WEEK 4 - And more web sharing!

This week I managed to upload my favourite links from Firefox to Delicious because I finally found the way to do it! However, I still need to tidy up and I never seem to find time to do so :( It's been quite hectic because I travelled to London last weekend and came back on Tuesday – I was lucky to have a long weekend... although time caught up with me! I did my best to manage all the tasks due today, but this time round I've felt a bit lost with Nicenet posts. I'll need to go through them, check links and add some more to Delicious (I've only added a few this week). I would have liked to contribute more, too.

With regard to the use of CALL in writing, reading and vocabulary, I've come to realise that the fact that I didn't have any writing websites saved in my favourites meant I had never found any... or worse: I had never bothered to look for them because it's a skill that maybe we tend to overlook in my kind of school. The curriculum we follow focuses more on the other skills and I guess I usually think: "if they have the right vocabulary and grammar tools, they can manage to write as long as you give them some simple structure tips". But then, again, this course has taught me that my students need much more than that to write correctly. Things that you may take for granted, like punctuation or paragraphing, are a problem for some of my students. Maybe because they aren't very good at writing in their mother tongue either. It's no surprise that, in average, the lowest mark in their mock exam last month was in the writing part! So I'll need to get down to work to try to find ways to improve their performance.