Week Ten

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I can hardly believe this is the end of the Building Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web course, but as stated in the quote I chose for this week, it is a new beginning. I believe this course has been marvelous and very enlightening. I have learned something new in every week and I feel that the end of the course does not mean the end of learning new web tools that are available out there on the world wide web.

I have gained so much during these ten weeks, but I’ll try to briefly state what were the most useful for me:

• Blogger: I have used blogs with my students, but I have learned how to create a community where each member reflects and comments on another person’s work.
• Noodletools: this is a great list of search engines that I will be using.
• Delicious: I have never used it prior to the course, but I have been using it ever since I learned about it.
• WebQuest: This was my favorite in the whole process as it opened a whole new world of teaching to me. I will be using this with my students.
• Rubistar: This was a marvelous tool to learn as it made rubrics much easier to create.
• Interactive Power Point Presentations: This was also one of my favorites as I gained a whole new understanding of what a student centered presentation means.

These are only a few of the big number of tools that we had access to such as ANVILL, Hot Poatatoes, Padlet, and listening, speaking, reading and writing online tools. I cannot wait for the next academic year to begin in order to start experimenting with the different tools.

As all this journey comes to an end, I would like to express my deep gratitude to our instructor, Donna Shaw, who was there every step of the way. Although we did not meet face to face, I could tell she cares so much about the participants through her constant support and positive feedback throughout all this process. Donna, you have always told us how great we are doing, today, I would like to simply say thank you for all that you have done and for being a wonderful instructor. You really did a GREAT job!

I would like to thank my colleagues in the course. I do believe that because we had a chance to collaborate and work together, we became closer . I think the course wouldn’t be the same without that type of interaction. I wish everyone best of luck in their future and do hope we will get a chance to meet again.

Nahla