WEEK 8 REFLECTIONS

Dear Webmates

Week 8 is over and I start feeling homesick. Each day I am totally surprised even I do not see you I really feel that we more than just classmate are becoming friends for this reason, the end of this course, which is getting closer make me feel little sad.

During this week I learned a lot about ANVILL that is one of the most complete web English lab that I have ever seen. The versatility of this tool engages inmediately both teachers and students and permits that students have the interaction they need to build up their confidence at using their English. A great development of the Yamada Language Center of the University of Oregon that is being used by many TEFL centers all over the world.

In this sense, the use of Internet educational tools was the purpose of this week. From Nicenet to Hot Potatoes, and www.wizard.4 teachers.org. Internet offers great learning oportunities, but the idea is the change of teacher's attitude towards his own way of teaching. The tools are ready to be used, the teacher have the responsibility to take them to enhance their teaching practice.

Finally this week, we have to present the first draft of the final project plan and even more complicate we have to give to our peers the feedback they deserve to work on their own project. This is complicate when we have to check other's works and we are not very sure what it expected for this works. Even there were very clear parameters to be focused on sometimes we could make mistakes in this kind of assignments. I hope my peer evaluation was useful enough to provoke the change my peer needed to have a better job.

Gabriela