Week 8

Plan report

I worked really hard to finish the first draft of my plan report. It took a long time, but at the same time, I really enjoyed doing it, because using what I have learned through this course let me feel that I am improving. I managed to make the first draft, and my diligent  partner Danka gave me a positive and useful comments and feedback. Without her feedback, I would not have noticed the mistake I made and could not have fixed it. I found this procedure, checking each other's report in pairs, really useful and effective.
I also realized that the check list and rubric Donna gave us helped me a lot when I created my report. By reading through them, I just knew what I was expected to do and they made my work easier although it took a long time.

Making an exercise/Technology tool

This week I created an exercise, using the website Donna recommended. Some of the websites are really easy to use, but on the other hand, some are a little bit difficult for me.
I created a crossword quiz with "Tools for Educators" http://www.toolsforeducators.com/
It was really fun to make an exercise with this website because I can make exercises with a lot of pictures, which simply make handouts look colorful and fun for students.
But I had some problems uploading the exercises on the class wiki page. Whenever I uploaded them, the pictures disappeared. It took me a long time to fix that.

Through this problem, I realized that using these technology can sure provoke students' learning and have an positive impact on the students. However, teachers have to improve their technology skills to make a good use of the useful technology tools. It is hard sometimes to keep it up, but we have to try. We have to keep working hard to make changes in class.