Sunday, April 12, 2009

The time has come... final blog post online teaching winter 2009

As this course comes to it final days, I sit here and complete my final blog. Taking this course has added extra interest in the online world of teaching and technology. My impressions of online teaching now are much more complete, and understood in terms of expected work and outcome whether be it student or teacher. A first hand experience allowed me to dig deeper into online teaching and its expectations, first hand.



Prior to me taking the online course, I thought it was going lack the need for a face to face setting. I quickly found as a student and learner of this course, what the web can do for a learner and what it has to offer.




The most thing I have enjoyed is exploring the web of its many teacher/ student resources. I have searched the web for many years and for various things but never felt the true need for resources as I have for this course! Yes, I was very amazed 4 years in an English major and hundreds of research and papers later, online teaching taught me how to use the web more effectively. During our group assignment we where asked to provide exemplary resources. When I began the assignment I had initially thought it was going to be easy, but that turned out NOT to be the case. Instead I searched and searched and searched!! But ultimately what I came across are websites that I enjoyed so much and cannot wait to use them with my own courses. I have already utilized many of these websites with my own children at home and they love it!



Resources from the web, there are so many you don't know where to start. Well the amount of research I had to do allowed me to find great websites, thus allowing me to share with whomever wishes to! So, enclosed are a few of my favorite sites I spotted while researching exemplary sources from the web for my online teaching course.
Keep these resources for your records:

www.techtechers.com/eng.htm

www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/

http://pic.tech4learning.com This is copyright freindly

www.webenglishteacher.com/profre.html.

http://webquest.org/index-resources.php

www.readwritethink.org/

www.universalteacher.org.uk

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