Good evening y'all!

Hope you are doing well. Finally I found some time to post my week 10 post.

I can see that all of us chose to talk about something really different from one another, something that is making me really confused about all of the whole thing together.

Anyways today I want to make a short resume regarding the whole thing thus far and the experience and how I saw my way through it. A simple word to explain it : TOUGH. I know that all of you would agree upon it and if you wouldn't, I know you would tell yourself a lie. Anyways that is not my focus for tonight.

I want to emphasize that the project is already done, we just need to present it. If you might wonder whether we found it difficult or not, the answer is definitely yes. We were so under pressure and we had lots of things and ideas we wanted to add right in there but considering the time and the quantity of information we thought that that would be a discrepancy and overlapping of things, accompanied with the lack of attention. Even though our project is not presented yet, we did have some rehearsals with my colleague and we thing that all in all we have selected the information and examples that would really help them considering the 30 mins time in disposal.

Yes, it is true that we learnt a lot but we are missing some organization since we are losing the track of time and we still are a bit unclear on how to cover the whole things up.

Hopefully we will succeed also in here since we are showing our fully interest and since we are reaching across the end, who wouldn't like to have the sweet taste of any experience?...

 Hi guys, hope you are doing well!

Today I want to share with you a summary of all the things we have reached so far, so basically my expectations for the final project, and also something regarding the issues we might encounter when presenting it and how might our students see it.

Firstly, as I mentioned also in by drop box the whole journey has been a totally new experience, since we have never work so hard like for every week with new tasks every time, something that always made us realize that things need some effort to get accomplished with success. However, basically I think we did it, we worked hard we reached a lot and we are still working for the other times that will proceed. Let's admit it that of course my expectations are really high since I took every single task really seriously and being honest I never copied any of my entries on internet, since I always had a struggle with myself and wanted that my whole work had my authenticity imprinted on it. Just and simply for that reason I know that our "hardship" will pay off as expected.

Additionally, I know that we all struggled when referring to the project since we have to be really precise and transmit our knowledge and will to all of our colleagues. The intention is clear, we just had to face the things and take into consideration that all of the things we do, might have some counter arguments that our students are willing to find and rely on those weak points let's say. Still this cannot defeat us and we just need to show our best. We might encounter the difficulties of being online and also the poor connection, or lack of electricity like in the case of Elona and Redjona but they were really brave and strong and surpassed it and still did their best. We are aware that especially, the pupils that are eager to learn more want to know like everything and they pose you questions that you might have never thought before, something that might caught you unprepared and that could be the case when they somehow judge you and say that you don't know a thing or such. But still we are not supposed to know everything. Wikipedia does it not us. So still, an element cannot break the entire wall, you know you can do something and then, go for it!.

 

Hey,

Another week where we have a free choice of our own for the blog post. So here we go again.

Today I want to talk about the other steps we decided to use when considering our last project, the teaching role we have to undertake.

You know it is not easy at all and as weeks pass, our responsibility becomes of higher priority.

Still we have already a scenario on how to bring it as smoothly as possible. The class would be really normal as any other usual class we have dealt with but this time we would have incorporated the techno skills, something that actually took us a considerable time thus far, and when considering it as a whole, I would say that it would bring much effort than only that. Anyways we are optimistic that the things will go well as expected and we can succeed by the very end. I did mention it on the drop box as well that basically we have shown it as a real path that when taking a step, it will redirect you to the content which is more elaborated of course rather than just the superficial design of it. We would insert hyperlinks, a video, an excerpt and discussions as well.

Some final edits and that would pretty much be it. Since this week we were late posting and the topic was a random one, I cut it short this time.

See u in class!

 Hi again folks.

Since we were about to choose something by free will for blog's post this week, I decided to choose a description of how I do imagine my students in the future and how do I see this concept of organizing an hour, something that is related also with the final project.

