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: Let's see what your students will write on your blog ! |
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Monday, January 11, 2016
Online Mentoring: Week 4. Inviting mentors to our classrooms
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Yesterday we had a wonderful online session with my mentor Matthew Salerno. Our students enjoyed it very much and they would like to continue such kind of events..
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http://dariajelihovschii.weebly.com/assignments
What a wonderful event!!! According to the pictures we can assume, that the topic was interesting and everybody had an extremely great time. We are anticipating the reflection from the students! Thank you , Diana, for sharing it all !!! Hope it will be a great example for everybody from the group to share!!! Good Luck !!!
DeleteOn the 16th of February ,we had a great chance to have the on-line session with our mentor Christiana. My 12th form students learned about international projects for students and the requirements for application. Some of them got quite interested and I hope they'll be successful.Now I'm waiting for their comments.
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Today we had ao online session with Dominique and my guys enjoyed it a lot. I posted the pictures of it and now am also waiting for their reflections.
Here is the link:
http://dariajelihovschii.weebly.com/assignments
DEAR Maria! Would you please try to send the link again -- it doesn't open.We would like to see your pictures and your wonderful event as well. Thank you so much!!!
DeleteHi, Emma))
DeleteI sent a wrong link by mistake, sorry. Here it the right one. It has only photos. No comments from students yet as far as I know, but I'm looking forward to recieveng tem as soon as possible
the link:
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Yes, we have seen it on your comments !!! It is awsome!!!
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ReplyDeleteHere we are! Done! Today together with my 10th graders we had an amazing video session that hd been monitoring by both LisaGill, my mentor and me. It was really interesting for the students to shave a chance to ask questions and talk to a native speaker so we hope it went on quite well!
Here is the link with the recorded session! Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShPW5-GwxQQ&feature=youtu.be
CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Luminita, that is a fantastic class!!! The theme you chose is indeed a very thought-provoking one and all the participants on both side of the screen seemed to be interested enough. How well the students felt themselves! They seem to be calm and prepared for such an event, as if it happened to them before. And your Mentor is a great presenter with a nice and pleasant voice. Hope that you had a great debriefing with your students.Wish you even more nice emotions !!!!
DeleteHello Emma. I together with my 9th grade have had our online session with Christine, my mentor. There were some problems with scype volume and Christine could not hear us but we continued our conversation on the phone. I;ve told my students about this meeting, but they seemed quite afraid of speaking with a native American. But, the conversation itself was a great moment for them. I can tell only that I am proud of them. We have arranged a live meeting with Christine next week. I think it will be a "bomba" for all of us))))
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Great Job,indeed, Aliona!!!
DeleteAliona, thank you for the pictures and the detailed description-- your event had a real echo for your students. it is seen through so many commentaries that they leave on your blog. Good and important thing is that they communicated with Christine and that are having this wonderful feed-back. It can serve a good example for the other participants as well!!! Enjoy the last weeks of the life in Blogging School!!!
DeleteAliona!!! That is a challenge indeed !!!! Good that you found the possibility to continue the class. The fact that kids were worried--is an absolutely obvious one. But this only prove that every situaiton can be solved. Did they still talk? And the real meeting will probably be even more interesting !!!! Keep us informed and enjoy the process!!!How well that your students write the replies!!!
ReplyDeleteHello everyone! This morning I and my 5th form students had a Skype call with my mentor, Dean Vallejo. He talked about holidays in the US. First he spent a lot of time talking about Thanksgiving, since it is not celebrated in Moldova. He also told them about Gasparilla Pirate Festival is an annual celebration held in the city of Tampa, Florida, his motherland. Here is the link Dean has distributed after our skype session: https://www.facebook.com/deanmvallejo/posts/10207734881706524?comment_id=10207736562708548&reply_comment_id=10207736617509918
ReplyDeleteDear Mariana, CONGRATULATIONS!!!! That's a great news. Your little students must be both happy and excited with this marvelous event! They are probably full of impresisons and good mood and new discoveries from this session. How will they share their views? We eould like to know and see. Good luck and we anticipate the pictures!!!
