Week 1- Introductions and creating an academic blog

In this first week we familiarize with the course material and the teachers community where we will participate in activities like discussion and creating a blog using nicenet and blogger. One first activity was to log into Nicenet in order to introduce ourselves to the other participants, thus creating a learning community.  With this activity I could virtually meet English teachers from different countries who shared some personal teaching experience and posted interesting quotations or saying to reflect on.

Other activity was to create a blog On Blogger (www.blogger.com) to share what we have done and what we have learned so far. I think that it is an effective an easy tool used to create blogs. Using blogs can definitely help to enhance learning in an interactive and motivating way.  They also permit to share information with the world in few seconds.

Finally, I would like to say that participating in discussions is an interesting technique that encourages participants to express different points of view and generates good questions on the proposed topic. That is helpful because all participants can deepen learning.