That's it?

So here we are at the end of our course. A mixture of antagonistic feelings are storming in my brain. On the one hand I feel a soothing relief because it is over, on the other I'm full of sorrow because it is over. I've remembered a small poem about the duality of the human nature:

Man is a fool.

When it is hot, he wants it cool.

When it is cool, he wants it hot.

He always wants what he has not.

This course has been very useful for me. I've learned many interesting things I will most definitely use in my classes. Beginning with Week 2 when we tried to formulate a clear ABCD objective and ending with the issue of learning styles, I was in a constant process of autonomous study.  I cannot tell that I would use only one particular tool. I think the best result is in their harmonious combination. At one lesson, one tool might be used, at the next - another, etc. It depends on the ABCD objective set before every lesson.

I know for sure that I would do a lot of blogging in the next academic year. I will also work with a wiki together with my class. It will be similar in some ways with what we had here. I will go one using my blog for my educational goals. 

There were no irrelevant tools in this course, in my opinion. Even if some of the things were not completely new to me, I had the chance to look at them from another perspective. So I discovered other ways of using that tool. However, what I'm dreaming of is how to organize online conferences. I would suggest thinking of organizing some webinars.

I am happy for Sandra that she had the opportunity to meet FACE-TO-FACE the team in Oregon. You see people still long for this physical contact, if you understand what I mean. That is why my belief stays unchanged: technology is only A tool to improve teaching, to make it more interesting and diversified.  It is A tool every teacher should use nowadays to get to their students, to motivate them. I hope that one day we'd have the chance to meet. Meanwhile I'll follow Poncho's advice in one of his posts: "Dream on".
As I have got into the musical style lately I would like to end with: