Let me formally welcome you to the new technological method of learning English. I assure you that using this method will intrigue your minds and will enable us to bring English alive!
Our first topic this semester will be reading comprehension. It is a crucial skill to entail not only for English but also for all other subject areas.
Please follow the link which will further give you a very structural overview of reading comprehension. Come prepared for a small in class activity that will further prepare you for the following lesson.
I look forward to working witrh you all as we seek to bring English alive!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMIQv7yPlkI
Monday, September 24, 2012
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Using Technology when teaching English
A pleasant good day to all,
Welcome to Erica Francis' blog where the main focus is on Technology in Education within the subject area of English.Within this blog, techniques on how to utilize technology in the classroom will be highlighted. Gone are the days of "Chalk and Talk". The students are becoming techno savvy and teachers should be readily prepared to deal with such a techno savvy generation.
Using blogspot in English , the instructor can then electronically post to the students' advantage as some aspect of the lesson may not have been clear enough for some students or the instructor may not have had the time to fully explain a lesson during class. Blogspot then gives the students as well as the instructor time to catch up on lost time or the opportunity to review what needs to be fully explained.
Thus, through this medium, the instructor may:
Welcome to Erica Francis' blog where the main focus is on Technology in Education within the subject area of English.Within this blog, techniques on how to utilize technology in the classroom will be highlighted. Gone are the days of "Chalk and Talk". The students are becoming techno savvy and teachers should be readily prepared to deal with such a techno savvy generation.
Using blogspot in English , the instructor can then electronically post to the students' advantage as some aspect of the lesson may not have been clear enough for some students or the instructor may not have had the time to fully explain a lesson during class. Blogspot then gives the students as well as the instructor time to catch up on lost time or the opportunity to review what needs to be fully explained.
Thus, through this medium, the instructor may:
- Post overviews of lessons in forms of powerpoint presentations
- with the overviews of the lessons posted there is also a forum where students may review especially for exam periods
- listening comprehensions may be done through the posting of videos from youtube
- remembering that the teaching of language is a second language, video conferencing may be done with other language classes in other schools so that the students may get exposure to the different creole and standard English
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