Week 3. Confused

At this point I have mixed feelings.  I still feel eager and impatient on what´s to come.  All the great resources that I didn´t know of, are and will definitely be beneficial in my teaching practice.

 At the same time I fill overwhelmed, so many accounts, usernames, passwords and so on.  I try my best to keep it simple but it worries me (even though I’ve written the information just in case I forget)  that I won´t be able to access one account.  I wish there were a website where I could just write my username and password once and just like magic I could see all my accounts, my email, my Jupiter grades, my wiki class, my delicious page, my blog, my nicenet, etc. 

This week the readings were very interesting.  I agreed with what was suggested and through experience can completely relate to the CALL advantages and disadvantages.

The delicious page is certainly a resource I will be using often. Being able to see the links others have found on topics I´m interested in cuts the work in half.  I see myself using it as a search engine.  Just because I will be able to see how popular the link is.   It feels though I’m suggesting something completely inappropriate, but just think of putting the resources into good use.

The project worries me a bit.  Just because I saw how detailed and well planned some of them were.  But at the same time Jodi said in the nicenet thread of projects that we shouldn´t start.  That we will do everything step by step. 

Hence my mixed feelings, because of everthing I expressed before.
I finish this week on an indefinite note.

Week 2

Wow, there is way too much to blog about this week.
 I went from feeling as a beginner on Internet use, specifically by searching only with Google.  From searching on different search engines and understanding how each one worked.  What I mean using the engines appropriately. 
The next task was the ABCD objectives.  In my personal experience, writing objectives have always been difficult.  In my school there is an emphasis of objectives being specific and well written.  The objectives have to be properly written grammar wise.   The ABCD objectives make sense and are well thought.  My plan is to incorporate this in my class.  I might not be able to change the class objectives but I can certainly write my objectives for my daily plan and activities. 
In the Additional Resource reading about Bloom´s Revised Taxonomy was stimulating and then the Digital Taxonomy by Andrew Churches was thought-provoking.  The truth is that as technology advances we have to advance with it.  
Finally the Higher Order Thinking Skills are a great ladder to encourage students to increase in.  Of course it’s my job as a teacher to teach students in the end to CREATE and INNOVATE. 
I´m left with the Chinese proverb:   He who learns but does not think is lost.
Glenda.

Week 1

This first week took time to get use to.  Now it´s done, hoping there is only room for improvement.  

Let´s start at the beginning.  My name is Glenda Torres I have been a teacher for 10 years and it has been a rewarding experience.  In the classroom I am the teacher, but in life I feel all my students have taught me so much.  

This online course and blog is a first for me.  It wasn´t easy, but I guess this is why I picked this specific course: Building Teacher Skills Through the Interactive Web.  It represents a greater challenge for me as a teacher. I  tell my student to push themselves and take the greater challenges, and I like to teach through example.  

I have learned a lot this first week.  The discussion on ground rules and rubrics where very interesting, especially when reading all my colleagues input.

I guess this is all for now...... 

Remember:  Everything worthwhile takes a while.    I´ve learned this the hard way.

Best of luck to everyone.