Friday, September 30, 2011

Monday, September 26, 2011

To begin with

Hello everyone
I am really excited about typing my first post as the requirement of the online webskills couse.
As a blogger for quite some time, I can say that what really attracts me about blogging is the opportunity it gives to reflect on even unimportant daily encounters, and make it possible to turn these small details of the day into an "experience".
One of the main benefits of keeping a teaching blog then is to dig into what is going on in our classes, and evaluate it with a critical point of view.
Now, I think it would be appropriate to go on with introducing my working environemnt and the classes I will be teaching this term because it is a nice coincidence that today is not only the beginning of our course but also the Fall Term at my university.
If you have read my message on the Nicenet , you must already know I am university instructor at Akdeniz University, a state university located in Antalya-Turkey, . I am a member of the School of Foreign Languages. This term I will be teaching ESP to the students of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, third and fourth year students. Even though the classes may sound enjoyable and challenging, the challenges are far from the nature of the course itself but mainly about the class sizes, heterogenous language level of the students, slow or inadequate internet connection.For this reason I am really wondering about to what extent I can apply what I will be learning in our webskills course.so this is going to be quite an experimental term for me.
Finally, I would like to say that it is a great thrill for me to be able to communicate with you all from here and I am looking forward to reading your comments.
Nice day