Dear all!

This week marks the end of our ten weeks training. We learned many interestng things as far as TECHNOLOGY is concerned in relation to language Learning and teaching.  I found all the topics covered very interestng and also very helpful for my classes. The use of technology Tools helps save time and facilitates the tasks both for the students and the teacher. These technology Tools help the learner  be really involved in the Learning process which will lead to autonomy. I learned about ABCD objectives which is important before any teaching to take place. I learned about different types of assessment, types of learners, etc.
I found the topics about ABCD objectives, Reading/Writing websites and technology-enhanced lessons, Learner styles: technology connections, Academic blogs an Nicenet discussions very successfull.  All of them are really ueful for me. The technology Tools that I will use are academic blogs, E-mails (through Nicenet that I 've already started using with my students), using websites and technology-enhanced lessons.
This course (Webskills) was demanding some basic knowledge of computer science. I thought it would be good if some notions were given before the begnning of the program. It is true that all participants do not have the same difficulties.
In addition, the use of technology should be integrated in language Learning where this does not exist. But the difficulties in some places like ours make it difficult so that we need to apply it with other plans: one computer classroom, audio devices use and others. 

Many thanks to all for sharing your experiences. Special thanks to DONNA who really devoted her time and energy for us. Thank you Donna.

DIALLO

Week 9 Webskills reflection

Dear all,

Unbelievable but real! We are almost done with this course which was not sure many weeks ago. Thanks to God and everyone's support we are still there. This week we read about Multiple intelligences and types of learners. This issue is very important for teachers because knowing what kind of learners our students are help us be efficient in our teaching. In other words this means that we are engaging all learners by varying our teaching. And we should also make sure to balance some elements such active and reflective Learning. So we must not forget that there are differences between learners. The hard task for this week was integrating feedback to improve the final project report and sending it on time. I thank Donna for her support because my group members were not ready.
After the reading I participated in the discussion on Nicenet, posted my comments and ended the week with the blog and posted comments in a course participant blog.

See you for the last week

DIALLO

Dear all,

We are approaching to the end of this course and at the same time we will stop receiving technology resources from Donna. But we are Lucky because what we gained is very important in terms of content that is already benefiting to our students. This week there were many things to do on, Nicenet and mainly sending the Project draft to partners and sending also feedback to peers. I created a Nicenet class where students can find assignments, discussion topics and also post their thouhts.
The different tasks allowed me to master some interesting points about computer science and also about networking.

DIALLO