Well, this week was challenging...
Firstly, I'll describe the situation. As I wrote in Introduction discussion I teach English and French and I'm Russian. For three years I've been participating in the project of our university and Universite de Haute Alsace (France) - Russian teachers teach students of the French university Russian Language and Culture.
That's why for this period of time I teach Russian in French. And one of our classes is dedicated to Russian literature. As I have problems with Internet connection at the residence I combined some French texts with English ones in the PowerPoint presentation to let me colleagues see the idea of the presentation and try different options. I won't use this variant during me class -I'll use French one.
What I discovered?
Quite many things. Although some of them were known for me and I use some of them but in a little bit different way. For example, at the beginning of the lecture it's always good to brainstorm a little bit and find out what students already know and so introduce them in the subject. The idea of Think-Pair-Share is a way to make this introduction and engage students in more conscious learning.
The next thing is the fact that PowerPoint presentation is not just a number of slides which follow one another. It's possible to add hyperlinks to other slides or to exterior resources (texts, video, audio). I even didn't think about it before! What a great possibility for distant courses.
I liked the idea of Interpreted lecture - it keeps students in suspense in a way.
ConcepTest and Quick Write are equivalent to the summary of the class when students are to reproduce the main aspects of the material explained.
But I guess the main idea is not to do what I mentioned above but to know that we shouldn't limit ourselves when we reach something, I mean myself when I used PowerPoint presentation just as a visual support consisting of some texts and pictures.
Go ahead! That what I told myself this week.
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