Week Three: Another week …(an)other fun!

Week Three: Another week …(an)other fun!

Another week is about to “fade away”. I wouldn’t say it has flown by because time does not fly when you are doing things you love. This week, I had a lot of things to do besides this course;   my career, family and my PhD commitments; nevertheless, I couldn’t help checking my email inbox regularly looking for probable messages from Jody.  I also did my best to trace every single word or a comment posted by my colleagues on Nicenet or on  my blog too.  From time to time, I travelled through my friends ‘blogs seeking for some inspiring reflections.. I could say that I have found out a lot of beautiful things on their blogs. What I like best is when friends talk about their daily concerns, feelings, and aspirations and how life is going over there..where they live !  Difference means a lot to me!  Living  a new interesting experience . 

This week we were provided also with more useful resources. I read an article entitled , “Developing Listening Skills with Authentic Materials” by Lindsay Miller, which I found very useful in the sense that it considers how teachers can help learners of English language develop effective listening skills. I also found the article about The Employment of CALL in Teaching Foreign Language very informative, the article   gives emphasis to the application of CALL environment which is greatly recommended to develop foreign language speaking skills.

Another thing which I found highly pleasing and “delicious” is the website delicious.com. In the past, I was at ease using Firefox bookmarks or bloc-notes to save my favourite links. All these links were unintentionally lost when I recently tried to format my PC. Not only does delicious.com give me the chance to store bookmarks but also share and discover new ones.

 Overall, it was another wonderful week.  We have experienced a new feeling! Much work but too much fun! J.  Thank you Jodi, thank you sharie , thank you all colleagues.

Week Two: Reflections on the ABCD Learning Objectives Framework and Effective Web Searches

 Reflections on  ABCD Model and Effective Web Search

Week Two was a challenging week in the real sense of the word. I can  call it the week of  “ Hard Work ”. We were assigned to do a whole week tasks.   Go over various search engines and analyze them along the lines of their use in our own classes. Though the assignment was somewhat demanding, I benefited a lot from it. I have been familiar with Google search Engine and I have never thought of another alternative. Google was ever  the best and unique search engine for me. However, when was offered the chance to check Noodletools, the outcome was surprising. I came across very beneficial academic and social sites such as http://tenbyten.org/10x10.html . One of our colleagues Abdulsalam Al-Mukardi,, suggested using an important search engine from the list: http://education.iseek.com/iseek/home.page which I found wonderful and relevant for both teachers and students.

 We were also given the opportunity to have an idea about ABCD model for behavioral objectives.  We were asked, after reading some suggested references about ABCD style, to share a behavioural objective for a class we teach, using ABCD model, and discuss them on Nicenet forum.  I managed to provide mine and was so happy when I received encouraging comments from my colleagues.   

All things considered,  I can now enjoy searching my topics using other useful and interesting engines rather than Goggle. I can also, as I think, make use of the ABCD model to  set clear objective to outline what my lessons intend to accomplish. 

Thank you Jodi and sherie for giving us the chance to live through this exceptional experience

Week One: Reflections on My Blog

Reflections on My Blog

Despite some little challenging obstacles and time constraints, I finally managed to create my own blog....! I would like to thank our trainers whose instructions and advice were very helpful in finishing the task successfully.  The task wouldn’t be trouble-free without their guide.  Really the experience of creating a personal blog was a wonderful and enjoyable one and I pretty much like it. Again, I should be grateful for Jodi and Sherie for being tolerant and helpful all the time and for their innovative way of teaching and interacting with us.

Week One: School trip to the countryside.

With a group of my students during a weekend school trip to rural part of Smara city:

Last weekend, I accompanied my students on a trip to the countryside. Students had the wonderful experience of really getting to know each other far beyond the routines of the classroom.

Week One: Let's Start with Sidi

Sidi Sidi Mohamed ( friends call me Sidi) has been teaching English language at a public high school for the past 11 years. The age of his students range from 14 – 21 years old, and on average there are 46 students in his class. Sidi is an active founding member of Smara Association of teachers of English (SATE); NGO working for the benefit of teachers of English and the improvement of the teaching of English locally and nationally. Sidi is a doctoral candidate in Med V University in Rabat, Morocco. Sidi’s hobbies include surfing the Net. His major goal for participating in The University of Oregon Online Course: Building “Teaching Skills through the Interactive Web” is to gain more knowledge on how to make use of fitting technology to improve the learning milieu through discussion and interaction with other interested fellows of the program and impart the experience to his students in his classroom and his workmates as well. 

Favorite saying so far : Every single stitch will make a big difference!