Reflections on what I did and learned in week 9

Dear facilitators and classmates:

This week I went through some exercise generators and created my first online exercise at http://poster.4teachers.org/worksheet/view.php?id=145783 .

I learned through these exercise generators that there are so many interesting exercises that a teacher can create easily to be used online and offline. The possibility of using the exercises online makes the exercises available and practical in the way the students can access them anytime and everywhere there is Internet connectivity. Once the exercises are generated and the URLs to access them, the students can work independently of the teacher and with less anxiety from the classroom atmosphere, which is not always conducive to good learning.

In addition to learning to create online and offline exercises through exercise generators, I learn how online tools can positively affect teaching and learning. Accepting to use these tools is tantamount to accepting a redistribution of teacher’s and students’ roles in and out of the classroom. This redistribution of roles grants more autonomy to the students while requiring of the teacher more guiding, management, and planning skills.

I put the final touches to my project report taking into account the comments provided by my peer reviewer, Raphaël.

Yours,

Bruno