Learnings of the Week:
WOW!
A very hectic week! I have never studied so much after my Post Graduation; but
I have not learnt as much before as well.
Beginning
this week, I came to know about the various kinds of search engines using
noodletools
Then
I was amazed at the various search engines as well as library resources
available to a teacher or a researcher. Intute helps us investigate annotated
academic sites. One of the participants in the forum on online search also
shared this link which I found very good.
It
helps us to or rather guides us in using the various online resources for
classroom teaching.
Earlier
I did not know that the world of the search engines lay beyond our dear old
google and bing. One of the better websites that I found for educational
research is http://education.iseek.com/iseek/home.page.
I was searching for matter on listening comprehension and it did provide me
with very good material on that.
I
must state that beyond these websites, I discovered one very good website while
net surfing and that is www.answers.com. The good thing with this website is
that it has links to most of the encyclopedias online
including Wikipedia and Encyclopaedia Britannica to name just the
two.
Accessing
original documents/ letter written by George Washington or Abraham Lincoln is a
dream for all of us here in India. Searching American memory at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ helped
me see some of the letters of some of the greatest men in the history of mankind.
I also saw some of the letters of the author I did my Ph.D. on i.e. Henry
Miller.
I have a very long list
of what I did during the week on web search which I will not discuss here.
I also managed to
describe my classes and after the suggestions of my colleagues I decided to
take the BA Semester I class on poetry for the purpose of writing my final
project.
During this week I was
more interactive with most of the participants in the group and have developed
one to one interaction with Jasmina, Cherry, Muhamad, Sankarakumara and others.
Thanks to Jasmina, I was able to remember an activity which I had created
during my days as a teacher in law school. In order to assist her, not only did
I document that activity step by step but also posted it on this blog.
But I still have more
friends to make and have to improve my writing skills so that more and more
colleagues comment upon my posts.
This week I also decided
to open this blog to my students for their training into poetry.
I am eagerly looking
forward to the assignments of the next week.
Towards the end, I would
like to invite all my friends to make a list of the films that can be used for
motivating teachers. I will start with a few myself.
1. Dead Poets Society
2. To Sir With Love
3. Mona Lisa Smile
Waiting for your
suggestions
Ashish Pande
Hi Ashish
ReplyDeleteI am Ravinarayan Chakrakodi from RIE, Bangalore. I'm very glad that you've made your blog accessible to your students! I'm looking forward to their comments...
Some of the other films you can show to your teachers are:
My Fair Lady
Fiddler on the Roof
Colour of paradise
Sound of Music
Life is Beautiful
It was nice reading your blog! Keep blogging...
Best
Ravi
Definitely check out Freedom Writers!
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