Week 3: A great deal of reading, a great deal of learning!
(3rd part)
This past weeks I have been through a lot of “mental exercise”, and I am very sure that most of the “Webskills” participants, if not all of them, have been through the same thing too.
Anyways, I have to admit that this very active week has been the perfect scenario for me to learn many new things and update myself with many details that for sure are going to make my teaching experience a lot nicer and so my students’!
For starters, this new tool has been so great for me, it has been my personal discovery and close experience with “Del.icio.us”, which is simply “Delicious”! I did not know about the existence of this amazing website, and I am very sorry for that!, and this is definitely another part of my work that is going to make my life a lot much easier! I have to say that this help I am receiving once more from technology and internet is going to facilitate more the communication between me and my students..!
Sometimes I want my students and co-workers to see very nice things from the web that I find when planning or preparing a class, and even though I give them the links, it is very difficult to tell them exact information that I want them to see. This is going to be now a lot easier with http://www.delicious.com/ . After all this “surfing” I have been doing in the net, I found also another nice tool that I would like to incorporate to my browser, and if any other “Webskills” participant wants to use it later on, it would be very interesting now that we know this bookmarking technology. I am talking about http://www.diigo.com/, and I have to say that the “transition” from Delicious to Diigo is really interesting! There are some nice options and features Diigo offers plus the Delicious ones, and they definitely, in my very personal opinion, extend the Delicious experience.
I would also like to mention the interesting knowledge I am acquiring from the sample projects from the course website. This is a great path already walked by the prior “Webskills” participants. It has been very nice to start thinking about the possible projects I can develop throughout this course. I have to say, on the other hand, that these participants have set a very high standard with their projects, and it is going to be a very interesting challenge to create a new, interesting and different project.
Finally, after this week, I have been thinking about the Aural/Oral Skills and the whole universe of characteristics that need to be taken into account in order to, first, learn them and understand them, and second, make them work for you as a tool to be used for the learning-teaching experience in and outside the classroom.
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