Hello, everyone!
I'm looking at the title and I cannot believe that the time has passed and that we have come to the end of this wonderful course.
I will have nice memories and such a great experience from this course. Here, there have been nearly 30 people from all around the world sharing experiences and discussing together as if they have known each other for a long time.
I have learned a lot from this course, and it directed my teaching practice toward more innovative, interesting and useful teaching. I learned to expand my teaching resources by using the tools I had not known before. This will help me make my lessons better and be the first step toward my further education.
At the beginning of the course, I was impressed seeing the wiki pages with our location on the world map. I had not created blog before, and this course showed me how to use this interesting tool. I will motivate my students to create it too. Then, creating Delicious page was another new thing for me. This proved as a good place to keep interesting pages. Another thing that is also great about this tool, is creating stacks and having tags for each page so you won't lose time searching for the page.
Nicenet is a great place for discussing and collaborating. It would be great if I could create it for the parents and students.
Alternative assessment is not the common way of assessing students although I saw them at Democracy classes at my school when the students compete by debating over some topics. I liked Rubistar and I will certainly use it.
Writing a project was also a new for me. I was a little bit afraid if I were going to do it right.
Webquest is a tool that is so great, but I haven't made mine. I will set this as a do-it-soon task.
I did a lot of reading and they were concerned not only with the technology tools, but also reminded us of pedagogy. The articles on multiple intelligences reminded me of the importance of knowing the students better and paying attention to their learning styles.
I will miss the tasks and discussions, and I can imagine me sitting at computer next week and logging in Nicenet. I will certainly miss it.
I'd like again to express respect for Jodi and Celeste for making this course worth attending and above all so educational.
As for my classmates, I hope we will stay in touch. Marija did a nice thing on facebook creating a group and sharing a photo of a hand with our names. Thank for the hand representing friendship :-)
Bojana
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Week 9 Reflections
Hello, everyone
Here we are, nearly at the end of the course. We've been working hard all these weeks. As Vicky said, there is a feeling of melancholy...
As I am concerned, I have learned a lot during this course and I am very happy that I have been a part of Jodi and Celeste's team. All my classmates cooperated and helped each other suggesting their ideas and sharing their experiences.
And, as my teaching is concerned, this is a step toward more successful teaching. All the things I have learned I am going to put into the practice during the next school year.
We have done our final project reports. I tried to solve the problem of speaking as my students are concerned, but now I have learned a lot of better ways and technology tools so that this same problem will be treated differently in my future teaching.
As we have been doing on our final project reports, this week we have been discussing the learning styles and multiple intelligences. We all agree that the students learn in different ways and that paying attention to different types of students can help them improve their skills. Some learn better in group, the others prefer learning through solving problems individually and there are those who better learn visually. As my students are concerned there are a bit of every type among of them. The teacher has a main role in keeping balance and having a detailed lesson plan will prove to be a successful one.
Bojana
Here we are, nearly at the end of the course. We've been working hard all these weeks. As Vicky said, there is a feeling of melancholy...
As I am concerned, I have learned a lot during this course and I am very happy that I have been a part of Jodi and Celeste's team. All my classmates cooperated and helped each other suggesting their ideas and sharing their experiences.
And, as my teaching is concerned, this is a step toward more successful teaching. All the things I have learned I am going to put into the practice during the next school year.
We have done our final project reports. I tried to solve the problem of speaking as my students are concerned, but now I have learned a lot of better ways and technology tools so that this same problem will be treated differently in my future teaching.
As we have been doing on our final project reports, this week we have been discussing the learning styles and multiple intelligences. We all agree that the students learn in different ways and that paying attention to different types of students can help them improve their skills. Some learn better in group, the others prefer learning through solving problems individually and there are those who better learn visually. As my students are concerned there are a bit of every type among of them. The teacher has a main role in keeping balance and having a detailed lesson plan will prove to be a successful one.
Bojana
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Week 8 Reflections
Hello, everyone
We have been through week 8. We are near the final project. Time flies...
This week was a busy one and above all very interesting. Our task was to create the draft of the project and revise it with the help of our partners. I had two partners, Olga and Roberta. I am very thankful that they check my project thoroughly and gave me the instructions and suggestions to make it better. I have to revise my draft and polish it until final day. As Poncho remarked: ''Look through it with fresh eyes!''
When the learning assignments for this week are concerned, the great surprise was Jeff who joined us on Nicenet and organized a webinar for all participants. He pointed out the main advantages of ANVILL ( a national virtual language learning). I didn't hear of ANVILL before. I think that ANVILL really supports distant education and allows teachers to practice with their students different skills. The students collaborate either by typing or speaking to each other, discuss different topics and have various text or sound materials at their disposal. I would like to use ANVILL in future, especially to improve oral presentation of my students, and I wish if our country pay more attention to this form of learning and teaching.
Beside ANVILL I also explored other online tools for enhancing learning. They are all good and help improving different skills of the students. using these tools might bring good changes to teaching process. I will have my students create blogs and share their reflections on certain topics and their classes in general. Nicenet would be a great tool for practicing writing and giving different topics for discussion and monitoring their work. Certain constraints that constantly follows technology based learning are access to the Internet and support of head teachers. But, I hope that things will be better.
There were a lot of sites offering very interesting and useful exercises. I haven't explored them yet, because there are so many materials at our disposal. Certainly, I will have a lot of interesting activities for my student next school year. As the problem I tried to resolve during my project was the speaking I found very interesting activities at http://bogglesworldesl.com/. There are sheets in Word for practicing pronunciation of different vowels in English. Also, there are also a lot warm-up activities such as crosswords.
Certainly, I learned a lot from this course. I only have to wait next school year and start making improvements and new technology based projects.
Enjoy the weekend!
Bojana
We have been through week 8. We are near the final project. Time flies...
This week was a busy one and above all very interesting. Our task was to create the draft of the project and revise it with the help of our partners. I had two partners, Olga and Roberta. I am very thankful that they check my project thoroughly and gave me the instructions and suggestions to make it better. I have to revise my draft and polish it until final day. As Poncho remarked: ''Look through it with fresh eyes!''
When the learning assignments for this week are concerned, the great surprise was Jeff who joined us on Nicenet and organized a webinar for all participants. He pointed out the main advantages of ANVILL ( a national virtual language learning). I didn't hear of ANVILL before. I think that ANVILL really supports distant education and allows teachers to practice with their students different skills. The students collaborate either by typing or speaking to each other, discuss different topics and have various text or sound materials at their disposal. I would like to use ANVILL in future, especially to improve oral presentation of my students, and I wish if our country pay more attention to this form of learning and teaching.
Beside ANVILL I also explored other online tools for enhancing learning. They are all good and help improving different skills of the students. using these tools might bring good changes to teaching process. I will have my students create blogs and share their reflections on certain topics and their classes in general. Nicenet would be a great tool for practicing writing and giving different topics for discussion and monitoring their work. Certain constraints that constantly follows technology based learning are access to the Internet and support of head teachers. But, I hope that things will be better.
There were a lot of sites offering very interesting and useful exercises. I haven't explored them yet, because there are so many materials at our disposal. Certainly, I will have a lot of interesting activities for my student next school year. As the problem I tried to resolve during my project was the speaking I found very interesting activities at http://bogglesworldesl.com/. There are sheets in Word for practicing pronunciation of different vowels in English. Also, there are also a lot warm-up activities such as crosswords.
Certainly, I learned a lot from this course. I only have to wait next school year and start making improvements and new technology based projects.
Enjoy the weekend!
Bojana
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