My position in the course framework

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

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

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

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



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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

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

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

PBL versus WebQuest

Dear All,
In almost all the post I find that the importance of PBL and WebQuest were discussed. Christos wrote " 
PBL and Webquests give students the opportunity to see language for what it is: not an end in itself, but a tool to express themselves."
Ahmad wrote"  
PBL promotes autonomous learning"
For PBL Nina quote from Confucius philosophy: "Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I will understand."
Hassina raised teaching literature through PBL. I was also a student of literature. I also think that if the students of literature could prepare a PBL, it would have become easier to them.  
Bruno aptly wrote "I think Andreja aptly tried to give the nuance between PBL and WebQuests in the following sentences: "WebQuests have an element of inquiry and curiosity, project-based activities are about gaining hands-on experience"."
Zlatka wrote "Now I know that the real project-based work doesn't only consist of writing on a topic, but integrates different skills and abilities."

Mary Jow wrote" The Project-Based Learning (including WebQuests) can change the teacher-student relationship for the students would express themselves freely,look forward to the teacher's lessons and work on projects with greater enthusiasm making learning an exciting experience hence a mutually beneficial relationship. "

Raphael wrote"  Now for the teacher , the use of PBL or Web Quest will give him or her more a feeling that his or her students are learning by themselves, they become more knowledgeable about the given issues, they know more about technology and maybe the most important, they solve complex problems."
Aleyda wrote the following long sentence on PBL  " 
To motivate students, I try to develop projects that are relevant or will be relevant in their teaching career or contribute in one way or another one to their language, academic or cognitive skills (to be more reflexive,for example)like video-taped lesson plans, reading-based drama projects, adapting stories and fairy tales and making their own books, elaborating recipes and organizing food exhibits (restaurants),drawing their neighborhood map, oral presentations on research-based topics, elaborating bulletin boards on language or academic topics, public singing, learning portfolios, etc."

I think this week we are on the verge of getting perfect ideas on PBL and WebQuest.
WebQuest is time consuming, hard but interesting, pleasurable and enjoyable.
Thanks,
Mahamud

Week 5 Learning

Dear All,

We are passing another tremendous week. This week I fell in a puzzling condition as I had time constraint. But at last I have managed time. At the beginning of the week we have been introduced with our guest Moderator Rick Rosenberg. There was lots of good argument in this week. Project Based learning (PBL) or WebQuest.  It is clearly deciphered by Susan Gaer in her article Less teaching more learning. Farah has rightly summarized “Our finalities as teachers are changing our students from passive learners towards autonomous learners . PBL or webquest is a tool that allows students to go to the target information, analyze it and exploit it for their needs . As we are teaching our students to be autonomous , we must teach ourselves how to monitor , guide and help them for the better use of technology . This is also a life-long learning process.”

PBL is very important to engage our learners. They can develop their thought, ideas through PBL. They also run with their own pace.

It seems to me that I will not able to create WebQuest. But in Zonal I have successfully logged in and are developing a webquest. Essential parts of  a web quest has helped me to begin.  The title of my web quest  is phoenix. I am keeping in my mind that I am trying to develop my participants’ writing skills. I want to give scope to develop their pronunciation skills too.

Andreja, Hassina and Nina agreed that in lot of countries students are still passive recipients of teacher's input. I think PBL and WebQuest may the solution for eradicating this age old stigma.

Implementing a project based change is a great issue for this week. Describing a potential change is challenging but at the same end it was rewarding too.
Thank you, 
Mahamud

Week 5

Dear All,
Another week has come to us with lots of learning materials. Perhaps in this week we will learn how to turn from traditional methods to project-based learning by creating WebQuest. Like last week's guest moderator Leslie, we have got our guest Moderator, Rick Rosenberg. Last week we have discussed only the issues for project, this week we will discuss technology based changes on the basis of last week's recommended issues. My focus is to develop writing skills of our teacher trainers.

Getting primary ideas about project based learning, I have reached to a point that tells me that it can be a good source to engage our learners, to make them motivated for self learning.
As per suggestion by Sandra I browsed on quest garden. There I took a venture for 30 day trial log in facility which will allow me to create my WebQuest. But unfortunately I couldn't create that one. From WebQuest Design Patterns I couldn't culminate in any ideas.
I am hoping that by the end of the week, many things will be unfolded before my eyes.
Ha! another trainer opened her blog.

