Thursday, December 11, 2014

Week 10 Almost crossing the finish line

Week 10

During the past 10 weeks I learned to:

- feel the Web as a friendly place to browse through.

- listen attentively to my inner voice, recognizing limitations and possibilities.

- value cultural differences as a way of enrichment.

- decode my colleagues' messages from a constructivism perspective of teaching and learning.

- find some answers and pose new questions.


I am convinced that the essence of change resides on the ability of making things happen. We took the first step, let's keep on walking... the best is yet to come...

Hope to remain just a click away from all of you.
Best,

          Virginia


Sunday, December 7, 2014

Week 9

Week 9

I can hardly believe we are already at the end of week 9, time has flown incredibly fast!

This week topics about learning styles, multiple intelligences and technology, helped me look at some “well-known” theoretical topics from a new perspective. The discussion thread was amazing, I added many links to my delicious, and learned a lot from my partners' contributions.



Project peer review was a very enriching experience. My partner's comments on my project plan were helpful and enlightening. Through her words I was able to see, from a different perspective, both good things and things that needed improvement. Thank you Evelyn.

I submitted my project plan. Developing this plan was quite a challenge, but I love challenges. It was not as easy as it should have, due mainly to some external factors (authorities, permissions, platform access, etc), to arrive to the final product I first imagined. However, as it is a plan, and I still have plenty of time before implementing it, I will go on working on it to improve it. I feel very committed to get it ready and to put it into practice, because it will have a twofold consequence:
a- unique on line learning experience for in English service teachers.
b- a pilot project model in order to develop further on line courses for teachers.