Schedule Changes

Because our group work sessions and whole group discussions have been so engaging, we are a bit behind schedule so Kathy and I have sat down to suggest some schedule changes.

Here is what we came up with:

Day 3 - Monday:
Morning:
Ø Finish Chapter 5 (Goals)
Ø Discuss Chapter 6 (Course Planning)
Afternoon:
Ø Chapter 9 (Evaluation)
Ø Time permitting we will start talking about Chapter 8 (Materials)

Day 4 – Tuesday
Morning:
Ø Erben and Sarieva Ch. 1, 2 and pp. 13 – 20
Ø CALL PowerPoint
Afternoon:
Ø E&S Ch 4+5
Ø PowerPoint, Word, Images
Ø Scanning, digital photographs
Please bring to class:
Ø Materials to be scanned
Ø Your own digital cameras (I will also check some out from the library)

Day 5 – Saturday (Project Day)
Ø Audio recording (if you have a microphone, please bring it to class)
Ø Voice over internet (Skype)
Ø Webpage creation (Google sites)

Day 6 - Monday
Morning:
Ø Thorne (2006). New Technologies and Additional Language Learning (moved from Tuesday)
Ø Puzzlemaker
Afternoon:
Ø HotPotatoes

Homework for Monday - Day 3

Post your aim and objectives on the class Wiki
Do part 1 on chapter 6 task sheet
Read Chapters 8 and 9 und Richards (post to you blog - remember to include full citation)
Read chapter 1, 2 and pp. 13 - 20 in Erben and Sarieva (post to your blog - remember to include full citation)

LING611: Day 1 Reflection

Thank you for sharing all of your experience with us. I am really impressed with the amoung of thought everyone in this class has already invested into thinking about the curriculum and materials they are using.

What stayed with me the most in reading about the history or curriculum development is that we have not really moved passed the "beliefs" listed in the book. In looking at the curricula that are being pushed down to the schools, there still seems to be an assumption that all learners have the same needs. I know that this is not the case for all the teachers in this class, but we do have to think of ways in which we are positioned by the system and how me might position ourself in response to the outside pressures.

I look forward to our discussion about situation and needs analysis as well as considering the goals we have for our students on Day 2.