The Last Reflection for Winter 2013 Webskills Course AEI OU: Changing to Learn and Learning to Change

The past 10 weeks have been a very important moment in my professional life as a teacher. I have a new teacher, Donna Shaw who is very caring and helpful in my learning process. The more importance is I have around 25 new friends from many countries such as Moldova, Brazil, Ecuador, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Egypt, Eritrea, Poland, Philippine, Malaysia, and many others. We have created a very supportive professional teacher community during the process which I believe will be long lasting with the assistance of internet.

Some main points I learned during this 10 weeks are followings:

1. Better class management can be done with the support from　useful website (nicenet and google site and wiki)

2. My teaching activities is fundamentally strengthened by the concept and practice of computer assisted language learning (CALL) and technology enhanced　 learning (TEL), problem based learning, and multiple intelligence with technology.

3. Assessment and material developments now will be easier and more effective with resourceful websites for curriculum (lesson plan, ABCD learning objectives), assessment (rubistar), and authentic materials (breakingnewsenglish.com, manythings.org)

4. I am not alone in my struggle of teaching perfection. Internet enables me to experience sharing teaching experience from other professionals (Larry Ferlazzo’s Edublog, e-teacher community, ning.com, and other social networking website)

5. My instructor Donna Shaw, PhD and my entire amazing e-teacher scholarship winner friends for webskills winter 2013 American English Institute have been very supportive and helpful in my learning process to build an interactive teaching using the webskills.
Finally, I can say that this course is not the end. It is just the beginning of my never ending learning process for a much better teaching and learning experience. I will keep learning to change and changing to learn.