Dear All,
Nobel laureate Bengali world poet wrote " Jete Nahi Diba Hai, Tabu Chale Jai, Tabu Jete Deta Hoi". If I translate in English it will roughly be " I won't allow it to go, Nevertheless it goes, Nevertheless it is allowed to go". Dear friends, I don't want that the course will be ended. But I can't stop the natural end to things.
It is quite difficult to summarize the course learning. What I have learnt from this course is "understanding first." If I am not clear in my understanding of what we have learnt, I will not be able to reach any goals connected to this new learning.
Another learning is that I am standing on the seashore of knowledge. The whole sea of knowledge is in front of me. I have only attempted to bathe in the sea.
LoTi Digital-Age Framework has fastened us in a level. So far I understand I have to keep an eye whenever I start to do something.
Reminiscing is always difficult. The whole course is quite pleasurable and enjoyable for me. Hon'ble Deborah Healey and Sandra Jeffs were so helpful, cooperative and generous for me.
Christos said, "I enjoyed the friendly environment, inspiring ideas and the spirit of cooperation that everyone showed in the course". I think that this is perfect saying.
All of you have helped me to build up my ideas perfect.
Definitely, this course has built up my confidence, courage, knowledge and above all power. Now I am an informed person.
But I feel an urge in me that I have to be more powerful with more up- to-date knowledge.
Thank you,
Mahamud
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
This Week's recipies
Dear All,
Hot potato week. This week I have got an advantage. I created a class "Promoting writing skill through web". Accordingly I have assigned same tasks to my learners. Moreover seeing the prospects, authority decides to do a pilot project with seconday school teachers especially in the 10 schools where computer with broadband internet connectivity is given from our CAL programme.
Already I told to my participants to open their blog. Accordingly most of my learners have created their blog which I have put in the wiki page.
Hot potato is guiding me to create a website free of cost. I didn't know how to transform normal pages into web pages. Now I know it.
Online exercises will help us to produce new materails. Our Government has introduced creative questions for assessment. I think question setters can get unique sources for creative questions which they find most difficult.
It is to say that learner autonomy can be ensured by using online tools.
I think like us if my participants use Nicenet, blogger and wiki, their endeavour to develop language proficiency will see a great success.
I have received feedback from my peer Ahmed for my project. Keeping his suggestion in mind, I am trying to develop my project. I am still working on it keeping the deadline 14th.
Thank you,
Mahamud
Hot potato week. This week I have got an advantage. I created a class "Promoting writing skill through web". Accordingly I have assigned same tasks to my learners. Moreover seeing the prospects, authority decides to do a pilot project with seconday school teachers especially in the 10 schools where computer with broadband internet connectivity is given from our CAL programme.
Already I told to my participants to open their blog. Accordingly most of my learners have created their blog which I have put in the wiki page.
Hot potato is guiding me to create a website free of cost. I didn't know how to transform normal pages into web pages. Now I know it.
Online exercises will help us to produce new materails. Our Government has introduced creative questions for assessment. I think question setters can get unique sources for creative questions which they find most difficult.
It is to say that learner autonomy can be ensured by using online tools.
I think like us if my participants use Nicenet, blogger and wiki, their endeavour to develop language proficiency will see a great success.
I have received feedback from my peer Ahmed for my project. Keeping his suggestion in mind, I am trying to develop my project. I am still working on it keeping the deadline 14th.
Thank you,
Mahamud
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Delicious
Dear All,
Time and tide wait for none. I have forgotten when at first I learnt this proverb. Yes my dear friends course is on the verge of ending. Bengali poet Mustaba Ali wrote in Bangla "Ruti mod furia gabe, Priyar Kalo choke golate hoyee acheba, Kinto akkhana boi, Annanta Joubana, Jodi Temon Boi Hoi". If I translate it in English it will draftly stand like " Bread and wine will be ended, Eyes of the dearest will be faded way, But a book remains, Eternal young, if it is that type of book". Syed Mustaba Ali in his life time didn't get scope to use Internet let alone Delicious. I think if he knew it, he would have written the poem differently. He would have written " But Delicious will remain with its eternal vigor ensuring opportunity to visit the books from anywhere."
