Week 7 :This week I have learned three things

This week I have learned three things

Learner autonomy: Learning autonomy is not easy to make it happen for the students unless they have both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in doing it. I have learned many useful websites from it. They are http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/education/elp/ is about the portfolio which is used for free, http://livemocha.com/ which is port, and many others.

The one-computer classroom: If we have only one computer to teach our students, we need to know how to manage it first. Then we need to plan and organize our tasks for both our students and ourselves. Next we need to take measure for what we have planned. And finally we need to check or evaluate our action.

Mobile devices are playing the important roles in helping students learn a second language, but teacher or students themselves should know what kinds of mobile phones to use in learning and what applications are suitable for helping their learning. We learned that Hayo Reinders suggests 20 ideas for using mobiles phones to learn a second language. Those ideas are as following:

            Idea 1: Use the Notes feature to collect everyday language

            Idea 2: Use the Camera feature to take pictures of text

            Idea 3: Use free programs to organize language samples

            Idea 4: Use the Voice Memo Recorder feature to record language from media outlets

            Idea 5: Use the Voice Memo Recorder feature to record conversation outside the classroom.

            Idea 6: Use the Text Messaging feature to reinforce vocabulary learning

            Idea 7: Use the free programs to make flashcards for mobile phones

            Idea 8: Use the Text Messaging feature for circular writing

            Idea 9: Use the Text Messaging feature for tandem learning

            Idea 10: Use the mobile phone to keep a blog

            Idea 11: Use the mobile phone for microblogging on Twitter

            Idea 12: Use the mobile phone for social networking

            Idea 13: Use the mobile phone for a language exchange

            Idea 14: Use the mobile phone for “phlogging”

            Idea 15: Use mobile phone memory to distribute listening material

            Idea 16: Use mobile phone to distribute reading material

            Idea 17: Use the mobile phone to play games

            Idea 18: Use the Voice Memo Recorder, Notes, and Calendar features to keep a portfolio

            Idea 19: Use the mobile phone to check student comprehension and get feedback

            Idea 20: Use mobile phone memory for research and data collection

I really like the website : www.gutenberg.org because it offers 47,338 free ebooks to download for teaching my students. By the way http://www.polleverywhere.com/ is very helpful for teachers to pose their survey questions to students.