Week 7 : One-Computer Classroom & Mobile Devices

I started this week quite slow as it was the first week back to school after a long vacation and since starting this marvelous course.

The readings for this week were very interesting. They were about Learner Autonomy and One-Computer Classroom & Mobile Devices.  Our instructor was so kind to let us choose only one topic for discussion and I did the second one. Consequently, I read the articles suggested on the web course - http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic84.htm. It is said, “Although many schools have computer labs, portable laptops, and multiple classroom computers, many classrooms are still dealing with a single computer in the classroom.” Unfortunately my classroom is still dealing with a single computer. However, I have a laptop and a projector which all staff in the English Department share for their classes. The website has suggested about what the teacher and the student use and their roles. After that- http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech092.shtml and http://www.susangaer.com/sgaer/onecomputer/wordprocessing.html by Susan Gaer who has suggested group projects, Quick Individual Project for the lab, larger Individual projects for the one computer classroom. Two other websites I accessed was http://www.llt.msu.edu/issues/june2011/emerging.pdf and http://edvista.com/claire/pres/iphoneapps/. Fortunately, my daughter-Froid came to visit my grade 12 class with her British friend. They used a mobile phone to teach listening and speaking in the classroom. I was glad to see my students were participating and enjoying the class so much.

Then it was fun to post anything we like on Donna’s Padlet- the free application which was known formerly as Wallwisher. Now I have my own Padlet that I can make into an online bulletin board that can display information for any topic. I can add images, links, and videos to this marvelous application.

Then I posted on Nicenet-Task 6, Find a Partner, my partner was Zenaide from Brazil. She was very generous to invite me to be her partner to share our project/plan reports. Zenaide is a university teacher whom is very intelligent and I am a secondary school teacher, therefore I felt intimidated. Zenaide said our students have a similar profile, which I agree with. we decided to post our names and emails on the Yellow Group Wiki- Project/Plan Partner Sign-up page so we could converse easily. 

Donna has insisted on sharing our draft project or plan report with each other by Wednesday, May 28. The final draft of our project is due on Friday, June 6.  I am currently working hard on my first draft now. I hope that my partner and all the Yellow Group colleagues enjoy working on their draft projects/plans reports.

Yaowapa 

Thailand