martedì 19 maggio 2009

My next target: Keep On Learning!!!

Now I’m realizing that I’m at the end of my University career! I’m attending the very last English lessons and in a week nobody will tell me what I should do to improve my skills. After the end of the academic lessons, the risk of feeling lost and losing my linguistic knowledge is very high! For this reason, I think a mindmap of my PLE is very useful because it will remind me about all the means I can use to keep on practicing the English language.

My PLE focuses on four aspects: tools, activities, context and people. First of all, my mindmap aims to show where I can improve my English (context) and it provides a list of all the activities that I usually do: reading, listening, writing and gathering information. Then, there is the part concerning the formal and informal tools that I can use to do the different activities. The majority of the tools that I wrote on the mindmap are connected to the Internet, which I think will play an important role in my future learning activities. Finally, there is a part focusing on the people that helped (e.g. teachers) or will help me (e.g. classmates, future colleagues at work, friends…) to better my skills.

This mindmap is not fixed and there is still the possibility to add something, especially concerning the tools I can find on the Internet. I hope my map will change and extend as I improve my skills. I really hope this map will help me to keep on learning and making progress!!!

Ilaria.


1 commento:

  1. Ilaria, I couldn't find your email, so here's what I wrote to the others...

    Dear all,

    This part of the email is to all of you. First of all, thanks to everyone for accompanying me in this journey through English and the Web. I understand that it’s different from what you were used to doing at University, but I can only hope that it proved to be useful in the end. This is my last year of teaching for a few years so I, like you, feel both relief and a bit of sadness  Three years ago I was ‘told’ I would have to reduce my hours at Engineering and do the laurea specialistica at Lingue. I was not pleased at the time, but was ‘forced’ to do it. Three years down the road, I can say it has been a wonderful experience. You all have different reasons for being at University, but what is clear is your desire to learn and that is extremely important in life. So I am happy I have had the opportunity to work with you.
    Grades? This is what you are all really interested in, right? ;-) Well, here’s some insight into my grading. As you all saw, I keep track of everything, participation, blog posts, comments, etc. so you’re final grade is a mix of these and the mid-semester grade most of you got. Know that I’m a believer in not ‘regalare i voti’. I know you all did a lot for these 3 CFU, but I also had to consider our ‘C1’ goal when assigning grades. As always, I’m open to dialogue if you don’t understand your grade. And, I’m pleased to say, this semester nobody is less than a 27 (last semester we had 23s!).
    30 – I think you’ve more or less achieved a C1 level (though know you need to work more on accuracy!) and you participated actively and were extremely motivated.
    29 - You participated actively and were very interested and just need that little extra bit of work on accuracy to reach a real C1.
    28 - You participated actively either in class or online (not necessarily both) and were very interested and still need to work on accuracy to reach a real C1.
    27 - You participated actively either in class or online (not necessarily both) and were interested but still need to work on accuracy to reach a real C1.
    I have sent your grades to Prof. Taylor and she will average them with her grade and register them in your libretto. As a CEL I can’t register grades ;-)

    Best to all for a great summer – and life!

    Sarah

    Your grade: 29

    P.S. I only had you for one semester, but found you are very motivated. I hope, as you say in your title, that you will keep on learning!

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