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DeleteDear Mariana !!! What a wonderful event indeed !!! How happy your kids must have been. I assume your Mentor and you, as the teahcer were both happy to have such dialogue with little kids on a topic about Holidays. They probably were excited to listen about the Gorillas Pirate Fwestival in Florida. It is interesitng to know, how did they cope with a foreign accent of your Mentor? And what about their emotions? it looks as a fairy tale for them. Thank you for sharing such a marvelous experience with us!!! You proved that everything is possible and the on-line tools can be implemented even with such small kids!!!!
DeleteHello Emma!Today me and my students had the online mentoring session with my mentor Dominique.Our topic was :How is it better to choose career?.We spoke about the educational system in the USA and Moldova,about the the most important steps in career choosing,the importance of money and how is it better to choose a career for the soul or for money,about the role of profession in a woman's life and what is it better to be a good mother or to have a succesful career and at last about the role of parents' opinnion in our career choosing.It was good I think ,I am wainting for my mentor's feedback,here are some picture from our online session.
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Hello all! Sorry for my late response, I was ill.But I truly enjoyed speaking to you and your class! It was my great pleasure and I thank you for being so open with me.I hope this is not the last time we speak! (also I tried to reply on your website but it would not allow me to post)
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Dominique Doss
Tatiana, congratulations with the successful on-line lesson!!! It should be mentioned, that the topics you chose and discussed are so varied and deep, that it makes us want to give you more questions. Your students must have been interested to discuss such important and interstiing things, becasue it is so much connected with both their lives and carreer as you said yourself. And thanks to your Mentor to be so open and eager to dedicate emotions and attentions to intercultural and specific details. We hope to have more feed-back from your students. Good luck!!!
ReplyDeleteHello Emma. We did it yesterday. We had the skype meeting with April salerno and 11th grade students. Although we had planned a week before to have the meeting with the 12th grade, we had to be flexible and have it with the 11th grade as the 12th had a test "pe esantion" on Physics that day. Poor students, they were blaming the person who chose them for the Physics test as this impeded them to have the skype meeting. but, the 11th grade were very happy to meet April, listen to a native speaker and ask her many questions. We spoke about classes in the USA, the personal schedule in the USA, the tests students have there, the credits they have to get in order to enter a university, the way you can study on free in the USA, the way students can have a job while studying at school and college, etc... We had a problem during the meeting because we "ran out" of internet, but, thnaks to our students we immediately shared the internet from our mobiles. Thus, we solved it successfully. After the meeting we had the debriefing and we agreed to use other English speaking people - even students's on line friends- for 10 minutes during classes for such a live session. Overall, it was a good experience for students as they understood that they can apply their speaking skills sitting comfortably in their classroom in Magdacesti. Much thanks to April and to you for teaching us to do it. I askrd students to write as comments 3 things they found out during this session. See the comments and pictures below. Thank you!
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ReplyDeleteEugenia!!! Thank you for sharing so many details about your woderful event. From the comments of your students it is clearly seen, that the topics you discussed were so relevant and important for them. Your Mentor and you did a great job and effort !!! That is a real teacher's work. We can take it as a positive example and see how well the on-line instruments can be applied, right?
DeleteThank you Emma for encouraging me. It is clear that on-line tools are definitely good for both students and teachers.
DeleteThis week we had the online meeting with Amanda on the subject ,,Family tree'' with the 3rd grade. My students were very excited and happy to see a native person.
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Congraulations, Olesea!!! You did a great job!!! Your little students are awsome and your Mentor Amanda is also a great event for them. We anticipate for you to tell us the details and how it all worked. Thank you for the link.
DeleteHello, Emma.
ReplyDeleteThis friday we had a wonderful morning. We organized the online meeting between the 9th form and our online mentor - Aaron Ratz. It was at 8:40 at the first lesson. It was a very interesting meeting. Students asked him a lot of questions.
Aaron answered the questions and Susan Crane, the Peace Corp volunteer and also my second mentor helped them with understanding the messages.
Students were very glad for this new meeting. Isend the link of my blog where I will attach the pictures of this meeting.
http://mariaionesi.weebly.com/school-blog
Dear Maria, congratulations with such an event!!! We hope to see your pictures and the details about the questions and the topics you discussed together with your Mentor. Let us share your experience as well !!!
