Week 2

Week 2

The first week has ended on the 15 January 2012. It was great to know from Robert that we can use the so called Jupiter Grade to see our accomplishment of our very beginning stage of this online tasks. Once I made silly mistake on this Jupiter, so Robert should reset my account. But now, I can access this program again.

Motivated by the first result, I became more confident and ready to enter the second week tasks.On the nicenet we found that there were three  topics of discussion that we will have talked about.The topic on Search engine has opened my eyes to a massive range of search engines that we can operate beside google and yahoo. Robert serve us with www.noodletools.com where there are selection of comprehensive sites which practically different from google as it is classified into its own group of interest. I also learned from all the participants because they also introduce many other search engines, some that I browse are really good and recommended.I spread this information to all of my teachers mates or students at the Language Center, and I got extremely positive response from them.

Another topic for discussion this week is ABCD Objective which has given me a new experience in how we can create an effective classroom objective. A stands for Audience, B stands for behavior, C stands for Condition and D stands for Degree. It's not easy to create one as every component should complement each other. The best thing about making this objective is that the comments given by some member of the  class which can give us clue on how to find the weakness on that objective for possible revision. I assumed that the final test for an objective is with the students in the aimed class, if they understand and aware of the steps we ask them to do, means it quite reliable for our teaching and learning process.

As we  all know that the last topic of discussion for this week is our project plan. At our consent we know that starting from this week, we have to make a plan of our project, all the draft of the learners descriptions, the classroom setting, the course goal and students need should be considered. The idea here I believe that we prepare every single detail earlier so when we trap with  certain circumstances, we can get help from other member of this class to share or problem. I believe when we work seriously, there must be way out there waiting for us. The template of the project fortunately has been outline on page Building Teaching Skill Project Planning guide complete with project checklist and project plan rubric.

I know that I can not be perfect in presenting my opinions and honestly I perhaps don,t read all material completely as I might missed some of the pages from overlapped or piled material but I feel like learning thousands of new useful stuff here with all of you.

See you next time
Imas