The end of this course is not a destination, but the beginning of a new journey!

Ten weeks of contact with technology practices to benefit EFL teaching practices, this was an experience a bet no participant will forget in this class. We exchanged ideas, we discovered practices, and we discovered new ways of doing old things. And colleagues of mines, I can assure you that we have a challenge right now, revisiting all the resources of this class to deepen our understanding. Taking time to swallow all the resources we shared here, and more over revisiting on a weekly basis so that our teaching could benefit lifelong of our learning. Considering thus things that way, I believe the end of the tenth and final week of the training is not the end of the course but the beginning  of the practical side of the practices and strategies we touched during those ten weeks. As a famous quote put it, ‘’Technology will not replace teachers, but teachers who will not use technology will be replaced’’. I’m sure you will not fight to be replaced, but fight not to be replaced by technology, let’s keep in touch for ever dear brothers of this winter course.

Time management, a real challenge for teacher ready to bring technology to classes!

When I look back and see the amount of tools that we have touched since the beginning, I can see that there are plenty of tools we use to better our teaching, to modernize it. I must confess that I don’t master all those tools perfectly, but I rely on practice to do it. So when considering implementing technology in my classes, without changing the weekly time I need to use to work with my students who are not so techy, I really see a challenge. But one solution I could consider is to find some extra time to work exclusively on tech with them so that using it to communicate my lessons would be more easy for me as they could be more familiar to the tool. This is how we can use more efficiently our lesson times and face that challenge of lack of technology mastery with students and use of technology to learn language with some education administrators who will no be happy with us if we don’t finish our program.