DeleteMaria, could you please send us agaiin the link with the pictures from the on-line meeting with your Mentor? The link you have here, is the one from your blog, isn't it? It is nice to see how was the event organized. Thank you so much!!!
DeleteHello my dear colleagues. As I said and Christine promised she managed to come to our school today. We have had a wonderful day.We discussed about our school blog, its sections and its importance in EFL classes. Even if she doesn't lead any blogs she has found very interesting the web tools implemented in our blog. The purpose of our meeting was to get a feedback from her and from my students from the 9th grade about the blog. The final task for students was to create their own blog and present it with the help of Movenote application. I adviced them to use Movenote because I found it easier and more comprehensible for them. It will be the Task 3 for assessment 13 (e-porfolio) and receive feedback from my mentor- the assessment from week 5.
ReplyDeleteAfter this Christine was my guest in the Vth grade class. As one Chinese proverb says: If you haven't found out anything new during a day, it means that you waist the day in vain." It is not related to our today day. It was a wonderful meeting with a lot of emotions and good moments.I will post some pictures on my blog.
http://englishforbascalia.weebly.com/assessments
DeleteAliona, that is a great job and a wonderful event to be !!!! Happy students and happy teachers. You might have had a nice conversation with Christine and your children. You discussed so many issues and managed to dedicate to it so much time and efforts. That is a rewardable work thorugh its positive air. Good luck for the future !!!
DeleteMy students have enjoyed their first experience in Speaking to an English native speaker today. The most important thing is that Amanda provided them with updated information.
ReplyDeleteGoog to hear that,Aurelia. it would be nice to see the pictures on your Blog and a little bit of descriptio about the topics you discussed with Amanda and your students!!! We anticipate all that!!!
DeleteAmanda provided students with information about community college.We discussed about our school traditions. We tried to identify differences and similarities.It was interesting to discuss about Halloween.Unfortunately, we have no pictures because of the troubles we had with Internet connection. I am very sorry that we forgot about them.We were worried.
DeleteAurelia!!! Of course that would be nice to have your pictures, but you have a treasure of emotions and knowledge. Instead of pictures or video, you can ask your students for a feedback to write as comments on your blog page and express their impressions and attitudes and discoveries and experience and emotions. Please share with us the link to the page from your blog with the discription of the event and their commentaries, so that we could also be happy with you. We anticipate these news!!!
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Aurelia, you can encourage your students to leave more comments and tell about their beautiful impressions!!!
DeleteHi, Emma. I just sat with my mentor online Skype lesson at 11:45 on the 18th of February. The XII form students will be glad to discuss with April Salerno about the human right to an opinion.
ReplyDeleteSvetlana, GOOD LUCK!!! Let everythign be at its highest extent of your expectaions and i wish you lots of pleasant emotions and knowledge to get. Let us know about this wonderful event !!!!!
DeleteSvetlana, GOOD LUCK!!! Let everythign be at its highest extent of your expectaions and i wish you lots of pleasant emotions and knowledge to get. Let us know about this wonderful event !!!!!
DeleteThe session went quietly, no technical problems. At the beginning, the students were very shy, but later they integrated. Firstly, when I announced they are going to have an online conference with my mentor, they were very enthusiastic they will speak to a native American and they were impatient. They liked that a native speaker appreciates them and got more motivated to improve their English.
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Galina, great job!!! The topic yo celected for discussion is an intersting one and thought-provoking indeed. Your students had left many comments and this is a good sign in their feed-back. Everybody definetely loked this kind of work and collaboration. So good luck for the future activities!!!
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ReplyDeleteSvetlana Roibu Week 3: Hello, Emma. Today was released the online session with American guest speaker April Salerno. April guided the discussion about how to live a life with dignity. Students were little exhausted (it was the last lesson), but they were interested to discuss directly with a native speaker. Although we had some technical problems, we succeed to realize what we had to do. The students liked the manner to speak of April and got motivated to learn English more.
ReplyDeleteSvetlana, great news! The topic seems to be very interesting for your students, and I hope they were happy to have such communication inspite of the technical problems. Will you post any picures from the event?
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ReplyDeleteVera, beautiful description and result. We can anticipate for the feedback from both students and your and other colleagues as well. Good luck for your next step with the local training !
