Week 10

The last and finish reflective post. First of all, I’d like to thank my classmates for participating in this course with me, collaborating, sharing ideas and experiences, helping, encouraging each other, giving advice, …

Secondly, I am very grateful to Courtney, our instructor, for her professionalism, skillful coordination, patience and help.

And now about my whole experience of participating in the course, which I consider to be one of the best experiences in my teaching career.

My personal outcomes of the course are great – a lot of new friends, colleagues, experiences, knowledge, ideas, a full teaching toolkit, a “bank” of activities (mine and my classmates’) and what is more, inspiration to implement technology into my ESL classroom.

As a result of this inspiration, I have created Self Access Language Center (SALC) for my students, where they can work autonomously in order to improve their language skills. It is still under the construction as I am working on its content now and I can see a very long way ahead, but nevertheless, I would appreciate any comments, suggestions how to improve it, what else to add.

I’d like to say some words about our final project as well. It was very useful experience to choose technology appropriate to the problem to solve. And I’d like to suggest future participants not to try implementing all the tools into the project. The more is the better is not a very good principle when to talk about using technology.

My best and most useful for me weeks were 2 (new searching strategies and writing ABCD objectives), 5 (creating rubrics), 6 (implementing final project), 7 (meeting new service Wallwisher), 9 (using technology for MI), and all others.

And I can’t say that I like very much week 10, as we are parting now, but I hope we are smart enough now to find appropriate tools to stay in touch with each other.

Thank you very much and with hope for further collaboration, Nataliia