RECOLLECTONS: WEEK 1 OF THE E-TEACHER PROGRAM
First of all, I would like to express my profound gratitude
to the US Embassy and the Regional English Language Office (RELO) in India for
giving me the rarest opportunity to participate in the online course “ Building
Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web”.
I feel it is a life- time experience for me to be a
participant in this course. The email informing me about the acceptance of my
application filled me with overflowing joy. After the registration, I felt that
the course would be a very difficult task but at the same time it filled me with excitement because of the
nature of the course and the tasks involved in it. The name of the course “
Building Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web” fascinated me very much
and I knew pretty sure that I was going to learn something entirely new. Though
I am not a web savvy, the passion to learn web skills gave me the impetus to eagerly
wait for the course to start. I joined the Discussions for Week 1 very late as
I was on an academic tour and I had to race against time to complete the assignments
for Week 1. The instructors were very helpful and gave instructions and
information related to the course tasks and assignments well in advance. I
would like to thank all the instructors who took extra effort to inform me about
joining the Discussions in time.
There was a range of tasks and
activities during Week 1. We can not take the course very lightly. I started
with the visit of the course website to explore the whole range of tasks,
assignments, weekly schedules, etc. Then I filled out the needs assessment
survey. These two tasks gave me sufficient information about the scope and
nature of the course.
I joined the Discussion on Nicenet
only on Friday as I was on an academic tour. It was a wonderful experience entering
Nicenet , creating username and password and making the first post on the Discussion
– “Introduction”. I was really wonderstruck at this .Then I went on to create my
blog on the blogger. My heart leaped out of joy when I succeeded in creating my
blog. Then I linked my post on the blog to the Wiki. Then I posted my comments
on the Ground Rules for Discussions. All these web-based tasks gave me a series
of thrilling experiences which filled me with wonder and awe.
On the whole, Week 1 has been full of
delightful interactions with the web.
Now looking forward to learning more in
Week 2.
Sasi Raj from India
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