I learned so much during the past 9 weeks! When I was starting this course, I was sure of my abilities as far as using technology in class is concerned. I was convinced that I did not have a lot to learn and maybe Robert noticed it when he read my needs before the beginning of the course. At the end, I have discovered that I had a lot to learn and indeed I learned a lot!

Week 1: Blogging. I knew quite a lot about blogging, but using a blog as a teaching tool was a discovery. I was not very regular on my own blogs but the course corrected this state of things.

Week 2: stating teaching/learning objectives. this is something that I am used to doing as a professional, but Idiscovered the Pennsylvania State University's way of stating objectives and I liked it very much.

Week 3: social bookmarking and teaching aural/oral skills. I am a member of facebook which is a social network but this course gave me the opportunity to discover that there could be social bookmarking and I am using delicious.com a lot since week 3. This week also provided me with the opportunity to discover useful websites for dealing with aural/oral skills. I am also very grateful to my coursemates who permitted me to discover very interesting websites.

Week 4: Planning a lesson to be taught with technology. Wonderful experience! It is true that I had already done that a couple of times, but reading about classmates' experiences and Robert's  comments provided me with more confidence on how to deal with these.

Week 5: Rubrics, alternative assessments and PBL. In my humble opinion, this was the turning point of this course. Before the beginning of this course, I did not look at rubrics as important evaluating tools in the process of language learning and with my adoption of the PBL as the basis of my teaching, rubrics have become unavoidable. Week 5 also made me understand how independant learning could be an advantage to a student, but also how it was important to frame it with a lot of guidance.

Week 6: Interactive powerpoint. As a logical continuation of what PBL entailed, using interactive powerpoint presentations in class has proven to be very efficient as my students were trained on how make up their own. I also read a lot of interesting new ideas about using technology to teach large classes.

Week 7: One-computer classroom. This appeared to be very enriching although this is something I have been used to for more than 8 eight years now. Each of our classrooms is equiped with a wall-mount large screen connected to a central unit. However, apart from the usual stuff that I handle on a daily basis thanks to this computer I discovered a number of other things which could be done with a computer in class.

Week 8: Using Exercisers. I used to know Hot Potatoes very well but this week made me discover other tools which proved to be very efficient in creating tests.

Week 9: Learning Styles/Multiple Intelligences. One of the major problems that we have in our classes and that I have had the opportunity to discuss with others. I became familiar with the nine intelligences:

Verbal-Linguistic
Logical/Mathematical
Visual/Spatial
Bodily/Kinesthetic
Musical/Rhythmic
Intrapersonal
Interpersonal
Naturalist
Existentialist                                                                                                                    

And I also read quite a lot about Howard Gardner.

A lot of things worked well. Class discussions were very instructive and learning about various nationalities' experiences was extremely interesting. Pair work with Natali on our project reports was also very fruitful and working on the project ended up being very challenging.

However, a number of of websites we were assigned to visit did not open. I also think that with our various occupations, one week for all the activities included could be too much. Which brings me to the conclusion that maybe the course could be extended to 15-20 weeks for instance.

To new participants, I will ask them to prepare themselves very well. They should be open-minded and ready to learn new things. Practically, they should be surfing the internet ready to read more than the reading assignments given to them. Above all they should make sure they have a goo room of time to do what they are supposed especcially all the reading that it involves.