SUMMARY OF MY REFLECTIONS ON WEEK 4

 Hi dear Instructor and other participants,

  

 Week 3 is gone. Long live Week 4! This week was a very fruitful week in the image of the other weeks we’ve already gone through. This week, I read the articles “Using the Internet in ESL Writing instruction” by Jarek Krajka and “Three Extensive Reading Activities for ESL/EFL Students Using E-books” by Mei-Ya Liang.  According to Mei-Ya Liang, the objectives of this lesson is to guide students to read authentic e-texts once they leave the classroom, and to enhance their reading, writing and thinking skills. Jarek thinks that three different elements are indispensable in teaching writing, namely web pages, e-mail connection and creating websites. I have to say that both articles added something to my knowledge. This week was also very rich in links and websites as far as reading, writing and Grammar are concerned.

   For Week 4, the last but not the least was the “Tips and Advice from the Webskills Team: Writing a Technology Enhanced Lesson Plan”. I found in the tips a valuable support for dealing with the task that was related to how to write a technology lesson plan.

   Despite this interesting aspect, I found the task related to how to write a technology enhanced lesson plan the most challenging thing this week. Firstly, because this is the very first time I have prepared a lesson plan with the introduction of technology in the task. And secondly, I was a bit confused because in the tips to write such a plan, it is clearly stated that the objectives of the lesson should drive the technology to be introduced and not the contrary. It was quite challenging, but I hope I tried my best.

I’m looking forward to starting Week 5.

Thank you

Dagnogo