It seems as if Week 7 was the most industrious for me from the practical experience point of view. I studied much information, processed and generated some ideas and tried to put them into practice creating something new.
I agree with our instructors that PowerPoint is very commonly used in teaching, but it is rarely used interactively. Unfortunately my teaching experience also proves it, hope my previous experience because from now I am going to use Power Point in different way.
This week task was to create a short interactive PowerPoint presentation; I should admit it took some time and efforts, but the result was worth it. I felt really satisfied after I did it, though I understand the content is very simple, and the presentation may be improved. My understanding of what may be changed and how it may be changed really matters. I was so excited by the idea of Power Point interactivity that I couldn't help from sharing the ideas with other teachers working for our department at the university. We decided to have a short session next week to discuss the interactive opportunities of PP which may be applied to teaching practice.
My students and I keep working on the project (one I created for week 5 project task). This week was the second one in the process of their project development. I should say that the students worked hard on the first part of their project task. We had a group discussion regarding their first challenges and successes. For the next week task they were given parameters for finding innovative information from web-based sources and apply those ideas to their projects.
Can't wait to start another great week of learning+
Thank you,
Luba
PS I want to say special thanks to Manana who agreed to work as my partner for peer-review!!!
Dear Lyubov,
ReplyDeleteI agree as well as disagree with your reflections. I disagree on the point of view that the week was very interesting. I did not find it so. Why? You can read it on my blog.
I agree on the point of interactive powerpoint. Yes, we all were using ppts but iPPT was something new for all of us.
Dilip (India)
Luba,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you (which means I disagree with Dilip) that this week has been very interesting and has given me a lot to think about teaching large classes and using PPP interactively in the classroom.
I am looking forward to working with you on-line.
Manana