Week 10

Hello everyone !
I hope you will be fine and doing well.
Finally we are over and done with our online course. I cannot even imagine that we have finished our course and now this is the last blog which  I am composing.

Since I have already stated that this was my first online course and before that I did not have any idea about E- learning. Without any touch of exaggeration I would like to say that I will never forget this experience throughout my life. This course certainly provided me opportunity to interact with world class teachers and fellow classmates. One of the most important aspect of this course is that it enhanced our ELT skills especially I have learnt a great deal of knowledge and understanding as far as the use of technology in ELT  is concerned.
CLASS WIKI, blogs, nicenet, Proquest and many other online resources were new to me and I found them very helpful to improve my skills. Apart from learning, socialization with classmates was really a great and unique experience.

Week 10, was not so hectic as there were only two tasks to perform.

1) discussion on two articles about effective use of technology

2) Advices and suggestions to the new participants


Regards,

Muhammad Tariq 

Week 9

Hello everyone !

I hope you all are fine and doing well.
The last week has been really very hilarious in terms of completion and evaluation of our projects. As far as week 9 is concerned, it was  week in which all of the participants concluded their projects with a great effort and diligence. I am sure that it was a kind of practical effort which enabled us to understand the needs analysis of our students in the context of English Language Teaching. Secondly this project really sharpened our own ELT skills.  No one can deny the importance of use of technology in the classes and we all reached on a final conclusion that the use of technology can make such a great difference in our teaching and the learning of students which is undoubtedly cannot be compared with the orthodox method of teaching.
In this modern world of technology ELT has opened new vistas of leaning which is enabling  us to interact with our students in a more effective manner.

This week we also discussed various learning styles and multiple intelligence. I skimmed almost all the major articles of the week and I found them really relevant and practical to my teaching. The discussion about these topics was really very interesting and fruitful. Each one of us shared their own views about the topic as well. I I personally liked   Richard M. Felder's article 'LEARNING STYLES AND STRATEGIES', this article was really worth reading and it cleared my many concepts and quarries. The way Richard describes various learners and their role in learning language was really wonderful. 

I have read  Johan López and Inesa Zubrylina 's blogs and I liked their entire week's effort. Both blogs are really very reflective of what we did in the last week. 

I wish you best of luck for your upcoming assignments. 
Regards, 

Muhammad Tariq 

Week 8

Hello everyone !

I hope you all are fine and doing well. Week 8 has been really very interesting as we all completed our projects and we did peer review of each others projects. First of all as far as the project itself is concerned, I would like to say that it was not an easy task to complete such a comprehensive project as we were supposed to discuss technology related problem and its solution then to what extent we achieved our targets.  I would like to show my deepest gratitude to our course advisers and  her team for giving us clear guidelines to make this project a successful effort.

Secondly while working independently on this project I learnt a great deal of Knowledge and understanding about the use of technology in the classrooms. Even my ELT skills are properly revised while working on this project. we also created a class site and  online exercises which was again a new step to development of our ELT skills.

Lastly, I have gone through the blog of Ms. Ewa, I liked her blog very much as she has explicitly described all the major exercises of the week. I personally liked her project as she she intends to develop basic ELT skills of her students. She also provides ample opportunity to her students to learn independently.

Regards,


Muhammad Tariq