Week 9

With the course nearing to the end and much work done I can definitely say that  I have learned many useful and interesting things concerning the use of web resources for EFL classroom and gained valuable experience in distance learning and intercultural communication. I have enriched my teaching skills with new techniques which I want to integrate into my course next academic year. In the final project I present an instructional module which I designed for my course of English Language Development where I tried my best to incorporate everything I learned during the course. I will confess,  that it took me much time and many late nights to design everything and still I am not very much satisfied with the results (because as I am not currently teaching I have doubts what will work with my students and what not). Everything I did for project was new for me. Maybe my project is not so sophisticated compared with  some projects of my classmates, but before the Web Skills course I knew nothing about the educational use of many technology advances, I didn’t use them in class and what I know and can  to do at the end  of the course, I consider to be my personal victory. My project is dedicated to the use of technology to develop critical thinking skills. I designed a class web site, a class blog and a class Nicenet and worked out the activities using the web resources (videos, crosswords, tests, rubrics) I was suggested with during the course. I hope everything will work perfectly well.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the instructors of the course, Jodi Weber and Celeste Scholz, for their constant support, encouragement and understanding. As well I am grateful to the administration of Oregon University for providing me with such a valuable opportunity to participate in this wonderful course, which has changed my attitude to Web recourses and introduced me into the world of intercultural communications. Thanks a lot!!!