Entry 10. Wrap Up , Outcomes of the Course.

Conclusion - wrap up

We’re now at the end of the course. We hope you found this course useful and you have a deeper understanding of this area.

Our aim was to give you useful resources for evaluation of educational practices and through participating in discussions and activities, have a practical outcome to help you implement these ideas into your practice and enhance your practice.

One of our main intents for this course was to build a community that goes beyond the course, where experience and knowledge can be shared.

Below is a list of all the extra resources (Want to know more? PDFs) listed in this module.

Learning outcomes are statements that describe significant and essential learning that learners have achieved, and can reliably demonstrate at the end of a course or program. In other words, learning outcomes identify what the learner will know and be able to do by the end of a course or program.

Entry 9. Pros and Cons of different social media applications.

If yo If you’re looking to start a debate, I suggest bringing up the issue of social media and whether or not it belongs in the classroom. Parents, educators, students – everyone has an opinion, and it’s an interesting mix of i u’re looking to start a debate, I suggest bringing up the issue of social media and whether or not it belongs in the classroom. Parents, educators, students – everyone has an opinion, and it’s an interesting mix of individuals on both sides of the issue.

In our technology-saturated society, one could argue social media is already in our schools. Every day teachers battle to keep kids off their phones and focused on what’s happening in the classroom, and see social media as a distraction. On the other side of the debate, educators have embraced social media as a way to engage with students outside conventional teaching methods, recognizing that students raised on smartphones and laptops have developed very different learning styles from past generations.

ENTERY 8 .How useful , effectives are online self assessments.

With the end of the year setting in, you may be in the midst of assessment season. Or maybe you’re getting everything ready for your class assessments directly after the Christmas break. Setting up assessments can be a complicated and time consuming activity for teachers and trainers, so you may want to take a look at some different techniques which might make your life a little bit easier.
One way of changing up the way you administer your final tests or exams could be to use online assessments. You may already be making your students complete their course work online, or do required reading online, so why not let them complete assessments that way too?
There are lots of tools which means you can create online assessments, many of which are free depending on how many assessments you need to create, or how complex they are going to be, so it’s important to have a look around and see which tools you think would work best for your course content.
We take a look at how assessing your students online can save you a lot of time, and make a quite stressful time that little bit easier!.

Entry 7.The best project i made/ Presentation/ I made.

PowerPoint deserves credit for being straightforward and easy to use. Almost anyone, regardless of skill level, can quickly learn how to use the software and pull together a presentation.

But accessibility is just one factor you need in presentation software. To consistently create presentations that grab audiences’ attention, you’ll need software with greater functionality. An ideal program lets you easily create and display visually stunning presentations across devices at a cost that fits your budget.

Here are the main factors to consider when looking for great presentation software:

• Design library: It should offer a large number of templates, images, and other media to create your presentation.
• Features: Rather than just including standard slides, software should offer alternative formats to share presentation content and engage audiences.
• Shareability: For easy collaboration, users should be able to share presentations with other users and allow simultaneous editing.
• Simplicity: Most users aren’t design experts, so software should be simple enough for any person to use, regardless of their background.
• Cost: Find software that fits your budget so you can consistently create presentations.
• Compatibility: Most people and organizations use multiple devices, so choose software that’s compatible across devices in creating and displaying presentations.

Entry 6. My Test Taking Strategies.

Test Taking Strategies.

 Background Information on Test Taking Testing is probably the primary means of evaluating student performance in school. It also pervades other aspects of our lives: getting a driver's license, applying for a job, or gaining certification for a skill. Testing is also one of the primary causes of stress among students. One reason for this is inaccurate conceptions of what to expect on a test and how to prepare for an exam. In addition, many tests are less than perfect and don't always give an accurate assessment of student ability. Despite this, exams will probably continue to be the main method of student evaluation because they are relatively efficient and objective measures of student performance Tests may be scored in one of two ways Most students are familiar with scores based on how well one meets the requirements of explicit criteria. In this case, one's score has nothing to do with how well other students did on the test. Instead, one's score is based on his/her fulfillment of minimum requirements set forth by the grader. The grader will look for certain pieces of information, and perhaps how the information is organized, in the test answers; the test score is based on how many of these pieces of information the student put in his/her answer. An example of this type of scoring is driver's license tests. The second approach is based on norms, in which one's score depends on how other students did on the exam. Standardized tests are usually scored on this basis. Exam scores graded "on a curve" also fall into this category

Entry 5. Critical analaythis of online language learning resources.

   We are fully aware of the tremendous changes have been taking place in learning styles. One could have never imagined the book of learning might change the face to become ‘Facebook’ in just these years. Similarly, Twitter was something that birds did, subsequently; we never thought neither of these would be in hands of common people metamorphosing educational potential despite having their own strengths and drawbacks. In this paper, the study explores use and limitations of these applications. Broadly speaking, social learning in today’s curriculum in formal and non formal educational setting. This educational technology also provides important areas in course design added by some online learning tools for the learners. However, web-based learning into English classroom teaching is no way paradigm shift from what we are teaching at present. It is an added advantage. It is yet another trend of teaching in ESL classroom.

Entry 4. Am I slow or a faster reader ? Based on internet offered tests result.

Maybe I’m a slow reader too if two minutes is too long. People are all different—we aren’t robots. Some people are better athletes, others are better at math and science.

If you think you have reading issues and don’t like to read, look into vision therapy. My son never liked to read, nor did I. People told him to simply read more, but I knew how he felt and knew that reading more wouldn’t help him enjoy it more. We didn’t find out about visual therapy until he was 18 when an acquaintance told me that her daughter completed visual therapy and thereafter, couldn’t put down a book. My son’s eyes weren’t tracking well (he would re-read and have difficulty focusing on the lines), so he went to vision therapy where he did easy eye exercises and then at home did these every day for only 15 minutes. He is 21 and still needs to do exercises on a computer program for 15 minutes and it helps for the rest of the day. If he’d had vision therapy when he was a child, he would have overcome it without having to do maintenance. I was so disappointed that no teacher even mentioned vision therapy. His eyesight was 20/20, and that’s usually what people think of when people have reading issues. Vision therapy is very expensive but totally worth it but find a reputable one. You might be able to find programs online that are cheaper, being that it’s the appointments that cost so much.

I realized after that I had his same problem (I hated reading but it was never really obvious why—there were no floating letters or anything) but it wasn’t until age 40 where I got hooked on being on the computer every day for 10–12 hours that it trained my eyesight, like visual therapy, and my reading improved tremendously. I was able to realize this after we found visual therapy.