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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,

-          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.

THANK YOU SO MUCH ...
MY TOOL BOX IS FULL OF NEW IDEAS!