We are near to the
end of our online course. I have implemented what I have learned in the
course with technology enhanced project with my students in my campus. The project provided me an opportunity to integrate the various modern technologies instead of traditional lecture method
in my class. This week I was busy with project report, reading my peer’s draft
report and providing developmental feedback and creating course site and exploring more tools. I also took part in class discussion as usual in our discussion forum.
I prepared draft
report of my course project which we conducted for last three weeks. and sent it to Mukti who is my peer reviewer. He has given some suggestions to make it more clear. We have been working together. I also read his draft
report and provided some developmental feedback. We are learning much from each
other. To prepare draft project was easy because we have been
working on it from the second week. We have been collecting the required information
every week. Now I am refining my project report following my peer’s suggestions and
consulting the rubric given by our course instructor. She is really working hard to make sure we all are walking on right track.
The real challenging
task of the week was creating course site. When I had first seen our course
main website i.e. Google site I dreamed myself
creating a similar site for my
students. I tried two weeks ago. I was much confused at first. I just created
the site and left without filling much content. As I saw the weekly task of
creating the course I decided to complete my Google site. I stared to work
again. With many trails and errors I completed my Google site for B.ED students.
I must admit that it does not have great contents now. Editing the site took much time. Now I can
focus on content. I learned some ticks of editing the site but not all. In addition to Google site I created Nicenet
Class for my B.ED students. It was very easy for me. It is discussion
forum for my students.
Our discussion topic for this week was online tools. I explored ANVIL. It is great as it provides platform to integrate text,audio and video for teaching. It is still difficult for us to use audio and video from Internet because of limited bandwidth. We have not discussed much on usefulness of different online tools.. I know the reason we are busy with project reports and creating course sites.
The students are sending me email giving me their feedback on our project. I am encouraging them to write email . The students are interested to learn with technology. I have planted the seeds, I will keep on watering.I hope they they will germinate, grow and bloom and produce many seed for new generation. Let me see how big they grow in future.
Hi Krishna. I had told you yesterday in our forum discussion that I was a little bit disappointed with my site project in Google Sites, especially after I saw yours; however, now that I read that you initially had gone through a similar situation, I feel at little bit better. I am happy to see that we all are going through similar situations, no matter where we live.
ReplyDeleteI think, as I mentioned it yesterday, that you did a great job with your page in Google Sites; that motivates me to do a similar job. I am also happy to see that we are putting into practice what we have been learning in this course. I, and I think you and the rest of classmates, have been witness of the progress and change in our classroom due to the impact of the technological devices we have been introduced here.
Keep up the good job, my friend. Warm regards from Costa Rica.
Héctor.
Dear Krishna,
ReplyDeleteYour courage and effort to take up creating a course site is commendable. Furthermore, what you have done has come from your drive and not just as an imposed task. You should celebrate this endeavor! All the best with the rest of the course.
Tahsina