UNIVERSITY OF OREGON - 2013 WINTER WEBSKILLS COURSE
MY REFLECTIONS ON WEEK 10
Hello everyone,
Wow! How time flies! We’re already at the
end of our 2013 Winter Webskills Course at the University of Oregon. What a
huge experience!
We had ten (10) wonderful weeks in
terms of learning. I can’t go through all the techniques and tools we had
learnt, but I can say that I did appreciate “How to set a clear objective with
the ABCD method”, the discussion board “Nicenet”, “The Blog” - because when
hearing about a blog, I always had in mind something related to politicians – “Delicious”
for tagging websites and pages of interest to us, etc.
I think that I’ll be using many
tools we covered, but “Nicenet” is the only I have used so far. The use of that
discussion board enabled me to initiate some of my students to the use of technology
since the majority of them were not computer literate. But today, they are
feeling, little by little, “comfortable “with the use of computers in addition
to performing some activities on the Web.
I would like to say that all the
tools we’ve gone through will be relevant, in one way or another, to what I do
depending on what objectives I want to reach. Because I want to improve my
students’ abilities in writing, I decided to work with “Nicenet” for the time
being. When time comes for putting the emphasis of listening and speaking, I’ll
certain use ANVILL.
I would like to say that talking
about large classes was beneficial to me because I’ve only taught large classes
since I entered the teaching profession. With the readings I went through, I
had new ideas about how to teach large classes.
Long live the University of Oregon
and the American English Institute! – because they succeeded in helping me to
shift from the status of “a traditional teacher” to that of a teacher capable
of using technology in his classes.
To conclude, I have to say that time
has come for me to congratulate our dear Instructor Robert Elliott for his
know-how and availability, Jeff Magoto and David Bentz for their rich
collaboration. I’m grateful to all the other participants of this 2013 Winter
Webskills Course. I have to say that you’re all smart teachers, and I did enjoy
to be working with you for a span of time. To be honest, I’ll miss you all. But,
what is endless in life?
Best regards,
Dagnogo
posted by dagnogo bakary @ 11:37 AM
6 Comments
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Dear Dagnogo!
I read your blog entry of week 10 with great joy. You managed to summarize and point out the main issues and focus of this eTT at the University of Oregon online campus brilliantly. Your really wrote did it in a way that I couldn't have done it any better.
I also have to subscribe to your opinion when you wrote about Robert's work and guiding us and the guest speakers. We were lucky, especially me who doesn't have the same opportunity in my country, to join this international learning community. I improved and gained knowledge about technology, teachings styles, web tools, methodology and teaching strategies. Beside the professional input, which was conducted by Robert, I also improved by reading other participants' blog posts and nicenet entries. All in all an extremely fruitful experience.
Thanks to you Dagnogo for collaborating in the project draft and for your fruitful and inspiring thoughts and professional comments.
Finally thanks to all.
Let's stay in tough.
Brigitte
Dear Brigitte,
Thank you very much for all these nice words. You also brought nice contributions for the training. Teaching will only grow if teachers accept to share their experiences.
Thanks once more for everything you did for me during the training. I'll always be grateful to you.
With regards,
Dagnogo
I like the summary! and you are true, all the instructors are nice!
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Dear Dagnogo!
I was fascinated by your ability to teach large classes. In fact, you were the first one I met who managed so many students and truly I was encouraged once again that a creative teacher is capable of doing miracles in the classes.
I wish you all the best in your career. I wish we had more time to know each other and I don't lose the dream to meet some of you in the future.
Irada
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