The best thing
this week maybe ANVILL,
Firstly, this week has been really important as we have sent our first drafts for the final project for our partners to reflect on them and help us improve our reports.
Unfortunately I was strongly ill and could hardly work. Then, I went through the great online tools to generate exercises shared on our class wiki and loved them. In the last stage of my online exercise, I created Nicenet class page for my students.
which is a toolbox especially to improve oral skill and it includes great tools to motivate students. Jeff gave us a great presentation of the tools but I need some more free time to explore them more. As usual, I shared my opinion about online tools and especially ANVILL on nicenet. I took part on webinar moderating by Jeff and Robert,it was amazing too!Thanks! Finding out about ANVILL relieved me as it is a nice collection of online tools fot the biggest problem of language teaching . Besides, I learned that there are great tools to generate both online and downloadable exercises. Actually, I knew they exist but I did not know how to use them.
Finally, I realised that I will feel lonely the moment this course comes to the end.
I also created the Wallwisher for my students too.And this week we formed pairs/groups to check each other's project reports/plans.
As I said at the top, another lovely week it has been and I have gained a lot again.
Looking forward to the next week!
2 comments:
Hi Aparna
I read your reflective blog entry of week 8 with joy and lots very interested and so I decided on reading some of other week refletions as well. I have to agree with you ANVILL is an absolutely vivid, enriching and fruitful tool, as you said, the best of week 8.
I felt, that week 8 was nearly too short to really explore everything On ANVILL. Although I love working with technology and am still discussing heavily with authorities to equip my classes with internet, so I can also go online with my adult students, I can just ask my learners to work online from home.
In the beginning I set up a class with volunteer learners. They were working hard and diligently. After a few week they mentioned, that they would not like to register everywhere, due to protection of privacy, private details and spamming. Actuall this was the only negative comment of my student.
In wee 8 I introduced Anvill and this seemed a bit much for them. The next course that I am going to start, I would start with ANVILL from the scratch. They would get used to it from the very beginning as their basic learning platform.
And I also had to learn, that not all learners can work with the same pace and some need more time than others. I think I also have to learn being a bit more patient with my adult students.
regards
Brigitte
Hi Peri,
today I tried several times to add a comment to your blog entry of week 8 but I was rejected. Anyway, it is a great pleasure and joy to read your blog entry and I can nearl feel from your writing, that you are very amazed and happy about ANVILL, which is a great tool indeed.
You seem to make positive experience with your learners overall which is very interesting for me. I teach adult learners and they don't normally have the same level, so language skill vary in class, so do the technology skill, though in one class I teach learners aged 30 to nearly 60. They all want to learn English but their pace, background, learning ability and interests are differen.
I introduced my learners to some technological changes and new web tools in class with a power point presentation and they had to do further work at home, which worked quite well and the learners like it. It was something new.
Shortly after I tried to introduce ANVILL, which was last week and suddenly they felt it was too much at once. Which I had to agree with, there was not enough time given to foster technology skills, which they had gained just before.
Also adult learners are different from young learners. Whereas young can be easily motivated to register and become a member, adult would worry first and then deny to register because they don't want to be spammed. Which is also a point to consider.
So far, I think, ANVILL is such a good tool, it should be introduced richt in the beginning of a course, not just nearly at the end. I think there is still a lot more to discover in ANVILL.
Enjoy week 9 and best regards
Brigitte
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