What a memorable Week 8! Along with the celebration of the World Thanksgiving Day, I join the whole world in counting my blessings since I joined Webskills and naming them one by one:
week 1 - My 'firsts", my memorable encounters with Nicenet, and Wordpress, being able to create my Google Account, accessed Donna's wiki and did all my tasks for the week with flying colors.
Week 2 - I was a bit messy in my ABCD Objectives, but I was able to rectify them through Donna's guidance and Rashid's suggestions.
Week 3 - It's a delicious week! I finally had the opportunity to collect and organize my online favorites and contained them in "My Delicious Page"
Week 4 - All the readings for the week led me to identify the needs most of our students have in our locale. I was able to produce one technology enhanced lesson plan, though it needed much refinement. This week, I was able to identify the technology-based activities that I plan to implement in my class: using e-mails and blogging in developing and enhancing students' writing skills.
Week 5 - I love Week 5 simply because it provided me with the necessary information in coming up with a technology-based project that would allow learner autonomy. Likewise, I was able to make use of rubistar.org and able to share the site with the teachers I supervise. All of them find the site very helpful because it helps them come up with rubrics for both performance-based outputs of students.
Week 6 - Oh, this week was quite difficult for me. At first, I thought I can't make an interactive Powerpoint, but I did! I was so overwhelmed seeing my first output but I also learned some lessons from the suggestions given by Donna: when the slides are applied with too many colors and rich designs, it need not have moving chevrons as they are bit distracting.
Week 7 - is simply amazing Week 7 and my heart was full to the brim during the week for having hurdled the challenges. I had the pleasure of communicating with Maria Elena and Olena as peer reviewers of my project plan. and one most important feature of the week was the idea that in promoting learner autonomy, there has to be teacher autonomy.
Week 8 - is extremely fabulous and very memorable week. I accomplished a lot for the Webskills tasks by creating a site for my students under the graduate program, a blog site for my students in the undergraduate program, submitted for review my project plan, reviewed and gave comments and suggestions for the project reports of Olena and Maria Elena, had the chance to learn about the sites needed when making some boardgames, online tests, comic strips, and a lot more. But what is truly memorable is my participation at the Webinar together with Jeff and some of the participants. It truly warms the heart to hear the voices of the people I have been with for the past seven weeks. It took me several hours to wait for 2AM since our country is 16 hours ahead than Oregon time, but I really tried not to fall asleep or else I would have missed an important date. ANVILL was really fabulous. I used Skype and Yahoo Messenger in synchronous online conferencing but ANVILL is much better, I suppose. Somehow, it isn't that easy to try it because most of my students don't have yet very good and ample exposures to the web.Moreover, I also need more exposures on Webinar.
14, 13, 12, 11, 10..... the days get fewer and Webkills course shall end. The course might be over but it surely will leave me significant insights on how to effect change in my workplace and how to make a difference, and above all, it shall imprint in me worthwhile memories that I shall be grateful of all my life.
Happy thanksgiving day to everyone!
REBECCA
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ReplyDeleteHello Ma'am Kaye,
ReplyDeleteWow, I was inspired with your blogs ma'am.
Proven! You are really a kind of person that loves to explore different things like this. Keep up on your Webskills Activities Ma'am Kaye. Godspeed!
Jeaneth♥