Reflections of week-3

Week 3 started with the task of creating own page on Delicious.com and save at least 3 bookmarks. Share the URL of your page with the group. It was a new experience for me.It will always help me to bookmark and organize my web search.The best thing about delicious is that you get benifit of Group search and sharing.Knowledge and information grows when you share it.I can say that if we apply the meaning of word delicious in the context of our websearch;it is really delicious.

I went through the report of Aleyda Linares from Universidad Pedagogica Nacional Francisco Morazan of Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Project: Building Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web Project Report. It gave me an idea about the type of report we will have to produce.Over I found her report to be  very analytical and appropriate.

In the task related to"Aural/Oral Skill Building"

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 I read the article of Julia Gong on The Employment of CALL in Teaching Second/Foreign Language Speaking Skills and another on Developing Listening Skills with Authentic Materials by Lindsay Miller.

Three stages listening suggested by Miller of pre listening task, While-Listening Task and Post-Listening Task are very appropriate.

Based on the new information provided in these two articles I selected BBC LEARNING ENGLISH (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/)for improving pronunciation of my students.This web site is very systematic.It has 
The sounds of English (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/sounds/index.shtml)I revisited www.teachenglish.org.uk where I further searched for lesson plans on http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/lesson-plans.I was looking for a plan related to technology .I found Ebooks ( http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/Ebooks-lesson-plan_1.pdf) and worksheets(  http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/Ebooks-worksheets.pdf) Submitted by Sally Trowbridge on 27 September, 2011 .

The week was very hectic but full of learning.I replied to Cherry's blog.Now onwards I will manage my time in a better way to get the best from the course and also to give my best to the course.

Regards

Raj