Reflection unit 2

Reflection 

We’ve learned what does distance education mean, where the students are the most important participants, and where we have to be autonomous in some areas of our learning, but in some others we might need help.

We also see some of the emoticons used by the majority of us, and how we can express feelings, attitude, etc.

We also had the opportunity of plan an online course and its principles. And how we as teachers have to think in our students how they are going to react with the activities that we are providing.

E-tivity "unit 2 activity 6"

Creating an E-Tivity



Topic: funky phrasals
Grammatical Item:phrasal Verbs
Type of e-learning: In pairs, interactive students can practice
each other.
Purpose: the purpose of this e-tivity is to help student to identify the function of the funky phrasals by broke down in two parts listening and reading, Student can improve or can grow their vocabulary and conversation skills.
Spark: People who likes English language will feel motivated because the topic is related with real life interest. Mainly the subject is fun for the students.
Evaluation: the teacher will send the feedback and final grade


Name of e-tivity Funky phrasals
Purpose
Listening and reading
Identify and practice the use of the informal way of to express real life situations to make students feel more natural when speaking.
.to get ahead
. to get on

Spark The interest of knowing the way to use English in natural informal way and express ideas as well to know peoples customs.

How many participants? In pairs, no more than two.

Structure:
Include individual response, participant responses to each other, group work. The Student has to answer in time and in an efficient way.

E-lapsed time needed (be generous) 30 minutes
E-tutor’s time (be generous) 20 minutes
E-tutor actions 5 minutes
Participant time 20 minutes
Participant actions Participants have to work down load the examples as well, in a chat room and give each other feedback.
How evaluated? By a test trying a quiz after the exercise or topic.
Accuracy and punctuality
Teacher will send the feedback when the student has finish the exercise
The students can practice and then send final answers.
Test can include the following:feel the gaps, mark the correct answer,
Or some definitions.
Correct answers and final grade will be sending by the teacher.


Accuracy and punctuality.
Teacher will send the feedback when the student had finish the exercise, s/he can check the answers by the following:
1. Mark wrong answers
2. Replace wrong by correct answers
3. Show all correct answers
4. All this corrections may be also send by the teacher via e – mail
5. Teacher can provide other pages so Ss can practice the topic they saw any time.

Reaction to Spark "unit 2 activity 6"

Reaction to Spark


What we think from this information. Is that reflecting on the things that we have made is an important aspect of our life, because by doing it we can come up with some solution to the problems that we might have in our life, and also we can expand our knowledge.






base on this reading

Reflections and ripples on your pond

The word’reflection means to bend or tum backwards. Of course, it is commonly used to mean the reflection of light against an object such as a mirror. Sometimes reflection provides amazing and beautiful images, such as trees in a river, mountains in a lake, clouds on the ocean. Sometimes these are clear; sometimes they appear to be dynamic and rippling in the water.

In human terms, this means reflecting oneself, on other people, as if viewed through a looking glass. Revisiting images of a time past, such as pictures of childhood events, often offers new insights. Reflection of this kind has always been thought of as important to learning and development.

Now some people think that reviewing our own, and other people’s thoughts and ideas written in messages and on a computer screen provides a kind of image, ripe for reflecting. And sometimes what we ‘see’ is a little different or even surprising!

We believe it is valuable to provide opportunity for our participants to reflect, and to share and discuss their reflections. Our own ideas can be confirmed as others acknowledge our contributions or make similar ones. New ideas can be explored as others suggest to us fresh lines of approach. By sharing, we can find kindred spirits to communicate with later about further issues as they arise. We expand our knowledge, grow more confident and build our networks.   (Salmon 2000)

completion of table "unit 2 activity 6"

completion of table

Principals for an e-tivity "unit 2 activity 6"

E-tivity's principals

1. Decide in advance what the teacher is expecting from the students to do and what the tutor or e-moderator will do.
2. Make sure that they understood what you are expecting from the e-tivity.
3. The evaluation or assessment has to meet the purpose of the e-tivity.
4. Provide e-tivites that motivates your students instead of just motivate them to simply log-on.
5. Set short-term goals and make sure that there’s a flow of actions.
6. Divide the e-tivity up into chunks.
7. Make sure that the e-tivities are focused on sharing, elaborating or deepening understanding
8. Let them work in teams to achieve the learning outcomes. 

