Week 2: Learning Objective

It's been  great that the task of Week 2 will support me a lot for developing and improving my teaching method in my class. In this week we have some tasks concerning how to use various  search engines,  make learning objectives using ABCD objective, and also describe the class I'd like to use with my project.

What I had in mind when reading the task was "Wow.. It will guide me how to create a  conducive class in applying technology into my class and create a better academic atmosphere by taking my students actively participate in learning activities."

Now, I found that not only google, yahoo, or wikipedia that can help me search the information I need for completing my academic purpose but also www.noodletools.com that links us to other search engines for our information needs, like INFOMINE, INTUTE and etc.,  then TWURDY http://www.twurdy.com/search.php (just like Jose Carlos Manrique said that " it can  very handy, especially when you want to recommend a text to your students.")


It helps me a lot and my upcoming team teaching class more then, when the task came to ABC learning objective. Because by doing  so, it will be easier when I have to teach in this class using  this clear guidance. I plan to have my project in Essay Writing 1 class, where my co-teacher teaches this class and I'll be his teaching team conducting the project. The population of this class is about 15 to 20 or sometimes 25 students, the third semester of four years of English department course. We'll have a blog to share our ideas, experience or comments for students' essay. 

The students came from different educational background. What I meant is the students came form different major in their high school; sciences and socials, none of them from language major. Their age between 20 to 21 years old and different socio-economic condition but basically they have the access to computer or internet in their house or our campus.
The class that we will use is in good condition with lcd projector installed. We use moving class style so every student will have different room to join every different subject. 
In our campus, luckily,  we have fully access to computer and internet.  It is a fabulous coincidence that I work for Self Access Centre (SAC) is a learning environment where learners have access to a variety of learning resources. SAC is a means of self-study/co-curricular activities, especially for Self Access Language Learning (SALL) for students who find difficulties or wish to deepen and develop English Language Skills beyond the acquisition of material in classroom. SAC is integrated to technology (computers and internet) which  will support the achievement of autonomy. In SAC, the learners is able to access various learning resources. Learners can select and use materials with or without the help of teachers or anyone else, utilizing suitable materials provided, learners are expected to make improvement in their learning process. So hopefully I can solve the problems that some of my e-friend teachers have.


I believe I and my students will have more benefits while doing the activities together.