Day 10 - May 30, 2008
Good morning and welcome to our final class.
I am teaching at SNHU tonight, so probably will not be able to connect with you online until 8:45~9a (Hanoi time).
Yesterday, several of you mentioned that 'two weeks is not enough'. I very much agree. It takes a long time and a lot of practice to become proficient at many of the skills we've covered in such a short period of time. I have been very impressed by your hard work and determination. I know we faced a variety to technical challenges, but you have not let that stop you. I hope this course will be just a beginning and that you are able to continue the development of your computer skills and share them with your colleagues.
I have done my best to read and listen to all of the work you've done, but will not have time to read everything carefully until this weekend and next week. To check all of your work, I will check your delicious account, your blog, and your efl537.com profile page that links to all the posts and comments you've made there.
I know many of are concerned about making sure you have completed all of your assignments. Today, we will verify that you have.
Please start with your
Del.icio.us account.
Do you have 25 bookmarks saved there?
Are they tagged appropriately? (
like this)
Reading Reflections - I know some of you emailed these to me, but it's much easier to make sure you've submitted them, if you also post them on the efl537.com site or your blog. You do not need attach Word documents, you can just copy and paste the text into a blog entry.
Materials Archive - these are the documents, webpages, presentations, and other media you have saved during this course. Please take screenshots of each folder in your EFL537 folder and upload them to your 'personal files' on efl537.com (My Account/ Personal Files/ Browse/ Upload) Vinha, please show classmates how.
Your
Personal Site - Does your Edublog or Wordpress have at least one post?
Your final assignment listed on the course overview was ' r
eport, presentation, and/or audio recording discussing your short-term and long-term plans and possiblities for using computer assisted language learning in your teaching environment.'. Since many of you have already discussed aspects of this in your other writings and during your talk shows, this is now an 'optional assignment'. If you do this, please post it on your blog or the EFL537.com site.
Today, while the class is working on finishing assignments, I would like to speak with each of you, one at a time via skype. We can use this conference time to make sure I 've seen all of your work and to ask each other any questions.
Thanks again for making this such an interesting two weeks of learning for me and I look forward to staying in touch as online citizens of the work and practitioners of CALL.
All the best,
Jeff
