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"EFL Blogging School for Moldovan Teachers" Project
Second Edition
Second Edition
The project aims to train 25 Moldovan EFL teachers from the regions to integrate blogs in their teaching practice.
It represents a successful continuation of the "EFL Blogging School for Moldovan Teachers - Edition 1" Project, implemented in 2014.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The project will equip Moldovan regional teachers with the necessary skills to use online tools such as blogs to enhance their English language teaching experience. Participants will learn how to engage students in online projects and raise up their interest in studying English using online tools.
By the end of the project, participants will have experimented with creating a class or school blog, inviting members, posting and editing entries and commenting on other blogs. In addition to that, participants will have looked into comment management, template personalization and will learn how to enhance their class or school blog using other online tools, such as Voki, Animoto, Pow Toon, Google Polls, free online dictionaries, DVolver, Listy and many more.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
By the end of the project, participants will:
- create a class or school blog,
- post and edited entries,
- comment on other blogs,
- try team blogging (inviting members),
- explore options for comment management,
- compare different blog hosts,
- grasp the concept of syndication (RSS),
- compare aggregators and other syndication tools,
- discuss the potential of blogging as a teaching tool in the English lesson and as a tool for professional development.
PROJECT SYLLABUS
Month 1: October 2015 EFL
Blogging Basics.
During the first month of the project, participants will:
- exchange introductions and become familiar with the group environments,
- try tools for synchronous communication to be used during the project,
- answer a survey to determine their previous experience with blogging,
- add themselves to the group map,
- visit the group blog,
- discuss the concept of blog (and distinguish it from "website" and "wiki",
- analyze various EFL blogs and the ways these are used to enhance EFL teaching and learning,
- get to understand blog jargon,
- plan their own blog (defining its purpose and target audience),
- choose a platform, a theme and a name for their blog.
During the second month of the project, participants will practice:
- Online dictionaries: Wvisual, thefreedictionary, visuwords,
- Polls: Monkey Survey, Google Polls, and
- Video Teaching Tools: UTube, Teacher Tube, Jenny ESL.
Month 3: December 2015: Month 3: Video production for EFL blogging and involving students will train participants to apply:
- Video Production Tools: Movie maker, Voicethread, Voki
- Writing Production Tools: DVolver, Tagxedo, Fodey
- Graphic Production: Glogster, Pinterest.
Month 4: January 2015: Enhancing the blog as a teaching tool. Blogging: Off we go!
January is dedicated to:
- turning the blog into a teaching tool
- enhancing the blog with tools for EFL teaching and learning
- integrating the blog into daily teaching practice
- adjusting the blog to school curricula
- combining classroom teaching with the online teaching
- actively involving students in posting on the blog (complete tasks, post comments, submit homework etc.).
Month 5: February 2015 Presenting your Blog and sharing your experience.
- be in charge of organizing a 25-45 min workshop to share from his / her experience on the project, and
- present his/her blog during the project closing event in Chisinau.
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DeleteThis is my blog page with the local seminar I have organized in Dondusheni town in TL"Gaudeamus".
http://mariaionesi.weebly.com/seminars
I organized it in Russian because it was prepared for Russian and Romanian teachers from my lyceum and also from our town.
It was not only a presentation, but also an interactive workshop. Inspite of all (it was organized at 2.30 pm), teachers were very active and I received a good feedback.
Susan, my colleague helped me, sharing her experience related to flipped classrooms.
At the end of this presentation teachers agreed that blogs can be a good tool for students' motivation.
Hello my dear colleagues and friends. I am checking my mail every day( as a habit) just to see is there something else from our dear Olga Morozan. I just cannot believe it is over (I mean assessments, weekly task etc).
ReplyDeleteThis project gave me a great opportunity to evaluate myself, to improve my teaching abilities and to develop self-confidence to my students. It was a difficult period in my activity and a productive one as well. I have learnt how to use online resources easy, for free and how to relate them to each group particularity. I am extremely thankful for being part of this team. Thanks to Blogging School my lessons are much more creative, interactive and diverse. I am a good example for my colleagues, the most creative teacher for my students, and of course just a brave for myself (because I have finished it successfully). Thanks to my mentor Christiana, my students' motivation has raised enormously. She was like a durasell battery for them. Now, they call me and speak to me in English, ask about her only in English and are very eager to see her again.
