sites so they can work on their own to catch up with reading skills so my project is addressing self study materials for college students with improving reading skills. so thinking of technology solution is the best tool for me and my students especially they are living in the Excellence Center where there is a computer lab and internet. Thus , I decided to create a website as learning tool to meet my students need. I started reading about creating websites and kind of websites with purposes. Then I started to create a website with a title "Simplified Reading Wiki 2013" at https://sites.google.com/site/simplifiedreadingwiki2013/ The site main layout titles are: - Home: about me and some photos about my group - Project Definition : introduction, purpose of the project and the objectives. - The group and the rubrics: about my group gender ,level and age range. - Reading and vocabulary links: some links related to reading and vocabularies. - Files and other materials: other associated materials - Assignments: for students to add self study materials and links I asked my students to create accounts for each one of them at Google and then I asked them to open the link of our site I mentioned above. I guided them for using it by instructions and rubrics. Then I started with one lesson using reading links title - http://magickeys.com/ - http://www.rong-chang.com/nse/ They ,after reading answered comprehensive questions using the automatic grading and were highly motivated by using such technology. I also gave them feedback and asked them to inter another reading lesson by themselves as an assignment . During the next week we will do more tasks using this technology tool. My students was impressed by using such technology and in fact they asked me for more lessons and activity so they are patiently waiting for the next lesson. I could elicit that using technology is an excellent motivation for students and for self learning. They also reveal their willingness to guide their new colleagues for using such tools.