A New Start

Among these tasks, I like keeping the blog most. I like being free; I am more fond of the idea that I may avoid following some directions, which tend to restrict my thinking  to certain forms, such as ABCD objectives. But it doesn't mean I will scribble down whatever in my mind. Contrarily, from these weeks’ experiences, I come to develop a rule embarking on keeping the blog. Not awaiting the time to write, then I start to think what to be involved in the blog. Instead, I record ideas flashing through my mind. By so doing, once starting, I only have to organize my ideas. And I won’t end up with a nonsense scrawling.

While glancing through the websites of writing and reading, I did feel it is rewarding to attend the course: so many websites to foster my teaching. Most of them are delicately organized ones, and free of charge. Besides, these websites are categorized according to different purposes: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. While teaching, I am always anxious what activity I should adopt to interest learners and so benefit them. Therefore, I often beat my brains out, and now these websites allow me to gain a convenient access to ideas, approaches. In addition, I should say I am kind of surprised to learn some participants are able to share with us useful and practical websites. All the websites resemble a door to another level of teaching English. Awesome!

Before making up my lesson plan, I actually worry that it might be a hard task. But after looking over some from Baltimore County Public Offices of Technology Instruction, the anxiety dispels. Clear and simple, not complicated at all. Indeed, a lesson plan should be drafted in this manner. Just think about the real teaching scenarios. A teacher has so many lessons to teach, but if writing a lesson plan becomes a stupendous task, then lesson plans will not be planned. While I was earning my teacher license, it is a colossal task to write a lesson plan. Then, I felt it was way too impractical. That kind of lesson plan was ironically written for professors’ examination only,  not in a real teaching setting. In fact, that horrible experience causes me to have a fear for writing lesson plans.

Finally, I start to reconsider the upsides of using Delicious. Perhaps, I will have a different thought about it some time later. By the same token, I trying using an alien browser. Internet Explorer is my habitual browser, but I trying getting accustomed to using Chrome to cater to the course. The new software and browser will likely oblige me to raise myself to a new level in the use of technology in teaching English. And, I believe I just need time to get used to them well.