Dear friends, from this course I have learnt many things that can not be measured. My reading habit has increased manifold.
In our country, I am sure that people can't imagine of learning that is possible in interactive way. In my case I noticed that I have got most of the ideas from my other course mates. Win win stuation. Nobody is losing in this kingship. Haa haa haa!!!
I am quoting here a popular Bangla song "Aamra sabai Raja, Ameder e Rajar Rajotta" In English it may roughly be translated as " We all are king, We all are king in our king's kingship".
Nobel Laureate Bengali poet Rabindra Nath Tagore wrote" Anek kotha jai je bala-------". In English " Many words can be told-----"
Thank you,
Mahamud
Time and tide wait for none. I have forgotten when at first I learnt this proverb. Yes my dear friends course is on the verge of ending. Bengali poet Mustaba Ali wrote in Bangla "Ruti mod furia gabe, Priyar Kalo choke golate hoyee acheba, Kinto akkhana boi, Annanta Joubana, Jodi Temon Boi Hoi". If I translate it in English it will draftly stand like " Bread and wine will be ended, Eyes of the dearest will be faded way, But a book remains, Eternal young, if it is that type of book". Syed Mustaba Ali in his life time didn't get scope to use Internet let alone Delicious. I think if he knew it, he would have written the poem differently. He would have written " But Delicious will remain with its eternal vigor ensuring opportunity to visit the books from anywhere."
Dear friends, from this course I have learnt many things that can not be measured. My reading habit has increased manifold.
In our country, I am sure that people can't imagine of learning that is possible in interactive way. In my case I noticed that I have got most of the ideas from my other course mates. Win win stuation. Nobody is losing in this kingship. Haa haa haa!!!
I am quoting here a popular Bangla song "Aamra sabai Raja, Ameder e Rajar Rajotta" In English it may roughly be translated as " We all are king, We all are king in our king's kingship".
Nobel Laureate Bengali poet Rabindra Nath Tagore wrote" Anek kotha jai je bala-------". In English " Many words can be told-----"
Thank you,
Mahamud
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Week 8
Dear all,
What an exciting week!!! After reading all the posting I became puzzled of learner autonomy. Dear Sandra has given me suitable solution.
What Is Learner Autonomy and How Can It Be Fostered? by Dimitrios Thanasoulas,
Learner Autonomy: Bird-in-the-hand or Bird-in-the-bush? by Samuel Sheu which looks at the difficulties in encouraging learner autonomy in Taiwan's highly constrained educational system & Interconnections: Learner Autonomy Teacher Autonomy interview have helped me to visualize the total conception of autonomy, scopes and challenges of autonomy.
This week we have got a guest moderator Jeff Magota. His views helped me to write one computer class room's lesson. I don't know how far it has been. I have tried to search on different sites for developing the lesson.
This week' burning task is to submit draft project to my peer Ahmed for his valuable comment. I will post it by tomorrow Bangladesh time.
Thank you,
Mahamud
.
What an exciting week!!! After reading all the posting I became puzzled of learner autonomy. Dear Sandra has given me suitable solution.
What Is Learner Autonomy and How Can It Be Fostered? by Dimitrios Thanasoulas,
Learner Autonomy: Bird-in-the-hand or Bird-in-the-bush? by Samuel Sheu which looks at the difficulties in encouraging learner autonomy in Taiwan's highly constrained educational system & Interconnections: Learner Autonomy Teacher Autonomy interview have helped me to visualize the total conception of autonomy, scopes and challenges of autonomy.
This week we have got a guest moderator Jeff Magota. His views helped me to write one computer class room's lesson. I don't know how far it has been. I have tried to search on different sites for developing the lesson.
This week' burning task is to submit draft project to my peer Ahmed for his valuable comment. I will post it by tomorrow Bangladesh time.
Thank you,
Mahamud
.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Reap the benefits of Week 7
Dear All,
The days are flying.
From this week I have learn t from follow course mates' posts that how to manage large classroom and how technology can penetrate for understanding large classroom. For teaching large classes and to use technology in teaching large classes we are asked to think about project-based learning, WebQuests, and some of the ideas in "Personalizing Language Learning in Large Classes".
