Sunday, January 23, 2011

It tastes so good!

This week I discovered the power of delicious into my new life as a web literate teacher, what a sweet taste!  At first, I was disappointed I did not know about it, "How much time I would have saved!", I thought. However, there is no point in regretting but thanking now I am able to tune up my web skills.

I found out my delicious page has quite a few advantages: to access information from already categorized sites, to bookmark sites recommended by colleagues and friends, to find the most popular sites, among others. But guess what? Delicious is not the only one. I learned from Mbarek that Diigo also offers bookmarking services, a plan B, as Robert and Abed suggested. I must say I enjoyed reading my classmates comments on this week`s discussion mostly because I could enrich my delicious page in the meantime. What a marvelous tool!

The above experience was just an appetizer for me. While exploring some listening / speaking websites, I felt the need of incorporating some practices right away into our Newcomers Program at school. A new course just opened on Monday and I foresee children getting extra practices to tackle their individual needs while working at their own pace; a couple of advantages of CALL mentioned by Gong in her article. Besides, I ended up increasing my knowledge about podcast too. Thanks Leena for your ideas and suggested links.


Once you taste it, you can stop trying!
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3 comments:

  1. Robert ElliottJanuary 24, 2011 at 8:38 AM

    Hi Ana

    Umesha was trying to post to your blog, but can't. I'm trying to test it out to see.

    I like how you are "connecting the dots" from different aspects of this course. Nice blog!

    Robert

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  2. UmeshaJanuary 24, 2011 at 10:27 AM

    Thanks again Robert!!!

    I felt the same way when I learnt about 'delicious' this week: "How much I would have saved!". But now we know and from what I feel, it can only get better.

    As you said, learning from others and sharing information is the best thing about this class and I too appreciate Mbarak's suggestion about a plan B.

    I am also looking forward to get a taste of advantages mentioned in Gong's article about CALL.


    p.s: I like this picture, one of my favorite fruits and just the right image for 'delicious'.

    Umesha

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  3. AnaFebruary 1, 2011 at 12:26 PM

    Thanks Umesha, it's my favorite fruit too.

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