Week 4

Week 4 is almost over and I’m feeling dead tired with so many test papers to correct and grade and our tasks here.

My new routine has been as follows: Mondays and Tuesdays are for readings; Tuesdays night for posting in the discussion and then only on Thursday night and on Fridays do I manage to focus on the course again. Along the way, one or two sleepless nights, which make me feel a bit, should I say, “stoned”.

In spite of such work overload, by now, I have already accomplished almost all tasks: I have left on Nicenet our weekly discussion post and have also commented on other participants’ posts; then the second task was to create a technology-enhanced lesson plan which I will be using soon; thirdly there is/was project task, a step further for our final project and this blog post. Yet there are still comments to write to your blogposts, which I’ll be pleased to make as soon as I finish mine.

Nevertheless, I must admit all has been fantastic and believe me I’m honest. I particularly enjoyed the readings this week once reading itself has been one of my life mottos. I have always been a reader and then a reading mother – I can proudly tell you that I have two sons who are as avid readers as I am (in Portuguese and in English!);

»» Infographic on how to get children to love Reading
(please click here to read the article and the info on the infrographic)

at school, I have promoted a lot of reading activities among my students and with other students at school and have, in the meantime, published some articles and made some presentations. If interested, please click here, here, here and here;  in this padlet, myself, colleagues and students have also been posting their book recommendations for a while also using different web2.0 tools.

Now, off to test correction! Hope to come back soon to read your comments ;)

Greetings from Portugal,

Alex