Dear All,It has been a tough week! Oxford Teachers' Academy course, Quality Assurance Association and end of term exams made the perfect mixture to one of the hardest weeks of the year so far. Besides having a teacher training course from OTA, my school was on QAA schedule and I had numerous duties to do. I could not have time to be online as usual. Thanks goodness that is over now.
Reflecting on Week 2, I really love the discussion on the web searching tools. NoodleTools website offers a variety of search engines that are tailored to both of the teacher's and the learner's needs. For the first time, I experienced trying specific search engines other than the general Google. I know now why as my colleague Farah said "we were wasting long hours in vain" searching tens if not hundreds of Google pages. I believe it is because Google all the websites cached with no real specification to the target term(s). From now on, I will always try specialised searchers to save time and effort. I want to an expert in web searching, nothing less.
As a matter of fact, the Audience Behaviour Condition Degree of mastery approach is another excellent topic we have had for this week. Writing your lesson objectives in a clear organised precise way help you and your students to play your roles as best as possible. Personally, I believe and an ABCD objective sums up all the process and is very helpful to measuring the learner's achievement. Though it needs studying and habit formation to maximise it benefits, it worths all the efforts to be contributed. I would like to thank all the colleagues for their posts and comments on this week's topics. I learned a lot from you!
Best wishes,
Amjad
Links:
NoodleTools
http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html
Bahrain
5 comments:
Hi Amjed !
I can confess that I had a terible week too . I had some tests to prepare and some papers to correct but I found it quite fruitful when I realize how much I have learnt and all those nice people who have become my friends !
Best regards ,
Farah
Hi Amjad,
Your posts are really a contribution to my constant brainstorming. I have to confess I get frustrated when I start reading all the posts, simply because I have the feeling I am losing something.
I would like to congrat you for your site, and mainly for the pictures. You are right when you say how much mind maps can help us organize our ideas. I have a program called Inspiration, and it is really useful. I have not had the opportunity to use it with my students yet, but I am sure they will benefit from it. I will try to take a look at the free ones you indicated.
Thanks for your help,
Marcia - Brazil
Dear Amjad,
I knew there must be something that is keeping you away. It isn't like you not to take part in the discussions, not to post comments on the blogs or not to update your blog. I hope that you will have more time now, as your contribution is really valuable.
All the best,
Nina
Dear Ahmed,
The image is worth thousand words. The Image you posted with your blog says a lot about the hard task you have undertaken to complete very hectic week. So far as your experience of noodletools are concerned, I think (after reading several blogs) that almost all the participants share the similar experience. We all have learned about new WSTs.
Dear Farah, Márcia, Nina, and Dilip,
Thank you very much for your thoughtful constructive comments. I appreciate them highly.
Best wishes,
Amjad
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