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REFLECTION ON WEEK 2 OF ICT COURSE

Module 2 has provided me with a number of ideas on what tools should be used to search for general information, e-books and journals for my post graduate studies and my teaching jobs. In the breakout room, my classmates have shared the search engines they frequently use for their jobs. I found Bing interesting as it helps us look for information without being disturbed by commercials. I myself think pdfdrive.com is another useful site if you want to search for e-books on linguistics or English language teaching. You can download the books for free of charge. Besides, we have discussed how to apply ABCD (Audience-Behavior-Condition-Degree) objectives into our teaching context. To be honest, I didn't know much about the model and rarely applied it into my lesson plan. After the discussion, I think ABCD objectives help me understand more deeply about my students' level, the teaching situations and the outcomes they may achieve through a certain lesson. The model encourages me to look back the lesson plans I have made and make some changes in order to have a more effective lesson.

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Thanks for your sharing, Ms Ngu. I love the way you designed your post, and the information about ABCD Objectives as well.

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