Thursday, January 16, 2014

Week 2: A Week of Inspiration and Beginning of Fascinating Hard Work




This second week has inspired me with the Web search, the ABCD objective setting, the revised Bloom’s taxonomy, and the starting course project going on. 

The Web search of this week will probably be an endless passion for all of us who participate in this course, because there are a lot to discover on the Internet thanks to  NoodleTools and company. Don’t you agree with me?

Objective setting with the ABCD model use has helped me frame the way I should work on making everything I do in class teaching  prep clearer.

The revised Bloom’s taxonomy, that I heard for the first during my participation in a Critical Thinking online training with Deborah Healey (UO), is always useful for us to know how measurable our students’ learning behaviors should be.

As for the course project, I let you go to Nicenet for more details on it if you don’t mind reading my post of this week 2!

You know what? Only after using Google Image Search did I know from http://digital.nypl.org/dennis/viewtips.cfm#view that ” jpeg” stands for Joint Photographic Experts'Group. What a shame!

I hope we will all enjoy this second week’s everything.

Manda (Madagascar)

5 comments:

  1. Dear Manda,

    I appreciate your concise and precise reflections, however, never mention the word shame with learning. We were born to learn and we will be learning until last moments of our life. The more we learn the more we discover that we know nothing but being late is better than nothing.
    What matters is to be active not passive, to open minded an updated and most importantly to have scientific spirit to learn from others, to accept their point of view and criticism.

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  2. Dear Manda,

    I agree with Warda. There are so many things that we don't know and that is why people often say that learning is a never-ending process. Anyway, I just learned what 'jpeg' stands for after reading your post. So, the more we share, the more we learn together. Lets start Week 3 soon!

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    1. Hi Annusha,

      Thank you for your comment and for sharing.

      Week 3 is open, now. Here we go!

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  3. Dear Manda,

    I agree with you, with Warda, and with Annusha. The web-search engines we explored this week amaze all of us and are of great use in out professional life. They would make our life easier while searching on the internet.

    Also, the ABCD model of forming objectives is very helpful fo all teachers while planning thier lessons and it is also easy to follow.

    All the best,

    Houda

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    1. Hi Houda,

      Thanks for commenting on this blog.

      I hope we'll have more things to share, discuss, and learn during week 3.

      Cheers!

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