WEEK 2

Week 2  has been a tough week for me since I have had to attent an intense course in  Aviation English Rating Training during the day.  In the evenings, I am required to complete 5 tasks by Sunday. Though I thought I would have time for the whole weekend, I totally forgot that I am supposed to attend a reception outside the city. Robert keeps sending alerting messages, which every time makes me even more panicky. What if I miss something due to the Oregon time? It is like dragging myself out of the bed and setting my alarm clock. This motive has forced to to outline weekly tasks with a brief reminder/ summary. I mean I have tried to do my best to complete the following tasks.

1-      Reading

How to Write Clear Objectives: Writing  clear objectives is mutually  important for students and teachers.While setting the objectives, you need to keep in your mind the

1-    Audience : students

2-   Behaviour: observable behaviour

3-      Condition: learning environment

4-      Degree: accomplishment

You need to identify

-          each desired skill

-          desired behaviour

-          how to present information

-          your assessment (tools)

Planning a Student -Centered IT Based Lesson: Lesson planning procedures are explained  step by step, which are:

-          Analyse the learners

-          Identify goals

-          Identify objectives

-          Plan Instructional activities

-          Select media ICT based resources

-          Develop assessment tool

-          Implement instruction

-          Resvise instruction

Classifying Objectives: Objectives are classified under the following categories/ domains:

1- Cognative domain: Remembering understanding, applying, analysing, evaluating and creating  levels are the six levels of learning. Accordingly, we are recommended to write instructional objectives in each level.

2- Psychomotor domain: They are objectives that require motor and/ physical skills

3- Affective domain: they are objectives that require attitudes, appreciations, values and emotions.

2-      Web Searching
We are required to look at some search engines and explain which one(s)  is/are useful for our classroom applications.  We are required  to make at least two posts to the discussion thread (in Nicenet) each week (one by Wednesday, one by Sunday).
Our class teacher provided lots of engines to be checked:

NoodleTools

Technology Tip of the Month

Twurdy

Phil Bradley’s website

Tech Forum     

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy

Google Blog

Technorati
I checked www.bing.com and http://www.kidsclick.org/ and posted my opinions in Nicenet. They are also available at https://sites.google.com/site/webskillswikispring2013robert/suggested-links/search-engines

3-      Task
Based on  the ABCD Model for Behavioral Objectives available in the reading list, we are required to post our behavioral objective for a class we teach, which is avaialable in Nicenet.
A: My students aged 17-19
B: At the end of the academic year they will be able to read authentic and semi-authentic text with ease of comprehension.
C: Authentic and  semi-authentic texts suitable to their levels, and continuous tests will be provided.
D: Final exam with a reading task including item focused questions.

4-      Project
We are required to describe our class that made use of technology and inspired.  Project Page has further information.
Project reports are clear. It includes the report information for each week, template, rubric, and checklist.
 
5-      Blog posts
At least one post  on our blog reflecting what we have done , and one comment on a classmate’s blog.

This a a nice task. It keeps me active and check my virtual classmates' reflections. I see that they are full of inspiration and energy. Reading the reflections of Robert's perivous students is fun. We are all passing through exactly the same phases.

 PS: Tracks of our weekly scores are available on Blackboard, which requires our UO ID and password.