We started learning about Jeff Magoto, Director of Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon, and , ANVILL.
ANVILL is a National Virtual Language Lab that is focused on the practice of oral/aural language. It offers several tools such as Voiceboards, LiveChat, Quizzes and Surveys. Its newest tool- TCast allows teachers to record and place audio or video files anywhere in a lesson in 3 easy steps.
There's some much to explore in ANVILL! . From all the tools, I would like to start trying Voiceboard and use it along with my class blog. Likewise, I would like to try some of the mazes and jigsaw activities.
We then learnt how to create a class in Nicenet, quite easy task and with lots of potential for class discussion !
I added five new tools to my Delicious: Tools for educators, Personal Educational Press, Easy Test Maker, and Xword Puzzle Generator, Web Poster Wizard.
By the end of this week I created my own Nicenet class-English I, a quiz on compound nouns which I designed using Easy Test Maker, a nice board game of phrasal verbs and flashcards with sayings and proverbs from Tools for Educators , a Web worksheet created with Web Poster Wizard . Great tools !
We had again the opportunity to share our offline/online exercises with our classmates. All of them quite creative ! Sharing our findings is also great. I have learnt of some new tools I would have missed if it hadn't been for my classmates who always find new resources .
Despite the little time I have had in the last two weeks, I have really enjoyed learning by doing!
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Hi Cecilia
ReplyDeleteIf learning by doing is your goal, then you have learned a lot this week. You have really been active in trying out tools. And ultimately, yes, the best way to learn is from peers...from each other.
Robert