Blog #8: Open Topic / Reflection

For your final blog post, please feel free to write about any topic related to the course.  For example, you can reflect on what you have learned about in the course and your e-portfolio project and also discuss any future goals or plans you have to use technology in your classroom.

    This course has helped me overcome my fear of technology. I was unsure of myself at first, but I  became to know  some of the essential skills that I can use in my own classes in the near future.At the beginning of the course, It was really tough to follow all the directions. And I couldn't catch up even the basic terminologies related with course materials. I even had no idea how to embed HTML code before, that was my reality. Surfing the internet and writing e-mails are almost all the things that I used to do with computers. 

  

   Through the various assignments, I have mastered the use of technology as I never heard before.  Most of the time, I had to watch several different versions of 'YOUTUBE tutorials' to follow up the directions. It was really time consuming jobs, but It helped me to improved my listening skills, too.

   Prior to this class, I had never thought of my own teaching system could be possible through new  computer technologies. However, now I can imagine my self to assign the homework on my teaching site and check my students' work on the web. There are lots of teaching- assistant tools I can use. The key is how to well organise and use them to the right point. 

  I am interested in teaching middle and high school students. So I have a plan to open my teaching site to help them to improve especially their listening and speaking skills. I will introduce variety of listening sites and each site will be  divided by their levels and different topics. To facilitate the student's speaking skills, I will use of 'audiodropbox'. It is a really cool thing that I can check student's performing and give direct feedback to them.

  If I can have another chance to learn more, I want to study 'Course Management Systems & E‐learning Content Management'. With assistance of 'course management system', I want to build up my own site followed my curriculum. I think well-balaced online and offline class is the key to the success in 21st. 

In closing, I would like to add that I have really enjoyed the experience of this class. It has been good for me to learn computer assisted language learning skills.  Thank you for your help and patience.

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