Read the following article about the advantages of virtual classes and write a short comparison between face-to-face and virtual classes.


http://nautil.us/issue/29/scaling/why-virtual-classes-can-be-better-than-real-ones?utm_medium=email&utm_source=other&utm_campaign=opencourse.GdeNrll1EeSROyIACtiVvg.announcements~opencourse.GdeNrll1EeSROyIACtiVvg.aukVhYhmEeW5DQon6VsaBQ

hope you are ready with the response for earlier post! 

CALL & Language Skills

Hi
As u seemed to be having only holidays and no face to face classes, i thought we'll use technology to do virtuallearning, so that u dont lose touch with the subject! Pls go through the articles which deals with using technology to learn language skills! we'll discuss on this topic when (hopefully next week) we meet! LMS is still pending! i just had started it!

1. Teaching Reading
http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume17/ej66/ej66a3/
http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1017868

2. Technology and language skills
http://www.f.waseda.jp/gstock/Stockwell_ReCALL_2007.pdf
3. Listening
http://conference.pixel-online.net/ICT4LL2011/common/download/Paper_pdf/IBL26-175-FP-Phuong-ICT4LL2011.pdf
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187704281205505X

4. Speaking

www.ibrarian.net/.../LLiiin_nnT_TTe_eea_aac_cch_hhi_iin_nng_gg.pdf..
http://rade-petricevic.blogspot.in/2012/01/call-for-teaching-pronunciation.html

5. Writing
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042814025063
 http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/saad/Documents/Advantages%20and%20disadvantages%20of%20CALL%20in%20Reading%20and%20writing%20skills.pdf

Choose either one of the skills and read the relevant article and present how CALL helps in acquiring that specific language skill. 


 

learner management system!

Read the following articles and write a write up about Learner Management System before thursday! you need to present what you wrote during our class. These are the following links of the articles. Hope you can access it and read through it.

http://www.eurodl.org/materials/contrib/2006/Christian_Dalsgaard.htm

http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/1181/five-steps-to-evaluate-and-select-an-lms-proven-practices

http://elearningindustry.com/5-key-spring-trends-in-learning-management-systems-lmss

http://www.celtcorp.com/resources/1/celt_lms_article.pdf

http://elearnmag.acm.org/featured.cfm?aid=1104968

check out these articles and write a short essay on learner management system which you will present on thursday!

Evaluation of Globarena!

Give me your views on Globarena! On listening, vocabulary, grammar, reading or any other parts you viewed. What accent English did you hear in the listening section? The region? Were the activities graded - from simple to complex? Give a critical feedback about the materials.

Evaluation of a website / blog

Hi students,

I came across an interesting blog while searching for today's post.

https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/magazine

i know with all the trauma of searching for MIT campus in the wilds of chromepet, talking about your online assignment must be even more painful! But duty calls!

As i mentioned earlier, this blog i saw was quite interesting to browse. The layout is simpler not very cumbersome and opens up immediately. It is an online magazine for teachers by British council. The BBC gives it a brand value. But as we browse the blog we can see useful sections like teaching kids, adults and even teachers. so all teachers can make use of this blog. If top section has links for different areas, the lower section elaborates and includes external links. The left section gives links to additional resources, ideas, classroom activities and articles. It is a treasure for practising teachers. i found some worthy ideas and interesting articles. But it does have problems too. Though the home page opened easily i had some difficulty while browsing inner links. Some ideas i found it too simplistic. Needs better organization as book reviews were put along with ideas page.

As i had mentioned earlier, each one has to browse a website / blog and write a short paragraph about it. it should include its strengths and problems too. the evaluation sheet i gave should also be filled in. Kindly add the url link of the website / blog you had reviewed.

Online Tests!

Hi
Welcome to the world of blogging! Hope you have fun blogging and probably start your own blogs for education or entertainment!

As the first week activity, read the following comment and respond. Give your views about online test based on the test you took on 27th August 2015. Describe the test in detail (what kind of questions) and its advantages and disadvantages. What kind of tests would you think would be good for undergraduate students?

I prefer the online examination to the offline one. In the online exam, I didn’t have to spend time on bubbling my answers like in offline. Also, enough rough papers are provided for rough work in the online exam, whereas you’ve to use the question paper space for rough work in the offline mode. Also, navigating through questions is much easier in online mode and I can also track how many questions are attempted, not attempted and marked for review. This is a big advantage as it saves me from the time wastage in flipping pages. I would definitely suggest my juniors to go for the online examination mode as it has numerous advantages over the offline mode as I’ve written above!

                                                                       Ankur Chokhani
                                                                       JEE topper