Twitter Implement

             The article Nine-great-reasons-why-teachers-should-use-twitter/ gave me the background of learning and teaching based on twitter, since I am a novice of Twitter. I love the idea of "Together we are better." TrAuely, in school, it is hard to have enough time to talk with colleagues. Accordingly, teachers might loss the oppurtunity to share the great experience with others. I had the feeling of that when I was teaching in Taiwan. With Twitter, I can not only note down the reflection of the class or day but also share the experience with others and vice versa. The amazing part is that we could read the instant feedback by twitter. For my professional development, I would like to share Twitter with my colleagues who are on the same boat as me. The advantage of having discussions and sharing with homogeneous group could make me figure out the problem and solve it efficiently. Neverthless, I will also be the followers of other Twitters in order to expand more ideas.
            As for the article 7 ThingsYou Should Know About Assessing on-line Team-based learning. I'm glad to know the assesment of the on-line team based learning. In order to have my students cooperative learning, I do like to implement this. In my opinion, teachers might be interested in trying new skills of teaching, however, assesment is always a difficult part. Since I teach in elementary school. Based on this article, what I would like to do is have a project-based task and problem-solving task for my students, such as giving a situation and have them discuss on Twitter. From the discussion, though it is group work, I could still see how each individual contribute to the final project which is important for a teacher to assess how the individual works. At the same time, having on-line team-based learning, the process is much important than the result.
           To sum up, Twitter is a useful tool for me to develop my professional field and for my students. I will have respective Twitter, one for my own and the other for my students.

How often do you get your students to read aloud in class?

How often do you get your students to read aloud in class? From this statistics, it's interesting to find out that there are still some teachers never let their students read aloud in class. There's an interesting reading technique "Reader's Theater" that could be applied in class. I think teachers who know this would be willing to try this. Reader's theater is a way of reading in a meaningful and fluent way. Readers have their voice go up and down to bring the characters to life. However, there's study pointed out that it's better not to read aloud because if students try to read aloud they would focus on the pronunciation itself  but not comprehending the content. In my opinion, the way to comprimise these two contrary perceptions is to have students read the materials by themself first to comprehend the content, and then have groups practice reading aloud to make the content more meaningful. Not only readers feel interesting but also audiences feel amazing. In this way, learners have a sense of achievement to reading. As a result, they are more willing to read more and more, and this is what teachers looking for.