Final week

It is incredible that the course is finished.  I discovered a new world that provided me with interesting and amazing activities. I am planning to implement a class blog which encourages students to work outside classrooms. I would like to try a nicenet class for my students, however they need to be trained and become aware about ground rules to avoid problems.

Definitely I will use blogs with my students because of my experience in the final project of this online course, students felt really motivated to use them. Unfortunately there is not a multimedia lab at the University, but I was thinking about a solution to deal with this problem. I am going to buy a device offered by mobile companies that provides internet for computers. So at least I will be able to implement one computer class online activities with my students.

I am really impressed of the great community learning that we formed in this online course. Everyone shared online activities, websites, and ideas to help each other become better teachers.

I am going to miss my colleagues’ nicenet discussions, blogs comments and Donna’s mails.

Week 9

This was an amazing week for me. I finally finished my thesis and got my diploma as a Master in Teaching English. I am sure that all what I learned in my Master and in this online course will help me to be a more efficient teacher.
The topic for discussion this week was learning styles and how to implement technology in our classes according these styles. I realized about the importance of using different tools and activities to each different learning style. However, it is also important to introduce activities that expand our students' learning style preferences. It is important to point out that not only learning styles affect our students' learning process but also their background knowledge, age, gender, cultural aspects, motivation, etc.
I consider that the only manner to be updated with technology is using it, so in the future I will continue searching for new articles, and information using internet. I would like to take other online courses or webinars too.

These are my students' photos the day we recorded the video for the final project. I was really impressed because they did an excellent job.