When a staff of RELO Indonesia called me to join this teacher online course, I wasn't so excited as I thought that this competition is just like other competitions on how teacher can participate in certain programs. As an international office manager as well as English teacher, I input four names of English teachers working in our university (Ma Chung University Malang, Indonesia) including my name. But when I received a notification from the University of Oregon I was still very suspicious that the notification was fake. My other friend whose name I entered to the competition also received the same notification told me that he was also suspicious about it. I tried to contact a person from RELO (Ibu Dian Safitri) asking her about the notification and she sent me an e-mail with the official letter that we really were accepted in the course. I was so surprised and didn't believe my eyes that I was accepted among 1500 candidates. I only felt that it was not my achievement as the competition didn't ask for certain requirement but only to put names and send.
Now, here I am with a bunch of assignments from my university as well as from the online course:). But to tell you the truth, I am very excited to be one of the participants as I really want to know more about using technology in my language classroom. Why I am interested in using technology in my language class because there are a lot of resources of technology in my campus especially the Internet. I just feel that if I don't make use of it, it will be useless and waste of money. My students deserve to have more on using the technology with the guidance from their teachers and I feel very encourage to do that. My other reasons of using technology are that I am now still working with my dissertation for my doctoral program and the topic is on Computer-assisted Language Learning. That is why I am so enthusiastic in joining this program.
Well, that's all my thoughts about why I join this course. I hope that I will involve actively in this course and can get the most out of this course.
Malang, 5 October 2010
Nice start. Yes, the competition is pretty stiff for the spots in the class. We have had some of the most amazing teachers and people.
BalasHapusBe sure to change the default language to English on the blog when you can.
Robert
I think since you're doing your dissertation on Computer-assister language learning, you can be of great benefit to all of us. You must have a lot of ideas to share with us.
BalasHapusNada
Dear Robert and Nada,
BalasHapusThanks again for the comments. I have tried to change the language of the menu into English but I still found out that it works only at the menu (on the menu bar) but is still in Bahasa for the titles in the blog.
For Nada, yes, I'm so happy to share about what I am doing now with my dissertation but I think I can't give further insights as it has just begun.
Thanks to you both.
Yudi