Many thanks.

Mahamud
Bangladesh

Musadderul's achievement

Dear All,
I have earlier shared that we have a team of teacher trainers. Musadderul is one of them. Recently he along with other 6 teacher trainers has taken a new initiative namely "English week". It is done in a rural secondary school. Hemayet Hossain is one of the master trainers who helped them in the venture. Rural secondary school students of Bangladesh also can do what the urban students can do. Our teacher trainers have proved it. Students of that rural school acted out a short play in English, do different activities such as speaking and basic writing. Tremendous participation were followed from the students, guardians, other subject teachers, local community leaders. Local dailies highlighted the events and publish the message.

Recently Musadderul has created his blog. Interested persons can visit him at http://www. musadderul.blogspot.com/ and get the whole idea of English Week.

Another teacher trainer Mostafizur Rahman has also created his blog. One can go to his blog at http://mostafiz-secondaryschoolstrainer.blogspot.com/
My supervisor has also created his blog. He can be reached at http://www.masumbillah65.blogspot.com

I have plan to invite all of our English trainer to open their blog and form a blog society.
I will tell them to post on the beginning of the week and receive feedback from us at the end of the week.

I will appreciate if you kindly visit our teacher trainers blog and make comment if you have.

Thank you,

Mahamud

Learning fromWeek 4

Dear All,
We are going ahead under tremendous pressure. I don't know whether thread has become threat or not. Its very interesting to switch over in the middle of the week. Raising issue for using technology, technology enhanced lesson plan, lesson plan (optional), Discussions on article, Recommendations for multi- skills websites are really interesting for in depth learning. At the beginning I started to grope but soon after my brain has started to work. I taught teachers, teacher trainer for more than 10 years, but I never used technology enhanced lesson plan. In Bangladeshi context, it will take time even though we have to start.
I think our teacher trainers have problem with authentic writing. I want to guide them in developing their writing skill using technology. I think our teachers will be benefited out of it.
There are three articles which lead me to learn about the use of technology. E-mail is a great tool to keep us in touch. Uning technology to assist in vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension has helped me to learn the benefite of CALL for vocabs acquition and reading comprehension.

What interesting to me, when I read the articles, I find that I know what the writers are saying. But the problem is that my ideas are not organised. I have got organised ideas from Jerek Krajka's writing for using the internet.

For my teacher trainers, E-mail is an unique tool to communicate. I have got a clear ideas from Chao-Chih-Liao's article on it. My course mate Raphael has referred many sites in order to promote values or students awareness to environmental issues which was agreed upon by Udan. As per Raphael's suggestion I visited some of the sites including the following one.
1. http://www.manythings.org/
Zlatka examined the different websites at www.manythings.com and her attention was captured by a video titled "8 Ways to Say Thank You" at http://www.manythings.org/b/e/4222 in the category of Culture. I found interest in it greatly. I think our teacher trainers will gtet useful tip for thnking someone.
Most important is that writing ABCD objective for each of the category. I always find it difficult to write objective.
I am happy that Leslie who is known to me earlier through her book has shared directly with me. This is unique iopportunity to receive her feedback.
Sandra, I think is always helpful.

Thanks to my all fellow mate who helped me when I fall in quagmire.

Many thanks,

Mahamud

This week's gaining

Dear All,
Creating own page at Delicious has given me scope to save the pages online.

We in Bangladesh treat English as a foreign language. Before 1971 independence war, we were the part of Pakistan. the position of English was then second language.
We are monolingual country. Bangla is the main language besides local dialects. Moreover in the exam system, there is no provision for testing listening and speaking. Students don't feel urge to learn it. But some students who aspires to do better in life learn English. They practice listening and speaking.
In my teacher training, we try to give idea to the teachers that though there is no listening and speaking test, you have to prepare your learners to face the real life. More CLT requires it

I think as I have got specific ideas for using technology in teaching, I will be able to motivate them than before.

I am more powerful because now I specifically know which sites are useful in my teaching.
Making comments on course mates' sites is a good practice. Because in a nutshell, I can get my colleague's view.

