Week 10 Reflections

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