Review of Week1:
When I came to know that I was accepted into the Fall 2011 online teacher training course (10 weeks in length: Sept. 26- Dec. 2, 2011) with University of Oregon, Linguistics Department, American English Institute (UO AEI): Building Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web (Web Skills), my happiness knew no bound because I haven't taken such course before. I was also much excited about how the things would go along. Robert Elliott, our webskills E-course instructor, American English Institute from the University of Oregon
I thought I couldn't give time for this course; however I tried it out whenever I was free and spared some time for the course. I sat on the net and tried to do my best.
What we were asked to do:
Week 1: Introductions; creating an Academic Blog
The first week of the course, we will get started - getting to know each other, engaging in planning and processes, and developing a weekly rhythm for working through the topics.
§ Introduction to the course
§ Setting ground rules for discussions
§ Doing a needs analysis related to teaching and technology
§ Looking at rubrics for self-evaluating discussion board posts
§ Discussion: Self-introductions; ground rules for discussions; rubrics for posting
Learning Objectives for This Week:
§ Participants will log into Nicenet and share information about themselves with each other, starting to create a learning community.
§ Participants will collaborate in setting ground rules for discussions and rubrics for self-evaluating discussion board posts.
§ Participants will fill out a needs analysis survey to help ensure that the course topics are appropriate.
§ Task: Participants will create a blog on www.blogger.com using the instructions in Blogger how-to and share the URL with the group.
§ Having created a blog on Blogger, participants will write about what they have done and what they learned in the course so far In at least one published post on their blog.
What I did week1:
– Checked my inbox frequently for some instruction from Robert to follow.
– Clicked the links and saved some files
– was busy reading the discussion and other links
– Introduced myself to the class on Nicenet (http://www.nicenet.org/)
– Visited https://sites.google.com/site/webskillsuo/home frequently to check what I was supposed to do
– Made myself familiar with Internet Classroom Assistant (ICA)
– Tried to know the international friends participating in the course
– I also created a blog (http://smallenglishworld.blogspot.com/) for review of what I learn from webskills
– I could read about the Ground Rules for Discussion & Rubrics seriously and left my comment only after Robert reminded me of the fact that it was also a part of tasks of week1
Time really flew. I didn't feel how the time (week1) passed by. I wanted some more time to understand and know each and everything as well as international personalities but it's OK, friends will be familiar in the coming weeks.
Dipendra
(Nepal)
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