As I said during the Final Conference- Blogging for me is like a "lady purse". It needs little space, it contains all the necessary things I need , and thanks to it I look fashionable and stylish.
For those who will read this message and will think about getting involve in this or not- just do it, you will not regret about anything. Wish everyone much luck, health and great realizations.
Luminita Tiuliuliuc
ReplyDeleteMy dear Blogging Family! This is exactly how I feel about everything that happened to me during these 5 months. The experience I got, the people I met, the things I learnt - make a whole universe for me as anEFL teacher. As I mentioned in my presentation earlier, teachers leave legacies of relationships and those are priceless. I want to say a HUGE THANKS to all our trainers - Olga, Daniela, Corina, Emma!!!! You know what - YOU ARE SUPER!
Speaking about the contribution Blogging school brought into my life - it's obvious! Can you imagine - my students keep asking me about the next round of assignments and the y MEAN it!
One more important aspect has been the Interview! I've never been on TV before so it's been strange but eventually I hope I managed it too!
A special THANKS to my mentor, Mrs. Lisa Gill, who was really supportive and motivating!
Final Conference was a REAL success and I am proud that I was a part of this extraordinary event!
I am an experienced teacher, but nothing remains the same so do job requirements. The project helped me to refresh my knowledge and skills.I met experts in the field;I learnt new things and shared my experience. The project helped to meet the needs of high school students and the requirements of the modern school.
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"The EFL Blogging School Project" meant a great improvement for me. As a project participant, my interest was continuously piqued through various new teaching technologies. Sometimes I felt like a student who has weekly homework, but it was done with pleasure. My students felt the same pleasure by taking part in different interesting activities and they liked to have information in electronic format. They like to work, to assimilate new knowledge and using new informational technologies.
ReplyDeleteAlso I would like to add the fact that we can collaborate with other EFL Blogging School Project participants and exchange teaching ideas.
Now I am proud to have my own professional e-Portfolio where I keep my teaching materials. I am very thankful to the EFL Blogging School Project team. THANK YOU!!!
Dear all participants at EFL Blogging school project. I thank you all for the opportunity to participate in this project. It means a lot for me. I learnt to use the online tools and incorporate them in the teaching/learning process. It increased my presentation skills when I organized the training with the teachers from the region and at the final conference. You helped me understand how many opportunities I have to facilitate the learning process for many students. They became more interested in learning English and do the online homework with a great pleasure. This project allowed me to know my students better and adjust the strategies to their needs. Thank you all for your efforts to make us improve our teaching skills. I am looking forward to a new project.
ReplyDeleteEFL Blogging school project meant a lot for me .I think I grew up enormously in my career level .It was a pleasure for me to complete all the tasks during each week ,discovering a lot of interesting and useful tools.The most important thing is that my students are beneficiaries of this amazing project.Now I can easily adapt my strategies to their needs.As a result, students gained an awareness of the importance and the value of communication.After the online meeting with my mentor I understood,that it is easy to comunicate with a native speaker,because today, with a single laptop, a webcam, a projector or interactive board, and an Internet connection, a teacher can broadcast and begin collaboration with any other classroom.I think my knowledge of Web 2.0 computer applications will encourage my students self-expression, interaction with peers, and opportunity for authentic learning experiences.Thank you all for this great opportunity.I am waiting for other project proposal:)
ReplyDeleteDear all participants at EFL Blogging school project. I thank you all for the opportunity to participate in this project. It means a lot for me. I learnt to use the online tools and incorporate them in the teaching/learning process. It increased my presentation skills when I organized the training with the teachers from the region and at the final conference. You helped me understand how many opportunities I have to facilitate the learning process for many students. They became more interested in learning English and do the online homework with a great pleasure. This project allowed me to know my students better and adjust the strategies to their needs. Thank you all for your efforts to make us improve our teaching skills. I am looking forward to a new project.
