Vsuvka - role internetu v životě učitele

Do schools kill creativity?
Watch + listen carefully and think. Do you agree with Sir Robinson's ideas? What are the implications?

Jak to chodí v Čechách aneb historie sprosťáka z Krupky (další info v odkazech pod články)
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Starting a Website

Today you should start your brand new personal web site. Your own web space serves as a presentation of your individual achievements, as well as the place to upload and publish your projects.
First, read all the tasks, listed below; you can fulfill them in random order.

If in doubt, do not hesitate to ask!

1. Draw the structure of your future web on a sheet of paper. Check the credit requirements on the English Dept. web page to get an idea what the compulsory parts are.

2. Open Notepad (Poznamkovy blok) and write the text you would like to publish in your site. Start with the content of the index page - the first page the user will see. Keep the Internet Safety Rules in mind – do not publish your personal data (the date of birth, phone number, credit card numbers …)

3. Open the WYSIWYG web editor New View (nvu.exe) and explore the possibilities of the software.
Above all, learn how to:

• - modify colours
• - insert images
• - organise the page content using frames (tables)
• - insert links into text and images

Of course there are more elegant ways of editing, but our main aim is to understand the principles of web creation. If you are safe in this field, feel free to apply your creativity and do more!

4. Start new web at webzdarma.cz and upload your files (index.html, images...)

5. Publish the URL of your new web as a comment to this blog. :)


HOMEWORK:
Bring an English textbook (basic school level)  for the next lesson.


Do not forget our three main rules:

1. SAVE, SAVE, SAVE (and upload)
2. NO DIACRITICS, NO SPACES IN FILENAMES
3. ALL-IN-ONE (folder, of course)

...AND MORE:
Ideas and instructions on web page creation: http://www.jakpsatweb.cz/
Musing about your web colours? Read this for inspiration.

Introduction

What are your expectations? What do you believe will be the content of this subject? What do you wish to learn?

Task 1: Write your ideas into the comment to this blog entry.
Tip: If you have a Google account, log in, it will make your commenting easier.

Task 2: Choose your IWB topic
At first, you should choose the topic for your interactive board materials, and list the keywords you want to teach. Into the comments to this blog entry, please include:
1. Topic
2. target group - age, class
3. the textbook you are using
4. the list of 10-12 keywords.
The material will develop the chosen vocabulary in a 45' lesson.
Do not forget to sign your entry.

TASK 3:
Install Smart Notebook and Activ Inspire (full professional versions) into your home computer.

TASK 4:
Start a website at webzdarma.cz

TASK 5:
Download and install NVU - freeware for web page editing.

Role Cards

A huge family is considering a common holiday. Prepare a role card for one family member, which would enable the role-playing group to decide where to travel and what to do there.

Multiple Intelligences

Take some online tests and find yout more about yourself!

Howard Gardner's MI Theory

TEST 1 - Birmingham grid for learning
TEST 2 - MI for Adult Literacy
TEST 3 - JobQuiz

Motivation

What is motivation?


Lots of information you will, surprisingly, find in Wikipedia :)

Some simple, general, practical tips you can find HERE.

1. What is your motivation for studying this faculty?
2. What is your motivation for being in this lesson and doing this task?

Present your answers in the comments to this blog entry.

A compilation of ideas about motivation is available HERE.

You can learn the basics about Affective Domain HERE (Wikiversity, including tasks)

How does our brain work?

This image (click for a larger version) represents one of the easily-demonstrated a phenomenon caused by lateralisation - the distribution of various brain functions between the two hemispheres.

Have you ever tried to ask these questions?
1. What is the origin and purpose of lateralisation?
2. Do all mammals have two hemspheres? And what about birds? Reptiles?
3. What happens when a certain brain centre is damaged?

Learn more about lateralisation HERE (simple basics)or HERE (focus on information processing, aiming at learning styles).
Test your hemisphere dominance (a simple, reasonably valid online test).


The functions of our brain - including learning and acquisition processes - can be observed only indirectly, through our actions. Therefore the world is flooded with various theories concerning learning... but some of them seem to be more empirically supported than the others. Krashen's and Terrel's Natural Approach belongs to them.


"Language acquisition does not require extensive use of conscious grammatical rules, and does not require tedious drill." Stephen Krashen
(Sounds nice, doesn't it?)

Basic summary of Krashen’s Hypotheses

A Summary of Stephen Krashen's "Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition" - brief

Krashen and Terrell’s “Natural Approach” summary

Lectures on Krashen’s Theories