OUR LAST WEEK

Wow, here we are in the end of week ten, the last week of this amazing course. During this week we have reviewed the integration of technological tools in our class, and it is not like in the past, but in a different scenario, since our students are motivated and we have so many tools we have to incorporate in the class. I am ready to share this information with teachers in my community, since the tools are so useful that I would like everybody in the teaching field would know these strategies. 

During this course I would like to highlight that we have benefited from each and every activity we did so far. All I can say to my Dear Participants is that I am grateful. This is my first experience of an online course, and honestly I did not know how many tools and strategies and learning experiences you can learn out of a great course like this one we are just finishing.It is so great we can create our own material, being creative and dynamic.
I wish all the best to all us


Juan 
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Juan 

End of week 09

Week 09 was very motivating and I think all participants agree with me, since we studied about Learning Styles and the way we teach. Most of us feel enthusiastic about all these tools we have to teach, and as Samira said, " the question is when we should use all these tools?". It is time to reflect  on our situation as teachers and on the models we are using, hence we can make right use of them. We read and reflected on LS and MI, in order to find the most suitable situation to teach and use the information we have received in this course.

There were very encouraging comments like Mohini and Julio`s the made it short in details about all the participants comments and that was awesome since all of us were discussing the same info while they highlighted good posts. That was motivating.

There are more things to learn and practice though. A BIG THANK YOU to the University of Oregon and our great mentor-facilitator Janine.

Juan Garcia

Week 8th. Reflections

Greeting.

We have been discovering many sites on the web, and we have come across with interesting tools, helpful tools indeed, which will make our teaching learner-centered, and that is great since we must promote autonomy. ANVILL is a website really good, specially for listening and speaking skills. This one is a computer super tool, which allows you to create a class with audio, and videos, and multimedia.

We gave our first draft of the project, so we were working on that, and we were supposed to check our partners draft.

In my own experience students feel motivated when we use technology, it promotes communication.


We were creating online exercises and that was fantastic, there are some tools where they provide you the printable material just ready to give away. I can see all teachers in this course are very creative on doing these type of exercises online and I have learned many things from them.

Above all, we have too many new things to apply.