The course has definitely been useful to me. I
have learnt more about how to use technology in my job as an English teacher.
There are more tools in my mind now, but I know the limitations we have, here at work.
Therefore, taking into considerations those constraints, I will list which
topics have been and will be useful to me because I am sure I will use them.
Lesson
planning is definitely what we actually have to do all the time and despite the
format, we need to state objectives. Having read about the ABCD criteria, I
have a better idea of how to narrow an objective considering the Audience (the
learners) Behaviour (learners’ capability to show knowledge or skill in any of
the different learning aspects) Condition (the condition necessary to
accomplish the behavior) and the Degree (that shows the standard for acceptable
performance). This topic has been and will be useful in any condition and for
any type of objective not only for the ones related to using technology, so
this is a plus in my mind now.
The
fact of having access to Delicious.com is and will be useful to me since I have
some important websites saved there and actually I am used to saving many
interesting website there because I know I am going to use them and I will not
spend much time looking for them.
This
course has also been refreshing on certain topics which are relevant to keep in
mind all the time in our job such as:
- The
importance of working on pronunciation,
- How
useful is process writing,
- Lesson
planning and the plan B,
- How
to work with projects,
- Assessment through rubrics,
- The
importance of teacher’s silence,
- Promoting
autonomous learning,
- The
issue of learning styles and
- Multiple intelligences.
According
to my real situation here at my work centre, there are some tools I consider very
useful such as:
-
Webquest,
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Blogs,
-
Nicenet,
-
Padlet
,
-
The
use of power point and the interactive ideas,
-
The
use of the mobile phone in class and
-
How
to be resourceful when dealing with one computer classroom.
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