Week 10: Overall Reflection

Hi there!

Its our last week in this course... Although these past ten weeks have been very busy and demanding for me, I think I'm going to miss all of it... the Nicenet dicussions, the course site and wiki, checking my grades in Blackboard, and of course posting on this blog :)

It's been a great time full of meaningful learning and deep reflections. I've learnt so much during this time that I feel I'm better prepared now and I have more tools and resources to plan my classes.

I definitely recommend this course for those teachers willing to update their classes with the new technologies; and I hope I have the chance in the future to do another course as good as this one!

Last but not least, I'd like to thank our instructor, Courtney Cunningham, for her committed support, her good advice and all her comments and dedicated feedback.

Love,
Lore from Argentina

Week 9: Final Project Report

This week's main activity was to send our Final Project Reports. Developing the project and writing the report have been hard word and time cosuming, but the big effort was totally worth it both for my students' benefit and for my own benefit as well.

I've learnt a lot from every single step of this project: thinking about an issue, finding the right technology tool to solve the issue, receiving feedback from the course instructor, implementing the tool, watching the students reactions, observing the results, writing the first draft, doing the peer review activity and finally putting all things together to finish the final report.

It's been a great learning experience!

Lore from Argentina

Week 9: Learning Styles

This week I learned about Richard Felder's "Multiple Intelligences", and how to take advantage of new technologies to satisfy the needs of different learning styles. I knew about the existence of a variety of intelligences, but I had never heard or read about Felder before.

As mentioned in the article "An interview with the father of multiple intelligences", it is true that adapting teaching practices to deal with different cognitive capacities can be really daunting, especially if we have 30-35 students in a classroom. However, since we live in the era of new digital media and the internet, it is much easier to individualize our students' learing styles.

A good way to know about our students' intelligence types is to have them complete a questionnaire at the beginning of the school year. While reading information about this concept, I came across two websites that fulfill this purpose: The VARK Questionnaire and Multiple Intelligences Self Assessment (Edutopia). School year in my country is almost finished now, but I'm definitely going to apply these in the first class next year!

Lore from Argentina