Too much to put in the class

After exploring so many websites, and there are still tons out there, it will be exhausting and confusing if I don't stop and think what I really need.  While browsing through all the links with ahhss and awwss, I could not but come to think: how am I going to make choices.  So many choices!  I am going to lose another night sleep and hope I find myself satisfied with my findings.


sleepless night...

Getting closer to you?

It's 10:30p.m. Taiwan time. I've been sitting in front of my computer for almost 5 hours, skipping my meals and not talking, verbally. A lot of time when we decide to put foward our effort or strengh to things we have our hearts on, there is this tiny sound coming to our ears, "what are you up to? what do you want? " How can we prevent students from ending up with spending too much in computer trying to finish their homework and not have time for family or friend or exercising? What are your opinions? I hope to hear from you, classmates. Yaling, Taiwan

Dynamic Search Engines

Week 2 discussion top: Web searching has really opened my eyes. I have been a loyal user of google and yahoo for most of the information I look for, even though, there were some time not finding what I had hoped to find. Through Noodletool, I came to the horizon where I can soar and explore and find the specific and more academic issue. I've log on several of them. Three of my favorite are: FindSounds, VoiceTread, Kaboose One website I had little kids visit often is http://www.uptoten.com/. There are two more that I like a lot, onestopenglish and learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org. They are quite helpful for teachers that look for ideas of classroom activities as professional development. Yaling,Taiwan

To what extent is the course linked to guideline of English curriculum in Taiwan

Like most teachers, I've been to many different kinds of seminars or workshops in order to bring in new thoughts, activities or pedagogy to my teaching, my students and my school. Some of the sessions were short like 2 to 3 hours. Some last for weeks or even years. The conductors or the trainers are mostly experienced teachers or writers of curriculum. What they shared in their sessions were all valuable to me and it didn't occur to me until I read this article regarding to evaluation of the curriculum and training approach in Flanders. (Martin Valcke, Isabel Rots, Marjolein Vereke, Johan van Braak). We may attend to great programs but not connecting what's learned to the guideline and at the end it turns out to be out of shape or it turns out to be brillient but still some kind of obscure not knowing where it pins to after some time. What do you guys think?

Finally!

Writing a blog is more than a personal thing nowadays. When doing it, we have the sense that people are "watching". It is a way of having people "visualize" what's in our mind but also a way to find people think alike vice versa. However, I'd embrace this chance of learning from others and put down what's learned in words so as to make the journey of learning concrete and visible.