Learning reflection on lessons

Innovation Education Technology in the global classroom 


       ESOL  teachers must be inventive, creative,  and  committed to keeping up with innovation in a rapidly changing world. Teacher should be encouraged to employ instructional technologies in the educational setting- including online discussion, podcasting, and blogging- so that they can keep abreast  of  best  practices in technology.

       The future teachers need to  know how to teach students  who represent generations to come

1.  Integrating  instructional Technology into an Assignment
       Seeking to understand how ESOL teachers create meaningfulcontent for future. Teaching content, such as case study portfolios, can be integrated with instructional technology, such as online discussion, podcasts,  blogs, and wiki, to enhance learning experiences and provide better curriculum.

2. The ELL Case Study 
       This part of the assignment consisted of a number of step: (a) prepare a case study (b) collect data from the ELL (c) analyze multiple data sets, and (d) create a problem scenario specific to the ELL by coming up with the reflective and discussion questions based on the case study experience.

3.  Blogging

       Blogs are online commentary, personal reflections, or new on a particular subject.

4.  Podcasting

       Internet-based audio programs available for downloading that allow the listener to play the audio through a computer or on  the MP3 player.

5.  Creating a Wiki

       After posting their case studies, blogging about them, and creating they podcasts, the preservice  ESOL  teachers suggested teaching methodsand activities to their classmates via a wiki in Blackboard or another program or Website.

6.  Online Discussion

        Communities maybe private or public, and the content can be created and maintained by the instructors. In this project, online discussion provided   a window to observe how the preservice teachers constructed knowledge and interacted with other.

7.  Implications

        This assignment focusing on implementing technology in the classroom  proved to be dynamic, effective, and  beneficial for everyone involved.

 

Thinking on the Application of Multimedia into College English teaching. 

     

        The four main that the new generation should learn how to know, learn how to do, learn how to leave together, learn how to be. The teaching target of college English is to cultivate the student’s comprehensive capabilities to use English, especially  the listening comprehension and oral expression ability.



1.  The Current Status of the Multimedia Teaching Method in  College English teaching
           We can cultivate the students’s English abilities, which are the final teaching aim  and developing  the student’s English intercommunitive ability.


 2.  Relationship between the Qualities of the College English Teachings and Multimedia Teaching
           The teacher should make innovation on the College English Test and be more active  in  the teaching and carry out effective quality education.


 3.  Misunderstandings and Disadvantages of Multimedia teaching  in College English Teaching
         - Teachers neglecting the essentials
         - Teachers over use multimedia and neglecting its auxiliary teaching function         - Some teachers being impercipient to multimedia method.

4. Some suggestions on  Multimedia Teaching in College English Teaching
       - Teachers should  change  threir   ideas of using multimedia teaching that the determinant  of  teaching optimization doesn’t   rely on using whichever  media but the education concept.
       - We should devote major efforts to developing multimedia teaching mode based on network  circumstance. the students’ interest of self –study English will be strengthened, their ability of speaking and listening to English will be also heightened.



5.  Conclusion
            The using of multimedia in nowadays, multimedia is a part of thing to developing the teaching in the college classroom. We should support and apply multimedia teaching method into both teachers and learners.


On the problems and Strategies of multimedia technology in English teaching 


           

Analysis on necessity of application of Multimedia technology to English Teaching

-Cultivate students’ interest in study

-Improve teaching effect = break the teacher-centered.

Analysis on problems arising from application of Multimedia technology to English teaching

-Major means replaced by the assisting one.

-Loss of speaking communication .

Suggestion to the existing problems.

-The beauty of courseware is not the sole pursuit.

-The computer screen can’t substitute the blackboard.

Exercise: acronyms

Directions: Find words or phrases standing for the following acronyms with short descriptions.

1. IT = Information technology    
            
2. ICT =  Information and Communications Technology

3. CAI =   Computer-Assisted Instruction
 
4. CALL =  Computer Assisted Language  Learning

5. WBI  =  Web base instruction

6. CBI  =  Computer Based Instruction

7. CMC = Computer-Mediated Communications

8. TELL =  Teaching English Language Learners

9. MUD =  Multiple User Dialogue

10. MOO =  Matter of Opinion

Resorce: http://senarak.tripod.com/wbi.htm

Directions: Describe the following terms.
Synchronous Tools
        Synchronous tools enable real-time communication and collaboration in a "same time-different place" mode. These tools allow people to connect at a single point in time, at the same time. Synchronous tools possess the advantage of being able to engage people instantly and at the same point in time. The primary drawback of synchronous tools is that, by definition, they require same-time participation -different time zones and conflicting schedules can create communication challenges. In addition, they tend to be costly and may require significant bandwidth to be efficient.

Asynchronous tools
         Asynchronous tools enable communication and collaboration over a period of time through a "different time-different place" mode. These tools allow people to connect together at each person's own convenience and own schedule. Asynchronous tools are useful for sustaining dialogue and collaboration over a period of time and providing people with resources and information that are instantly accessible, day or night. Asynchronous tools possess the advantage of being able to involve people from multiple time zones. In addition, asynchronous tools are helpful in capturing the history of the interactions of a group, allowing for collective knowledge to be more easily shared and distributed. The primary drawback of asynchronous technologies is that they require some discipline to use when used for ongoing communities of practice (e.g., people typically must take the initiative to "login" to participate) and they may feel "impersonal" to those who prefer higher-touch synchronous technologies.

Resorce: http://www.asaecenter.org/Resources/articledetail.cfm?itemnumber=13572