Personal Thoughts

In this week I was not able to finish the assignments earlier. Again. I will try harder next week. I always have the impression I am years behind. I know what to say, but I am never sure enough of how to start. Organization is the key word that is missing here. But as I said when I applied for the course, the challenge for me is to take part in an online course. This has been an interesting experience so far, although I have to admit that I feel frustrated some time. I am too perfectionist, and I would like to have an account of everything that has been said and commented and answered in the posts during the week. This is a good reflective post. Probably this is what students, or even teachers feel when we invite them to work on a collaborative project, as a blog, for example. There is always the fear of saying something that the others will not agree with, or maybe of saying something that is not useful at all.


The two articles, although not long, where very dense. Too much information to reflect upon. And the delicious pages are a wonderful net of amazing links, waiting for us to explore, and use.

One of the things that is probably affecting my focus on the course is that I will only have a definition about my position in my school next week. I have been the Pedagogical Supervisor of my school for the last 8 years, I suppose. Now, I asked to be totally back to classes, that is, become a normal teacher (if there is anything like that). I found myself a bit disappointed because the pedagogical projects of the school were not working as I wished them to be. And I do not think it is my fault, but anyway, there is a time when we see that, if you don’t agree with something, you have to change. Then, I am going to start this school year with my own classes, my students, and I will be able to develop the projects I want, and I am sure there are some teachers that will be willing to work with me in these projects. The use of technology for collaborative projects is one of them, following the models of iEarn. But, there is still another possibility, which is that the group of teachers chooses the coordinator in the beginning of the year, and I have already heard that some teachers will propose my name for the position. Some would think that it is the same thing, but it is not. Since the coordinator is a choice of the teachers, normally they accept the proposals better. Well, I will have to wait since next week to know what is going to happen.

(I hope this week I find some time to change the layout of my blog a little. I also want to add some pictures.Appearance is also very important!)