Day after day an incredible amount of new ideas , concepts , changes are proposed to us and I feel that I really need time now to digest , to integrate , to make mine what it was offered to us thanks to this course.
But after the end of the course I know I need to go over many things again but at my pace , little by little . I need to slow down the intake and to adapt what I discovered to my needs . It will take a while but it will require a time to think , to take a distance with the numerous opportunities which were given to us to change and improve our way to teach .
The small changes I made with some of my classes may appear insignificant to computer literates but they are tremendous changes for me.
I read some of the draft reports of some of my colleagues and I was impressed at the mastery of their presentation. I admire their capacity to deal with many of these new tools so easily and so cleverly .
But I also know that things were not as simple for others !
We are all trying to do our best , I guess !
ANVILL and the difficulties I had to understand the concept and to use it participated in my losing some of the confidence I had gained with new technology .However, I thank Jeff very much for all his advice and help and above all sharing his invention with us.
Fortunately , I could feel more comfortable with websites such as :
http://www.crosswordpuzzlegames.com/create.html
I could create a few crosswords for my students : one on irregular verbs and one on famous American people which I put on the nicenet thread.
I will use the one on irregular verbs with my 10th graders tomorrow to change from the boring recitation of the verbs!
I also liked reading my partner's draft report on a group of students with learning disabilities and the way she managed to make them feel more confident and interested in literature thanks to new web tools .It was very well done and very interesting to read and maybe to use with some of my own students.
And I also loved her conclusion about the importance of the physical presence of teachers to work with students . New technology tools remain tools to help us but I do not think they will be able to replace the human contact .
Thank you Julia !
Happy Thanksgiving to all our American friends !
ANVILL is very complicated so don't feel too badly. It just takes a little practice.
ReplyDeleteThank you Christine! You did all the work, so you deserve all the credit. We were very happy to see you take this course.
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