What have I learned this week?
Wow...where to start. This week has been way too personal for me. It was a flashback to my own learning experience and what I think got me into teaching in the first place. Coming from a very traditional system didn't help much as a student, until I realized that I had to study the way I could and not how everybody told me to. I am a singer, and I found out on time that since I'm a doer as well, I had to study by doing, by working on my own projects, but listening to myself explaining the content, and my mom thought I was crazy when I even wrote songs to learn the names and dates of the social studies content I had to memorized. So, this week I have learned and refresh my knowledge regarding PBL, a gift I found many years ago but that I knew it had that name until this week I guess. I think I used it as a student all the time, and then back when I was teaching my dear teenagers I remembered that it worked with me and so I tried it with my students. I have used PBL as much as I can ever since, together with alternative assessment. I think that's the very best way there is to learn; however, I know sometimes the system, the time constraints, and the need to cover so much content have to be considered.

Something else I learned and I actually love is the way in which we can create webquests on the web. I usually just type them in word and either upload them in yahoo groups or photocopy them; depending on the resources. I know that I'm learning sooo much in this course that's sometimes unreal to me. I am enjoying every second of it, and I honestly don't want it to stop. I know that we are halfway through, so I cannot even imagine what we still will discover.

Love it!!!