Week 8 Back Story

Hello fellow lovely class mates.

          If I would guess how the week has been for you, I am likely to say that it has been…………………….. Fill the vacant space please.

When I signed up for this course and when I later saw the program for ten weeks I could not believe I shall go through till the end. I mean it was really my first online course and besides the work seemed too much.  Ten weeks is almost over and I have learned a ton of things. How about you?

When I completed my padlet stuff this week, the activity for my class, I was sort of marveled at how much I had learned and within a short time too. I felt great from within.

The mere thought of the project was another torn in the flesh. Nevertheless I did it and with great comments from some of you I came up with something nice.

I have just listened to the videos about the MOOC course and it already sounds great. The world is a great place to be at this time. We do not just have to make right decisions, we rather have to make our decisions right.

Having access to all these assets is key to making ourselves better English tutors and professionals. Nothing pays like hard work

How would they help me as a teacher?

Every time I ask myself this question I cannot find the answers – I cannot really say them but the manifest via the way I teach, talk and make relevant arguments.

Based on the project I did, I have known now just how to incorporate technology in lessons and how to manage it. The feedback I had when I used it was quite encouraging and inspiring. I hope to use it more often – it is wonderful and it comes with an array of benefits.

Knowing how to create class activities using web quest, pad let etcetera, has impacted me with some skills on how to get students involved in lessons in fun way yet maintaining the rationale of the course. Doing that often will change things in leaps and bounds.

Finally the MOOC course is absolutely amazing. Its limping growth has steadily advanced into a huge thing. I love the objective of it and the fact that it is accessible from anywhere. I hope to take the course because given the bilingual nature of Cameroon, French speaking students sometime see the English language as foreign and so grapple with learning how to master and use it. On the video I watched on the courser site I particularly loved the topic for week five titled “Language and Context”. I love the fact that is right in January so that we could have some time to rest and sort out other things before then, and as well think that it sort of complements our present course.

Good people I live you now with much love. Each week has its own energy- drainer. Whatever yours was, I hope you found the strength and will to handle and fix it. It is too late to give up now.

I wish you well come Week 9.

Best regards.

valentine