Webskills Online Course – Week 7

The material written in the articles of Week 7 is very necessary and useful because the learner`s autonomy, one-computer-class and the mobile-phones are available especially in my case. How right and precise is Robert Godwin-Jones (Virginia Commonwealth University) while defining  the autonomous language learning “that developing learner autonomy … necessitates helping the student develop the skills and mindset that can lead to successful self-guided language study”. Then, definitely, this article seems to be about our on-line course when we are all the aunonomous learners and Donna is our teacher and when she offers and suggests various technological tools to try and when the act of choosing to use the great number of Web  gadgets and widgets  leads to deeper mental processing that promotes language acquisition.

“Moving students to the point where they will take advantage of feedback and comprehension aids involves enhancing their metacognitive knowledge about language learning. If they can learn how to build on existing knowledge, how to profit from errors, how to examine more closely the forms they are using, this can only have a salutary effect on their language ability and on their capacity for autonomous learning” – Great Idea!

The technology of a one-computer classroom and/or mobile devices will make the activity effective as it will boost students' confidence and motivation, students will be autonomous learners because they have to analyze when they work on the PowerPoint tasks and while they are writing down the sentences, doing Web-exercises and taking pictures.

ABCD Objective:

After having read the class-assignment at the PowerPoint and done some exercises given (C), then, having worked on the computer to train with Irregular Verbs in the Web (C), the students (A), write down the sentences similar to those they have seen in the Internet exercises on the paper and take pictures of the written by using the Camera feature on their mobile phones, send them into my computer to make me show up immediately in a PowerPoint presentation (B) with a passing score of at least 90% (5 correct sentences) according to the annotated bibliography rubric/scoring guide (D).

As far as the “Week 7 - Project Task #6 – Find a Partner” is concerned, I don`t want to impose myself on somebody and to be a burden instead of the fruitful collaboration, because , I am not that cutting-edge teacher and can`t be a beneficial partner, so I`d like to be assigned by Donna.