Week 2 Reflection

Hi everyone,
Looking back at what I have so far learned, I am so impressed by the few but great things I have learned:

1. Creating a blog and becoming a member of blog user is the newest thing I have ever experienced. I learned everything from all of  Websikill participants, including but not limited to:
• The rich experience of many blog users in designing and managing their blogs, creating attractive templates and formats. Honestly, I imitated many of the participants' styles to reshape and blog.
• Ideas shared among the participants have given me great confidence in what I already know and doing, and further inspired me to  share whatever a little idea I have with others.
• Comments forwarded by the participants have given me insights into how different teaching settings experiences can produce different, but not contradicting, ideas and experiences that all teachers can make use of.
• Being a blogger is the best opportunity for teachers to tour around the world at a finger press. Thanks to this technology, and many thanks to Donna who has been so dynamic in exposing us to the "secrets" of this technology.
2. I have also learned to navigate in so many specialized websites, not the least Noodletools.com, to narrow, fine-tune search engines and access teaching materials tailored for every field or purpose. 
3. My teaching techniques are more enhanced, more sharpened. Technology-based development of teaching materials like those I did for Nicenet discussion will surely make a new juncture in my teaching career. They save time, effort and effective in teaching. Goodbye those days of at-desk manual development of teaching materials. 
4. Again, the ABDC method of setting objectives is another teaching-kit that I have benefited from. I often. prepare my lectures using PPP (Presentation, Practice and Production) to set my teaching objectives. These are nearly equivalent to (Psychomotor, all the three Cognitive levels and Affective) objectives, respectively. However, I have found the ABCD method is more elaborated and suitable for a professional teacher. I will follow it now on.
5. Most importantly, there is a new mood, a new spirit that I have had - a marvelous one and I will maintain it  as long as I am a teacher.

Best,,
Garri