Graduation is a pleasant moment in our life. Though it is a bit sad, still I am eager to implement new things which I have learnt about into practice. Besides, I am going to write some articles on the materials of the course and share my experiences with the colleagues at the conferences in the coming new year.
While doing the course I really enjoyed everything, because I learnt a lot of new issues. Of course, Webquests, Blogs, Delicious, ANVILL, interactive PPP, PBL, ABCD objectives writing, rubrics are very useful and should be implemented by all teachers.
Teachers’ discussions, partnership observations were very useful for the learning process. My classmates are very communicative and sympathetic; I wish all of them to cultivate these qualities in their students. I got useful advice and support both from our instructors and the participants of the course.
I’d like to advise the future participants of the course to pay their special attention to the time management. I have been struggling with the lack of time, because of the 11 hour difference between Oregon and Moscow time. For example, when I was waiting for the comments on my blog in the afternoon, it was night in other countries, and nobody wrote anything. In the morning I went to school and didn’t have an opportunity to visit my blog and read the comments, so I missed them and didn’t answer in time.
All in all, I managed to read the articles, visit the sites, fulfill the tasks and bring the whole world into my classroom.
I believe that my students have already got a lot of my doing the course, because now we use technology every day. We did our final project and received positive feedback. So we are making plans for the coming new year, which is sure to be one more step forward.
I was happy at the beginning of the course, when I received this wonderful opportunity to study and I am happy at the end of the course because I have learnt a lot of new issues.
