Week 1

The first week of our course was very exciting. After receving an e-mail about the tasks we can expect during this week I went to Jodi and Celeste's Wiki and then to Webskills Google map and added my placemark icon. "Normal" people would probably close the map and come back to it tomorrow or after a couple of days. However, during the very first day of the course I was so excited that I have went to see the map about 20 times. I was so eager to see where all the other participants were from and it was so exciting to see the placemark icons being added in the next few days. Each marker had its own story and I was trying to imagine people behind them.

I have also posted on Nicenet twice. I am not familiar with this communication tool. It's not a complicated one I would say. Two dilemmas that I have right now are: is it a free tool and are we allowed to open separate threads with new discussions or not? Hmm.. let me see if I can find out something about the first dilemma. 

(7 minutes later)

Yes, it's free. You can read more about it here. I will certainly have a serious thought about using this with my older students.

Thanks to the discussion on Nicenet, I have learned a bit about each participant and about our teachers Jodi and Celeste. I am looking forward to learning more about their classes, school system in general and the available equipment in their schools.

I have also filled out the survey and read all the resources given and I think I will use the evaluation sheet as a personal guide for my future projects with students.

And finally, his Majesty, the blog! I do have some experience in blogging but each time I start a blog it's about a different topic and for different audience. That's why it was so challenging when I was creating this one. I also got stuck for about 2-3 days when I wanted to create separate pages about Oregon and Serbia. Some say you have to be patient with technology. I would say you have to be patient and stubborn!