My 2nd Self-Reflective Essay
Developing the idea of my 1st Self-Reflective Essay, now I can say that I make a step to find myself a lucky-dog As for my understandings, they haven t changed, they just get their proved explanation. I mean the scientists points of view. I can say that now I found out a lot of new things for me: blogs, wikis wikipedia and webquests. Now I can use ICQ, Skype propely ( shame on me the Internet was only a source of getting information, I didn t communicate through it). This course showed the real possibilities of using the Internet in teaching. I want to create blogs with my students. In fact this process has already begun. The only drawback is the access to the Internet, an average teacher hasn t an opportunity to work with the Internet.
I found the most useful information is given in “Toward a Theory of New Literacies Emerging From the Internet and other Information and Communication Technologies” by Donald J.Leu and others, Gunther Kress Reading Images: Multimodality, Representation and New Meadia
Also I would like to thank our teacher for patience and understanding, my group colleges for friendliness

Peer's Project Evaluation “Cinquain”
I think it would be better if students use different computer literacies while working at the project. Why not to give certain tasks before each link. Nevertheless the project is challenging, gives a good chance to experience one s language skills. The project possesses authenticity and quite suitable for English language teaching.

Peer's Project Evaluation “Cinquain”
First of all the topic of the project is quite extraordinary. It is not clear enough for who it is oriented, I mean the target audience. The idea is fresh, interesting, but the practical purpose is not obvious. It is rather creative task, and requires good knowledge of the English language.
Source: http://cinquain.wikispaces.com
This activity is aimed to develop spoken, written, and visual language to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes.
Sorry, I will finish a bit later.

Dear participants,
I invite you to visit my webquest at www.mysteriousireland.wikispaces.com.
Irine

IRELAND
The Topic
Mysterious Ireland

The Introduction
This Web Quest is designed to enlarge your scope of mind and to get useful information about Ireland and Irish people. During accomplishing provided tasks you are to get acknowledged with different internet tools that will help you to work successfully.

The Task
WELCOME DEAR STUDENTS!!!
You are invited to make an interesting journey throughout Ireland!
You are to do the following:
1. Create your own e-mail box at www.yahoo.com, www.yandex.ru, www.hotmail.com
2. Create your own blog at www.livejournal.com
3. Install ICQ at www.icq.com
4. Install Skype at www.skype.com
This software will be needed for carrying out your task.
All this contact information you are to put on you personal blog.
In order to find new English-speaking pen friends you have to register at www.irishchat.eu Using e-mail, chatting and blogging you will be able to communicate with your new Irish friends via Internet.

The Process
Step 1
The general information about Ireland and Irish people you can find at www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland, http://wikitravel.org/en/Image:Ei-map.gif
Your task is to skip through the information and study the map, to write brief summary about the peculiarities of Ireland and to post it at your personal blog.
Step 2
Let’s take a deeper insight into Irish way of life. You can surf through
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_people
http://www.irishabroad.com/

http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/
http://www.studentsabroad.com/ireland/cultureshock.html
Point the main significant differences between the cultures of Ireland and your motherland. Share your opinion with your pen friend using ICQ or Skype for audio and video conferencing. Post the script of your chatting on your personal blog.
Step 3
Follow the link http://users.bigpond.net.au/kirwilli/famous/statesmen.htm and choose one famous Irish person which you like and discuss his/her achievements ad way of life with your partner.
Step 4
Your final task is to create a booklet about Ireland. You are to pay attention to following aspects:
1) Culture and cultural differences: stereotypes, culture shock, cross-cultural communication;
2) Everyday life: daily routines, families, houses, leisure activities;
3) Customs and traditions: holidays, celebrations;
4) Education: higher education, online-education;
5) Society: globalization, localization, immigration;
6) Global markets: tourism; supermarkets as business, pop industry.
Post your booklet at your personal blog and discuss it with your pen friend.

The Evaluation
The successful completing the Web Quest will give you 60 points. 10 points are given for Step 1, Step 2 and Step 3 (for each of them). 20 points are given for your booklet. 10 points are given for proper using internet tools.

GOOD LUCK!!!

Linguistic psychology center
www.clp.ru
«Cadet» Lexis of the everyday use with the enlarged range of topics. Volume is 2500 notional units. Period of learning is 7-9 months
The program "Cadet" is developed only on the base of the internal test and after the consultation with the linguistic psychologist. To the process of learning according to the program includes 6 on-line consultations with a teacher, 1 consultation with a linguistic psychologist. Different levels ‘Universal’, ‘Traveler’, ‘Basic’, ‘Basic-business’
- Methods CLP use inborn mechanisms of speaking. CLP works in the stream of the communicative approach, that means, it pays main attention to the spoken language, reading, active expansion of vocabulary.
- Consultations with the personal methodologist, teacher, psychologist,
- Use of the program and equipment of Skype
- 70% of the lessons can be conducted simultaneously with other types of everyday activity (mobile regime
- 30% of the lessons require place and time not to be disturbed by anyone (active regime)
-any lesson can be studied in parts
There are 2 types of lessons in the mobile regime- passive and practical. As a result of the passive lessons it is formed the ‘sense of the language’, developed phonemic pitch.
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Result of the practical lessons should be the activation of the passive vocabulary, bases of the correct pronunciation and so on.
Advantages: Charging by the description of the course there is a good methodic base.
-competent approach to the formation of the course taking into the account phsychophysiological peculiarities of a human being.
-there should not be the language barrier
Drawbacks:
=there is no test lesson,
-to my mind in learning must be taken into the consideration not only mechanisms of automatic skills, but also one should realize why and how, go into the heart of the matter.
-there is no information about the getting any documents after finishing the courses.

