Naked Teaching : The Finale

What a week! Another week of  scheming and scanning most of the links provided to us from our dear guide Robert,I came up with useful conclusions that shed light to some parts in my teaching I never considered before.

I felt a familiar feeling while reading about JITT.The feeling 'rekindled' the urge to persist in such activities, and reading about it made me think tactfully on encouraging my other students (younger) to partake in these kind of interactive skills too.

Another point which grabbed my attention was the discussion boards and how efficient and effective they can get in engaging students. Well I can be considered a student right now,and I know perfectly well how discussion boards on Nicenet are attracting us as students to read more,respond more, get engaged more.

A more worth mentioning point was Carolina's earlier blog.She wrote of her students visit to the computer lab and how excited they were on trying new things interactively.Same thing was lurking my mind all day long when I decided to ask for the computer lab(for the 1st time).Actually I got really excited about it and was given the permissionto use it, however for later this month,since it's a holiday for the whole next week. 

I also decided to start the JITT method with my younger students immediately, while I'm guiding my Gr.9 students,and heading to the computer lab for the first time ever in the history of language arts classes in our school.

You think I'm excited or what?! Well there's more.

I made a power point presentation for the first time too! I never thought of it as a significant engaging tool for interactive teaching, for most of the time, when I was presented with a power point presentation, they weren't such memorable instances. Thus, the usage of PPT was never a priority for me, and now I know why.I prepared the PPT for my grade 9 students, discussing how to use comics as a tool for enhancing writing. Students will create their own comics, and write their own story-lines using 

http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/,with the hope of solving the class's indifference for writing. Thus,I will be integrating writing with reading skills.I was a follower of 'naked teaching'. I considered the basis of teaching is excluding all distractions, be it technological or other, at first from the teaching process, and then as a reinforcement use different tools to embed whatever thought. It turned out to be the exact opposite where I need to use loads of tools to engage at first, to teach, and finally activate all the materials studied.

It truly was a fruitful week. Catch you real soon mates.

Eugenie