This week we have been looking back at the previous nine weeks and reflecting on what we have done and learned. It's actually pretty difficult to remember everything since there has been so much useful material to go through, but I'll try to pick a few things that I remember the best at this moment.
If I think of my future use of the internet both for work purposes and for private life, Delicious.com has saved my life concerning re-finding the all the good links I come across or am recommended by others. Now I can just add them on my Delicious site and find them again when I need them. Great!
The tools I will definitely use on my courses next year and after that are blogs and Padlet. They are both easy to use and easy to find various uses for. Also the several search engines and indexes were learned about at the beginning of the course are tools I will use. Tools for creating online tests, such as SMILE, are things I will gradually examine more closely and take into use when I find the one I prefer.
Oh, there are endless links to nice and useful grammar materials, listening exercises, video materials etc etc that we have received on this course and that I will gradually go through and pick the ones I can use oncourses or for instance recommend to my students as extra revision materials.
Things like interactive Power Points are also something that I will have study more thoroughly.
All in all, this course has been enormously useful, but it has made me wish I had more than 24 hours in my days... But then again, better a bit too much than much too little.
One of the best things on this course has been getting connected to so many smart, talented and nice colleagues around the world! it has been interesting to hear about the conditions and challenging they face in their work as ESL/EFL teachers and to see that many of the issues are so familiar to me as well. That has really made my world seem a bit smaller.
Thank you to our marvellous instructor Dr. Donna Shaw and to all my wonderful colleagues on four continents! We'll keep in touch!