Activity 1. Adress: http://nclrc.org/teaching_materials/materials_by_language/universal.html 1.The audience: School children from 6 to 16.The range of the native languages of the possible English learners is very great from Russian up to Chinese and Japanese. 2.The main activities are games aimed at revising and activating grammar, enlarging vocabulary. Unfortunately, the site itself is oriented to teachers of English as a foreign language? That’s why it suggests only usual classwork to students, though a bit different from the ordinary class activities. As to teachers, it provides them with means to exchange opinions, like forums and virtual classes to chat. 3. Positive moments: The site provides a good possibility for the teachers of English to communicate and improve their skills. 4. Negative moments: It would be much better if this site gave the same possibilities to children. Activity2. Adress: http://www.bv229.k12.ks.us/bvideas/resources/urbansprawl/wqprocess.htm 1.The audience: those who have just finished school, and High school students/ 2.The knowledge trained: Written English: grammar, spelling, knowledge of written styles Audition: listening to texts, writing short essays about the heard materials. Spoken English: preparation of speeches ( is usually done in case the working place of the student is equipped with the necessary the Internet). Psychological training: teaching to work in groups, creating common ideas and presenting them. General Education: acquaintance with Mega polis’s life, its economy and culture. 3.The main means of communication: For group work: e-mail, forums and blogs. To communicate with the teacher: e-mail, blogs 4.Positive aspects: high level of creativity, interesting presentation, complex way to train skills. The fact that the students know the type of the papers evaluation and the basic evaluation criteria is also very good. 5.Negative moments: I think it would be better if the students could first train each of the abilities separately, just to be prepared for working at such a great project as the one given here: to present a project of the way to survive in a big town. Generally speaking this type of activity is good for those who want to prepare themselves to live in a big town and it’s quite well arranged for the purposes announced. Activity3. Adress: http://www.instantprojects.org/webquest/evaluation.php?AuthorID=5738 The main aim of the Site arrangement: “The difficulty with learning any second language is actually in the details, the nuances of a language. While compulsory education in the Philippines includes English courses from day one, certain common mistakes continue to be made...this despite the speaker's possible mulit-year residency in the United States”. 1.The Audience : the foreigners coming to the United states with the intermediate or Upper –Intermediate knowledge of English? but having problems with grammar and pronunciation. 2..The knowledge trained: Spoken English: combatting with common mistakes. Audition: listening to a recorded text, distinguishing difficulties in pronunciation, making the list of difficulties found. Listening to a text, distinguishing mistakes in pronunciation and mistakes correction. Grammar: distinguishing mistakes in the listened text in the tense usage, voice forms/, mistakes correction. Written English: writing short text using correct tense and voice forms of verbs and using well spelled words. General Education: Learning the culture of Philadelphia and the Dialect of English spoken there. 3. Type of tuition: individual 4. Means of communication : e-mail, podcast, audiovisual means of the Internet communication. Positive aspects: preparation of foreigners to live in the United States( mainly those from Puerto-Rico, but this system may also be used by Russians)? As it gives much information about the live in the country and besides enlarges the vocabulary of the site users/ Negative aspects: The material given there doesn’t give any opportunity for group work, there is no blog work or any on-line conferences or seminars. Generally speaking, the site corresponds to the aims announced. I f we compare all the mentioned above sites, I can say that site is the best as it involves more means of Net communication than other two. Besides, there are more references to additional sites where to get the necessary information.

Current Mood: pessimistic

At last we found each other I mean Tatyana and I!But we don not know anything about Irina Filippova.My Skype name is irine.Yours Irine

Current Mood: nervous

HEllo! My ICQ number is 475388871.

Current Mood: horny

Having read all the articles about specific internet technologies I can say that they support the different language skills. For example we can use World Wide Web not only for developing reading skills, but also writing, listening and speaking .E-mail, blog, wiki not only for writing and reading. Chats, ICQ
are good not only for speaking( one can use audio and video messages) and writing.
So there are different possibilities of the Internet that may be useful in teaching of foreign languages. Lets take into our consideration webquest, as the most effective. Bernie Dodge said "a webquest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that the learners interact with comes from resources on the Internet". So it is good because it provides with an opportunity for authentic language learning.
A webquest has a clear stricture. It is easy to use, motivating, interesting and encouraging for students.
As for the requirements each webquest should contain:
1. Introduction
2. Task
3. Process
4. Evaluation
5. Conclusion