SoftChalk LessonBuilder

I have registered three E-training lessons: E-lesson Builder, Photo Editing and Enhancing and Digital Photography. In this first lesson, a software named SoftCalk LessonBuilder was introduced.

SoftChalk LessonBuilder is a powerful web lesson editor that allows us to easily create engaging, interactive web lessons for our e-learning classrooms. It has a very simple and intuitive interface. There are menus, then a simple toolbar (where we have access to the most used functionality in SoftChalk LessonBuilder while creating an e-lesson). I was thinking this had a great potential for teachers in China. We could easily arrange an E-listening lesson using this software. At the same time, we dont have to worry about whether students are listening to the course materials or not for we can ask them to finish all the questions and send their grades to us.

Studying here in NIE, we have e-learning week when we dont have to be physically in the classroom to learn. I am thinking the same thing for my students back in China. Maybe it is time for us to abandon the traditional listening lessons but adopt this e-learning approach. Instead of teacher's talking most of the time in a listening class, we can give time and freedom to our students. We should be a guide to facilitate students' learning instead of teaching listening. According to my own English learning experience, there is not much a teacher can do in improving a student's listening skills than giving them plenty of time to practice. I will definitely give it a try when I get back to China.