Adieu!

It is the final week. The last blog post of the course.

I look back and I see a different teacher in me.
I look back and I feel very satisfied
I look back and I feel sad too.

From this week onwards there will be no midnight frenzies of reading several articles or deciding which one to read first.
But from this week onwards, there will be no comments and discussions to look forward to too.

I will miss that for sure.

I will also miss the expectations I had opening my inbox on Tuesday mornings in Sri Lankan time.

The journey started from ‘delicious’ and we had a nice time with PBL, WebQuests, Blogging, ANVIL, HotPotatoes etc.
If you ask me which one is my favorite and the most useful, it is difficult to give a specific answer. Well, I explored all of them with a lot of curiosity and learnt a lot too. I like blogging and WebQuests and creating my first WebQuest was a wonderful and extremely interesting experience. I remember creating it one Sunday afternoon, without leaving my room for about two three hours.

Even though there was no physical presence in our classroom, I will always remember the ideas we shared, every time I use the tools I learnt from this class.

And thank you Robert, for the great job and for being a wonderful teacher though miles apart!
(sending hand written feedback, wow, the best idea ever, and can’t wait to see it!)

And thank you Dona, Jeff, Max and Tom for taking part in our discussions and for sharing a lot of information with us.

Last, but definitely not least, my classmates, what we learnt from each other was simply amazing and thank you for being wonderful classmates!

I hope we will keep in touch and perhaps meet too, one fine day, in this small world!!!

All the best to all of us!!!

Best
Umesha

A week of fever, final project and, carnival!!!

We are now in the 9th week of the course and I can’t believe that it went so fast. Looking back I can only be happy as I see a very different teacher in me now.

This week we learnt about learning styles and how technology can be used to facilitate different learning styles. Interestingly, the nature of technology is such it can be used to address several learning styles at once and as I feel, that is one of the best uses of technology in a classroom.

This week, we also got a wonderful opportunity to “meet” Max and Tom, Editors of the academic journal “English Teachers’ Forum”. We got to know a lot of information about publishing in FORUM as well as in other forums.

I was sick for a couple of days and then came the final project submission deadline and now I am writing a post for my blog after a nice and fun filled evening at a carnival. It was raining the whole afternoon, but me , my family, my husband and his mother, we all had a nice time. We ate a lot of food, drank coke in the freezing rain and then ate ice cream on the way and watched a musical show, in the middle of a ground and yes it was raining.

I feel wonderful ! (I touch wood and gold!!!)

However, I have to end the post in a sad note.

Next week is week 10. The last week