WEEK 6 REFLECTIONS

                                     Hi Everybody!

   Week 6 also was over! A whole week was full of  real discovery and creation, I feel very entertained! I have read some the suggested articles and I was eager to read more so that I can achieve a better performance. Reading about how to make our PowerPoint slides very dynamic and interactive has made me think more about my audience making them part of what I can produce. The point is that our students must not only react to our slides but also interact with them. We -as teachers- have to feel the difficulties that learners face if they are not involved in our presentations. They can easily share the responsibility of learning if they are doing something with what we present. In my class many children can't produce their own slides and I'm going to encourage them to do it. I'll assign them a free project thast they can create nice simple but very meaningful presentations. I hope they can understand better if I actively engage them in a game or a quiz or even a reading comprehension activity provided that it will be interactive.

       

 Using Technology in Teaching Large Classes from UO tell me how I can manage large classrooms and Technology is the biggest support in large  classes. I like this kind of support. For example:

•   Online Assessment
•   Respondus
•   Portable Computers and Projectors for Classrooms
•   Successful Lectures with Computer Projection
•   Unleashing the Power of PowerPoint
•   Using Clickers (Personal Response Systems) to Facilitate Active Learning in the Classroom

I guess if I have a lot of students in class, technology is one of the best tools to solve this problem because all of the students are working and have the opportunity to get participation. If I get the opportunity to use them I can save time because all the activities about test and grades the software are excellent!

 Practice makes everything perfect! And this week was full with practice. It’s true that I have known how to use PowerPoint since ten years now but still the time of rediscovery, that pleasure to produce a purposeful task and share it with others. I feel a great relief when I finish constructing  slides and the next day invite young learners discover them with me as if we were both the producers and consumers! I hope the same feeling is shared by us all because our students should exist in anything we produce for them! 

It was really enjoyable to work in slideshare.I can easily upload   ppt there and share in "Interactive Power Point" section on BlogRole.

Since last ten years I used to  work with internet at home.Usually I've had low internet connection at home and at school.But from 2009 I find solution for that problem.But for widely use of internet I do need to have it at my workplace too.Last year I achived to have Wi-Fi connection at my school.Unfortunately it had very low speed  and I and others couldn't use  net in classrooms.

Last year they connected my region schools to intranet connection.It was successful project but again we had problems wby electricity lines.This year we've joined (as I said before) to E-School project and hope everything will O.K.At the end of the last  week our Education Ministry provided my school with high speedy internet.I and my students ,we all are so happy.I know the"Change" begins.