Saturday, January 28, 2012

Week 3


Congratulations all of you!
It was such a delicious and fruitful week spent together!
I would like to thank all my colleagues in this valuable course for their generosity and help. This week I’ve learnt a lot of things through creating a delicious page, bookmarking, searching about aural/oral skills and reading projects of previous participants, but especially from your posts and ideas.  
             Before this week, I knew nothing about most of the interesting sites you introduced to the group mainly delicious.com. I used to bookmark my favorite sites the old way saving them on a word document or sending them to my email box.
 Now I am happy with the new skills I acquired. I learned how to use delicious.com effectively and I started sharing it with my students and colleagues around.
         Concerning the websites for EFL teachers, I’ve learned some bits through my ELT community here in Agadir that initiated some training about this topic before especially within the Pedagogical Research Unit (PRU), which I am part of. I am also very grateful to the people in my webskills class for sharing the best ideas, websites and classroom practices they’ve got. It was a great opportunity to learn more about the best ways to teach aural/oral skills through the web.
Finally, I’ve looked through some previous participants’ projects and found out some similarities with my classroom situation, my students needs and my action research focus. I came across some problems that were raised in my classroom and went through the solutions the participants tried.   
To sum up, this week was a trigger for me to start working on the following steps of my project and an occasion to discover more my instructors' & colleagues’ virtues!