WEEK4

So, Week 4 time vanishes... This week I found some sites useful for the project.  As for weekly articles , not much new...
Clear and well structured  template for  lessons planning, but we normally have similar templates here ( not online). State requirements for courses/lessons plans writing in Russia are different... Anyway, I decided to post some of my nicenets here to' collect toughts' for final project.

I read the articles by Jarek Krajka. I agree that for writing skills, on-line activities should be incorporated into your class work. But the idea itself is not new. 

I was using our class wiki site at http: //evabasilvk.Pbworks.com for teaching English for about 5 years already, and I would say that e-mailing is NOT necessary at all - except may be cases of foreign students class correspondance.

By the way,any side 'pen pals', comments, chats, forums and other things wiki's missing, could be easily integrated into class wiki and used for communication. You get everything in one!

The students get(download,copy, print out) the texts of different genres from our class wiki assignment page and when ready (online or offline) post(upload,copy) their writings(f.e.translations) themselves to their personal wiki pages. 
Then submit'em to my weekly editing and evaluation and other students commenting at the same time.

Another benefit is that the teacher (and students!) can monitor all metadata (drafts) of these writings and edits. 
From this point of view, the above article looks for me a bit outdated, sorry...

Another article on extensive reading by Mei-Ya Liang could be of help, too, as for describing teaching methods/patterns of how to arrange it online, but also looks very basic,I'm sorry.

I'd like to support some of the below course participants when they say it is not possible to teach writing/reading only online, without in-class 'paper and pensil', especially when it comes to beginners or to immediate tests!
In my experience, so called 'Blended Course e-Teaching' is the best strategy.

BTW,thank you for the multi-skills sites. I found two useful for my course project - listening and speaking: Mikhael Krauss one(I completed his Internet course several years ago, it was super!!)http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html and http://www.manythings.org/. 
I will use some stories and songs. 

So, f.e. ABCD is: 
All ballet students of each class group (1-2-3) should read loudly the lyrics of the song 'Auld Lung Syne' at http://www.manythings.org/songs/ckmp3-auld-learn.html, 
then translate it into Russian, 
then listen and repeat the song all together about 5-6 times within,say, 10-15 minuted to learn it by heart, articulating it with 90% accuracy. 
Then they will vote for 'the best English song singer' between them in each group to be graded.

Kind,
Irina