Week 10: Final  Reflection

We are nearly at the end of this course. I am surprised how the days rushed lagging us behind.  It is true that time and tide doesn’t wait anyone. We are now wrapping up our entire course within few hours. I am really wordless in this situation. Being bold, I would feel proud myself that the course we participated is internationally recognized course.  We successfully completed it. It will have academic value as it promotes our professionalism. In fact, the course was wonderful. It was systematic, balanced and scientific. The course involved us in varieties of assignments such as: Discussion, Task, Project tasks, Reflective Blogs and Comments. Most of the class was run in Nicenet posts and comments along with weekly Blog Reflections. The Nicenet conferencing topics were as follows:

Discussion Topics: Ground Rules for Discussion, Web Searching (Finding the Best Search for information Needs), CALL for Aural/Oral skill-building, Reading/ Writing skill- building, Assessment/rubrics and Project-Based Learning, Interactive classes, Learners’ Autonomy, One-Computer Lesson, Online tools for enhancing learning, Learning Styles/Technology and Multiple Intelligences

Tasks : Creating Academic Blogs, ABCD objectives, Delicious pages, Creating Technology –enhanced Lesson Plan, Rubrics , Interactive PowerPoint, Sample Lesson  for a One-Computer Classroom, Creating Online course site or exercise to use online and assessing  our  Technology Integration Level  on the basis of LoTi ( Level of Teaching Innovation)

Project Tasks: Describing class we teach, Reading Sample Project Report, Describing some issues, Describing  how to begin to implement the change, Peer review of project Report/Plan, Writing final draft of project reports/ plans.

Extra-credit Task: Creating technology- enhanced project or WebQuest

 Weekly Reflective Blogs and comments: Each week we would reflect our experience we earned from the week posting blogs on the basis of what we did, what we learned and how would we implement them in the classrooms. We also had to comment on our friend’s Blogs.

All those activities we accomplished during nine weeks were very useful for us .I don’t find any of these topics is less successful and less useful. I think I successfully completed these topics categorized as above. They are equally useful in my context. As I am teaching Masters and Bachelors level students, I will try to use most of them to develop students’ autonomy, active participation in the class and to develop their reading habit. In fact, this course is PRECIOUS to bring innovation in our teaching. Finally, I would like to extend my vote of thanks to Dedicated/ Dignified Donna, collaborative/ hardworking E-friends and University of Oregon for providing me this grand opportunity!

I would like to request you to extend this course from 10 weeks to 20 weeks so that it can produce on- line teaching incubators. 

With Warm Greetings (Namaste)!

Hari Maya Sharma

Nepal

Email: hbhimasharma@hotmail.com/ harimayasharma@yahoo.com