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Final post v2... probably not the last as well.

     Hey! It's been another whole semester, filled with a lot of new experiences, fun memories with friends, and of course, a ton of assignments. This course is over as well, and honestly, having this course felt like a brief break between all the other classes. When i look back at this course, it has been a very beneficial experience that showed me a lot of different tools and perspectives worth considering in my future teaching.

    As for the strengths of this course, it was very involving and educational. It made me realize there are so many tools you can use for both educational and teaching purposes, and provided alternative usages for the technologies that i was already aware of. It is safe for me to say that this was the most memorable course we took all this semester. But of course, all this involvement came with a heavy workload. The syllabus was very demanding and tight, then combining it with all the other courses together, sometimes it felt too overwhelming but those times are behind now.

    If i had to pick a favourite between all the things we had done, i would definitely choose the flipped video task. It was truly a diverse experience for me, to record myself explaining an aspect of English as if i am in a classroom, it felt natural. Thinking of every word i say, and every word written on the board together with the design, analyzing all of that to see if it is suitable for our context, i can say it helped me in a very positive way to see how such processes go. I believe this activity in particular is something that i am going to be using in the future.

    To conclude shortly, this course was a very fun experience and i hope to have similar courses in the future. In our age, having proficiency in modern technological tools in language teaching is a must-have skill, in my regard. Anyways, this was it, i wish the best for myself and my friends, as well as those who are going to take this course in the future which may read this or not. See you all the next time!

    

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