Week 4

Testing period.  Grading papers. Regular classes,  Daily chores ... I don't want to sound alarmist but since we have to reflect on this week, this is the first thing that comes to my mind. Next week is even worse becuase I am not done with grading yet and I don't know what we are expected to do for week 5. I hope we can make testing and correction less tedious so we can devote our time to more teaching and learning. Speaking of learning, week 4 seemed to me like the second part of week 3 since we had to deal with the 4 skills (Listening, Speaking and Pronunciation) and now (Reading, Writing and Vocabulary) and how they could be enhanced with technology. I still have the same remarks about the recency of some articles though I enjoyed reading them all, epsecially Larry J. Mikulecky's about using online children and young adult's literature in teaching reading. I want to reiterate my admiration for the "breakingnews.com" and "manythings.org" websites. Two gold mines.The tasks were very practical since we learned how to integrate the technology component in our lesson plans, not per se but as a tool that would provide a solution to a pedagogical problem in class. That's it because I need to go back to the stack of papers that are waiting for me. I know that on Monday, the first thing my students are going to ask about is their grades and I wouldn't like to tell them that I haven't finished yet.