First of all, I want to thank my friends and teacher; especially Ruta, Georgia, Poncho and Jodi, for their wonderful and always motivating comments on my post last week. No matter long or short, those comments have become my strength and motivation! Yes Ruta! Teaching is ever so challenging nowadays and it is an adventure to me so far!! Anyone who thinks that being a teacher is a boring career than they are really missing out the adventure of their life to be able to change with time and to be able to cope with all the ups and downs of everyday little things!
This week, as ever, has been a great 'quest'! I am so amaze with all the new technology I've learned from my own classmate and partner but most of all from our guest Jeff Magoto, the creator of ANVILL. As time passes, I realised that I have so much to learn and I have a lot to do as I discover more and more useful online tools! ANVILL is definitely a great tool to be use in any classroom. I can see how effective it can be. However, I have also my reply to Jeff that there are 2 main problems to my situation which are no computers and no internet access. I really do hope that this problem will soon be overcome with the help of my school admin.
This week I learn to create test and crossword puzzle online and print out for classroom used. I am truly grateful and thankful to be part of this course as I get to discover and learn new useful online tools every week! I was just thinking how good it it if I could easily create a test or quiz online for free and 'ta da'.. this week we are asked to explore exactly what I was wishing for! The sweet fruit of my adventure! Maybe Jodi and Celeste were reading my mind!!! Thank you teachers for including such useful and user-friendly tools in out lessons.
This week I also get to dream a little with what online tools I would want to use in my class if I can. I chose a few; blogger, wiki and nicenet. As I feel that these 3 tools allow my students some freedom and at the same time also require them to be discipline. I really do hope what I have vision today will be a fact in the near future. I really would like to be at par with the IT era in teaching and I see that the use of technology will be a great and effective way for teaching to 'evolve'! Let's hang on tight and venture into this world of knowledge. And hand-in-hand, we march together to into the future of technology!
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