Week 8 Teacher Resources Online

I did a lot of things this week. First half of the week was devoted to the work of the first draft of the project report. After it was done, I began exploring different tools for building class sites or making online and offline exercises. Then I followed Jeff Magoto’s introduction and explored the free Course Management System ANVILL. It is completely new to me and I like the idea of media-rich discussion tool which can generate an authentic communicative language learning context for learners. But it is a pity that I don’t have the condition to apply this tool with my students now. I am thinking if I could run it on a smart phone maybe I can use it with my students. Another important thing for me to do this week was the peer review. My partner was Mr. Rudi Hartono from Faculty of Languages and Arts, Semarang State University, Indonesia. I have read Mr. Rudi’s report once and finished parts of the checklist. But I am still planning to go over the report again. Mr. Rudi has done a wonderful job about his report, but there are still some things I am not very clear about. For example, in the background section, we are supposed to talk about the course goals. But are the course goals the goals for the course you currently teach or the goals for the design of your project? I think it is better that we two could have a discussion about the details and then we can make better improvements of our projects report.