Forum+-+Introductions

by [|Liudmyla Klymenko] - Monday, 3 October 2011, 01:00 PM || [|Reply] || by [|Irina Dygal] - Monday, 3 October 2011, 10:00 PM || I am Iryna Dyhal. I am a teacher of English at specialized school (town Brovary, Kyiv region) with the intensive foreign languages learning. I've been teaching for 5 years already and I really enjoy it. I adore making project with my Ss, especially international ones. Ss of the 10th grade are working the whole academic year at the projects in English and American Literature, Ss of the 11th grade are working at the projects in Country Study. The like it very much and at the end of the year they present their projects with PP presentations. In modern world it is very difficult to imagine our work without technologies. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Liudmyla Klymenko] - Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 01:38 AM || Do you teach at school #5? Say hello to the Vice Director and the Head of Foreigh Language Department. I have very warm memories about this school and the English language teachers who work there. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Helen Onyshchenko] - Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 12:37 AM || I’m Helen Onyshchenko. I’ve been teaching English for 8 years, first at Kyiv school #277, and then at school #5 in Brovary. What I like about teaching is that it’s an endlessly creative occupation and this work never becomes routine. I always come up with some new ideas to my pupils and keep improving our learning strategies. I’m expecting this course to be a great source of inspiration and new ideas for all the participants and their students. As for the websites, [|http://englishtips.org] and [|http://busyteacher.org] are the ones I spend most time at, because they are a real treasure chest for teachers and since I came across them, downloading free worksheets, coursebooks, videos, leveled readers etc. has become my hobby [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Liudmyla Klymenko] - Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 01:45 AM || It's great to meet yet another teacher from Brovary School #5! Englishtips.org is one of my favourite as well. And thank you for the optimistic expectations. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Nataly Katsaran] - Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 12:36 AM Nice to meet you! My name is Nat Katsaran and I'm an English teacher. I've been at school for 15 years and enjoy working with children but not paperwork. I started searching new ways to teach English three years ago and since then computers and i-net have become the part of my life. My favourite sites are British Councils ones and [] where I can find almost all necessary materials. Hope this course will help me to arrange all I find in i-net in a proper way to make my lessons more effective. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Liudmyla Klymenko] - Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 01:51 AM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Kseniia Rozdolska] - Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 04:39 PM || I’m Kseniia Rozdolska. I’ve been teaching English for 5 years. I started to teach English and German for adults at the courses. But then my teacher's life has changed and now I'm teaching primary children. To tell the truth - that's very funny and never becomes routine! But I really want to give my pupils more modern way of studying English, so that's why I'm here. That's nice that nowadays we've got very colourful books with multiroms, so that children can study at home, especially when thay are ill. But I want to try something new and hope to get it during my studying with BC!
 * [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2043/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Liudmyla Klymenko" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2043&course=12"]] || Introductions
 * || Hi, I am Liudmyla Klymenko, the course moderator, and I’m happy to welcome everyone to the //Learning Technologies virtual community//. I work as an ESP instructor for ‘KROK’ University of Economics and Law and I love this job dearly. I’ve been in ELT teacher professional development with the British Council for longer than a decade now, and this is what I enjoy doing even more. The great thing about my occupation is that it never lets you stop learning, and I appreciate each and every opportunity to do so. The websites I visit most frequently are [|http://www.livestrong.com], [|http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk] and [|www.golosved.com] as their contents provide a sound basis for development. This course is yet another chance for me to learn doing things in a new way, and I do hope we’ll enjoy every minute of our co-operation.
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 * || Nice to meet you, Liudmyla!
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 * || Welcome to the course, Iryna!
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 * || Nice to meet you, Liudmyla [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/theme/britcounv3_nav/pix/s/smiley.gif width="15" height="15" caption="smile"]]
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 * || Hi, Helen!
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 * || Join the club, Nat! With such enthusiastic professionals the course cannot be anything, but success!
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 * || Nice to meet you, Liudmyla [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/theme/britcounv3_nav/pix/s/smiley.gif width="15" height="15" caption="smile"]]

[|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Liudmyla Klymenko] - Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 11:54 PM ||
 * [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2043/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Liudmyla Klymenko" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2043&course=12"]] || Re: Introductions
 * || Dear Kseniia,

Happy to meet you! I really hope you'll enjoy doing this course and get ideas to make your young learners classes fun! [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Natalia Kolotova] - Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 11:31 PM || However, when the intensive course is over, high-speed frenzy of the modern world makes many students forget what they have mastered in class... I'd love to create an on-line course which could at least brush up my [former] students' English I hope this course will help me come up with useful ideas in terms of types of exercises, integration of web resources, etc. Big expectations, huh? || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] by [|Liudmyla Klymenko] - Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 12:22 AM || Thank you for sharing your expectations with us. As the proverb goes, 'Great ship - great swimming'. Hope the course will be 'great swimming' for you. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Myroslava Loboiko] - Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 11:41 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Liudmyla Klymenko] - Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 12:33 AM || Welcome to the course! 15 years of teaching experience means a lot in our job. Combined with Learning Technologies the expertise will become a valuable source for creativity and proficiency. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Raisa Istomina] - Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 11:44 PM ||
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 * ||  || Hello, my name's Natalia. I have been teaching ESP for more than 10 years. It is exciting to work with adults who have (at least one) higher education [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/theme/britcounv3_nav/pix/s/smiley.gif caption="smile"]]
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 * [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2043/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Liudmyla Klymenko" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2043&course=12"]] || Re: Introductions
 * || Dear Natalia!
