A couple of nice quotations

Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

Scott Hayden

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

Virginia Woolf: Monday or Tuesday

Wednesday, 5 June 2013

Week 10

So here we are - it's the last week of this webskills course! When it started, I thought I would never find the time to do all the reading and all the tasks, but somehow I managed, which I very much congratulate myself on ; )

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!

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  1. Unknown7 June 2013 at 07:22

    Hello Tuula,

    I can feel that you're so enthusiastic and excited to begin using all these wonderful resources we have received all through the course. Our students are no doubt among the luckiest. It is important that we all keep in touch, as most classmates suggested. We could share about the use of these resources in our classes. I particularly liked Padlet which can have a variety of uses in class or workshops. I could use Padlet as a Hall of Fame in the classroom with a wide screen in one corner of the class ; Padlet can be my notice board in the class among other uses. I can use my interactive whiteboard during teachers workshops and Padlet can replace the blackboard where we used to stick
    sheets of paper, for example.

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  2. Donna Shaw9 June 2013 at 00:52

    Hello Tuula,

    I love the picture of the lavender! It's one of my favorite plants, so this is like a pretty gift.

    Thank you for your fantastic participation in the course and all your contributions and support of your fellow course participants

    I wish you the very, very best in all you do. A giant hug to you!

    Donna

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