😊Week 3 Summary: The Use of Multimedia in English Teaching😊

From The Use of Multimedia in English Teaching by Zhang Zhen . It can summary that.................
🔎What is Multimedia?
 Multimedia is the use of computers to present text, graphics, video, animation, and sound in an integrated way.
🔎What is the component of multimedia?
There are text, graphics,animation, sound and video.
🔎Why we choose multimedia to assist English teaching?
💥Advantages
- The students will interest in the lesson more.
- The students can learning English independently.
- The students can imagine and create the new thing.
- It is a good opportunities for practicing language.
- Save time , the teachers aren't spend a lot of time  for writing on the whiteboard or blackboard.
- The students will clear in the lesson more.
💥Disadvantages
- Teachers use appropriate multimedia for example some teachers bought CD-ROM courseware for their lesson that is to say that behavior can decrease the role of teacher.
- Some students can't understand in the short time.
- Some teachers can't use multimedia because they lack of special ability.
- Teachers lack of diligence and creation on the multimedia technology.
- The interaction between teachers and students is lesser.
🔎How to make good use of multimedia?
- Coordinate the methods between Modern Teaching and Traditional Teaching Methods.
- Make a relationship between teachers and students.

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😍Week 2 Summary: Weblogs enhancing ELF students' English language learning😍

From Weblogs enhancing ELF students' English language learning by Usa Noytim. It can summary that.................
💥The purpose
1. To inspect students' perception of using weblogs.
2. To inspect the attitude toward using weblogs.
💥Place
This study investigated the potential value of Weblog use on English language learning in the context of a university in Thailand.
💥The participants of this research
The participants of this research were twenty- undergraduate English major female students in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University.
💥Tools
1.Short questionnaires
2.Analysed questionnaires
3.Interview questionnaires
💥Finding
1. Extent of knowledge and Experience with weblogs
    There are fourteen students had the internet at home. Thirteen students had no prior experience to use weblog before studying the course Reading and Writing for Academy Purposes II. Most twelve students did not use Weblogs in their life. And eight students sometimes used Weblogs to contact or discuss with friends.
2.Potential values of Weblogs
   There are many advantage of weblogs use for instance Weblogs as a medium of self-expression online, a tool to develop English language, a good chance to develop writing and reading skill with discuss with other people, encourage their creative, analytical and critical thinking skill and it also created social interaction.
3. Student reactions to Weblog use
    They have a positive attitude and intention to continue using. In addition, nineteen students expect to teacher and friends add comment on their blog. Furthermore, some student tell the disadvantage of blog such as time investment and plagiarism.
4. The Blogs
    Student's blogs and comment were counted and read. The result show 200 blog entries and 898 comment. The blog that is higher number of comment was 158 comment
💥Discussion and Conclusion
     - Weblogs fostered student's self-expression.
     - The students have more confidence in writing.
    - Blogs can comment by every people. Sometimes the foreigner will confirm a real and global audience.
    - The student like the comment easily and easier to exchange idea and also encourage their analytical and critical thinking skills.
     - Blogs fostered a social interjection.
     - Blogs promote student's creative thinking.
 

😸Week 1 Summary: Weblogs for Use with ESL Classes

              

                 In July 12, I learned about Weblogs for Use with ESL Classes.  I got a lot knowledge about  blog. I learned about blog that we can share own ideas easily. However, there are three types of blog according to tutor blog, learner blog and class blog.
                 Firstly,the tutor blog. There are five purposes for writing blog that are it gives daily reading practice to the learner, it promotes exploration of English websites, it encourages online verbal exchange by use of comment buttons, it provides class or syllabus information and it serves as a resource or links foe self-study.
                Secondly, the learner blog. There are manage by individual learners themselves or small collaborative groups of learners. This type of blog is appropriate for reading and writing classes. Furthermore, It also promoted idea when you exchange something.
                 Thirdly, the class blog. There are run by teacher and student. these are blogs that can make discuss between teacher and student from the topic that the teacher give to them. Furthermore, There  also can develop writing skill of the writer. Moreover, you can  discuss or exchange idea with the foreigners if you have friends  from  different countries.
                 To sum up, there are three types of blog and each of blog has a different purpose so you should choose the type of blog that suite for you.