 * [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2035/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Myroslava Loboiko" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2035&course=12"]] || Re: Introductions
 * || Hi! I am Myroslava Loboiko from a picturesque town of Stryi in the west of Ukraine. I've been working at the local gymnasia as a teacher of English and Business English for about 15 years. I am greatly interested in everything connected with technologies. To tell the truth, everything I know about computers, software, multimedia, etc. I have studied myself without any quidance or help. In other words, I self-studied a lot. It's great that the British Council gives the chance to do the course and I am sure I'll manage to do better with IT than before. Moreover, doing this course I'll be able to combine my interests and my job. That's why I'm here.
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 * || Dear Myroslava!
 * [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2040/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Raisa Istomina" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2040&course=12"]] || Re: Introductions
 * || I.m Raisa Istomina.

I'm a university teacher. At the same time I'm a learner. The list of Teacher Development courses is quite long. In my work I teach my students their profession through English to prepare them for job. Also It's interesting to observe the students during their teaching practice in school. I do needs analysis after practice. It helps me to improve my teaching style to make it more applicable. As for the things I'm not satisfied with, of course it's absence of opportunity to use I-net resouses in class on a regular base. I'm here because I have no IT skills and that's why I'm not good at using Internet materials. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Liudmyla Klymenko] - Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 12:41 AM || I'm really happy to see you here. A true professional never stops learning. I can imagine what a challenge this course can be for you personally. However, you're in a good company. I believe, the group will offer their helping hands whenever you need support. Welcome! [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Oksana Choban] - Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 04:40 PM || As I see there are no teachers here from village schools, so I'll be the first. I like playing games with younger pupils and doing projects with senior. So do my pupils. I get interested in this course because just following the book is not very interesting for me and my pupils, its so called "last century". We live in the time of technologies so I think every teacher's task today is to use it in his/her work. During last five years I'm dealing with the problem of technologies and that's why I'm here. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Liudmyla Klymenko] - Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 10:54 PM || it's great that you've finally joined the course! Hope you won't feel lonely here being the only teacher from a village school. To tell the truth, I also used to work in this type of schools and it wasn't worse than in the city ones. What problems with technologies have you dealt with? [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Angela Moninets] - Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 10:58 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Liudmyla Klymenko] - Thursday, 6 October 2011, 02:11 PM || Thanks for such an optimistic spirit in your introduction! I do believe, you'll find many interesting and useful ideas to apply in your teaching practice. Wish you to enjoy the course. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Angela Nikishina] - Thursday, 6 October 2011, 12:44 PM || Thank you so much Have a nice day Angela [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Liudmyla Klymenko] - Thursday, 6 October 2011, 02:25 PM || Welcome to the group! Thanks for mentioning your motivation point. Learning new teaching ideas is even a stronger driving force for professional development than just finding out where to find teaching materials, isn't it? Anyway, I hope you'll benefit from communication with the peers and will enjoy the course. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Vera Moiseenko] - Thursday, 6 October 2011, 05:16 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Kseniia Rozdolska] - Thursday, 6 October 2011, 07:17 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Oksana Choban] - Friday, 7 October 2011, 12:08 AM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Tetyana Yarmysh] - Saturday, 8 October 2011, 02:02 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Liudmyla Klymenko] - Saturday, 8 October 2011, 11:36 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Liudmyla Klymenko] - Sunday, 9 October 2011, 04:18 PM || Here is a short profile of our group as we see it: [|http://infoenglish], [|http://englishtips.org] www.teachingenglish.org.uk [] [|http://www.livestrong.com] [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Angela Moninets] - Monday, 10 October 2011, 01:10 AM || My IT skills definitely need to be scaffolded! ||
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 * || Dear Raisa!
 * [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2039/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Oksana Choban" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2039&course=12"]] || Re: Introductions
 * || Hello, happy to meet you all. My name's Oksana Choban and I'm from Ivano-Frankivsk ferion, Kolomyia district. Eight years ago I started working in the secondary school of Kornych. There are no specialized classes in this school, sometimes it's difficult to work when you have 27 pupils in the English lesson but I try to do my best.
