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"Educational Technology: Theory and Practice" TA: Clayton Michael Vader "One purpose of this correspondence with
your students is for our students to experience and practice their
on-line teaching skills (it is highly likely that this is their first time
teaching on-line), since they are obtaining their teacher certificate,
they will become teachers in Texas after their graduation from A&M.
However, please do not feel uncomfortable by our goal, this teaching can
be casual teaching, we do not need to see serious improvement in your students
writing skills by the end of the project, we simply want our students to
experience it and later on be able to express their thoughts. Our
students can just teach one principle (e.g.
an English writing principle) this time, or, as you have suggested, to
simply correct grammar and wordings, and achieve other purposes of
this connection, which include communication with each other, establishing
friendship, and exchanging cultural information. We certainly are
not going to evaluate our students based your students' performance."
(Yu-chih Doris Shih)
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Junior Composition and Conversation Sec C (Teacher: Cecilia Liu & Kate Liu) The peer-tutoring project is a good chance for our students to write/talk to American students about topics they are interested in and improve their English. They are communicating as friends, pen-pals more specifically, but the American tutors also set up instructional goals with our students to conduct online teaching. -- Practice communication skills; -- Practice self-motivated learning. -- Practice introducing our cultures. -- Practice setting up an instructional objective within a short time with a tutor from a distance, follow it through and/or modify it. |
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(from Online Mentorship Rubric) Exchange cultural information - online teaching - online learning - limitations and benefits of online instruction - cross-cultural aspects - other relevant concepts |
revised 9/24/2000 b) Save all the (sent and received) mails in chronological order on a Word Document file. The sent and recieved mails should all be turned in at the end of the project, together with your final report. c) Bi-weekly informal email report to the teacher about how the communication goes (deadlines for the report will be specified by your teacher/supervisor). d) Inform your teacher in case you do not receive mails from your pal for a week and start to keep journal. f) Acknowledgement of help:
If you get help in revising your paper from the American tutor, acknowledge
it by
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