Week 10: My Final Reflection

Now we are at the end of the 10 week long online/e-teacher training course on webskills. Nowadays, most of the students have access to some kind of technology, i.e. cell phone/ smart phones or computers, i-pad, etc. They spend some of their prime time playing with it. Now it is time to integrate it with teaching and learning. This course (webskills) has given us some useful vision to utilize technology to help our students reach course goals and objectives. I found some useful technology tools in this course, which can be used in our classes as well. They are:

(a) Power point presentation: to present the content in the classroom using multimedia projector.

(b) Different websites: for more educational information.

(c) delicious.com: a common forum to share important websites or links where the learners can get genuine knowledge for the content they learn

(d) padlet.com: a common forum/wall to share important websites or links where the learners can get genuine knowledge for the content they learn; and send or upload their assignments or links of their assignments.

(e) zunal.com: for providing the guideline of project work.

(f) rubistar.4teachers.org: to provide proper guideline for them to do their assignment and for teacher a guideline for assessment of the learners' tasks.

(g) blogger.com: to create a blog to share the information to receive the assignment from the learners.

The other important things we learn in the course are:

(a) ABCD Objective models and preparation of lesson plan using technology tools and ABCD Objectives.

(b) Learning styles and variety of learners on the basis of their multiple intelligences and different technology tools to address these learning styles.

(c) CALL, Computer Assisted Language Learning.

(d) Teaching a large class and using student centered methods with the help of technology tools.

(e) Some useful websites and tools for enhancing the skills of teaching listening, speaking, pronunciation, reading and writing in the classroom.

(g) Some ways to make the learners independent/ autonomous with the help of technology.

(h) Project work on the topic to solve our specific problem using technology tools.

The way of presenting the topics one after another in a sequence with clear instruction was really amazing experience. The course was really well organized and planned in every aspects. When I looked back at myself before 10 weeks and I now found some changes in my knowledge and skills which I didn't have previously. Perhaps this change is call real learning. I would like to thank the course instructor, Ms. Courtney Cunningham, other guest tutors and University of Oregon for providing us such nice contents during the online course. The classmates who have worked hard for their assignments and provided precious information on different topics and shared their experiences really deserve to receive a huge applause and my sincere thanks. I am grateful to American Embassy Nepal who provided me a scholarship and this great opportunity in my professional career.