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 * || Dear Oksana,
 * [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2027/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="teacher" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2027&course=12"]] || Re: Introductions
 * || Hi! My name's Angela. It's a great pleasure to meet you all, people from all corners of Ukraine. I've worked in Potava School of English for 7 years. It's a private business so the authorities are interested in their staff development. I adore what I do, the place where I work, the people I am to work with. I started using englishtips.org about 2 years ago to download books and a more recent discovery has been www.teachingenglish.org.uk. I hope to make use of this course since I know almost nothing about using Technologies in a classroom.
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 * || Dear Angela!
 * [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2028/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Angela Nikishina" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2028&course=12"]] || Re: Introductions
 * || Hello,Liudmila and everyone![[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/theme/britcounv3_nav/pix/s/smiley.gif caption="smile"]] My name is Angela Nikishina.I live in Kharkov.I teach English at the University of Economics.I started teaching in 1996.The age of students doesn't matter for me as I enjoy teaching in different age groups.In November 2009 I came back to Kharkov after working for 5,5 years in children's program on Carnival cruise ships (USA).It was not exactly teaching,just using some educational material.There is no British Council in Kharkov anymore and I miss so much the seminars.After coming back I realized how much I need upgrading my knowledge of the available teaching resources.Among the sites I use can be mentioned http://infoenglish,http://englishtips.org .Also my students really enjoy singing songs in English on youtube:it's fun,educational and sets nice atmosphere.I find this course so much useful and look forward to getting acquainted with you all.
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 * || Dear Angela!
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 * || Nice to meet all of you, dear colleagues! We live in different parts of Ukraine, have different interests, experience, age of Ss...! But we are so alike! We try to improve our teaching skills and teach better using new methods, ideas and IT. I try to teach my Ss to use their computers not only for games and chatting but also for getting knowledge and practicing their English. But I'm not sure that I know perfectly how to get it (especially at school lesson with 20 pupils in a group)! So I need some information and real advices how I should do it properly. So that's why I'm here!..
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 * || It's good to see you, dear teachers! That's really difficult, when you are teaching 20 pupils in a group. I had such a situation. It's hard to pay enough attention to every child. And that's a real problem. Because the quality of teaching and studing not like that we expect. I think the computers and IT can really help us and our pupils. So let's learn very hard![[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/theme/britcounv3_nav/pix/s/smiley.gif caption="smile"]]
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 * || As I see I'm not alone here with the problem of big groups...So, let's find some ways out!
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 * || Hi,everybody! It's a bit late to introduce myself but I will do it. I am happy to be in the team of young and enthusiastic learners who are eager to improve their learning and teaching skills. I have been teaching for more than 30 years, 13 of which spent in Science and Maths Specialist High School, have been the most interesting and exciting. I adore my students and afterschool activities which involve participating in numerous national and international projects some of them initiated by the BC. Thanks to these projects I am learning to use IT technologies which motivates me and my students to go ahead and to be leaders, to be global citizens. Unfortunately, there is a big difference in the age between my students and me, and if you don't want to cause your advanced students' smiles you should speak the same language to them and move with the times. My favourite site to search for teaching ideas is www.teachingenglish.org.uk and I hope I will add to the list some more while taking this course.
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 * || Welcome, Tetyana, join the group! The world is really changing very fast and it costs quite an effort to keep up with the time. I hope the course will stand you in good stand for this. Do catch up with the group[[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/theme/britcounv3_nav/pix/s/smiley.gif caption="smile"]]!
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 * || Dear All,
 * we are all teachers of the English language currently working in either primary, secondary or tertiary education
 * our experience ranges from 5 to more than 30 years making up approximately 150 years of the teaching practice (quite a lot to share, huh?[[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/theme/britcounv3_nav/pix/s/thoughtful.gif caption="thoughtful"]])
 * we all enjoy doing our job as it is an interesting (Raisa), adorable (Tetyana Y.), exciting (Nataliia), motivating, always creative (Helen), very funny and never humdrum (Kseniia) occupation
 * what we dislike are large classes, paperwork and luck of proper equipment to use LT
 * our favourites include
 * we expect the Learning Technologies for Classroom course to
 * inspire and provide new ideas
 * build up our IT skills
 * raise awareness of LT and their application
 * structure our prior knowledge and experience
 * assist in keeping up with the Digital Natives and the today's requirements
 * help cope with LT problems
 * assisst in creating own online courses
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 * || Yes! Keeping up with the Digital Natives being the most complicated, as well as bearing in mind the difference in their and our(Digital Immigrants) attitude. It's going to be a matter at issue about how to eliminate or limit the difference.