Hello everybody
This week I decided to share some information in relation to my first experience as a teacher and some steps a teacher should know when using technology in the class.
First I decided to choose the methods I will use in the class, to make the lesson interesting. I thought it would be better to use communicative method in combination with other methods as well such as grammar translation when needed and suggestopedia and total physical response. Something interesting is also the use of technology in the class. Every teacher should know how to combine all methods using technology at the same time. Teaching is not as easy as I thought, but you know practice is always the best way to make you perfect.
Below you will find some steps about teaching through technology:

1. Use videos for Mini-lessons
2. Add multimedia elements to  presentations . Include images, graphs, podcast clips, sound effects, short videos lessons, news, movie and television show clips etc.
3. Provide online activities for students who complete work early.
4. Gather student feedback.
5. Engage students and use games as well to make the lesson interesting

There are a lot of ways actually and every teacher chooses how to teach.

One of the best ways to get ideas is learn from others and blogs are a great way to do that. Here you will find some :

• UWB Learning Technologies
• GridKnowledge (blog of UWT’s Assistant Chancellor for Learning Technologies)
• Wired Campus, Chronicle of Higher Education
• Prof Hacker, Chronicle of Higher Education
• Agile Learning (blog of the Director of Vanderbilt’s Center for Teaching)

Interactive whiteboard

Hello everyone
I decided to share with you some information about Interactive whiteboard.
You will understand what I am writing about , if you were present at the Europa hall. The lecturer discussed Interactive Whiteboard, why is it important in teaching process, what can a teacher do to use it effectively in the class. 
He also explained how this Whiteboard can be used.
It is like a book. The difference stands in the fact that this is a digital book, so we teach through this only using a magic pen. Click on a particular module and start a lesson.
What I really find interesting about it is:

1. The combination of reading part with listening to songs. While you see, you listen a song and it seems like telling a story.
2. You can hide words as a useful exercise to leave students find the right answer. And that's good actually because we engage all students to comment on it, to guess whether to use this or that word. 
3. The grammar section. You can explain grammar through a lot of examples.
4. Board games. The idea of using games in teaching is great. Why ? Because students feel comfortable and find it really interesting. There is a gap and students have to guess the word. This game is called The Hangman game. 
5. The revision. Different from the traditional way of making a revision of the lesson, in  digital books the revision is in the form of a song. That's amazing, especially for young learners. 

The quote of the week:" Every interaction is an opportunity to learn".

Hello everyone,
This week I decided to share with you another teaching experience. 
At the end of each unit, there is a project. The topic of the project,I and my students(5th grade) did last week was "Present your hobby". 
First I wrote down the topic and what were the hobbies of my students. Than I divided them into groups of three in order to draw something beautiful in relation to their hobby. 
Using this kind of method, Project Based Learning,  they interact, work in groups, share their ideas and create things. 
Below you will find some photos of my students taken by me, during the process of interacting, collaborating and creating something interesting.

Their hobby is playing with computer games.

Her hobby is nature photography.

When I asked these two students what's your hobby, they said dancing and singing. They thought to draw a ballerina dancing and singing and some musical notes.

They are football fans and of course their hobby is playing football. 

Hope it helps!

Hello everyone
This week I decided to post about using technology in teaching speaking skills.
Technology is an important tool that is used to teach not only speaking skill but also reading, writing and listening skills. Let's call technology a vehicle which is used to get access with this modernized world. And of course, technological tools have been regarded as ways of helping students improve language skills.
Communication is important in our life but if you are not competent in other skills, you can not use the language correctly. There is a strong relationship between them. If you are a good listener, you will became a good speaker as well. If you are a good reader, you will became a good writer.
How to improve these skills and especially speaking one? 
Today there are different methods you may use learning a foreign language and improving these skills. The use of technology has brought a lot of benefits. You may find different activities on the internet. On youtube there are videos which help you to improve language skills.
You may read different kinds of books online, learn a language through music and movies, communicate with your friends online in english and other languages and you may find exercises there in order to improve language skills.
Learning how to speak is not easy, but everyone knows that all good speakers were bad speakers at first and in order to be a good one you have to practice a lot and improve other skills as well.
click on the link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFige8LEWRE  It is a video that shows how important is listening in improving speaking .
Hope it helps!

The quote of the week:" Communication works for those who work at it".