Mahamud
Bangladesh

Week 3 outline

Dear All,

I am a bit lucky that this week I have been able to tell my participants to learn about Delicious which helps me to save the useful site online. Now I can check my needed page from anywhere. This week two articles helped me to shape the way for using technology in ESL class. Skill building websites will definitely help me to be a good trainer in future. D. Hoopingarner's and L. Miller's articles have given me a very vivid idea which worked in me for many days but I could not express. I think these two articles may be used as reference. Sueanne Parker's joining has shined the path we are treading. Sueanne raised many fundamental questions to all which required very insightful thinking to response. I am worrying whether the responses, I shared, are right or wrong. When she urged for labelling, it creates panic in my mind.

I am in dichotomy that in BRAC we use Computer Aided Learning, in Oregon it is used as CALL.

For speaking skills, computer-mediated communication is treated by Aleyda.

I mention the name with gratitude of Gulsen, Ahmed, Aleyda, Bruno NIKIEMA, Ahmed Khattab, Zlatka Dyankova, Tatiana Del Carpio, Cristian Meléndez, Andreja Kovacic, Christos Kazolias, Raphaël Goossens, Mary Jow, Nina, Udan Kusmawan , HASSINA, Manana, Gaby, Farah, Luba, Nora, Andreja, Dilip, Roland, Jonathan, Kajumi our dear guest Sueanne, dear teacher Sandra and Deborah for giving so many reference. I owe to all of them.

Thank you,

Mahamud

Activities at week 3

Dear All,
Each week is starting with lot of excitement, challenges, hope, aspiration, despondence, inspiration and motivation. This week I have started with an exciting web learning. It is Delicious. I only knew how to save in offline mode of the computer. For the first time Delicious gives me opportunity to save online pages in a single page. I have read Technology Tip for the Month for getting clear ideas of Delicious.

Before nobody asked me to remember the web page including title and for which purpose it is being used. Today I am asked to and tried to remember which website and page I am using. Why is it for and what is my view for the others?

I am trying to read the PDF file on Best Practices i Technology and Language Teaching. It has 14 pages and created boredom in my mind to finish. I am grouping to learn about CALL article but still in enigma where it is. Can anybody help me?

Tonight I have a plan to read the article on Developing Listening Skills with Authentic Materials.
I don't know it would be possible.

Thanks,
Mahamud

Week- 2 learning

Dear All,
This week I have learnt a lot. I think this is a very challenging week so far. Lots of work. But very effective week for gathering new ideas on web.
I learnt how to write objectives specially ABCD objective and how to use Noodletools for finding the best search in my need.
Noodletools helps me a lot to get the reliable and necessary material for my teaching.
Explaining the real class, which we now deal is a wonderful opportunity to share with the people who are technologically advanced. I think many of them can't even imagine how much we are legging behind.
I am very happy to be a part of this course as I am getting scope to share my discussion on a particular point and also receive discussion from many learned colleagues serving around the world.
Digital bloom's technology, clear difference between product and process writing, importance of lesson plan, ABCD method's degree part, planning for instruction , Revised Bloom's technology, typical problems encountered when writing objectives are the learning for the week so far for me.
I am very happy that one of participants in the workshop namely Beauty Queen's writing has been published in the today's "The New Nation" daily. It is published from Dhaka, Bangladesh. She wrote on "What is language game for?". I invite you all to read her writing on http://www.ittefaq.com/issues/2010/01/24/news0082.htm.
I know it might not be 100% perfect but it is a good breakthrough.

I would like to thank you all who have given your valuable comment on my objective.
I would definitely thank my teacher Dear Sandra and Deborah for their continuous support and encouragement.

Thanks,

Mahamud

Week 2

Dear All,
I was trying to learn about the ideas on writing objectives specially following A.B.C.D. method. I noticed that the well-written model objectives are very hard for me. I don't know when it would be easier to me. Moreover notes given below examples made me more confused. I have also gone to Planning for Instruction and found Revised Bloom's Taxonomy there.
I think at last I have got hope to progress because of clear classification. I am trying to grab the words for each classification.
It is to mention that I wrote an objective for a class but the verb I used is not given in any of the learning levels.
Even though I think I should not give up hope.
Will any one of you will help me?
Thanks.
Md. Mahamud Hasan

2nd week starting

Hello,
Sandra Jeffs refers to Noodle Tools. I am amazed with the huge amount of information one person can obtain from the internet and how many engines are there that I never come cross to.
The teacher has asked to try something other than google. Generally I am accustomed of searching google. But I found that other engines like ask.com, Bing.com, Yahoo.com and msn.com have many useful materials for teaching learning.
I set my subject Managing Large Classroom and tried to get resources from all the sites. It is interesting that search world is vast and gives ample opportunity to know, use and refer many resources.