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ReplyDeleteHello everyone!! I still can't believe it's over.I feel such a pity deep in my soul... I don't know why but I still keep planning my end-of-day time to make room for accomplishing assignments)) It was such a huge experience for me unlike those ones we are supposed to gain during our regular courses aimed to "enhance" our professional qualification. I indeed learnt so many new things which I am going to really USE in my teaching practice and which, I Am SURE, will increase my students'interest in stydying English. Thank you for all your efforts, Thank you for being patient with us, and thank you for this amazing world you let us discover and become a part of. I will definitely keep asking you for advice and, know for sure, will receive it in its best form accompanied by some even more useful tips. I am greatful a lot and looking forward to something new. Wish you good luck and health for long ages. Keep in touch)
ReplyDeleteHello to all my friends form this great project...I have read the impressions of the other teachers and i had the same feeling..i check my email everyday to find something from Miss. Olga. Now i have the feeling that i don't have anything to do!!!
ReplyDeleteThis project really developed me as an English teacher...Can you imagine if even my husband who is also an English Teacher said to me that i have gotten better of him concerning many interesting things.
I'm very happy that through this project i managed to get interested in and other teachers form my Lyceum and this experience will help me to follow my dreams forward.
Big thank you to my mentor Matt Salerno, we had the chance to meet face to face and there is a big chance to continue to work together on other projects.
And of course big thanks to all that gave me the chance to take part in this project and supported me...
Hello, dear friends and ... new friends :)
ReplyDeleteI am very glad that I had the possibility to participate in this very interesting, knowledgeable and useful project. It gave me a lot of opportunities and formed many skills, first of all digital, writing, speaking, etc.
This project developed me like a teacher for the 21st century. My students are very proud of me. My colleagues were very surprised to see so many tools that can be used at our lessons. They couldn't understand how I could learn and use so many tools during this project. My students told me: "Mrs. Mary you are a very cool teacher. We are the only one school that can complete the tasks online." Some students told me that blogs can be very useful tools for their future bussines.
But, the most important thing in this project is that it made me sure in my capacity to motivate students in learning English. I have already observed some results and I am glad for them.
Also, through this project I could find new friends (my colleagues from other regions of Moldova).
Thank you dear TEACHERS. Thank you for your readiness to share your experience with us. I am very proud to be your student and to learn so much from you.
Really, I continue to wait for letters from Olga Morozan :) I got use to them.
Hello dear colleagues! I want to say a big thank you for this great project It was that what I needed! I'm very happy that I was a little part of this, It helped me to do a great begining to my teaching experience. It helped me to maintain my interest in using blog with it's tools in teaching. It was something new and very interesting for me and for my little students. I could introduce changes in the Gymnasium and now all the teachers wanted to have their own blog and they asked me to do more trainings about this subject. But I do not know why but I feel like an orphan, I have a feeling of sadness((((((. Mss Olga I want more tasks I want a continuation )))) I really hope that you will invite us in onother project.
ReplyDeleteDear EFL Blogging School Particpants! What could have been better,than a tight collaboration and learning new things every and single day for a pretty long period of time. How many new emotions and knowledge had arrived into our souls and minds! How many new ideas we created in our Teachers' everlasting flow of creativity and spirit. All these on-line instruments and tools, knowledge and modern methods and approaches made everybody closer to the other colleague, made us much more open and discovered unusual possibilites for collaboration.
ReplyDeleteThat rigorous time and tempo made life indeed different and attractive.
This course tought us many techniques and teaching insturments that we can implement together with our traditional approach. But at the same time we realized how diversed our work can be! Teaching--is a noble profession indeed.
And thank to the American Councils for International Education in Moldova and all the Organizers of this wonderful course, all those who made it possibile and advance our possibilities and skills, we grew considerably.
And what is more important, is that such fruitful communication and work made more teachers collaborate and share and formed a fantastic cmmunity of peace and perfecion, spreading the atmosphere of harmony and desire to make this teaching world a better place.
Hello, dear EFL friends! I am very glad i had such a great opportunity to participate in this project. It was a difficult and, at the same time, an exciting experience. I can’t believe it’s fishied. Attending the Blogging School Project I have learned a lot of new and interesting things. It was a very productive period in my teaching activity and a huge practice for me using a mount of digital tools as an EFL teacher. A great thank to all our mentors and I hope we’d all keep in touch and meet in another wonderful projects in future.
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