Throughout this course that started by the end of November and which already finishes today, I must say that it has fully lived up to my expectations. As I told you at the beginning, my first aim of taking part in this online was to reflesh my knowledge of ICTs and at the same time if I could learn something new even better.
I am a secondary school teacher who was feeling a bit frustrated, since in my school , it is four years now since we started with the new technologies like wikis and blogs, but they were intended for the best students, that is, the ones in the multilingual groups,or as we called them "eleanitzako taldeak" in Basque. Due to the fact that I started in that secondary school four years ago, I didn´t have the opportunity of choosing the so called multilingual students, and as a result I couldn´t put the ICTs into practise with them. This year however, we have been provided with interactive whiteboards and portable computers and I think that from now on all students will have a better access to the new technologies.
I have enjoyed all the activities we have done in this this course, but I especially the wiki, maybe because I was familiar with it and in my working place other colleagues and I have created subjects using it ( citizenship and English club). I have done all the activities, but to be honest with the activity of the treasure hunt I didn´t meet the deadline, and then I did it too simple, so that´s why I´ve decided to improve it .
As for the blog, I really enjoy making blogs, but more for myself than for my students.
I was really happy when I managed to create the questionnaire on the elsvideo , it took me a long time to realize how it worked, but I never gave up. That´s something that I often tell my students: Be determined and don´t give up.
As for the activities that I found least useful, I should say that at the beginning of this course we were requested to give articles and give our opinion, sometimes I found it a bit difficult to judge other people´s writings. Nevertheless, in the long run I appreciated it , as it made me write long texts in English, something that I hadn´t done for a long time.
Maybe, I can sound too proud but to tell you the truth I haven´t faced any technical difficulties when using these computer tools. Thanks to the fact that in my working place we had already attended courses about ICTs, I was in fact a false beginner when I started this online course. Otherwise I don´t think I would have been able to understand and do all the tasks .
To be realistic, I have not interacted much with my peers. Maybe, because it was the first time I did an online course, and I found it a bit awkward to exchange information or judge other people that I didn´t know at all. That´s why I am not found of social networking sites, I daresay I am a bit old-fashioned in that respect or I could also say I have been a bit self-centred. When I started my blog, I saw my peers designs, and I liked them, but I wanted to be original, although sometimes it is difficult , when it comes to blogs. Anyway, I think all the participants should copy the other peers´ blog sites, because they can be really helpful in our teaching practise.
This school year I don´t want to put all my ICT knowledge aside and forget about this, even though I had the "worst" groups , at least, this final term ,once a week we must start doing a project using a wiki. And in that way I will help students develop their digital competence and make them love this subject.