Today I wont get time to learn about ABCD style. Though I read this earlier but I have forgotten.

I am thinking about a class of teacher trainers because sometime I personally conduct TOT for them.

Md. Mahamud Hasan

Haiti earthquake

Dear all,
This is painstaking that at the hands of nature human abode is disturbed many times . Recent earthquake in Haiti has claimed thousand of lives. Those who survives are facing multi-faceted problems like shortage of drinking water, emergency treatment, medicine, food etc. Tens of thousands of people are homeless now.
Most people, also those who still have houses spent the couple of nights outside for fear of further earthquakes. People are camping on the streets and in the squares throughout the city with nothing to sit or sleep on; water is sold in plastic bags but will be getting scarce in a few days. The population of Martissant requests health assistance but also water, food supplies and shelter are urgently needed. The same is valid for the other areas assessed by Concern, save the chjildren and other aid agencies report same needs from their areas. Bodies are everywhere: in houses and on the streets. People are covering them with sheets or plastic sheets or just covered with rugs. Some bodies are left uncovered.
I was watching BBC, CNN and Al Jajira television channel and stricken.
We, in Dhaka, Bangladesh is in the same risks. I am thinking what would happen if earthquake strikes us. There are 20 million people. Most of the buildings didn't comply with the building code.
America, Britain and most of the developed countries are coming with their aids to support the victims. Bangladesh government has also planned to do something for emergency support to Haiti's victims.
Now I am urging to all of you to come forward to support the earthquake victims of Haiti whatever you do have or whatever you can.
Look forward to get your response.


Md. Mahamud Hasan

Week 1 learning

Hello everybody,
In week 1 I am learning blogging for ELT specially Aaron Campbell's cassification of blogs helped me to understand which blog is the most useful for me and my learners. In the discussion I have got some interesting points. Sometimes it takes time to understand the questions raised by different participants.
I noticed that some of the participants' comments are mostly refered by the many of us specially Farah, manana, Hassina and andreja, aleyda. Their thought provoking questions and probable solution helped me a lot to use rightly the class blog for getting result from my students. Raphael and ahmad are also the persons who make me engage in thinking.
Today I found that nicenet works well. But I am still facing some problems regarding using my blogger.
Deborah's reflective blog helps me to give a shape of learning for the coming weeks.
If you have any interesting points to share, pls. do this.

Best regards,
Md. Mahamud Hasan

Orientation Week

Hello everybody,
How are you?
This is for your kind information that I have finished my orientation week. At the outset of the week I became helpless. I was instructed to open an account on Nicenet. I opened an account on nicenet that's why I didn't try it again. But I found that I am not receiving any information from the course teacher. Nevertheless I was informed by my teacher that I haven't started to work.
I wrote the problem to my teacher about my problem. She gave me a solution and I became tension free. In the orientation week, I have learnt how to log and post on nicenet, ground rules and make comments on the other's ccomments. I have rubrics that helped me to prepare myself to pass in the course successfully. I have also filled up a needs analysis format to help and ensure that the course topics are appropriate for me.
I am happy that I have started my journey to know a lot of teaching using net.

Many thanks for reading my feelings,

With best regards,

Md. Mahamud Hasan

Building teaching skills through interactive web

Hi
I am happy to inform you that I have got an online scholarship from The U.S. Department of State. The title of the course is 'Building Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web' online course. University of Oregon offers this course.
I think this course will enable me to cope with the web based learning and teaching.
I am facing some problems regarding some of the terms used in the course topics. These are Podcast, WebQuest, blog and formative assessment etc.
These are relatively new items for me but I am trying to gather some ideas i.e. for formative assessment we use chain drill or instant speaking test, direct Q & A, calling SS for demonstration etc. Is it Ok?

Best regards,

Md. Mahamud Hasan