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Paperless teaching at ChungKang College « Surprisesaplenty's Blog — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:41:18 +0000

[...] sending a great deal of information to the student (including early drafts of lectures, which I previously blogged about) but I don’t see information transfer that couldn’t happen this year or last [...]

By: surprisesaplenty

surprisesaplenty — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:56:19 +0000

Good to hear from you, Dan.

sounds like a great list of activities.

As yet, I don’t think I am able to hand out an entire semester’s worth of plans and notes. I could have done so for my previous university – and the dedicated blogs I used for each year (first, second, third) did contain a lot of that info – but I am still adjusting a little to the new position.

Will I see you at KOTESOL in October?

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 08:03:18 +0000

Hi ho Brian! Actually I give them the whole lecture notes load for the semester in advance via USB and for many students it’s the first time they needed a USB. I deviate very little from those notes as they form most of the lecture. We read together in class and I ask questions about the difficult or new vocabulary with comprehension questions embedded in that too. This we also print out as the course text and study from in class through the overhead slides. Also I give the whole homework load for conversation classes in advance too.

For this year I added a new home study listening feature “the BBC 6 Minute English program” which rotates weekly as well as selecting one more BBC English learning activity per student’s preference from their extensive site.

An additional feature which has been some time in preparation is a group study schedule as part of general conversation class homework. I despaired at lack of out of class speaking practice so implemented groups of four on a random selection with a captain of each group handed a copied volume of “Business Communication Games.” Each four member group must meet once a week with another group for one hour of games and activities they select either from this text or websites such as bogglesworldesl.com They submit a short summary of activities along with each written homework assignment. It gives them some freedom and I get to delegate.

Cheers, Dan