Week 2. We are on the way

We continue our journey and every moment of it is full of discoveries. This week we were given the task to try different search engines in order to find the best one  which would satisfy our information needs. Before this very week I fully relied on Google but now I possess a valuable and reliable list of search engines and portals tried by my colleagues and myself knowing some strong and weak points of many of them. I would definitely recommend my students and colleagues iSEEK for educational purposes; AskJeeves.com and DuckDuckGo.com as fast,reliable and useful  search engines both for academic and class search. Twurdy is just indispensable  to help you find the text of   the precise level of difficulty to meet your students' needs.

Another interesting and important task for this week was to share a learning objective for a class done in ABCD style (where "A" is for audience, "B" is for behaviour, "C" for conditions and "D" for degree of mastery needed). As Dr. Bob Kizlik points out: "Properly constructed learning objectives are about the evidence of learning; they specify what behavior a student must demonstrate or perform in order for a teacher to infer that learning took place." (http://www.adprima.com/objectives.htm).  Good learning objective should be thoroughly thought over and clearly formulated. It is the core of any lesson.

I also made a small step to the final project by describing the course that would benefit from incorporating online tools and resources into teaching/learning process.


There is a good proverb: "Two heads are better than one" and I would like to mention that our productive collaboration this week demonstrated the essence of it vividly.