Large lecture halls impose physical and logistical constraints on what we do effectively, That's why Teaching Large Classes has outlined true techniques to keep students interested such as Interactive lecture, Just-in-Time teaching, Beating the number games, how to create memorable lectures, tTps for effective use of technology and group work etc.
Reading "Make Technology work for you", Aleyda was fascinated with the technology resources and tools provided at Carnegie Mellon's Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence. She thinks that it is a dream in her reality. However, she reinforced the value of technologies such as podcasting (Web-based sindicated audio and video files), projet-based collaborative learning, and power-point presentations, which can be obtained free and do not require high-technology repositories or a great deal of expertise in computer management. She cited the following sites which I think are very useful.
a.http://www.stager.org/podcasting.html
b.http://www.squidoo.com/free-podcast-resources
c.http://www.slideshare.net/jeremycod/projectbased-collaborative-learning-environment-with-contextaware-educational-services
d.http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ctitext2/service/workshop/collab.html
e.http://www.electricteacher.com/tutorial3.htm
At the beginning, I thought it will be not a problem to find a partner. But it has taken a lot of time from many of us to choose the right peer. Perhaps all of us were thinking of the parameter.
Without the "Best Practices in Presenting with PowerPoint" and "New Ways of Using PowerPoint"write up, I think it could have become nightmare to be successful in creating interactive PowerPoint Presentation.
Moreover without the direct guidance of Dear Deborah, I would definitely face problem regarding uploading the presentation on Wiki.
Submission of project task is ahead. I am little bit worried of producing the right thing. Perhaps my partner Ahmed will keep me not to be deviated from the original track.
Again I would to thank all of the course mates who helped me to learn PowerPoint and managing large classroom. I would like extend my thanks to Ahmed to accept my offer to be peer of me.
Regards,
Mahamud
The days are flying.
From this week I have learn t from follow course mates' posts that how to manage large classroom and how technology can penetrate for understanding large classroom. For teaching large classes and to use technology in teaching large classes we are asked to think about project-based learning, WebQuests, and some of the ideas in "Personalizing Language Learning in Large Classes".
Large lecture halls impose physical and logistical constraints on what we do effectively, That's why Teaching Large Classes has outlined true techniques to keep students interested such as Interactive lecture, Just-in-Time teaching, Beating the number games, how to create memorable lectures, tTps for effective use of technology and group work etc.
Reading "Make Technology work for you", Aleyda was fascinated with the technology resources and tools provided at Carnegie Mellon's Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence. She thinks that it is a dream in her reality. However, she reinforced the value of technologies such as podcasting (Web-based sindicated audio and video files), projet-based collaborative learning, and power-point presentations, which can be obtained free and do not require high-technology repositories or a great deal of expertise in computer management. She cited the following sites which I think are very useful.
a.http://www.stager.org/podcasting.html
b.http://www.squidoo.com/free-podcast-resources
c.http://www.slideshare.net/jeremycod/projectbased-collaborative-learning-environment-with-contextaware-educational-services
d.http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ctitext2/service/workshop/collab.html
e.http://www.electricteacher.com/tutorial3.htm
At the beginning, I thought it will be not a problem to find a partner. But it has taken a lot of time from many of us to choose the right peer. Perhaps all of us were thinking of the parameter.
Without the "Best Practices in Presenting with PowerPoint" and "New Ways of Using PowerPoint"write up, I think it could have become nightmare to be successful in creating interactive PowerPoint Presentation.
Moreover without the direct guidance of Dear Deborah, I would definitely face problem regarding uploading the presentation on Wiki.
Submission of project task is ahead. I am little bit worried of producing the right thing. Perhaps my partner Ahmed will keep me not to be deviated from the original track.
Again I would to thank all of the course mates who helped me to learn PowerPoint and managing large classroom. I would like extend my thanks to Ahmed to accept my offer to be peer of me.
Regards,
Mahamud
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Week 6 and me
Dear All,
The Chinese proverb “Tell me and I forget, Show me and I remember, involve me and I understand.” has been true to me this week. I think this week from Howard Gardner I have got chance to be involved more in knowing multiple intelligence of the learners and human abilities with how best to delineate. I think when I will deal with my participants I will be able to identify the position of them and set appropriate technology.
