Preparing for the Local / Regional Teacher Training and Final Conference Presentation

Dear EFL Blogging School teachers, 

 To have a better idea of how to prepare the local/regional training, 
please  follow the recommendations below.   
     

1. Investigate all the assignments and topics you covered through the entire EFL Blogging School course;
2.  Look through the topics and extract the three you personally liked the most;
3. Decide upon the reasons you are attracted by these topics  (make notes of each reason);
4.  Think and ponder over how well you have already integrated them into your teaching  process;
5.       Look through the topics you covered with your students, examine how well they were involved in the activities and home tasks they received;
6.       Analyze the entire process of your students’ work  and decide what you can share with your colleagues from other schools;
7.       Be sure you are fully aware of how you implement new tools into traditional way of teaching so that you could share it with the others;
8.       Collect as many positive examples of integrating new techniques as possible; collect the examples you would like to show;
9.       Take several challenges and negative experiences or obstacle the teachers might come across and include them into your teaching seminar;
10.   After you examine the topics you selected, try to deepen and take one you consider the most relevant for your colleagues to present;
11.   Start getting ready by taking all the material you covered, revise and recollect all the sources, examples, notions, information, opinions, students involvement of in terms of your work;
12.   While you prepare the information, keep in mind that many of  participants at your seminar are traditional-thinking teachers with a vast personal experience. For some of them new  on-line tools might seem quite unusual or even difficult;
13.   Try to be consistent and sure that all the notions and information you present is clearly structured and easy to comprehend and utilize  for those who hear about it for the first time in their life;
14.   Get ready for eventual questions , both connected with the topic you cover and/ or any other  far beyond the context;
15.   At the moment you decided upon the topic, revised the materials, collected the needed information for your seminar, make a draft or a preliminary plan of your presentation;
16.    Look what type of presentation you would like to make:  power point or prezi. Be  ready to remake it several times;
17.   Do not leave that for the last three days, as the information will need to be cleary accumulated and the level  of preparation needs more time to be dedicated;
18.   While preparing the presentation, try to order your slides  in such a way so that your listeners would  have a clear idea of what is the main aim of your presentation;
19.   Keep in mind that elaborating the activities is time-consuming and sometimes a tiresome work, and needs revision and even changes;
20.   Be attentive to the time you need  while getting ready for the presentation. Time management is another important issue on implementing new tools  and performing how it works;
21.   To incorporate all the material you want to present into one session, you need to practice at least once , to see how well you integrate yourself into the time offered;
22.   Take into consideration the time that you will need for demonstrating video on-line tools , making it interactive, involve participants in the activities and make a debriefing as well;
23.   Provide the participants with hand-outs, connected with your presentation so that they could also use it and start to implement into their teaching;
24.   Be sure all the equipment works  well and have your presentation printed out just in case something goes wrong in terms of circumstances, electricity or other unexpected occasions;
2   Include in your presentation the best results you have while implementing your new studies about on-line tools and give examples of its advantage.

 You can see the local/regional topics and the procedure organised by the first 'EFL Blogging School" project participants as an example provided to facilitate the task:

http://eflbloggingmoldova.weebly.com/group-work

Links of EFL Blogging School  Edition II Local/ Regional Workshops:

Vera Botnaru:http://class-blog11.weebly.com/photo-gallery.html

Veronica Sirbu: http://veronyca10.weebly.com/photo-gallery 

Ursu Mariana:

http://magicenglishmagicenglish.weebly.com/sharing-experiences

 

Roibu Svetlana: http://englishteachersblogforpupils.weebly.com/teachers-portfolio.html

Veronica Colesniuc: http://veronicacolesniuc.weebly.com/teacher-training

Daria Jelihovschi: http://dariajelihovschii.weebly.com/local-training

Nadejda Crusnevschi: http://follownadia.weebly.com/events

Maria Ionesi: http://mariaionesi.weebly.com/seminars/local-seminar

Chihai Olesea: http://myblogclass.weebly.com/teaching-advices/local-training

Sclifos Tatiana: http://educationforpupils.weebly.com/photo-gallery/local-training-web-20-tools-to-experiment-with-words-images-and-linksonline-survey-and-questionnaire

Maria Terzi: http://mariaterziclassblog.weebly.com/efl-blogging-school-assignments/locat-teacher-training-18122016

Man Eugenia: http://englishandwe.weebly.com/projects/blogging-seminar-with-regional-teachers

Plamadeala Aurelia: http://aureliaplamadeala.weebly.com/training.html

Tiuliuliuc Luminita: http://themodernscholar.weebly.com/life-long-learning.html

Ipati Lilia: http://englishclassipati.weebly.com/projects/local-training1

Tagadiuc Stela: http://stelatagadiuc.weebly.com/events/the-local-training-at-tl-c-stere-soroca

Zlatov Aliona: http://englishforbascalia.weebly.com/training

Online Mentoring: Week 5. Voice Feedback from Our Mentors

Dear EFL teachers, This is our last mentoring assignment - you have time till the end of February to complete it. We connected project mentors to your students via Skype or Google Hangouts. This time, we will bring mentors' voices into the classrooms using online tools. Choose one of the topics you will be teaching in January or February.  Read about how to integrate Voicethread into your classroom here: Engaging Learning with Voicethread and 26 Interesting Ways to Integrate Voicethread.  Create a student assignment based on Voicethread. Show your students several examples of interesting Voicethread projects first. Use these links to select appropriate examples:Voicethread Library, Examples of Voicethread for Education.  Give clear instructions: how many slides the presentation should have, which vocabulary should be used, how the presentations should be structured, how you are going to evaluate the project, etc. Ask your students to post the links to their Voicethread projects on your blog.  Ask your mentor to leave voice comments to each student project posted on your blog.  Discuss the mentors comments with your students - what suggestions did your mentors shared with your students through Voicethread? Post your comments below, as a reply to this Mentoring Assignment Enjoy experimenting with Voicethread!

Resource Box Take a few minutes to explore these useful resources: a) Voicethread Lesson Plan Review b) Back to future Voicethread Lesson Plan c) Using Voicethread for Digital Conversations d) Examples of Voicethread projects to share with students e) Rubric to assess a Voicethread Project

Online Mentoring: Week 4. Inviting mentors to our classrooms

Dear EFL teachers, Now that you have organised your first video chat involving your students and your mentor, it's time to move on to the next task: - Post the pictures from the video chat on your blog as a slideshow - Ask your students to access your blog post and leave a comment by answering the question: - "What did you learn from the online linkup session with our American guest speaker"?                  (minimum 100 words) - As soon as all your students post their comments, please post the link to your blog below, as a comment to this post. - The link should be accompanied by your impressions as well:  how did the session go? how did your students react to the idea?  what did they like or dislike?  if you had the opportunity to organize this online session again, what would you improve? Let's see what your students will write on your blog !