Serat

After a whole semester of CALL and other classes which overwhelmed me, it is nice to breath a little and reflect on what has been accomplished. The number of exposures to tools and programs was more than adequate. The basic question comes down to what had meaning and will continue so that it does not end.

I had been interested in blogs and wikis to be used in f2f teaching. It still has proven to be the most reliable source for being an extra assistant to my teaching syllabus. The students have a nice time getting acquainted with the web and learn how to reflect, especially for those who have never really reflected before. Within a semester they are able to create, post and continue their projects on the blog without overly stressing the students.

The emails have also been very good in terms of keeping contact and interacting with the learners. This interaction has proven to be very important and less papers to carry around. These will continue even if their course is over.

Overall, CALL is as its name stands, computer assisted language learning. It does not say how much and where; it is just to help. Web 2 has many tools which are wonderful, but it takes time to get to know the tools and figure out their use for a particular purpose. Thus, though the course is over, it isn’t the end, but in actuality another beginning but with more patience and time.