Reading Felder and Soloman’s article on Learning Styles and Strategies, I come to know that there are different kind of learners such as Active and Reflective; Sensing and Intuitive; Visual and Verbal; and sequential and global learners. Perhaps unknowingly we diagnose our learners. But from the article, I have got a clear idea of how each type of the learning helps oneself.
By posting on Nicenet, going through the others’ posts and receiving feedbacks from guest moderator Dear George and my fellow course mates, I have been clear about the human abilities and learning styles.
Our task is assigned to prepare rubric for a lesson. I prepared rubric for assessing writing. I have kept 5 dimensions and 5 levels of quality. I didn’t put “0” as I think we shouldn’t give “0”. Uploading rubric file in the Wiki is also new experience to me.
In project task 3, I mentioned that I want to develop my participants writing and pronunciation skills. I have given some tasks to my participants particularly opening an account to blogger.com. Some of them have already started. I take the pleasure to inform you that some of them have been inspired and bought laptops. I have given them the names of sites which deal with writing skill and pronunciation. They are also told to look into dictionary and find out different symbols, accents for words. I have started to e-mail them so that they can be in touch. Moreover cell/phone is being used to keep regular contact.
Best regards,
Mahamud
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Week 6
Dear All,
We welcome our Mr.Guest Moderator Mr. George Scholz. Inviting one guest approach by University of Oregon is really unique. It has given special flavor in the course's taste.
Each week is coming with its own characteristics. Week 6, I think is a bit difference. Less pressure but more commitment. There is Project Task but no condition of posting it in Nicenet. Reading on Enhancing Learning has given us to know what is teaching; what is learning. I didn't have particular idea of these. Minute paper, concept Maps are new terms but not unfamiliar activities to me. Howard Gardner's Frames of Mind: The theory of multiple intelligence for testing has drawn my particular interest. The slogan start slow and let it flow in Teacher Tap has also drwan my interest. I will try to go through the technology and multiple intelligences. Using learning styles to adapt technology for higher education by Terry O'Connor commented that people rely on personally constructed filters to orient their relationships towards the world. The writer highlights learning styles in higher education.; types of learning; using learning styles to teach; applying computing technologies. He considers some applications of popular computing programs in ways that are friendly to SS's learning styles. Felder in his writing differentiates different kinds of learners. This week Susan & Linda gave clear idea on student learning styles and their implications for teaching. In Bangladesh teaching is developed in a way that students have to walk way. We don't consider students ability and style. In webQuest I was putting rubric in utter confusion. This week I have got how to create rubric as per the need and performance of the learners.
Developing a project is not tough but laborious specially keeping tracks from last weeks' learning.
Thank you,
Mahamud
Bangladesh
We welcome our Mr.Guest Moderator Mr. George Scholz. Inviting one guest approach by University of Oregon is really unique. It has given special flavor in the course's taste.
Each week is coming with its own characteristics. Week 6, I think is a bit difference. Less pressure but more commitment. There is Project Task but no condition of posting it in Nicenet. Reading on Enhancing Learning has given us to know what is teaching; what is learning. I didn't have particular idea of these. Minute paper, concept Maps are new terms but not unfamiliar activities to me. Howard Gardner's Frames of Mind: The theory of multiple intelligence for testing has drawn my particular interest. The slogan start slow and let it flow in Teacher Tap has also drwan my interest. I will try to go through the technology and multiple intelligences. Using learning styles to adapt technology for higher education by Terry O'Connor commented that people rely on personally constructed filters to orient their relationships towards the world. The writer highlights learning styles in higher education.; types of learning; using learning styles to teach; applying computing technologies. He considers some applications of popular computing programs in ways that are friendly to SS's learning styles. Felder in his writing differentiates different kinds of learners. This week Susan & Linda gave clear idea on student learning styles and their implications for teaching. In Bangladesh teaching is developed in a way that students have to walk way. We don't consider students ability and style. In webQuest I was putting rubric in utter confusion. This week I have got how to create rubric as per the need and performance of the learners.
Developing a project is not tough but laborious specially keeping tracks from last weeks' learning.
Thank you,
Mahamud
Bangladesh
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