Electronic pages "unit 2 activity 5"

Description of learning environment

So far I have worked with Blackboard, I think that it is easy to use and well organize, it depends on the teacher though.  Cause I have taken some subjects with another teacher, and he was not leading the students correctly, or like it supposed to be done.

And it needs a discussion forums, e-mail, and folder for the reading material, system evaluation, and bulleting board, goals, calendar, grades, course information.

Plan to develop an online course "unit 2 activity 4"

Plan to build my online course

1. Documents to include

·      Letter of welcome for each new student

·      General info. About online learning, technology requirements, and the resources available to students for technical help and for obtaining the proper software ad internet services required for the course

·      Information about how to access the course on the we, and how to navigate it successfully

·      Students log-in and password information for course web site

·      Rules procedures, and help for use the interactive tools

·      A course syllabus- preferably on public pages so that prospective students can see what they are getting into advance- including tutor contact information

·      A course overview, schedule

·      Instructions about activities, assignments and deadlines

2. Learning objects

·      Electronic mail

·      Discussion board

·      Chat utilities

·      Instant messaging

·      Video games

·      Quizzes

·      Self grading

·      Synchronous audio

Electronic communication, emoticons and E-tiquette "unit 2 activity 3"

A)ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION

Which mode of electronic communication will be most important to me as an e-tutor?

For me it’ll be better “one to one” because we can know how our student is progressing how our student is learning and we can have a complete record of how he/she is doing in the learning process, though it could be a little bit difficult for the ones that don’t have to much time available due this offers little flexibility in terms of time.

B) EMOTICONS

1. Emoticons that I commonly  use

:-p = Just kidding          :-) = happy       :-( = sad           XD = happy

2.                               2  A frustrating difficulty you have been having with CMC

I really hate the fact that since I wasn’t impose to this kind of learning, I usually forget the dates when I have to post some activities, thas when responsability comes into play. :-p

C) E-TIQUETTE

Criticism for the mail

1.     He is talking about more than one topic.

2.     He didn’t put any title on it.

3.     He didn’t address the matter in a calm manner.

Criticism for the posting

1.     Misspelling

2.     Inappropriate comments

3.     Is confusing

explaining the model "unit 2 activity 2"

Theory and Practice of Online Learning

This model talks about two ways of learning where the first one being a distance education “E-learning” but teachers and students are the most important participants and they have to be interacting each other either synchronized or unsynchronized, and it can be through computer conferences, chats, etc. this method helps students to have a personal developments between participants.

On the contrary independent student may use computer tutorials, drills and simulations, but they are not help by any teacher, but colleagues, family members and friends are the ones helping them to acquire the knowledge.

I think that we have to combine both, because we have to be autonomous in some areas of our learning, but in some others we might need help and there is when teacher’s help comes into play.  

T. & Elloumi, F. (2004). Theory and Practice of Online Learning (pages 48-52)

concepts of distance education "unit 2, activity 1"

DISTANCE LEARNING DEFINITIONS

1 "The acquisition of knowledge and skills through mediated information and instruction, encompassing all technologies and other forms of learning at a distance."

USDLA

2 “Distance education is planned learning that normally occurs in a different place from teaching and as a result requires special techniques of course design, special instructional techniques, special methods of communication by electronic and other technology, as well as special organizational and administrative arrangements"

by Greg Kearsley (1996)

3 “The process of extending learning, or delivering instructional resource-sharing opportunities, to locations away from a classroom, building or site, to another classroom, building or site by using video, audio, computer, multimedia communications, or some combination of these with other traditional delivery methods." The ITC definition http://www.uwex.edu/disted/definition.cfm