This has been a pretty hard week for me, having to conciliate family holidays with work. It hasn’t been easy I tell you, but I still managed to do things, a bit late this week, but I tried to do my very best.
I really enjoyed working collaboratively with Natalya and Laura-Cristiana. They gave me valuable suggestions and I tried to analyze their Project Plans the best I could in order to help them with their final plans. As our Projects are very different, it was great reading the excellent ideas they have to use technology in class. I think this way everybody gains new insights into classroom technology use. I loved using the checklist, an excellent way to have our students assess their schoolmates, as we had already seen in previous weeks.
The Discussion and the Week Task were deeply related and I consider them to be a sort of wrap-up of this course: the importance of technology to develop autonomous learners and how to create more opportunities to use it in the classroom. I have written so much about this topic that I’m running out of ideas! :-) After all, this is week 8 and we’re coming to an end. It’s only natural that we feel much has already been said… and done!
I created a wiki for my future project and had fun discovering how to work with it. I also created a class on Nicenet and posted the first assignment. These are just drafts as everything will have to be carefully planned and organized before I can start the Project. We’ll see what will happen in a year, when I start implementing the Project.
I loved experimenting with the new tools suggested for this week. I knew some of them and had already created some materials, but I loved ANVILL and EasyTestMaker, for example. I hope we will have a chance to try some of ANVILL’s features. ;-) It’s a great way to have students practice their aural/oral skills and I think it’s awesome that it doesn’t emphasize the importance of having role models! The most important is just to communicate!
I already knew Tools for Educators, but I had never used the Comic Strip Dialogue Maker, so I had fun creating a dialogue. Hope you like it!
Dear Celeste,
ReplyDeleteYou are absolutely right in your commic strip dialog. One of the best things about a learning experience is making new friends. This course has let us interact with people all over the world and this has been a very enriching experience forb everybody.
Regards,
Wilma.
Dear Celeste! Haha, this is a lovely comic dialogue. You did an excellent job to create it! Welcome back after the holidays! I hope that you could have a chance to have a rest there (not just to work):))
ReplyDeleteDear Celeste thanks a lot for you important comments to my plan and the checklist that helped me to see what I didn't do well and where do I have problems in the draft. I also could learn from your project and from Laura's plan, when I just read it. It was so exciting for me to read your plans; I did it without a time break, with "speed of the wind", because the plan is so interesting for implementation.
Yes, at this week we could practice a lot! Sometimes I felt that I will never finish my assignments, but then I remember that we are close to the end of the course and I am starting to think how I will miss our assignments, our discussion and communication, and the work with our Professor.
Good luck in your next week with your project! With the best, Natalia
Hi Wilma & Natalya,
ReplyDeleteYou're both right! What I will miss the most is the interaction with all of you. Exchanging ideas, "talking" to you... I will feel an empty space and for some time I will feel I miss something. It's only natural that it happens like this. After all we have been very close for 10 weeks (2 more to go). We will feel we have grown, both personally and professionally, but it will take some time to get used to the idea we are "alone" again.
But we will soon overcome it and start working on our Projects. ;-)
Celeste