WEEK 10: REFLECTIONS

This is the final week: Week 10. I take this opportunity to express my sincerest gratitude to our encouraging and inspiring instructor Donna Shaw, who left no stone unturned in sailing us through the exciting journey of WebSkills. I am equally thankful to the US Department of State for the opportunity to enhance my learning horizons and come closer to wonderful learning community (Yellow Group: 2014).

This journey has been quite insightful learning experience for a teacher like me willing to bring more effectiveness in traditional teaching learning classroom contexts. I have really learnt a lot of things. The different reading materials and discussion topics are worthy to mention. I have learnt a lot from the brilliant ideas discussed in the Nicenet from my colleagues and I am thankful to them.

Every week has left a memorable impression in me. I learnt different useful technological tools like Nicenet, BlackBoard, Wiki, Blogs, Padlet, Delicious and ANVILL. I have been able to learn different effective and useful websites. One of the most important websites I would like to mention is www.noodletools.org . Frankly speaking almost all the tools and websites were new to me and I really worked hard to learn them.

I have started following ABCD model in order to plan and present my lessons. I have used blog to ask my students’ homework. Now I invite my students at audio visual hall to make INTERACTIVE PowerPoint presentations. I am planning to use Padlet to enhance all the skills of language learning. My school management and the parents are positively taking my endeavors and I am with a belief that my colleagues will definitely start using technological tools in the class in near future. Lack of resources and willing hearts are challenges. I am optimistic that time will heal them.

Looking forward to learning from my instructor and colleagues and expecting more opportunities in the future,

Kiran

Nepal