Week 1 - Reflections (Ambitious)

This week my first online course commenced and adjusting my schedule to meet the requirements became one of the challenges I had to face. Anxiety prevailed in the first part of the week, retreating as the course proceeded and tasks were fulfilled.

Creating a blog did not seem as easy as everybody in the course stated, having been confused by the creation of an account which had not been desired. However, in the end, it proved to be as easy as a pie.

Logging into Nicenet, an online discussion environment for teachers, was even much easier than the blog. Commenting on other’s posts was easy in terms of technology, but more difficult in terms of content. 

The most interesting part of the course is to read recommended sources to create and compare ideas about using blogs as a teaching tool and what the pros and cons are. Contemplating information provided and analyzing our possibilities, abilities, skills and willingness to implement such a tool into our teaching results in challenges we are eager to deal with.

Being required to use Academic English is another challenge we welcome owing to a lack of opportunities to use it in teaching at the secondary school.