Firstly let me tell you that I am currently for now, giving some Italian lessons on a private center offering courses, and somehow I do have an idea how would my final hour resemble, intertwined with the graphics of the presentation. It wouldn't be that easy of course since the class differs and also the presence of the professor and a jury that would judge all of our attempts, me and my collaborative colleague Ligerta. Since we have come half way through and considering the fact that our further weeks become busy and busy, we are looking forward into having our things ready and reaching with success our final aim. However we do have again lots of things to do, when considering the last step. Anyways let me tell you how do I consider this stuff as a whole. The fact that we choose the class on the 12th grade, means that we would prefer interactivity among students and want them to acquire the information and them being the protagonist of the class rather than us. Moreover, we have chosen a few main areas under the which we would want our students to get improved, speaking and vocabulary and having the main focus only into these topics. We would have into consideration that their level approaches our level and as such we would express freely and also expect from them the same, so they would show activeness and their manner of addressing would be advanced. This is the fact I like the most actually, that we can speak in English all the time and they can understand us.

Still the idea is not that clear since we have to work together with my other member of the group so we set clear objectives. Also I consider it as luck since we are having enough time to see the other's project as well and hopefully we give our best. Till now I would say that we are good and hope we succeed by the very end.

Thank you for your time and looking forward to seeing you in the next presentation on the seminar classes! :)

Hi guys and welcome to my blog post for this other week.

I have to admit that this was one of the most intensive weeks we had so far, as expected indeed.

We were first introduced to new things, apps and tools that we would need in order to finalize the thing at the very end when preparing our project. Next we had to search out from different sources, tutorials, other documents by exploiting everything we have in our hands so we can reach out the intention of it all, favoring and benefiting from technology of course.

We had to be able to use the proposed app so we can prepare a draft or an outline of the final project which is being attached below.https://www.bookwidgets.com/play/KWYP_-pH-iQAFIOBFvAAAA/PCF2KP7/outline?teacher_id=5440221918265344

There you can open my outline and please feel free to express your thoughts about it. Now let me prescribe how did I realize it all. I had to pass through different stages when firstly creating an account, later on luckily the program itself had a suggested tutorial that was helping step by step into providing information essential to get to know what would be the following step when wanting to use one of the features it offered. On the left side of the opening of program we had an option that was suggesting widget, after clicking on it we had a various of other options and since we had to prepare a WebQuest, we can easily click on create a new WebQuest, the rest was so easy since the steps into using it were already predetermined and in case we want to we could change the title related with the offset topic.

The rest of the modifications were up to us. Another good source to be used was also you tube and its suggested tutorials which can also help a lot into ameliorating the process.

Furthermore, as per the concrete material, I choose to incorporate a festivity held in England, called plough Monday and I did choose an excerpt and since I wanted to emphasize the usage of vocabulary I picked some new concept explained them and later on I wanted to engage them into working on class and at home also by assigning them some work, which would represent a manner of evaluating their participation and attentiveness both on class and at home.

The next task we were introduced with was using and creating our personal interactive power point presentation which would make the thing somehow more complicated and advanced but also really interesting, worthy and challenging.

We are yet to explore the new things, and new techniques into acquiring and absorbing new material, things and method of working. The processes are very nice when seeing from this angle of perspective and it seems like we are really being much more innovative as we thought we were.

Thank you for your time!:)

 

Hey fellas, nice to come back here again.

As we all know we got to discuss regarding the two posed questions.

Firstly, I have to say that the method based on projects corresponds to a new and innovative approach that embraces the mutual work and mutual interests. That’s what makes it unique and worthy I think, the fact of engaging everyone into the lesson and challenging them to acquire more. Then we have to be aware of the fact that this method relies on gaining knowledge and new skills by counting on the good will, complicity and dynamism of the team’s spirit.

If I were to choose among the technological tools, I would say that some would suffice but once we know more, we are eager to learn more than just some. Additionally, we already know that a student cannot do without technology nowadays and we cannot just out of the blue, be mean and restrict them from using their phone or their laptops or worse remain traditional on our lecturing. I assume that that would be wrong and our class would be the most boring one. For an hour worthy to be attended, I would say that as much innovative as it is and as much as we see that new methods and new tools are incorporated, curiosity would bring us to be present in this lecture. Considering that, it would be like a good appetizer when offering the golden meal, so the information transmitted would be appealing and when learned in a visualized manner it has the tendency to be absorbed quite well.

