Week 10 - final reflections

So, here we are, after 10 weeks of this fruitful and interesting online course that certainly opened some new doors for all of us. I must admit that I was a bit worried when this course was about to start because I was completely new to CALL. However, thanks to our instructor, it was pretty easy to navigate through the course, and to pick up so many useful things that can vastly enrich the quality of our teaching in the future. Since, as I said, this whole concept of incorporating online tools into our teaching was more or less something new to me, it is very difficult to single out any specific tools that are more important than the others. Using Nicenet, for example, is a great way to improve the quality of our classes, but equally beneficial are Delicious or Rubrics, webquests, or any other tech tool that we learned about over the past 10 weeks.

Now it is up to us to apply all of these great tools in our classes, to spread the word about them among our students and colleagues, and to continue exploring the web on our own, and incorporate as many tech tools into our classes as we can. This course has shown us which way to go in our future work as teachers, and I am confident that we will use this opportunity, and that this will be just a beginning of exploration of the resources offered by the web.

I am very thankful to our course instructor for all the help and guidance throughout the course, and I am also thankful to all other participants of the course for all that I have learned from them over the past 10 week.

I would also like to express my gratitude to the US embassy in my country for providing me the scholarship for this course and for this great opportunity to learn so many new things and broadening my horizons about the endless possibilities that the internet has to offer to teachers.

Thank you all, and I wish you the very best in your future life and work,
kind regards, Dzemal