WEEK 9: REFLECTION

We are left with few days in this course but we have “miles to go”. The course has been truly insightful in my case and I have learnt various useful technological tools from our instructor Donna and the wonderful learning community in Yellow Group.

Week 9 remained another milestone in our learning experience. After going through the articles “Learning styles and strategies” by Richard M. Felder and Barbara A. Soloman at http://www4.ncsu.edu/  I learnt that it is a must to know different learning styles of our students At traditional classrooms like mine, many of the classes go through lecture methods with an emphasis on rote learning and memorization only. So it’s an urgent to think what as teachers we are doing and failing to do. It is a must to identify individual differences, put ourselves in students’ places and plan our instruction, choose the materials and tools in the way our students learn.

One of the most important and interesting tools I am getting familiar with is ANVILL.  It’s a “container” where you can store all other technological tools. I created a teacher's account at ANVILL and wish to use it for effective teaching/learning. Unfortunately, I couldn’t join the webinar at 8:00 pm Saturday (Oregon time) due to load shedding problem in my area because of thunder and heavy rain. I am planning to watch the recorded one. I heartily thank Jeff for making us realise the importance of ANVILL for effective learning experience.

Another very important task we had this week was to submit our final project report. I submitted it on time. I would like to thank my partner Loma for his suggestions to improve my project report and I am equally grateful to our respected instructor Donna Shaw.

Last not but the least, joining Facebook group (WEBSKILLS – Yellow Group) is another great opportunity to get to know the colleagues. We are keeping in touch and shall continue ever.

Kiran

Nepal