WEEK 10

                              
                                                  Lake Chapala in Jalisco, Mexico
                                                   30 minutes from Guadalajara

This is the last week of the Building Teacher Skills Through the Interactive Web. I have mixed feelings: Relief, melancholy, fear of being back on my own again in the endless persuit of knowledge.  There is so much to learn, so much to share, so much to change or to improve.

                  A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

                  -Henry Adams

This Webskills course has made me more aware of the variety of ways and technology we can use to involve our students in their learning. There were many topics that I consider were successful. I found that In PBL (Project Based Learning) learners work in groups to create a project. This promotes colloboration , a sense of community and more learning among class members. Blogging  not only helps to improve students´ reading and writing skills, it helps  foster critical thinking skills and creativity, not to mention learner autonomy. Learning about ANVILL (A National Virtual Language Lab) was eye-opening. A Language lab with multiple resources to help teachers plan a technology enhanced lesson. I loved participating in the Webinar that Jeff Magoto set up for us to explain how ANVILL works. I wish we had had more time to actively participate in the Webinar and to see and talk to our classmates. Then there are Larry Ferlazzo's lists of  great websites. Knovio is one I tried out and which proved to be quite useful for imbedding audio and video to a Powerpoint presentation. Discovering Delicious has allowed me to bookmark and save links to webpages that I do not want to lose track of. These are only a few of the many topics that proved enriching.

Special words of thanks to Jodi and Celeste for your dedication, for all your help and guidance. You two are absolutely great! My respect and admiration for you both.