ELT Technology Class 2021

 Hi, As we are approaching almost the end of the assignments, I would like to make sure that you all understand the last assignments. This week's assignment is for you to choose a Peer Review Partner, which you have already done and attached you will have the document with your names and partners. If someone does not submit the report and you are left with no report to review,  please send me an email and let me know. Peer Review Partner The very last assignment, which is very important as it is part of the final examination, needs also considerable time. The first draft of your reflective essay/report will be uploaded on the Dropbox under Week 11 according to the respective deadlines for group A and B. Then your partner will work with your essay by activating the Track changes option on the Word document in order for their work and insert comments to be visible. In the end of the page you will also write a summary of your opinion for what you read and what needs to be changed...

 Hello again,  Congratulations to all the groups that have finished with the their mock teaching sessions. You have all displayed your abilities as future teachers and you have done that quite skilfully. What I would really like from you at this point is to become more independent students and not to expect everything from the teachers. With regard to the assignments that are left for the rest of the term, please refer again to the list of assignments and the class calendar, especially for the deadlines. Let me repeat again that all the assignments have to be uploaded in the Dropbox under the relevant weeks. The previous weeks have been removed from the Dropbox so that there will not be any problems with the uploading, however, they are stored in my PC.  We agreed that you upload the assignments of the last two weeks but you will not get full points.  Since we also agreed that the rest of the Blog posts will be topics that you will choose yourself, I would like to r...

Hello again,  Firstly, I would like to thank you all for the hard work that you have put so far for this course. Well done! Secondly, I would also like to congratulate you all on your Interactive PPTs as they were all well-developed and you took us through all the features that you had included. Keep using the knowledge that you have either started using or enhance the skills that you already had.   You have also started working on your projects and we already had the first group presenting their work to us. So far we can all agree that a good start is half of the work done.  There is also something else that I would like you to take into consideration. I think that I have already mentioned that together with the PPT presentation/video/Prezi and the materials designed for your classes, you need to submit your lesson plan. There are some templates for lesson plans that I am sharing, so you can use them as models to develop your own lesson plans.  I have designe...

 Hello again,  I hope that you will all be happy and smiling even though there seems like there are so many things that you have to complete for this week.  However, these are all knowledge and skills that you will need to apply for the final project. The harder you work towards its accomplishment the more satisfied you will be with the outcome.  So, for this week, we had to focus on the planning, organisation and researching for the content. Remember that this is the backbone or the foundations of any task that you are working on. The more solid the foundation, the more sturdy the structure, that you will built on it, will be. Therefore, you need to dedicate more time and efforts to this stage of your project.  Your tasks for this week are related to the groups that were formed during class and you will have to prepare an Interactive PPT presentation. The previous Blog post  gave you the instructions about how to create an interactive PPT or if you find it...

  Please find attached the instructions for the Interactive PPT Interactive PPT Instructions

Hi everyone, We are almost half way through. Keep up the good work and your engagement in the class. Now the real work starts. You have to apply your knowledge to this project, which will give you all the opportunity to be a teacher in the classroom. Unfortunately, we will not be in the classroom but in our virtual meeting places. However, I am confident that you will overcome this challenge as well. There are also some videos for you to watch about ways of enhancing your planning of the lesson, since you are starting to make decisions  Technology tools and lesson planning_Video 1 Video 2 Video 3 Video 4 Video 5 For those who have not decided their topic yet, below you will find some Webinars videos or slides from American English Webinars webpage: https://americanenglish.state.gov/resources/american-english-webinars#child-2522 As for the posting of this week, I have uploaded a new folder for PBL in teams and two readings. One of the readings, which you will also find here rai...