Week 10

And this is the end! Finally we completed the course!

I am so sad :-(

I remember the first week when we started with self-introduction, created our blogs and wrote our first posts! Now we are writing our final post, final reflections! :-(

I must say that this course was really a great chance for me! Because I discovered so many things within 10 weeks - blogs, Nicenet, delicious pages, interactive powerpoint presentations, rubrics, PBL, Webquests, Learner Autonomy, Learning styles, multiple intelligences, online exercises and so on. All of them are quite new for me, so it's a great opportunity for me to learn and try to apply them in my classes. As I mentioned in my final project, I am planning to use blogs, Nicenet, delicious pages, PBL for improving the writing skills of my students. Of course I will benefit from other tools such as Webquests, Interactive PPP. We need more time to explore and create the new ones for next semester.

Every week the course offered a number of websites/articles that provided us with useful information and instructions. I have saved all of them to my delicious page which I liked veryyyyy much!

And what about my colleagues, I witnessed warm atmosphere and collaboration among my classmates,  they were so active, energetic and hard-working, I benefited from their experience through this course! I wish them good luck and a lot of success in their teaching career!

And I want to mention the most important person of this course - Mrs. Donna Shaw! I don't know how to show my gratitude for all she has done for us, especially for me. Without her help, her instructions, her directions I couldn't complete the given tasks. :-)

Thank you so much, my dear instructor for everything! 

So, finally, I want to say one more, I am really happy to have participated in such educative course.

I am grateful to the staff of the University of Oregon for providing such opportunities for us!!!

May Allah bless all of you!!!

Sincerely

Gulnar

Week 9 - Multiple Intelligences/Learning Styles

Hello everybody! I can't believe that the next week is our last week! I will miss all my colleagues and my dear teacher! :-(

This week was also full of new discoveries and impressions. I learned so many new things about learning Styles/Multiple Intelligence with the help of articles inserted on our class wiki. Defining the learning styles of the students is one of the important topics in preparing our lesson plans. Using appropriate technology tools in the classes will enable the teachers to engage the students with different multiple intelligences and learning styles in the activities. I also took a quiz to define my learning styles and the results were like that: my strongest learning styles were intrapersonal, interpersonal and logical/mathematical. And I will also recommend my students to take a quiz online to discover their learning styles. I am sure they will find it interesting!

The main task of this week was to revise our draft plan/project and submit the final one. Like all my colleagues I also completed my final plan report. I hope this report will help me achieve my goals in my future activities.

Again I want to say that: Thanks a lot to the staff of the University of Oregon for creating such opportunities for us! :-)

Best regards

Gulnar