WEEK 8

Dear All,

This week was quite unusual. I had to fly to Poland for a meeting. I was in my office since 23:30 on Friday to complete the previous week's assignments. Then, I was ready to go... Being in Poland was a great experience. I met great colleagues over there. Meanwhile, Polish people are so kind and helpful. First, I went to Biyalistok Technical University and we had a chance to observe classes and meet new people as well as introduce our university. We met some Turkish students by chance, they were all happy being there.  We also had the opportunity to see two amazing cities; Krakow and Warsaw. I went emotional when I learnt once more how Polish and Jewish people had suffered....
If  you visit Krakow, you should definitely see The Historical Museum of the City of Krakow Oskar Schindler's Enamel Factory

During our visit, I had no internet connection, which worried me a lot. Our colleagues kindly gave their laptops, yet I was unable to download anything due to restriction. I had to write my draft at a nice cafeteria and now I am writing at the airport since I am about to fly to Cyprus.

Still, I do feel proud of myself because I have completed my assignments.

As soon as I arrived in Istanbul, I took another plane to Cyprus to attend another meeting, which was also invaluable. There I had the chance to have a look at different points of view both as a teacher and as a part of administrator and increase my networking by means of some academic and social meetings.

As for the discussion topics of the week, Robert wanted us to think about the follwing questions after after exploring some of the different tools and exercises.

how could using these tools promote learner autonomy,

what are the constraints that would make it difficult to use these tools, and

how will you overcome them?

To be able to answer those questions, our reading list and applications were a great help. Besides, our classmates' sharings were invaluable, which are available at Nicenet.

Robert also wanted  us to create an online couse site or an exercise.

I created a competition, for which I prepared restatement, word formation, tense revision and reading for main idea types of questions for my adult students who are Pre-Intermediate-Intermediate level of students. This is a class competition, will activate their schemata since it is a revision activity and it is for fun.

Phrasal verbs activity  aims to remind students phrasal verbs but I guess I forgot to save it :(
Passive Quiz activity is like a revision activity after learning passive voice.
Relative Clause cross word activity  is good for vocabulary revision.

My classmates' exercises and activities are also very hepful.  For instance; Said's Hot Potatoe exercise, Jurgita's flasscards , Julio's Poster, and Belal's class blog are all great.

We were also required to prepare our first draft for the peer-reading activity. Then, of course, we needed  to give comments on our partner's work, using the appropriate peer review checklist available on the Projects page.

I had to complete my assignments at cafeterias and airport...