The blog I was to moderate was MGOSGI FFL: Methodology in Action, particularly a part of it connected with Project 4. My task as an admin was to check other students' online work on Spotlight 7 and inform them of their mistakes, if there were any. I can't say it was difficult to do this, as in fact I just had to read messages and watch videos. Some kind of trouble appeared later, when it was high time I provided the final report, but not everybody had been ready with their work by the moment. But that's a usual thing, I believe, and a quite normal one. I expected the work of moderator to be much harder, actually. But, most likely, this was nothing compared with what could come!
This kind of work was quite new for me, for I haven't made up any learning aid before. I must say it was a useful experience, for I had a good chance to test my own listening comprehension as well. I must say I became engaged in the task at once from the moment I pushed the "Play" button and sometimes even forgot that I was watching the video for educational purposes! So it was just difficult to listen and to write down tasks simultaneously.
And here're some posts I've contributed in some other blogs. All of them are intended for deep learning and so have educational purposes - but still it was very interesting to search for all this information. Some of them are connected with art, others - with cinema and theatre, the third ones - with holidays in different countries (Russia, Britain and the US in our case), the fourth ones - with our future specialization of foreign language teachers. Nevertheless, it was nearly of the same interest to search for information about some famous actor, about a festival in a foreign country or some celebrity's birthday, and for some videos on your Spotlight topic. Of course, much time was spent on all this, but not in vain, I hope.
I had thought I knew a lot about Microsoft Word, but couldn't expect there were still so many services and options I had never used. I'd seen interactive texts with hyperlinks, and now I know how to create them! What a progress!
And here're some Microsoft Word samples I had to deal with. Frankly speaking, I don't think they'e very convenient, for you have to re-establish everything to your taste, so that much time is spent on this. What I liked, nevertheless, were sertificates. Brochure Leaflet Diploma Invitation Schedule
Microsoft Excel appeared to be very useful to put down there test results. You don't have to count everything mechanically, as there're a number of special options making it easy to sum or multify numbers in a moment! Grammar Test Results
Audacity
The next program I've learned to work with is Audacity. Maybe it isn't a new one, but it's still possible to create something out-of-ordinary if you can use this one proficiently. We had to record and process our voices here, but one can also edit music files and convert them into a suitable format.
Movie Maker
Movie Maker was a pleasure for me to work with! Honestly, I've always enjoyed creating films - maybe not films, but clips, but all the same. In fact, I had known already what to do in this program - the only news for me was to add my voice there and somehow combine my comments with the background music in Film 1. That was difficult, but really informative and useful, I hope.
Here're my films: Film 1 (about Pierre-Auguste Renoir):
Of all kinds of work performed online, one of the most important was our participation in the 3rd-year forums. I should say, it was an interesting experience, though at first sight we were just expressing our impressions of various things. What I liked most were experiments with Photofunia and Tuxpi, as well as comments on visiting the Tretyakov Gallery and the Ozerov House.
For our practice all of us had to create a Google account and learned how to use its mail service, Gmail. I hadn't used this browser before and certainly had nown nothing about its services, but now I know it's the same system as mail.ru, for example. For business and just for communication it's very convenient!
ARTBABBLE
Next, we were to leave 2 comments on Artbabble (mine were the ones on pictures by Claude Monet and by Vincent van Gogh), having registered there beforehand (by the way, it's only for that I had to create an account on Facebook). I rather liked this site, really, for a huge amount of data is collected here on various painters, both world famous and those not yet recognized, and their masterpieces. Besides, I learned much about various techniques used in art, and even saw some theatrical performances.
ONLINE POLL
My poll was about Russian painters (I just wanted to know if the others were aware about any). Well, I was rather disappointed to learn that the test was difficult for many - in my opinion, the questions were rather simple! But, after the visit to the Tretyakov Gallery, I saw that my groupmates became well-informed about and even interested in painting! And, about the poll itself: I believe this form of questioning, which seems very promising, will help me in my work in the future.
One more poll we were to make ourselves and to take part in was intended to test our grammar. First of all, each of us had a special grammar topic (for instance, The Sequence of Tenses in my case), and then created a test on this base. It was not an unusual kind of work, for we had to deal with such tests before, but still it was not easy to make up tasks. Besides, we learned that there're fields in grammar we still knew not very much of))
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