Week 10

It's time to say goodbye my dear online friends. Thank you for sharing your views on different topics and reading and visiting my posts. Thank you Sean, you were supportive and active.



Frankly speaking  at the beginning of the course I felt overwhelmed by the amount of tools we had to use: blackboard, google sites, wikispaces, blogspot, nicenet and e-mail account. As soon as I got to know about the organization of the course I remembered Bridget Jones' diary and wrote my resolutions on week 1. Now that we are almost finishing I can include on my list:

•  Read the weekly tasks on week 1

•  Start participating as soon as you finish reading part of the materials

•  Participate in Nicenet discussions

•  Interact with your classmates

•  Follow other participants' blogs

•  Customize your blog: include a blogroll, tags, audios, videos, photos.

•  Reflect

•  Read additional materials

I tried to follow these ideas and did my best. I found the course very useful. All the contents were interesting and there were many sites I didn't know which I'm planning to share with my students next year. I loved the organization and the fact that we could interact with guest speakers such as Donna and Jeff.

One of my students in ICT for ELT created this online video after attending the subject and as a student I somehow feel the same way.

Final reflection by laucascone on GoAnimate

 

My final reflection part 2 by laucascone on GoAnimate

As regards the readings from this week, I've been using technology for a lot of time. When I started working as a teacher I used different tools to prepare handouts. Students were rather passive in the sense that they were not using the tools.
Nowadays I think I'm at the Transformation Level. I encourage the innovative use of technology tools. I try to be creative and flexible. In the case of the final project, I started using multimedia e-portfolios and students set their goals and rather than completing assignments and they reflected on their learning process.
University of Southern Florida: The Technology Integration Matrix


State of Washington: Tiers of Technology Integration
I can say I'm at Tier 3 because my students are actively engaged in using technology esp. in Materials Design and ICT for ELT. Students create their own resources such as online quizzes, videos, etc. They participate in collaborative activities in google docs and wikispaces. What's more,  they share and publish their work online.

All in all, it was a great experience. I learnt about other contexts and how to integrate the interactive web. What else can I say?

This is a new beginning. Good luck my friends!