Week 3

To be brief and concise,week 3 has also been beneficial and productive for me as well as for my students.The idea was to create a Delicious link in which I have posted my favourite sites. I have encouraged students to refer to these sites so as to enhance their language skills and  improve sefl-study work.Moreover, I read some articles about conducting listening activities.One of my tasks was to work on a listening website .I chose Randall's Cyber Listening Lab which is a great website loaded with listening activities that can be used in class .Actually,I carried out a task with fitted my marketing students Telemarketing .I liked this site and told my students to use it outside class.

The last task was in fact to read a project developed by Teacher Joanna Zubel, Poland. The teacher created an online Blackboard where the students can enrol for the course. At first, it started as a forum where students can express their opinions on the concept on studying online. This was done mainly outside school hours in order to encourage student autonomy. As a further step in the project, the teacher decided to add another component; she started exchanging emails with her students. In fact, exchanging emails was conditioned by the exclusive use of English. Added to creating an online on Blackboard, the teacher a class Wiki using google sites.

There are three qualities that I liked most in this project. First of all, the teacher missed no occasions to encourage student autonomy; a highly regarded soft skill in contemporary teaching context. Second, I found the exclusive use of English very rewarding. Under the pressure to perform, students start using English inaccurately at first, then with practice they would imporove. Third, there is a departure from the old teaching practices in which the teacher is the sole source of information. In the project in hand, the teacher retreated to manage and monitor things behind the picture.
This project would pave the way for what I am going to do by the end of the 10-week training sessions.
Looking forward to your replies.

Makram,Tunisia