Hi everyone,
This week was quite hectic and informative.
The week began with a visit to Eravikulam National Park, Munnar with a group of 35 students from our school. The camp was sponsored by the Forest Department, Government of Kerala. Every year we take our learners to different forests in Kerala. These camps give us a lot of energy for the rest of the days in the year. These camps teaches the students and teachers the need of protecting the nature; its flora and fauna.
If the effect of trekking was spiritual, the effect of doing assignments for the course is intellectual. I think I am exposed to greater plains in the teaching and learning of EFL. I could bookmark a lot of sites this week. I was closely following the sites recommended by my friends. Many of them are really inspiring.
Writing a technology-enhanced lesson plan was the biggest challenge that I faced this week. I do not know whether what I attempted is right. The immediate response from Safa and from others made me revisit my lesson plan. Peer responses make the endeavour interesting. This is a very positive sign. The other interesting thing is 'narrowing down' the issue in the classroom. If somebody asks about the problems in our class, we will have a number of them. But, here the chiselling down of the issues to a very narrow area makes everyone a researcher.
Thank you
Best Wishes
Sujith
About the place I visited:
Eravikulam National Park, Munnar harbours the largest surviving population of Nilgiri Tahr (Hemitragus Hylocrius).
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| Nilgiri Tahr |
It is also rich with exceptionally rare orchids. The spectacular mass flowering of the shrub Neelakurunji (Phlebophyllum kunthianum) takes place in this grasslands in cycles of the 12 years. The entire hills will be blanketed with the violet flowers. We could only see the plants now. It will bloom on 2018.
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| A blanket of Neelakurinji Flowers |
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| Neelakurinji plant |
Hi Sujith,
ReplyDeleteYou are right that its getting more and more hectic these days because of our regular work and now even the course demands actual input of insights. You have been doing nice job.
Keep it up,
Tushar
Hello Sujith,
ReplyDeleteI hope you succeeded in doing all the tasks of week 4 despite the fact that you were busy with your students at the camp. What a wonderful place it is and very nice pictures. I hope it's warm there now. Perhaps much warmer than in my country where we have about 6ยบ C and it's quite chilly. I've never heard about the shrub Neelakurunji that blooms every 12 years. It's amazing and looks really very beautiful!
Enjoy your time there whenever you visit it!
Regards,
Egle
Hi Sujith,
ReplyDeleteI like these field trips that enrich students' experiences and give them a sense of belonging to their own country. Thanks for sharing.
As you said our dear classmates are so inspiring with their attempts to be and to do the best for themselves and students. You're no exception! We've to keep trying though the challenges are many. The course helps us to find a way out.
Congratulations on all that you do.
Safaa
Hi Sujith,
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on enjoying yourself on the field trip and sharing those beautiful pictures. I agree with Safaa that field trips enrich students' learning and I would like to add here that this is a very hands-on kind of learning which is simply unforgettable. At the web skills course we are moving towards this hands-on learning too and I enjoyed reading your contribution to Tech-enhanced lesson plan.
I hope in the coming days we are going to learn a lot from each other.
Best wishes,
Rajinder
Hi Sujith,
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing and showing the pictures; it's so refreshing! I'm glad you could go over all your commitments of the week, I know it was quite tough but you did it!
All the best,
Colomba