Dear Students,
You have now been with us for 2 days. It would be great if you could give us some feedback about the course so far ... We welcome any comments.
Caroline
Thursday, 29 March 2007
Wednesday, 28 March 2007
Blogging
Dear Students,
I hope you enjoyed the lesson today. For more information about using blogs as a resource you can visit this article from the British Council website.
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/resources/blogging.shtml
Over the next few days I hope that many of you will post comments on the blog, and hopefully some of you will create new posts (you have my username and password, follow the instructions I gave you). Some of you have said that you would like to start your own blog, I am happy to assist next week (I'm not here on Friday), however in the meantime you might find that you are able to do it yourself, just go to www.blogspot.com and follow the instructions (if you do start your own blog, don't forget to post a link on Permians2!).
Finally a piece of advice, don't forget that with so many other things in life, using computers and blogging is often a question of "trial and error"' ... if an icon looks interesting, don't be afraid to click on it, if it links you through to another website that's good, if nothing happens you have lost nothing in trying. As you know, making mistakes is part of learning, it's all part of the experiential process ... mistakes are fine, experimenting is fantastic, and anyway I believe it's almost impossible to damage the university computers!
Once again, happy blogging!
I hope you enjoyed the lesson today. For more information about using blogs as a resource you can visit this article from the British Council website.
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/resources/blogging.shtml
Over the next few days I hope that many of you will post comments on the blog, and hopefully some of you will create new posts (you have my username and password, follow the instructions I gave you). Some of you have said that you would like to start your own blog, I am happy to assist next week (I'm not here on Friday), however in the meantime you might find that you are able to do it yourself, just go to www.blogspot.com and follow the instructions (if you do start your own blog, don't forget to post a link on Permians2!).
Finally a piece of advice, don't forget that with so many other things in life, using computers and blogging is often a question of "trial and error"' ... if an icon looks interesting, don't be afraid to click on it, if it links you through to another website that's good, if nothing happens you have lost nothing in trying. As you know, making mistakes is part of learning, it's all part of the experiential process ... mistakes are fine, experimenting is fantastic, and anyway I believe it's almost impossible to damage the university computers!
Once again, happy blogging!
Course outline
Below is a brief outline of what we will cover over the next 8 days. Any comments are welcome:
The role of weblogs and "Virtual Learning Environments" in language teaching
The role of the internet in research
Evaluation and exploitation of resource websites aimed at teachers of English
An overview of current ELT methodologies, including Communicative Language Teaching, Task Based Learning, and The Lexical Approach
Tuesday, 27 March 2007
Eating out in Manchester; Recommendations exchange
Hi there,
As you probably know, Britain is not famed for good food. There ARE good places to eat, but there are also a lot of horrible (and expensive!) places to eat; you have to make an effort to locate the good places. Therefore, I thought it would be useful to have a section on our blog for us to exchange recommendations about places where good food can be found. I'd like to start by recommending "The Soup Kitchen", because Irina mentioned yesterday that Russians love soup! It's located in Manchester's Northern Quarter, actually it's just around the corner from where we are having our excursion to The Police Museum tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon, so I'll show you where it is then. You can find out more about it on the "links" below, double click on the left button on your mouse and you will directly through to that website.
I look forward to you posting more recommendations on this page!
Caroline
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/real_food/article603704.ece
www.whathappenedlastnight.net/manchester/restaurant/the%20soup%20kitchen
As you probably know, Britain is not famed for good food. There ARE good places to eat, but there are also a lot of horrible (and expensive!) places to eat; you have to make an effort to locate the good places. Therefore, I thought it would be useful to have a section on our blog for us to exchange recommendations about places where good food can be found. I'd like to start by recommending "The Soup Kitchen", because Irina mentioned yesterday that Russians love soup! It's located in Manchester's Northern Quarter, actually it's just around the corner from where we are having our excursion to The Police Museum tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon, so I'll show you where it is then. You can find out more about it on the "links" below, double click on the left button on your mouse and you will directly through to that website.
I look forward to you posting more recommendations on this page!
Caroline
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/real_food/article603704.ece
www.whathappenedlastnight.net/manchester/restaurant/the%20soup%20kitchen
Welcome to Manchester!
Manchester welcomes another group from Perm, who are looking fantastic inspite of jet lag!
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