My Bag of Tech Tricks

My learning experience throughout this course has grown as fast as a snowball. Before I just had pieces of unrelated information about web tools from conferences, seminars, articles, books, electronic village quick sessions and professional discussion.

At the beginning I kept saying “I had no idea”, “I did not know”,  but very soon I did not think about that anymore, I felt  very  attracted to the powerful tools that were handy waiting for your Mouse click. It is amazing how much I learned and how meaningful the web has become to me.

My teaching bag is full of tech stuff: 1) Delicious was a great discovery and a time saver. 2) I enjoyed our juicy nicenet online discussions 3)creating rubrics, 4) my class blog 5) and the jeopardy game.  I`m ready for 6) blogs,  7)web quests,  8)one-computer classroom, and 9) I can get and create online practices.

Still  I need more time to digest information, and incorporate course management systems, like ANVILL and MOODLE.

Thank you for helping me sprinkle magic into my lessons!

A Better Teacher

I have become a better teacher since I started this course. First, I have been exposed to a wide variety of web tools for enriching my lessons, developing learners autonomy, differentiating instruction and satisfying learners needs. Second, I have integrated some web tools into my weekly classe: online reading/writing practices, PPP, one-class computer, printables and a class blog. Third, I have started sharing my experience with my co-workers. In summary, I think I become more open to integrate the interactive web into my teaching.

I have a couple of projects in mind. At school, my idea is to empower the Newcomers program by providing extra online practices to tackle individual needs, to use ANVILL for listening and speaking, and create an ESL blog for parents. Also, I would like to share some web links and articles with teachers at a Panama TESOL seminar or conference.

I know I still need more time to digest the information, try some tech tools and continue exploring. Technology has brought up the world together! And we, teachers should keep learning and definitely sharpening our technology skills to cope with the challenges of teaching the 21^st century community.

Practice makes perfect!