As I sit down to write my second to last blog for this course, I realize that nothing gold can stay forever. The countdown has already started. I will have to be born again to express all the great and amazing things I have been learning in this online course. It is hard to say good bye to all the colleagues that have inspired me throughtout these nine weeks. It feels like as a piece of me began to miss everyone. I will be eternally thankful to each and everyone of my classmates, and above all to our professor Donna Shaw. Here are the highlights of this week.
Learning Styles, tech tools ANVILL: It is well-known that students learn in a variaty of ways.There are some who are reflective learners who like to stop and reflect about what they are learning. There are even others who are sensor learners that love learning by relating their instruction to what is out there in the world. Others prefer to learn visually like the visual learners, where pictures, time lines, and color coding are very important for their academic growth.The sequential learners, on his part, like order and organization. The good thing about each and every learning style is that teachers can also provide them with the right technology tool to foster their strenghts. In other words, for the reflective learner, the teacher might use blogs, Nicenet, e- mails, and peer-editing. As for the sensor learners, he may use WebQuests and Problem-Based-Learning activities. The visual learners can best learn by Interactive Power Point, Stupeflix videos, and Padlet. Finally, the sequential learner intake more instruction if google sites with calendars are provided.
Final Project Report: Last Friday, we had to turn in our final project reports. As I turned it in, I felt like a great weight had vanished from my shoulder. The last time I read, and re read and re read a piece of report was when I finished my dissertation for my undergraduate degree for college. I will be eternally thankful to Esala, whose wisdom and patience made me see my final report from another angle. Congratulations to her!. What else can I say? Well, I feel tired mentally speaking, but at the same time I feel like everyone in this course is a champion due to the endless hours we spent working on the different tasks and above all on the final project report. Again, I can honestly say that my academic life has changed tremendously.
All in all, It is hard to say good bye. It is even harder to say thank you to the U.S. Embassy in Paraguay for the support, to the Department of State for having granted me this scholarship, to the University of Oregon for having provided us with the best professor, to all my colleagues from all over the world for their insight, commitment, and wisdom...to our dear Professor Donna Shaw, whose humble and so down to earth comments and guidelines made us be agents of change for generations to come. Guys, I will miss you a lot. God bless you all!
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