Sunday, June 26, 2011

Week 1

Our first task was not so hard to accomplish. I was already familiar with creating a blog, although my experience was directed to office work.

I believe the challenge still rests on how to make the blog attractive in design and interesting in content.

There's a strong sense of reponsibility in creating a blog. If originality is not a must, maybe because they carry our signature, blogs are a space for authorship. 

As I reflect on the potential a blog can bring to my teaching practice I envison my students responding or adding to its content. Even creating their own blogs. I think they will be quite concerned about what and how they write because in a certain way the language we use is how we become known.  

Ready for take off

Although winter has just started, taking this course makes me feel fresh about teaching.

I expect my learning here will have a great impact in the way I teach. I'm very excited to start using emails, blogs, podcasts, wikis and other web tools to make students feel motivated to acquire new academic skills.