WEEKLY REFLECTION 

(NOVEMBER 25-29)

Today, I completed the second week of teaching practice. I had completed one poem 'The First Shower' and some language activities. I have just started the last story of the fourth unit,'A Day In The Country'.I used the teaching aids like chart, flash cards and ICT to improve the efficiency of teaching process. I also took part in serving the mid-day meal programme. 

ICT LESSON PLAN -FIRST SHOWERS

NAME OF THE TEACHER TRAINEE : THUSHARA T.S.

NAME OF THE SCHOOL                   :A S H S S PARIPALLY

SUBJECT                                              : ENGLISH

UNIT                                                     : IV FLOWERS AND SHOWERS

THEME                                                 : NATURE

SUB THEME                                        : HARMONY IN NATURE

CONTENT ANALYSIS

First showers is a beautiful poem written by the well-known Indian poet Nalini Sharma. In which she speaks about the changes that the rain brings. First, she tells how the rain soothens her 'frayed nerves' and removes the strain from her face because of her work. She walks with unsteadiness because of getting wet but still she enjoys the rain and the changes it was bringing in.

CIRCULAR OBJECTIVES

The learner

i)                 develops listening speaking reading and writing skills.

ii)                enhances creative and critical thinking

iii)               identifies poetic devices and its usage.

iv)               develops imagination and aesthetic powers. 

v)                reads the poem and appreciates the poet’s style.

PRE-REQUISITES

The learner,

i)                 knows about the happiness that rain brings.

ii)                knows the importance of nature

iii)               develops an attitude to understand the poem with its essence

iv)               knows about the features of nature poem

TEACHING LEARNING MATERIALS

Course book source, book, video, chart

CLASS ROOM INTERACTING PROCEDURE	PU[ILS RESPONSE
INFORMAL INTERACTION Teacher creates a good report by engaging in an informal talk with students	Pupils interact with great interest
ENTRY ACTIVITY Teacher creates mental readiness by showing sum pictures of different seasons in the projector.	Pupils generated curiosity to learn the lesson
LINK TALK Teacher gives a description about the happiness that rain brings and its speciality
INTRODUCING THE TOPIC Teacher introduces the lessons and writes the title on the black board First showers -Nalini Sharma Teacher displays a video which narrates the poem and visualises each line in the poem.	Pupils listen carefully
SILENT READING BY THE STUDENTS Teacher ask the students to read the poem silently	Pupils read carefully
SHARING THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE STANZA Teacher ask the students to be in groups and to share their ideas with their peers	Pupils share their ideas
SCAFFOLDING QUESTIONS Teachers ask a few scaffolding question to the students 1.      What is the title of the poem? 2.      Who is the author of the poem? 3.      Who soothed the poet’s nerve?	Pupils answered the question correctly
GLOSSARY Teacher introduces the unfamiliar word from the stanza	Pupils identifies the meaning of the unfamiliar words
APPRECIATION OF THE POEM	Pupils listen care fully
GROUP ACTIVITY Write the profile of Nalini sharma Using the hints given-                                  Nalini Sharma Profession: school principle, Bilingual writer ( English and Hindi Innumerable works: poems articles, essays, short story< novel etc. Major works   Orchid ( vol 1& 2) , the unwed mother, rhythm etc. Awards: many awards including Sarojini Naidu award and swedha patel award.	Pupils engaged in the group activity.
PRESENTATION OF THE PRODUCT Teacher ask the group leaders to present the product prepared by them	Pupils presented there products
TEACHERS VERSION	Pupils copied the answers displayed
REVIEW The teacher recapitulates the lessons and ask a few questions 1.      How does the rain soothe the poets nerves. 2.      What made the poet step unsteady? 3.      What was the poet doing at the time of rain?	Pupils listen and answer correctly.
FOLLOW UP ACTIVITY Teacher gives an assignment Find out the poetic devices used in the first 8 lines of the poems.

SCHOOL INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME :PHASE -II

(November 18-22)

As part of the B.Ed curriculum, we the second year students were sent to different schools to be in engaged in the second phase of our internship programme. We were assigned to practice at A.S.H.S.S.Paripally.There were nine of us from our college in which three of us from English option. 

November-18th,was the day of commencement of the second phase of school internship programme. On the first day, we met the Head mistress. She gave us necessary instructions and allotted to sit in the staffroom.

I was assigned to take class on viii-B. That day,i started the class by introducing the 4th unit (Flowers and Showers) with teaching aids like ICT, source book, pictures. 

