Week 3: The delisious task and a discussion

Well, here I am again in the middle of the third week. Many participants of the course noticed that each week is getting tougher. This week tasks and discussions took me more time and effort than the previous two. However, we were supported with the readings that were helpful guidance in what we are supposed to do.

I found confirmation to the ideas mention in the article
www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/research/resources/student_res/postscriptfiles/vol3/vol3_1_gong1.pdf

where the author covers full range of CALL application, advantages as well as disadvantages. I have met this term perviously and recently learnt what it stands for having general picture about this notion. But after the articles all the parts were joined in my mind and now it is totally cleary what beneficial role CALL can play in EFL.
Moreover, more and more teachers nowadays find that it is almost impossible to conduct their lesson without tehcnological devices that according to this article " fosters a sense of personal worth, facilitates collaboration among the studentss working together..."
In my short teaching practice, I notice how irreplaceable the video and audio found in the internet is. How motivation raised among those students who generally are reluctant to participate. Indeed, in the era of tehcnology development, it is anavoidable.

As I teach speaking and listening skills to freshmen, the CALL including software and web communities is irreplaceble and valuable sourse. I would not want to repeat the ideas of other groupmates, but to make use of CALL as much as possible should be the goal of every teacher and trainer. It is present and it will be in the future.

When it came to task about creating a page in delicious.com, it took me some minutes. Great idea to have all the links stored and easily accessed in one public place. As Azhar mentioned, having two world- one for private use and another one for public access.

Still, I think there are a lot to learn and among my objectives for this course is proper citation of the sourse and being able to add links to certain materials that I find useful.

That is almost all for ths hectic day

P.S. Hope to learn and apply my knowledge directly, making my lesson pass interesting and fruitful!