Hi Courtney, Donna and my colleagues,
Greetings.
I am indeed very happy to reflect on the skills learnt during
Week 6 of Web Skills Course. First of all, I wish to thank Prof. Donna
Shaw for being the guest moderator for this week and enlightened with her
suggestions to improve the skills of teaching.
Firstly, I have been exposed to the different technology
tools through our university web site's Teaching Effectiveness Programme and
assisted me to look into several things. First and foremost, it provided
an opportunity for me to view the different tools to assess the performance of
students from framing questions for assessment to evaluation except essay type
questions through Black board as an assessment tool. Secondly, it is
eye-opener for many teaching fraternity that how technology can assist them to
make their classroom effective and help to create a place for implementing
interactive approaches. Thirdly, it helps us to look into a course
website (that is the blue-print) before offering any course in an academic side
and the method to implement the course in a graded manned and the various
things to be incorporated in a syllabi. Finally, it throws light on the
areas of improving in-class discussions with the help of the help of technology
such as priming, integrating, reinforcing, generating and facilitating engaging
online discussions and online assessment technology tools.
Secondly, I read an article related to 'engaging large
classrooms' which helped me to know the various things required to make
the classroom effective through several techniques such as Interactive
lectures, JiTT, Beating the numbers game, Tomorrow's Professor mailing list,
Making the first year classroom conducive to learning, Classroom
communication systems, Teaching with technology, Brave new world, Mobile learning,
Lecture capture, Collaborative and co-operative learning, innovation in Large
lectures and tips for effective teamwork etc.
These topics really help me to learn the technique of teaching
effectively in a large classroom. Further, it gave immense confidence to deal
with any type of classroom with at most effectiveness.
Thirdly, I learnt the technique of making an effective and
interactive presentation through several guidelines from Teaching effectiveness
programme –how to make use of power point as an important resource for engaging
the classroom. Then, the article written
by Drs.Terry & Cathy provided an insight into the method of making the
presentation. It helped me to know the
use of different action buttons to make the presentation more effective. The sample power point and word document
endorsed the power of PPT as an important tool to engage in a large classroom.
The additional resources provided in this week which
highlighted the importance of interactive lessons and 36 types of activities
are really awesome.
With all the assistance
of interactive power point presentation articles and guidelines, I created an
interactive power-point presentation to check the ability of the students’
listening skills and reading the transcript
of the video and write the summary of the reading simultaneously. It was a
wonderful experience and found myself. I
showcased my own concern for too much dependency on computers which made the
teachers to think beyond the cleverness of the classroom in order to make it
more interactive.
I am planning to make technology change as suggested during
the week 4 and have informed the students about the rubrics based on technology
need and the possible exchanges. As far as I am concerned, I am happy with the
progress of Web skills.
S.Sankarakumar
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