Now let me provide you with the ‘good tools’ or important ones according to my perspective that would show productivity on what they learn. First, I would mention the dear buddies where we count on for everything in our lives: Google and Wikipedia, our life saviors. Then to get more into the thing we have our recent tools created with the purpose of having long calls and adjusting features that would improvise a class like the option of the board, raising hands video conferences or sharing content like zoom, classroom, google platform, hangout, or teams we are currently using and also the other content sharing apps like you tube that helps us to share links and useful videos, also others like blogger we were taught this year also to share knowledge, our personal experiences and a piece of our work or things we are required to do. We were introduced with drop box as well where we all have access and we can store our docs, videos and things we want to share with one another. As I mentioned earlier, I do not think that one tool is better than the other one, on the contrary we have to know them and try as more as we want to, even out of curiosity sometimes and when we see that our student like it and find it easy to be managed and also show progress when working with it, we support them more and try to learn them what we know and share knowledge with one another. That is why they can be presented with most of them, in order to use those tools in a near future for other purposes too.

Regarding presentation tools, I still would not lean on only something specific, since some of us can get the best out of an app or tool that for someone else it can be seen as a total disaster and failure. As such, a good work I think does not count only on a few graphical things you are going to choose, it is much more than that, it is the information you provide up to the wallpaper you choose to present it and your articulation and fluency when presenting. However, what I would personally suggest is that I always choose Microsoft office tools, like power point, excel, or word and so on, or also publisher is a good one, Visme since it allows many possibilities in graphics, software presentations and much more options, Prezi too and so on.

All in all, as I still rely on old comrades, power point, inserting videos links and images and Word also is still one of my favorites since it keeps the things simple and it is really comfortable to be used. I do believe that with the new generation, they will be much capable than us into enhancing new things related with technology which apparently would make them more productive and successful.

Cooperative learning

Hello again and welcome to my third blog post.

Today we are going to share with one another the topic regarding cooperative learning as a new method of teaching that was widespread on the west world. In addition, we are going to talk also about the benefits it brings into teaching and how successful it is.

As the name indicates itself cooperative means working in groups and in our case through this method the groups should be small ones that work together in order to reach a mutual goal at the very end, to collaborate and succeed by sharing knowledge and also learning from one another’s perspective.

Furthermore, this method of cooperating is really flexible since it has the luxury to be used in every task and activity. Groups work in favor of one another rather than being egotistical and competitive which inspires them to get to know more one another and supporting them by wracking the enclosure and self-isolation or introvert nature that can appear often in different ages. The achievement and good results will be more apparent and also the racial, stereotypes, discrimination in age will be avoided in maximum, for the sake of the sailing into safe waters that would bring accomplishment of the tasks and amelioration regarding their skills and knowledges.

All of these good benefits can be productive when combined with the proper manner and activities that help boosting the social skills and mental ones. I would mention also the interdependency a student can profit even though they work in groups, since every single’s person opinion and work are really worthy and to be appreciated whether would be they that would give a helping hand or would deteriorate the situation and worsen the work of the whole group. On the other hand, this would make them realize that they are really important which as a result they would increase self-esteem in case they lacked it.

It is worthy to mention also that while experimenting with this technique, the results were quite impressive and the productivity in general subjects had a highly noticeable progress. Additionally, the idea that they should work in groups this time differently not to see or expect the failure of the others but to count on their power, to strengthen the bond and achieve more and more.

“They would either sink, or swim to the shore together”

If we would treat the things correctly, and embrace this as a technique in which we would harvest the good seeds, we would be grateful to introduce it to our manners of teaching in the future which appears really convincing, demanding and challenging for both us as a future teacher and our students.

 

Thank you for your time😊.