'DELICIOUS' Week 3

            Thanks to my great and generous colleagues in my web class, this week I’ve made about fifty bookmarks on my delicious page and as the week is not over, and people go on adding to the list, I think I will add many more!
             If someone had told me a week ago I would bookmark with the help of delicious.com, I would not have believed him – A     week ago I knew nothing (!) of bookmarking. All I could do was search with Google and word process… Maybe you will laugh to know that when I wanted a document to be saved, I would save it to my hard disk, or I would create a word document and save  the link there… Now I am proud of myself - I learned how to use delicious.com (how to join it, save on it, add tags, create stacks, follow and unfollow someone else, how to add (and where to take it from) the delicious toolbar) and which is more, I will be able to share the ‘skill’ with other people – my colleagues and students, eliminating the difficulties they might have (as for example, the e-mail address while joining delicious com. should also be .com and not .ru as some people here have). And now I know how I can use delicious from somebody else’s computer, or from my university computer – I believe this will make my teaching much easier. In his blog Salam listed some other bookmarking sites, and I found about some more, including those created in Russia, but among all them delicious.com seems the most popular and convenient.
          The second thing everyone was busy with this week was searching for/remembering sites that could help teach aural/oral skills. I am much grateful to the people in my group – thank you, guys for sharing. Many of my colleagues here, in Kazakhstan, prefer not to share, I believe they think they would be better teachers knowing while no one else does. This is really sad…
And the last but not the least word is about projects of previous participants. To tell the truth, so far I was not able to read all the projects that were offered, I managed to cope with four from the list, but I saved all the rest. Reading projects was helpful on the one hand, and rather distracting on the other – now I have a clear idea of what the instructors await from us in future, and what stages I will go while writing and fulfilling the project, as well as the difficulties I might encounter. The other thing is I am now in doubts which of my classes to begin with, which will benefit more from such changes and which needs such changes more than the rest.  I think I will have to sleep on that… And than one of the projects I read was about students working for their Master’s degree, and then it came to my mind that I have two students who will have to write their ‘diploma projects’, and they work almost on their own and badly need technology being introduced in the process.
          So the main thing the week gave me is much brain food and satisfaction and pleasure and this feeling of gratitude again.