https://padlet.com/donaldsarg45/n0y0yqhgc8yh Made with wonder en-us 2017-03-01 04:45:23 UTC 2017-04-06 07:06:04 UTC hello@padlet.com donaldsarg45 https://padlet.com/donaldsarg45/n0y0yqhgc8yh/wish/156924490 I suppose it is getting better but I feel like Sisyphus pushing the boulder up hill and he never gets to the top]]> 2017-03-01 04:46:12 UTC https://padlet.com/donaldsarg45/n0y0yqhgc8yh/wish/156924490 donaldsarg45 https://padlet.com/donaldsarg45/n0y0yqhgc8yh/wish/157283385 I plan to put some of my reflections on padlet because only by using it will I be able to reduce my technophobic fear and so be able to become an efficient user of this form of electronic communication
I suppose I liked day one more because it was more face to face hands on communication. Of course CLT is not new to me as I was almost on at the beginning in the 60s and 70s. Nevertheless I learned new things in particular how you can use L1 as an aid to communication. This can be combined with the idea of bilingual role plays I learned at a recent workshop. I have often been skeptical of people relying entirely on L1 
as I see that this was to some extent a way where monolingual native English speaker EFL teachers could claim ownership of the EFL profession]]> 2017-03-02 11:35:10 UTC https://padlet.com/donaldsarg45/n0y0yqhgc8yh/wish/157283385 donaldsarg45 https://padlet.com/donaldsarg45/n0y0yqhgc8yh/wish/157828293 This was mainly on the Lexical approach which is a good deal older than ten years as I remember Michael Lewis giving an excellent lecture on it in Poland in the mid 1990's. 
What I particularly liked about this session was the opportunity to share ideas with colleagues on how we could make communicative activities using vocabulary, though I have found the speed at which we have raced through during these two days has left little time to reflect on what we have worked on. I think that if we do not practice what we preach when we train that it is likely to have little impact as the message becomes confused and the message that may linger in the learners mind is that we did not reflect, rather than reflection being an important part of learning. 
However, I do feel that adapting tasks in the text books to make them more communicative is excellent and would have liked to have seen something like this in Unit 4. Task 8 I found rather trivial as the words we were asked to discover that did not collocate were not well chosen in my opinion. For example, for teachers the word combination of 'revise an exam' is certainly possible as teachers often revise exams before giving them to students. Perhaps it is not a strong collocation, but it certainly is a possible combination]]> 2017-03-05 10:04:21 UTC https://padlet.com/donaldsarg45/n0y0yqhgc8yh/wish/157828293 donaldsarg45 https://padlet.com/donaldsarg45/n0y0yqhgc8yh/wish/157829326 I am writing day three on the following Sunday which means that five days have come and gone since getting down to this task. This is a mistake; reflection, at least a first stage, of it needs to be completed soon after the event.  This is where description is important in reflection for if we cannot describe what happened how can we reflect on it. Now it is the next day and the memory of that day three has further receded.]]> 2017-03-05 10:20:58 UTC https://padlet.com/donaldsarg45/n0y0yqhgc8yh/wish/157829326 donaldsarg45 https://padlet.com/donaldsarg45/n0y0yqhgc8yh/wish/157959116 This was the last day and we had some hands on experience with Padlet, Quizlet and Kahoot. I enjoyed this because they were explained step by step and at each stage we were given time to practise. For me, if I am to enjoy working with these apps I need to have assistance in coming to terms with them. Once I have got the hang of the technology I can them utilize them to help me teach.]]> 2017-03-06 09:46:31 UTC https://padlet.com/donaldsarg45/n0y0yqhgc8yh/wish/157959116