ReplyDeleteTHANK YOU. I WILL DO MY BEST
ReplyDeleteTHANK YOU. I WILL DO MY BEST
ReplyDeleteDear Emma, there are my comment and the links of the slide-show and my students' feedback
ReplyDeleteRoibu Svetlana – Week 4
I and my guest, a native speaker of English from the USA, April Salerno really enjoyed the online (on Skype) session. The discussion was between April and my students of the 12th form. Generally, this topic is difficult, but due April’s support, it was realized. First of all we have established what is “dignity”, then how to live a life with dignity. Students had their opinions on what are the most important – physical needs or emotional needs. They offered examples to explain their thoughts. At the end they gave the answer to question How to live a life with dignity? The answer was - it must be balanced and harmonized to feel accomplished and safety.
The materials (Slide-show and students’ feedback) you can find on my blog page: http://englishteachersblogforpupils.weebly.com/students-portfolio.html
http://englishteachersblogforpupils.weebly.com/students’feedback (20.02.2016)
Dear Svetlana!!! You encouraged your students by this activity and such topic for such a feed-back!!! Their comments and opinions are so deep and interesting. it proves that theon-line event with your Mentor incorporated different things together--both learning English, communicating with a native speaker and pondering over such deep issues. They seem to be very involved. And so good luck with yor next activities!!!
DeleteHi Emma ! I have had my session on Skype with my mentor Matt Salerno and my
ReplyDelete11th grade students. The session began on time and everything went well on technical point of view.The sound and the hearing was good. My students had a nice talk with Matt.They reacted correctly to the massage and asked the right questions, they didn’t repeat the ideas or questions about the topic. Some of them seemed to be more brave during the classes but now they were a little reserved(this is experience).The topic was about” American Teacher Job”.The students learned what are the requirements of an American teacher, who can become a teacher in America, are there any special university to graduate as to become a teacher etc.I like the session, it was really enjoyable and a new experience for us too.We both respected the time of our session, my students spoke about Dimitrie Cantemir as Matt wanted to learn a little from our history.The thing to improve is to through away students fear and to get more courage to speak even they can make mistakes.When we put off our session one of them said that is good to have such a session at least once a month.This was enough for me to know what they think about.
The materials of a slide show is posted on my blog: duseablog.weebly.com/assignment grade 11th/my students gallery.
ReplyDeleteDear Eudochia, congratulations on the successfull on-line session. Through the pictures and your students' comments it is vividly seen that tha topic you chose had an echo from the participants. They noticed so many things, like do not cpy system, grade on-line for both students and parents. It is a great feed-back indeed. However, it would be nice to have both pictures and their comments to arrange together on one page so that it could be easier for everybody to access it. And the Teahcer's comments are also imortant for them--thus they will feel more important, and the Blog itself is alife. By the way, the link you posted here does not work, maybe you try to post it starting with the letter http... In the loong run, from your description, the participants were happy.So enjoy the next steps.
DeleteFinally we managed to do our online session with Aaron. Firstly we arranged it for Tuesday, but there were some problems with the connection and on Friday we did it. This time we also had some problems with the connection but we managed to talk on the topic. As I said, we had under discussion the topic Holidays. Students had a lot of questions on this topic, they were excited and very pleased with this session. Aaron also had questions for them some of them were a little shy and they learned new things about holidays in America. After this session we discussed about it, they said that would like to have other discussions with English native speakers. It was great thanks you for such interesting experience.
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Lilia,congratulations with the event!!! After so many tortures, you managed to arrange everything. You say your students were worried--this is probably a natural thing for them. If this is their first experience --they might have been very brave. The topic about holidays must have been interesting indeed for them and for mentor as well to talk about. Now you have this wonderful experience and it would be nice to have students' comments as well, to see their feed-back. Good luck!!!
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ReplyDeleteWe had a class of English together with Dean,who came to ou schol, and we enjoed it a lot The topc we chose was about Blog, something new but interesting for students. They liked most of all that they had clas with an American, were very excited abot it. Hope we will have again such an opportunity.
Congratulations,Nadejda!!! That IS very nice to have woonderful opportunity in face-to-face meeting with a Menor-NAtive-Speaker. The students miht have been extremely motivated to communicate!!!
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