Wrap-up: Outcomes of the course

    Finally we finish our ICT  lesson. I have learned a lot of information from this course. To be honest, before the entering University I could not use my laptop totally I did not know except MC Word and Excel but after the ICT courses I have learnt a lot of things. For example, how to create the blog, websites, and post entries, how to make a presentation and how to do the commands: paste, save copy, select, underline, bold and other orders without mouse. Our teacher is  insistent, so we tried to do all tasks in time. But now I learn not only about technologies, but also using them in educational system. Course is interesting every student of our group enjoyed with it. Sometimes I met some difficulties because of my lack knowledge about computer, technologies, websites. But through of help of my teacher and group mates I was able to overcome them. I learn create new blog independently. I could enhance my knowledge about technologies and their advantages,  their role in our modern life based technology. We learn to use social media sites correctly. I really enjoyed this course and I will practice my knowledge soon.

Pros and cons of different social media applications

In this current world, almost all the people have at least one social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and it is becoming inseparable part of the in human life. However, everything has its pros and cons.

One of the beneficial sides of social networks is we can be in touch with our old friends, classmates, we can be aware what they are doing, how they changed since we have met last by seeing their photographs. Furthermore we can chat with a great deal of people around the world and to share our thoughts, pictures, videos. Apart from communication between humanity it gives essential various information what is happening all over the world. Nevertheless for every plus there is a minus. One adverse side is that social networks when you enter into any social networking site, you will be addicted and it is really hard to exit. So you lose your valuable time, health, money.

To conclude, I want to say social media changed our life so much. Our life became more convenient because social media is a very useful tool for us in 21st century, it could help us to improve our life. However, we have to aware of how we use them. If we could use the social media smartly, having social media will become a good change for us. 

How useful effective are online self-assessment tests

In social psychology, self-assessment is the process of looking at oneself in order to assess aspects that are important to one's identity. It is one of the motives that drive self-evaluation, along with self-verification and self-enhancement. Sedikides (1993) suggests that the self-assessment motive will prompt people to seek information to confirm their uncertain self-concept rather than their certain self-concept and at the same time people use self-assessment to enhance their certainty of their own self-knowledge. However, the self-assessment motive could be seen as quite different from the other two self-evaluation motives. Unlike the other two motives through self-assessment people are interested in the accuracy of their current self view, rather than improving their self-view. This makes self-assessment the only self-evaluative motive that may cause a person's self-esteem to be damaged.

 So self assessment is a somehow motive that motivating yourself. Self assessment test helps you to find out your weakness and strength in any kind of topic. It should our aim to make our weakness disappear.

The best project / presentation I made

I've been doing a lot of presenting recently, and I have no problem admitting that it's tough. For those not born with natural eloquence, public speaking can be remarkably nerve-racking. But I’m getting a lot better!

One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned over the last few years is that to be a great public speaker, it’s key to develop a personal speaking style. Since I know I’m not the most eloquent speaker in the world, I make up for it by packing my presentations with enthusiasm, unique/proprietary data, and tons of useful content as well as plenty of dumb jokes.

It's always best to allow yourself plenty of time to settle in before your talk. Extra time ensures you won't be late (even if Google Maps shuts down) and gives you plenty of time to get adapted to your presentation space

Do your best to chat with people before your presentation. Talking with audiences makes you seem more likeable and approachable. Ask event attendees questions and take in their responses. They may even give you some inspiration to weave into your talk.

My test taking strategies

There is no substitute for preparation. If you haven't studied throughout the semester. If you haven't reviewed prior to test day. If you don't know the test material, all the test taking strategies in the world won't save you. Preparation is key.

Arriving early may allow you time to ask any last minutes questions of instructor or listen to explanations being provided to other students. Some study resource suggest that it's better to arrive on time to avoid "brain pickers", student who ask questions right before a test, but we disagree. We believe there is more to be gained by arriving a little early

Take a moment to estimate how must time you'll have for each section of the test and each question. Allow enough time for more difficult sections or sections that are weighted more heavily in the final test grade.

Pay attention to grammatical matching between the question being asked and answers. If an answer seems right but doesn't match grammatically with the question, it probably isn't the correct answer.

Critical analysis of online language learning resources

We are living in XXI century. This is century of ICT. We are living with technology, with mobile phones,  with Internet with computers. Internet is making our life easier. We don't have to go to work and our work at home,  we don't have to go out for eating out we have delivery, we have distance learning methods of learning. At home we can learn everything with the help of online language learning resources. I found that there are three types of online resources : blogs,  meeting websites,  language exchange website. Meeting websites are  meetup.com, couchsurfing.org. Language exchange websites are verbling.com, italiki.com, fiverr.com that are popular. They help us to learn language with tutors,  native speakers,  learners like us. I think it is more useful for increasing our skills. Especially,  speaking and listening skills.

  All in all,  I want to say that online resources in language learning is very useful and  helpful.

Am I slow or a fast reader?

First of all should say that I have been learning English for 6 years. Yes,  I should confess that I am not good learner enough to consider my skills which I obtained 6 years. 6 years is too long and enough to speak and learn language as a native speaker. Maybe it happened because of my slow learning habit. I studied only English grammar during some years. Because at first  I entered the lyceum and University.

  During my study at lyceum I learned  many aspects of English. We had listening and writing,  reading and vocabulary,  grammar and home reading. My favorite aspect was reading.  I like reading very much. It is amazing and enjoyable activity. But I used to read inside of me. I couldn't read with aloud voice. So I have some Pronunciation problems. But it doesn't mean that I am slow reader. I could read very fast. In that occasion i could not catch everything I read at all.  I never stop reading and I would like to read every time. I am absolutely sure that I will continue reading and it will help me increase my outlook and thinking.