WEEK 6

Every week is a great learning journey in our Webskills course. I have read so much about pedagogy that what I usually feel when I read a book is that somebody is explaining to me something that I already know, either because I read about it somewhere or because of the classroom experiences. But every week in our class I feel like I have an epiphany that is going to change the way I teach radically. This week's epiphany came with the readings about interactive PowerPoint presentations, because despite the fact that I always try to make my classes as student-centered as possible, whenever I plan a class with PowerPoint is very teacher-centered. I am one of those teachers who writes questions that only the teacher answers and even worse, I explain tips that need no explanation, elongating my talking time. I also learned that a large class is not a class with 55 students. This week, Naglaa told us about her 300 to 400 students and I decided to stop complaining about my not so large classes.