Week 10 Reflection

Hello everyone,

I feel a bit sad to know that this will be my last blog to post in Webskills. At the beginning of the course, I thought it was a  very long course with hard- working assignments, how could I handle it. At the moment, I couldn’t believe that time flies quickly. Our Week 1o has arrived and the course will finish soon.

Webskills Course

It was a precious experience for me to take this very special and high demanding course. I am very lucky to have this great chance, to learn in a globally famous university with excellent team and great advisor like Donna, to have great colleagues from all over the world and our friendships will go on and on, it won’t stop like the Webskills course. I will keep this memorable event for life.

The most useful topics and the implementation

I like all topics I have learned from our course, but the most useful topics for me were  teaching oral skills with websites , delicious.com, websites for reading/writing Skills , project-based learning, the one-computer classroom,mobile devices and Padlet. I think these topics suit my teaching contexts and I can manage them smoothly.I will use them in my classes. I am amazed with the tools in this course; Nicenet, Blackboard, Wiki and Blogger. I plan to use them in my classes as well.

ANVILL is interesting and exciting, I will also use it some day in my classes but I need to learn more about it.

This is not my cup of tea.

I was not good at using Webquest, I created one but did not submit to Donna. I thought I needed more time to improve it. Maybe it was not relevant to what I do or will do.

My gratitude

Finally, I would like to express my gratitude to my supporters, Donna, our kindest and excellent advisor, the U.S. Embassy of Thailand for giving me this valuable opportunity, Oregon University and our instructors and coordinators, and very important ones,  all my colleagues who encourage and motivate me to learn. Thank you for a wonderful friendship. 

Welcome to Thailand

Please keep in touch and you all are welcome to visit me and Yaowapa in Thailand. I hope some days we will meet face to face.

I will miss the  time we were together for sure.

Best wishes,

Jirawan  Thani

Thailand

Week 9 Reflection

Hello Donna, Jeff and my dear colleagues,

This week assignments have provided me a little more time to rest than last week but  I feel a bit sad to know that this course will finish very soon.

Here’s my opinion about Week 9;

Learning styles, Technology Tools, and ANVILL

           

            There are not many assignments as the previous weeks so I have enough time to finish all reading resources about learning styles, technology tools and ANVILL and  do the quiz of Edutopia. You can find my results as follow;

1) What is your emotional intelligence? – I’ve got highly skilled result in most aspects, except recognizing emotions, I’ve got moderate attention to my emotions and those of my students. I need to pay more that attention to this aspect.

2) What’s your learning style? – I’ve got linguistic 83%, logical-mathematical 19%, visual-spatial 17%, intrapersonal 56%, interpersonal 56%, musical 38%, bodily-kinesthetic 42% and naturalistic 58%. – Luckily I am an English teacher which suits my learning style. I have very bad result with logical-mathematical and visual-spatial.

3) Super teacher traits-  The results show that;

            -  Rebound time: I always recover from a crisis or setback quickly,

            - Energy mode : I often like to be active while teaching.

            - Taking charge: I sometimes  like to lead others.

            - Agreement: In a disagreement, I always want to hear points of view that conflict with mine.

            - Perfectionism: I sometimes a perfectionism.

            - Reserve: I am always comfortable sharing my opinions.

              I am very satisfied with the results of  all three quiz. It’s excellent to know our learning style, emotional intelligence and traits. It will be easier to manage the class and teaching effectively. One of my colleagues at school always has problems with controlling his emotion, even if he’s good at teaching but the students don’t like to learn with him, it would be better  if he knew his emotional intelligence and students learning styles and then use his good traits to fix it  up.

Technology Tools

         
                Before taking this course, I rarely used technology tools. 
Now I’m very happy to have many choices to enhance them in my teaching. I have learned about Nicenet, blog, Wiki space, websites, and special tool as Padlet, ANVILL. Delicious.com is one of my favorite tools. I plan to be a New teacher who is much higher technology than before. I hope that I can motivate my students more and more.

ANVILL

          Thank Professor Jeff Magoto very much for teaching us about ANVILL, an amazing and excited tool. It is very good to teach speaking and listening with it. I plan to use it with my class in the near future, but I need to learn more with it.

Final Project Report

          I would like to express my gratitude to Yiling for giving great comments to help me to improve my project draft.  I first uploaded my final project two hours  before the deadline time (Friday  June 6, at noon), but when I went over it I thought that I should have put the specific topic  of my project and delete the word “template” . I then edited it  and replaced the new one 10 hours later.  It was 8 hours after the deadline time but still be on June 6. I hope that Donna, our kind advisor would forgive me for this delay.

All the best,

Jirawan  Thani

Thailand

Hello Donna and  Everyone,

Week 8 already!

I couldn’t believe that we have already arrived week 8. It is a challenging week with the most difficult assignments for me. Fortunately, my Webskill colleagues help me a lot to accomplish it. Thank you Husni who has created our Yellow Group on Facebook to share ideas and feelings with friends. I feel warm and happy to talk to all of you.

Let me share about this week assignments.

Online tool

I created Padlet for my Grade 12 as online exercise. It is easy to make but very attractive, motivated and practical. My students were excited to see this amazing wall.

First Project Draft

It took me a long time to finish the first draft. I had to get back to study the resources from week 2 , 3 and 4 to get more ideas. The template can make it more simple and then I could finish it on time.

Peer Review

My partner, Yiling, is an early bird. She finished her first draft very fast. I supposed to finish my project on time, but accidentally posted the wrong file . I  apologized  for this mistake and replaced the right one two days later. The checklist template can help me finish this peer review smoothly. Yiling has done a really good job, I am sure she will have an excellent full report.

Have a nice Week 9!
Jirawan  Thani
Thailand