Well, our voyage is drawing to a close. It’s time to pack our things, keep all the wonderful moments we’ve spent together as valuable souvenirs, and go back to our daily lives knowing that nothing will be the same again!
The luggage is heavier now, due to the tremendous weight of newly acquired knowledge and all the experiences we carry with us. Images of memorable times spent with new friends will pervade our memory forever. Thanks to our shipmaster’s (Donna Shaw’s) guidance we managed to arrive safely at our new destination: Innovation and Change through Technology (ICT Land!).
It has been a long voyage, with many places to explore - Webquests, Interactive PowerPoints, ANVILL, Learning Styles, Rubrics, ABCD Models, Lesson plans, Wikis, Nicenet, and many, many more – and we always found a safe harbor in all of them. Even if we had already visited a place, it was always gratifying to pay it a new visit and discover new things to do and ways to explore it. I couldn’t have wished for a better voyage! Everything was special, valuable and useful! I can’t wait to put it into practice.
If there were any other places I wanted to visit and explore? Well, certainly there were, as the way to ICT Land is full of wonderful surprises, but the most important is that I received a map with a lot of highlighted routes to follow on my own. Am I not an autonomous learner now?
It’s time to say goodbye but I’ll keep you all in my heart! Thank you for the excellent time we spent together!
Dear Celeste,
ReplyDeletethank you for everything you shared with us, for the way you encouraged and collaborated with us. You are a wonderful teacher and everybody has learnt something from you. Our voyage has ended indeed but the precious things we found here will help us all in our profession. Good luck with your Ph.D and all the best for you and your family!
Laura-Cristiana
Hi Laura-Cristiana,
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your nice words.
It's been a pleasure working with you. Please, stay in touch.
Celeste
Dear Celeste! I would like to tell You a Great THANKS!!! for everything, for your support, for your passion, tolerance, kindness, open mind, critical thinking (you always get me chance to see things through different prism(!), positivism, optimism, and example of a hard work. You are really Perfectionist! I tried to follow you, but was always after your words in discussions, your posts. You did everything-The first at the course. During your holiday with family You did everything -the first. You are example of a teacher to everybody! I wish to have in my school teachers like you, but we cannot find those...:)) Thank you for your great comments to my writing of Project Plan! It was great and so helpful! I wish to have a Friend like You, but probably I cannot find as you in the world! You are fantastic person! I wish you Good luck in your PHD and teaching, and also success! I believe that we can communicate through Facebook and my e-mail is deryabki@msu.edu Take care! With a great love, Natalia
ReplyDeleteHi Celeste!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the wonderful comments that you posted! It has been a great pleasure working with you for these ten weeks. Learnt a lot, especially, what a bit of humour can do to make things more interactive:)
Will keep in mind your invitation to visit Portugal:) Also anytime you come up with any plans to visit India, I will be really offended if you do not visit my state, Gujarat, the land of Gandhi.
Looking forward to keeping in touch:)
Atanu
Hi Natalya,
ReplyDeleteYou cannot possibly imagine the impact your words had in me. You made me cry! YOU are an extraordinary person, always enthusiatic, dedicated, motivated, hardworking, always having a nice word to everybody! I am the one to thank you for all your friendship and collaboration. I honestly hope we will keep in touch! Maybe we'll have a chance to create a joint project in the future, who knows?
I sincerely wish you the best for the future!
With love,
Celeste
Hi Atanu,
ReplyDeleteThank you once again for your wonderful comments! I loved working with you and I honestly wish we will keep in touch.
I'd love to go to India, it's a dream I keep, but... the economic crisis reaches all of us!! :-)
If you ever wish to visit Portugal I can offer you accomodation, so don't hesitate to send me a message whenever you want to come. ;-)
Thank you for your friendship,
Celeste
Dear Celeste,
ReplyDeleteI also want to say that it has been nice working and learning from you. Good luck on everything you do!
All the best,
Wilma
Hi Wilma,
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your comment! I really enjoyed working with you and learning all the wonderful things you had to share with us.
I wish you all the best for the future!
Celeste
Dear Celeste
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for the way you shared all your experience with us. It was a pleasure to learn from and with you.
Gabriela
Hi Gabriela,
ReplyDeleteIt was a pleasure working with you!
All the best for the future.
Celeste
Hi Celeste,
ReplyDeleteWhat a great metaphor you used in your blog post. I really like it! Thank you for being such an incredible course participant and colleague. Your posts and contributions to the course have been invaluable. Working with you has been a complete delight. I wish you the very very best in all you do. I will miss you!
Donna
Hi Donna,
ReplyDeleteThe pleasure was all mine! I truly LOVED this course and deeply recommend it to everybody! You've been a magnificent instructor, always there to help everybody find their own path and THAT is truly invaluable! Thank you so much for your wonderful guidance!
I will miss you a lot!
I wish you all the best,
Celeste