Final posting for the course

I am sitting here in class with mixed feelings, because there will be no more classes after today. I am going to miss it. Denise, Nazeem and Josephine are not here today. Josie is looking after her mother who is not so well. Josie , may God protect and guide you and may he give you all the strenght that you need. I am not bribing anybody but I must say I am going to miss all the lecturers. Well , if I fail I will see them again. I am exited on the other hand because I shared some information with the teachers at school. I am going to workshop "creating wikis" at school. They were pretty impressed when I showed them what I can do to help them. I guess I will be very busy this coming holiday creating a library wiki for our school. My husband will be working this holiday so I will have a lot of time to work. I envy the students that are full time students.

When ever you feel downhearted, stressed and depressed make use of this motivational site

Remember to forget - Charles Ghina

                                                    

                                     Achiecements often come when we

                                     Forget our fears and try,

                                     For that's when we accomplish what

                                     We're most remembered by.

                                                            

Do you remember ?

This video was taken in 2009 when we visited Grove Primary. Unfortunately I did not have a very good cell phone then. The visuals are not so good, but I tried to bring back some memories to you. I realize that I can make my own videos to use for teaching if I cannot take my learners for an excursion. I'm happy today, yes happy today, with ........... do you know that song? Don't worry be happy. Teaching is not going to be boring again.

Each one, teach one

This is Friday night and I find myself busy with course work. Sandy taught us how to add widgets to our Wiki's yesterday. When I got home, I practiced puting a slideshow onto our Wiki. I created my own slide show to put onto the Wiki and it was awesome. Sandy taught us a great deal. She actually gave us the key to many  doors, but it is up to us to unlock these doors and discover for ourselves. I was very nervous and felt absolutely stupid when I started this course, but now I feel confident.
 By teaching adults that is "a bit older", Sandy let herself  into a challenge that requested a lot of patience. Hope we did not cause you grief Sandy. We all meet challenges each and every day of our lives and it is really up to us how we relate to them. I get learners each and every year that have various problems with their ability to learn, then I have to adapt to the situation and be creative to meet their needs. I must admit that I tend to focus too much on the learners with learning problems and that I sometimes find myself in a situation where I don't know what I can do to stimulate the learners that is above average. Since this course, my eyes opened and I know now how I can accomodate them by making the work more interesting and challenging with the use of my newly discovered technical skills of the computer. What I know about the computer is not merely enough to have answers to my working situation, but at least it is a start. I still discover tiny bits of skills and knowledge each and every day because knowledge gives us power. Don't get me wrong. I am not a power or control freak. I simply mean, power to handle my teaching in a way that I feel happy with, that I enjoy doing  and that I know my learners will also enjoy.
At the beginning of this year 2010, I made a resolution to myself that I am going to make this year worth awhile because I want to have good memories only, because I was born on the 20th of the 10th month.
I found myself amongst a situation of "each one teach one", during all the sessions and  sometimes when our students had informal discussions. I absorbed so much by only listening and observing from your discussions. I observed that the most of the students got that inner drive that we all need daily to reap the benefit of learning and teaching. You must all be proud of yourself and give yourself a pat on the back. We did not get official results yet, but I choose to remain positive about that also. Charlene, thank you for that wake up calls I got from you from time to time. Thank you for always sharing your thoughts and that extra mile you took to accomodate me in your life. Nazeem, thanks for the help you offered to create a yahoo account for me. I knew very little then. Denise, we did not converse much but I enjoyed reading your reflections. You reminded me about things in my past that I completely forgot about, but enjoyed remembering. Michael I perceived you to be a person that are very honest about how you feel and you were always straight foward. I like people to be like that because you can always trust them. I found a lot of strenght from you also. You taught me indirectly to find my strenght within without realising that. I will honour and respect you for that. Please everybody, let this be the beginning of a life long social networking so that we can benefit from each other. I enjoyed each and everyone in a very special way. Now to get back to our last official tasks. Give it your best shot so that you don't have to do it over.