I am Baetty from Indonesia. I am joining the course on "Building Teaching Skill through the Interactive Web" by a scholarship from the E-Teacher Scholarship program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the Department of States.
I was so curious to start the study and kept checking for the email from the AEI of the University of Oregon's coordinator. I was too excited and did not realize that it was still new year vacation in the US. I wrote an introduction on the Nicenet too early and found nobody there and was disappointed to get no response on January 6, 2014. I did not realize that I wrote on a personal message section where other groupmates might not be able to access. I was , in fact, surprised that by January 8, 2014 there were many groupmates have posted their introduction on the first assignment posted by Mr. Sean McClelland. A day after that I still did not realize that I wrote too quick before the assignment was posted. I realized I was so careless of the time differences.
I have created this blog for this assignment and am still working on managing it. I chose "Path to learning language teaching" as my blog's
name because I want to learn how to use it wisely for my teaching improvement.
I have created some blogs long time ago but I never really had an effort to keep writing or maintaining it. I assume that creating a blog takes time and maintaining our motivation to keep updating it is such a hard job, especially when we have so many paper work and job to asses the students' assignment. However, whatever hard it is to do, I believe that this week 1 assignment is meant to make me to learn how to use it as a good teaching media.
I have heard the advantages of using blog for teaching writing by project based learning. However, I never used it for my class because I realize that writing and sharing things on blog is quite time consuming as well as it requires skills on managing html.
I would like to go on with this process and spend time to work on my blog. I started to work on it 2 days ago. The hardest thing to create the blog is to choose the name of it and deciding what to write on it.
Hello, Baetty. I like your blog and I particularly enjoyed reading your entry. I guess all of us were checking our inboxes over and over again to see whether we had already been granted access to the websites.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to ask you about your teaching experience. You mention that you help students in order to interact for radio and TV broadcasts. Are TV and radio fields where many students in your country want to work or is there a particular reason this is the context of your teaching? I find it impressive, and I'd love it if you could expand a bit on that.
I had heard about blogging for writing practice too, but althought I haven't really used a blog for my students' writing, I have seen examples and I think blogging proves really useful. Teachers can keep their students entries and send them feedback in a very organized manner, and students can keep the comments and corrections for as long as they like, which means they will be able to watch how their writing is improving and what mistakes and errors to avoid as they write new pieces. I'm thinking of starting something similar with my advanced students for the next school year. Writing is one of the hardest skills and, at least in the school where I work, students have very good ideas but have difficulty in writing them down. Perhaps a writing blog might help, what do you think?
Regards,
Lupita.
Hello Baetty,
ReplyDeleteI like your blog and I enjoyed reading it.
I've created my blog for web skills course, but still I need time to learn how to manage its format and make it appealing to people like yours.
I've created three blogs as a student but the I ended up with leaving them a side. However, as a teacher, this is my second year of experience and I haven't tried to use it with my students. It sounds exciting that we use blogging for reflective journals. We all enjoy writing about our thoughts and sharing them with others.
Nice to meet you in this course
Best wishes,
Houda
Dear Lupita,
ReplyDeleteThank you for spending time to read my first blog. I am glad that it can be useful for you or other friends.
Let me tell a bit description about my department. I work in polytechnic which most of the departments are engineering oriented field. It was established in 2009 and we had unexpected negative comment about it. People argued about why an English Department should be established in an engineering dominant college. Based on this situation, we tried to develop a unique English Department which offers additional skills which is more vocational oriented. Since we have so many growing broadcasting business at the mean time, we see it as a good market for job for our graduates. Therefore, this idea of introducing English for Broadcasting rose.
We started to introduce some subjects on introduction to broadcasting, TV broadcasting, radio broadcasting, and workshops on these 2 areas on 2010. Besides, we also introduced Technical writing in 2 semesters to help students develop their writing abilities. However, it is such a very big challenge for us to manage this kind of learning and teaching. Since we do not have any broadcasting background, we invited professionals to collaborate in teaching process and curriculum design. We made teaching team consisting of broadcasting professionals and the English lecturers to teach the subjects.
I wish to pursue my study in this field and am looking for prospective supervisor. I wish someone can help me on this issue. Thanks for your question, Lupita.
Cheers,
Baetty
Hi Houda,
ReplyDeleteIt is nice to meet you here too. We are here to learn together. We are the same, learning how to manage it. I tried to use blog and wordpress long time ago. After one or two access, I ended updating it and even cannot recall my memory about the name and account for those blogs.