Weekly Reflection
After to read Interactive PowerPoint: Not Your Usual
Approach by Deborah Healey I understood that it is not only by using buttons
and hyperlinks, but by involving the students throughout the lesson. An
effective PowerPoint should activate their background knowledge schema through
using interesting questions and their attention. The learners could be
integrated by sharing the lesson’s objectives with them. Also Techniques to
promote interactivity proposed in the PPt are very interesting, special Blank
slide technique; finally power point is easy to move among websites, open office
documents, play audio and video from the web or the computer. After to build my
own interactive power point I could also be engaging, and I could include
student-centered interactivity.
About my plan,
unfortunately I am not teaching this term but I will continue to
refine my project plans. As I told before we know how important grammar is
for any language and English grammar for my students is frustrating. Using
grammar correctly is challenging for those who learn English as a second
language. My question is how one can improve their English grammar skill with
the advancement in technology?, I checked a number of tools that might help my
students improve their grammar using web sites and I decided to work with: http://www.roadtogrammar.com, where my students can access to quizzes, linked to a note, games and they
can download PDF files in order to practice offline too, also http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl, it covers all the grammar rules on punctuation, word choice, and more,
also http://www.polishmywriting.com/, It is a tool to scan and detect spelling errors, grammar faults, and
styles and finally http://public.wsu.edu, Common Errors in English Usage and others. Another technology that I will
use is apps because most of my students have smartphones with internet access
so they can download apps in order to practice grammar outside the class,
because we know that mobile devices and apps are changing the way students
learn English. For my plan I will put in practice apps specifically for
practicing and improving grammar like (my grammar lab free app, English test
grammar app, English grammar handbook app, English grammar test, English grammar
ELT soft and so on).
Thank you for reading my
posts and leaving a comment.
Regards
Edith (Peru)
Nice reflections Edith. Interactive power point is really a power in the hands of the teacher to get students involved in the classroom. I understand you challenges with English grammar, but you are lucky that all your students have access to internet and smart phones, I don't have that luxury here. I will have to do most of the downloading for them. you can check http://www.storynory.com/ for audio books. bye
ReplyDeletenamse
Dear Namse
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading my posts and for your recomendation, I´ve just checked storynory, the audios are very interesting, I know my students will enjoy.