Miss You

Dear all,

I will MISS YOU  and I will continue what I started 10 weeks ago.

Mariah

My journey in 10 weeks

I am too happy to accomplish the required tasks and complete the course but it's also too painful to leave this great journey (course) we had during 10 week!!!

I feel it's only 10 days not 10 weeks. I love to call this course a virtual journey because it showed me how to apply the web effectively in my teaching. I changed my methodology based on the tasks we did during the weeks. We created authentic and creative teaching tools in our pace with our webskills that improved a lot.

We experienced up-dated approaches and many web sites resources in accomplishing our final project.  What I loved most was Rubistar, it easy my teaching days.

Finally, I promise that I will keep what I started in this course and my blog will be the mirror of my e-experience in the future.  I hope everybody do the same.

Love,

Mariah

PS. My e-mail is : ma-alansari@yahoo.com                

Week 10: LOTI

Dear all,

During this week we evaluated ourselves based on the Level of Teaching Innovation Framework (LOTI). Frankly, it's the first time I have ever heard about it and found it too important resource for using technology. This resource is based on research-based approach.

It's a very helpful resource. What I loved about LOTI that it has a very clear explanation of each level and how it is applied in the classroom.

Wishes,

Mariah

Week 9: Our Students???

Dear All,

Multiple-Intelligence is one of the most powerful analyses of the human beings personality and understanding this analysis help us get the most effect tool easily so we affect other.

Can you deal with all people the same and have the same experience with everybody as equal as others?

Can all your students become excellent in describing a picture (visual), listening to a song with distinguishing the lyrics (auditory)?

There many of the intelligence our students have but are we able as teachers to discover them and let them be proud of having those intelligence?

I know for sure that understanding my students' learning styles and Multiple Intelligence they have will easy my teaching because these kind of information about whom I am teaching lead me to how I will teach and when shall I use  my teaching strategies or differ my teaching approach.

I think clever teacher are who understand who are their students to get their students needs , what and how they can teach.

Great topics we read this week regarding MI and LS with the power of technology.

Mariah

Week 8: New Journey

Hello,

The great journey we had during this week showed us how powerful are tech-tools in teaching and learning as well.

I had a very fascinating exploration with ANVILL it's a very powerful lab and I am sure all my students will love using it as a new way of learning English. I have never heard about it but I found it great.

The task were asked to do was creating a course site or exercise pushed me do something with Wikispace which I found years ago too helpful in collecting and sharing different resources in teaching English language.

I feel that week8 run too quickly to the end because it was the start for the end of our lovely and effective course.  I noticed also that we had great exchange of the draft which really helped us have great feedback on what we are working on and it gave us the experience of other teachers.

I 'm looking forward for week 9 and we will be asked to do.

Mariah

My Wiki

Hello all,
Visit my wiki here:
http://mariahalansari.wikispaces.com/

Mariah

Week 7: How to use your opportunities and your classroom environment as teaching tools effectively

Dear Teachers,

During this week we had simple and effective experience in analyzing our learners' autonomy and our one-computer lessons. Not to forget the great guest we had in discussion 1 ( Melissa Mendelson ) who presented her experience in teaching round the world.

First of all, I had a good experience in revising what the course members mentioned in the previous weeks to Find a Partner.

As a requirement for joining the discussions we had to read some articles which I found too useful. First, I couldn't believe that the simple readings we had about Learner Autonomy help us guide our students accurately to discover their personality and learners style. Moreover, those readings lead us as teacher to the strategies of preparing our students to be independence and have strong personality.

The second discussion was about one-computer lesson. The articles we read show us the effective strategies in using one computer class effectively. Finally, I found creating  a one computer lesson too interesting because it lead us to discover our classes, teaching tools we had and the opportunities we can utilize to make our lessons students-centered in simple ways.

I look forward to the following weeks.

Thanks,

Mariah