Week 9

I had to spend 3 days this week travelling to a moutainous area of Vietnam on the occasion of International Women's Day, together with more than 200 of my collegues, and did many activities there.

However, thanks to Internet improvements now in Vietnam, I can bring my laptop and an Internet connection device, i.e. a USB, so that I can work with the course when I have time without worrying about Internet connection in a remote area.

We dealt with the topic of multiple intelligence by Howard Gardner this week. This is not a new topic for me, as for many of my course members. I have read about MI and how technology can help encourage this, compared to the traditional classroom. I even have introduce MI to my teacher trainees, and discovered that they hadn't heard about it before. But honestly, this is the first time that I look and read more closely about this topic. I found a lot of useful articles in the link http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic68.htm Robert provided. I was impressed with this article named  Multiple Intelligences: It's Not How Smart You Are, It's How You're Smart!and will keep this saying for myself. I think it helps us respect different individuals as well as our students. Some may not be good at this, but may be very good at other things, and we teachers should find out and encourage out students' good points/potentials. Through Nicenet, I saw that my course members have a lot of ideas related to MI. It's a great chance to follow these discussions, but it takes time, too.

I also try o review my final project plan to submit it ontime. I did it on Google Docs and just submitted a link on the Wiki. I intend to impliment this very soon, even before receiving Robert's feedback. However, after reading Brigitte's blog post, I think that I have to consider this plan more carefully. A new tool may take more times to be introduced and understood and used by students. 

This is just an extra class, so I'm wondering if I can write a report about this for a conferecne about ICT in LT.

Week 9 has closed when I saw Week 10 opened. I will have more work to do, especially next three days attending an intensive workshop about ICT for teachers - the starting course - provided by Intel Vietnam, which I join as a trainee and an organizer.