On the next days onwards i started the poem 'Song Of The Flower' by Khalil Gibran,a poem about the flower. I took four days to complete the poem using the teaching aids like chart, course book, source book, ICT. The last day of the week i got a substitution in Vii-B,and i complete the activity and notes in the poem. 

SEMINAR - TOPIC : WEBSERVICE - CHAT

                                       ONLINE CHAT

The Online chat comes from the word Chat which means“informal conversation”.Chat refer  to any kind of communication over the Internet that offers a real time transmission of text messages from sender to receiver. Chat messages are generally short in order to enable other person to respond quickly. A feeling similar to a spoken conversation is created, which distinguishes chatting from other text -based online communication forms such as Internet forums and email. It may address point to point communications as well as multicast communication from one sender to many receivers and voice and video chat or may be a feature of a web-conferencing service .

The first online chat system was called Talkomatic,created by Doug Brown and David R Woolley in 1973.It includes web-based applications that allow communication -often directly addressed,but anonymous between users in a multi -user environment.

Chat in a less stringent definition may be primarily any direct text -based or video -based (webcams),one -on-one chat or one -to-many group chat (synchronous conferencing ),using tools such as instant messengers,Internet Relay Chat (IRC), talkers and possibly MUDs.

Chat Room is primarily used to describe any form of synchronous conferencing. Chat rooms can produce a strong sense of Online identity leading to impression of subculture.

The term “chatiquette” (Chat-etiquette) is a variation of netiquette (Internet etiquette) describes basic rules of Online communication. The word “Chatiquette” Chat has been used in connection with various chat systems,eg:IRC (Internet Relay Chat). 

ASSIGNMENT : 3

VIDEO CONFERENCE 

A video conference is a live, visual connection between two or more people residing in separate locations for the purpose of communication. At its simplest, video conferencing provides transmission of static images and text between two locations. At its most sophisticated, it provides transmission of full-motion video images and high-quality audio between multiple locations.

Consumer services -- like Apple's FaceTime, Google's Hangouts and Microsoft's Skype -- have made video conferencing ubiquitous on desktops and mobile devices that have an embedded camera. In the business world, desktop video conferencing is a core component of unified communications applications and Web conferencing services, while cloud-based virtual meeting room services enable organizations to deploy video conferencing with minimal infrastructure investment.

For businesses, the tangible benefits of video conferencing include lower travel costs -- especially for employee training -- and shortened project times as a result of improved communications among team members.The intangible benefits of video conferencing include more efficient meetings with the exchange of non-verbal communications and a stronger sense of community among business contacts, both within and between companies, as well as with customers. On a personal level, the face-to-face connection adds non-verbal communication to the exchange and allows participants to develop a stronger sense of familiarity with individuals they may never actually meet in person.

ASSIGNMENT : 2

MASS MEDIA

The mass media is a diversified collection of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication. The technologies through which this communication takes place include a variety of outlets.

Broadcast media transmit information electronically, via such media as film, radio, recorded music, or television. Digital media comprises both Internet and mobile mass communication. Internet media comprise such services as email, social media sites, websites, and Internet-based radio and television. Many other mass media outlets have an additional presence on the web, by such means as linking to or running TV ads online, or distributing QR Codes in outdoor or print media to direct mobile users to a website. In this way, they can utilise the easy accessibility and outreach capabilities the Internet affords, as thereby easily broadcast information throughout many different regions of the world simultaneously and cost-efficiently. Outdoor media transmit information via such media as AR advertising; billboards; blimps; flying billboards (signs in tow of airplanes); placards or kiosks placed inside and outside buses, commercial buildings, shops, sports stadiums, subway cars, or trains; signs; or skywriting.^[1] Print media transmit information via physical objects, such as books, comics, magazines, newspapers, or pamphlets.^[2] Event organizing and public speaking can also be considered forms of mass media.^[3

 A classification called the "seven mass media" became popular.^{[citation needed]} In order of introduction, they are:

1. Print (books, pamphlets, newspapers, magazines, etc.) from the late 15th century
2. Recordings (gramophone records, magnetic tapes, cassettes, cartridges, CDs, and DVDs) from the late 19th century
3. Cinema from about 1900
4. Radio from about 1910
5. Television from about 1950
6. Internet from about 1990
7. Mobile phones from about 2000

Each mass medium has its own content types, creative artists, technicians, and business models. For example, the Internet includes blogs, podcasts, web sites, and various other technologies built atop the general distribution network. The sixth and seventh media, Internet and mobile phones, are often referred to collectively as digital media; and the fourth and fifth, radio and TV, as broadcast media. Some argue that video games have developed into a distinct mass form of media.^[6]