Dear friends,
Are we still packing ? Yes and no. We are living everyday this experience: the blending of oppsites. Life and death. Life rises from death. Recollection and oblivion. Interactivity and autonomy. Autonomy rises from interactivity and in such a point you cannot have one without at least thinking of the other. Our readings these last weeks insist on autonomy as the final goal of our teaching. Yes, it is. Autonomy, though it means a certain self-reliability, is a way to deal with others, using what they have already done. Autonomy is a mastering of the reality in order to pass our comprehension to others and getting ready to improve what we have received for more betterment. Great job as ours. We are always trying to make ourselves independent to make our students independent and trying to build in our independency a better interactive world . Contrasts! but it is life.
We haven't finished . We still have things not to forget. We must bring them home:tools for teachers, games, crosswords, test templates, lots of exercises to use in class eithr for relaxation, or for learning. Again work and relaxation blend. So our students can learn while playing and sometimes they like playing while studying, and in their playing they fix the lesson.
The great experience of week 8 and week 9 is the partners meeting while drafting our projects. My partner was excellent. She gave me a lot of advice to improve my draft. Marcia is wonderful. Now I am working on my final report, realizing it is not only time for packing, it is also time for accountability. Let's do it. We all know what we receive from the course. But what are we going to do with those filled-up baggage? Work interactively to make our students more autonomous for a better interactive world.
Roland
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Dear Roland,
ReplyDeleteWe have spent 9 weeks together, learning new things, trying out new tools and exercises, discussing, sharing ideas and suggestions. It has become a habit to check Nicenet and read what our colleagues have posted, to check the blogs, to do the tasks, to write our blogs and comment on some of the other blogs.
We have learned a lot of things, we have made friends. We will leave this course richer for new knowledge and new experiences. It has been very intense and very demanding, but I am sure that we will feel sorry when it is finished.
I am so glad that I have been part of this course and this wonderful group of people. I hope that we will keep in touch and continue helping each other and sharing our ideas and experiences in the future as well.
All the best,
Nina
Dear Nina,
ReplyDeleteYour judgment about the program is right. Demanding, but exciting. It has been a real joy to be together to build a community of English and computer learners with our differences. We hope we will maintain it joining our hands and your knowledge acroos the oceans and the continents.
All the best for you Nina
Roland
Dear Nalore,
ReplyDeleteI hope you are safe and secure from the earthquack tragedy that crippled Haiti.
You are expressed our feelings in the most appropriate words - Recollection and oblivion...
I feel the same at the fag end of this course.
Regards,
Dilip (India)
Dear Roland,
ReplyDeleteyour dichotomies are painfully true. But they are an inevitable part of our lives, including our lives as teachers.
We are packing up for an old new journey, there is so much behind us and so much we have to and want to carry on with us. We certianly have a lot to choose form, so let us consider ourselves blessed for that.
I also hope your country will manage to recover from the terrible tragedy.
Take care & Warmest regards from Croatia,
Andreja