Week Two

This week, when our instructor, Donna, opened the session, the first task that I was automatically drawn to was the web searching discussion. I can honestly admit that I enthusiastically looked through all the search engines provided on the noodletools website, but a smile always appeared on my face when I saw Google mentioned. I am the biggest fan of Google and am very loyal to that search engine, therefore I shared my presentation regarding Google Search with my fellow participants in the course. I immediately began to get such positive and encouraging feedback from everyone which made my day. This only stresses the idea that “our goal is to help each other” from guidelines and ground rules for discussion from week one.I eagerly went through the search links provided by participants and read their feedback and can say that I have added some of these to my favorite links.

In the second assignment for this week, I described the classes that I teach with great detail. I love teaching and especially the classes that I mentioned as I admire their motivation and their high level of competitiveness. It does require a lot of preparation and I always have to be prepared for changes in my lesson plan, but it is most definitely worth it.

As for the last part of the assignment, I read through the articles and slideshare presentations which provide detailed instructions on how to write the ABCD Objective. What I found particularly useful is the"How to Write Clear Objectives" from Pennsylvania State University's Teaching and Learning office. This website provided clear examples of the ABCD model which made writing the objective much easier.

Since I feel that we are becoming a cooperative and encouraging community, a family, I opened a facebook group for our class (with the permission of our instructor of course). Please feel free to join in.

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Nahla