TAKING OFF

This week I could finally accomplish with all the assignments. It was an ardous task because I had to participate in all the discussions of wek 1 and 2 and post a reflection in my blog.

Reading and reflecting on the Ground Rules for discussion was a profitable activity or this course and a good idea for my English lessons. It reminds me when I was a student at university: trying to reach an agreement with my classmates and teachers to deliver a speech that is a trigger for discussion where all must participate and are given a mark. It also made feel important as a student because my values and thoughts are respected.

Creating a blog to keep record of my learning process is an excellent register to revise in the future. After teaching for several years, teachers tend to forget how students feel or learn. Reading about our own experience when learning helps us become more sympathetic with our students and better teachers.

In week 2 I had to use a web searching tool different from google. It was a challenge because I tried using new web searching tools proposed by Donna. Reading about techniques for searching was useful for my online English lessons at university where I am writing a project about "digital citizenship".

In this week I also had to describe a class that I teach and share a learning objective following the ABCD style. It was interesting and new for me to write the objectives in this way.  I regard valuable and helpful reading and commenting on other classmates' objectives.

Last discussion on nicenet was a starting point on the final project. I resorted to work with an online primary school student group because it is novel and original. This experimental project of working online with children is revolutionary in education and I am sure all my classmates will consider this experience fruitful.



I found Nahla's facebook idea as beneficial for all the members of this course.