Week 10: In the making of a perfect E-Teacher

Hello Everyone,

This week is the closing week of the course. So besides trying Levels of Technology Integration (LoTI) and giving advice to the future participants, I was reflecting on my journey through the course which I will share here.

But besides that I would also like to share that there was only one task that remained to be done and that was creating a Webquest on Zunal which I did this week on teaching "Ode to a Nightingale" Please have a look and comment on the same. 

When I began the course, I thought I would look something like this:

But during the progress of this course, I realized that it was nothing so complicated but was there to empower both the students and the teachers. It will not be able for me to describe here all that I have learnt in the course in toto but I will briefly discuss the topics that were covered over the weeks. What began in  Week 1 as path full of apprehensions and fear as to "Will I be able to do anything in the course, or will I fail?" and "What if my internet fails me?" etc. (but God be praised, nothing amiss occurred) is now sucessfully completed. 

It was the first "virtual" or online course that I did and completed successfully.

In fact it was some sort of extra work for me initially but during the course of it around week 4, I started enjoying it and got hooked to the computer most of the time. It became a part of my routine to sit at the computer for hours and look at the resources introduced, try something new and adapt it to the class that I was teaching.

 In a way, I have lived this course because the way it required to introduce things to the class one was teaching. The project is not something that one had to think and write. I have thought about it, implemented it, felt it, realized it and seen the effect of it. 

I am really thankful to RELO for giving me the opportunity to do this course. 

I am also thankful to my colleagues of this course for being very cooperative, kind and helpful.

Finally I would like to thank my Course Instructor Ms. Courtney Cunningham for being such a gem of a person and a teacher. Hats off to her. Had it not been for her guidance, I would not have been able to complete this course, successfully. Her directions and instructions were clear and precise. During the time of any confusion she came to my rescue as a lifeboat and a lighthouse to give me directions. 

Though the course is over, but the learnings of this course will last me a lifetime. 

I would like to close with this quote, "A good-bye is never painful unless you’re never going to say hello again."

Do stay in touch. 

Best wishes Everyone

Ashish Pande