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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Friday, August 7, 2009
Global Collaboration Assignment
- A description of the ePals program: ePals is an excellent site of globle friendship and partnership. You can make friends and connect with any of your matching teacher, student, parent, program, project, and Educatioal activity to make a potential collaboration.
- How I would use ePals program in my own classes: I can use ePal to make partner with any English-Chinese language exchange program in China. I would post the requirement of my program and search the match one for my class. When I worked as a Chinese teacher in a weekend Chinese school in Ottawa 7 years ago. I used to teach in a Adult Conversation Class. My students' weekness is Chinese Speakig due to the lack of opportunity to talk with Chinese native speakers. I tried to search the matched people for my students. but it was not easy in that time. Today it doesn't seem hard to me. I can find 76,760 matches in the description of Chinese-English exchange classroom on the site of ePals. It is easy to find propriate Chatpals like penpals for my students to practice Chinese speaking by free online chating on Skype.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Three ways I could use blogs in class
I read Rationale for educational blogging by Anne Davis and Educational blogging: what, Where, Why and How by Troy Hicks from the part of Educational Rationale for and Pedagogy of blogging on the Web 2.0 in the classroom . I got my idea about that I could use blogs in following three ways in my class:
1. I could use blogs to engage students practice thire Chinese writing skills. I will let studenents create one of their own Chinese blog in school settings. First, ask them set up their own "About Me" to practice basic writting by intruducing or discribing themselves. Also Any diverse entry such as text, image, and vedio could be used by students to demonstrate themselves to others.
2. I could post a project, assignment or discussion topic to share opinion on blogs. we can choose some topics which most students like to discuss. For instant, if we choose fruit as a topic, first I will ask students use completed sentence to answer a cluster fo questions like " Do you like eating fruits? what fruits do you like? what's your faverate fruit? what fruit you don't like? can you discrib your favourite fruit?...." if we choose Breakfast as a topic, a cluster of questions will be" Do you eat breakfast everyday? What do you eat for breakfast? Do think what is healty breakfast? what does it include? What kind of breakfast do you think healty? ..."
Then the students post all this information on their blogs to share with others. The entry of text, images or vedio could be used. At last, ask students make a partner or a small group to visit others' blogs and choose at least 3 blogs they like best to write comments for feedback.
3. I could use blogs to post some attractive propriate Chinese story without ending to encourage students to improve their reading, writing and speaking. students need to read the story first, and then create their own result or the ending of the story on their own blog. at last they tell the story to the class one by one.
1. I could use blogs to engage students practice thire Chinese writing skills. I will let studenents create one of their own Chinese blog in school settings. First, ask them set up their own "About Me" to practice basic writting by intruducing or discribing themselves. Also Any diverse entry such as text, image, and vedio could be used by students to demonstrate themselves to others.
2. I could post a project, assignment or discussion topic to share opinion on blogs. we can choose some topics which most students like to discuss. For instant, if we choose fruit as a topic, first I will ask students use completed sentence to answer a cluster fo questions like " Do you like eating fruits? what fruits do you like? what's your faverate fruit? what fruit you don't like? can you discrib your favourite fruit?...." if we choose Breakfast as a topic, a cluster of questions will be" Do you eat breakfast everyday? What do you eat for breakfast? Do think what is healty breakfast? what does it include? What kind of breakfast do you think healty? ..."
Then the students post all this information on their blogs to share with others. The entry of text, images or vedio could be used. At last, ask students make a partner or a small group to visit others' blogs and choose at least 3 blogs they like best to write comments for feedback.
3. I could use blogs to post some attractive propriate Chinese story without ending to encourage students to improve their reading, writing and speaking. students need to read the story first, and then create their own result or the ending of the story on their own blog. at last they tell the story to the class one by one.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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