Reflections on the Webcasted Presentation by Dr. Nellie

In the last Saturday In  EDU401 class .At  the beginning of the class  Dr, hala told us a funny story  then,  we  had virtual class with Dr ,Nellie .It was fun and new experience for me . The class was interactional. We made chatting with each other's and with some teachers in linguistic department  and teacher from another country. Dr, Nellie was the presenter of a virtual class .The network was very slowly we can't hear clearly .She gave us a web-casted presentation about using virtual classes in teaching .She describe some tools and files to show us. she was write, draw and highlight on the whiteboard .The white board was consists of various components such as various shapes, lines, eraser, pointer, etc. We were chatting and listen in the class at same time but actually it was a nice class.                                                                                                                                                  

  In my view ,there are many benefits to use virtual classroom  for students  provides an interactive online environment for teaching  makes it possible for students to interact with teachers at different times and at various locations and Property direct interaction with sound only or sound and image, Creates an environment of active and exploratory learning. Students that are performing poorly in certain subjects can join virtual classrooms to boost their grades. They are able to keep a stronger learning atmosphere for all students than in traditional learning classrooms. This enables learners to be taught by a variety of different experts in the field of their choice. This also allows for quality teaching even in communities. Students are able to use different web based learning tools to boost their skills. 

 Finally, I would use virtual classroom in future for my students is too important use technology in classroom to provide to the students  better understanding in classroom . Virtual classrooms help us bring experienced faculty from all over the world. Using virtual classroom is important to the student they can find group and individual activities, discussions, quizzes, etc. It's  useful way that it can provide students more participant  and interactional.. .

The role of WeQuests in learning a foreign/second language?

Webquests are a very common way of using Web resources to research a variety of topics and to develop both written and oral communication. A webquest is a research activity that requires the learner “to collect information about a subject using the web. WebQuests also have the ability to integrate on-line resources with student-centered, activity-based learning. In addition, the concept of Internet discovery has improved the ability of the student to construct  own learning through WebQuest activities.

 

 Web Quest gives students the functions and specific activities to enable them to use sources of knowledge available to solve the problems raised in addition to learning life skills such as discovery, reasoning and inference and generalization, so the responses when dealing with the knowledge is not specified in advance, but there is creativity and learning an active and sustainable. Web Quest is a modern and fantastic occupancy and activation of the students to explore knowledge in a planned and sequential through educational activities, methods of teaching education depends on information technology and work groups such as the methods of problem solving and active learning effective, which makes the student center of the educational activity . Critical thinking cannot be taught by lecturing. Critical thinking is an active process, while, for most students, listening to lectures is a passive activity. The intellectual skills of critical thinking--analysis, synthesis, and reflection--must be learned by actually performing them. Classroom instruction, homework, term papers, and exams, therefore, should emphasize active intellectual participation by the student. This WebQuest is designed thematically to enable students to acquire critical thinking skills. The emphasis of this WebQuest is for students to discover new information which will allow them to become independent thinkers. Webquests allows students from many locations to work together while learning about a particular subject and searching for information.                                                                                                                                                                 In my opinion, Web Quest allows students to explore specific issues and achieved self-knowledge and achieve the building of his own knowledge and creativity and the student can deal with the knowledge in a way beneficial process does not depend on the conservation and memorization