In the padlet I wrote this.
"What can I improve? Wow there are so many things.
One of the big ones at the moment in my school (this is secondary) is the level of written English in my fourth year students (15-16 year olds). From our external assessments we know that they are underperforming dramatically and this is a problem that we have to address. I think that one of the best ways of doing this would be by starting international projects where the use of Englsh is a tool, a means to an end and not the objective. To this end I am hoping to start projects where my students would have to write a lot.
Apart from this... I would like to try any and all new IT ideas. I want to use mobile phones and computers more in class and in more creative ways. I want my students to get beyond Candy Crush and to discover the world out there in English."
What can I add to this here? I am a firm believer that you can always improve anything. In fact I would go further and say that what is good now, what works this year won't work next year so innovation and improvement become essential. I was an enthusiastic user of Edmodo a couple of years ago, I used it with several groups over a period of a couple of years and it worked very well. However once it got predictable, once the students expected to use it with me I realised that I needed to stop, to do something different.
It is for this that I decided to do this MOOC. I have used e-twinning before. I have run and participated in different e-twinning projects and also run and worked in three different Comenius projects. That sounds great but the question is always, what now? I don't think I know it all, I know I don't, precisely because I have done all these things I know that there are always lots of things out there that I know nothing about.
As a community teachers are always experimenting and innovating, what I want... is to learn,
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