What a Relief!!!

Congratulations! We have reached the end of this course with much success! I know so because we each had to do presentations of our assignments and I saw the evidences of the your hard work.I am so impressed with the different levels of technology knowledge and skills demonstrated. But I have to say that I am so proud of myself. At the beginning of this course I was so intimidated by the required assignments. But with all your encouragement and support I can say that I have gained so much new information and my technology skills have greatly increased and improved. Thank you - all of you - your encouragement went a long way in keeping me committed to completing the required assignments especially the geo-narrative and course management and to completing this course. I wish all of you a successful academic journey. May you all reach the goals you have set for yourselves. I look forward to seeing some of you Literacy majors in the next two semesters. Have a great Christmas. Rest, relax, have fun and be ready for the Spring semester.

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Teaching is not a profession; it's a passion. -- Unknown
When we have passion we have boundless enthusiasm, powerful emotions or appetite, zeal, ardor and fervor. Take these and apply them to your students and instruction and you will have unbelieveable success. Any profession, especially teaching, is dead without the passion.

Thank You!

I would like to express my gratitude to you, my ED 638 colleagues and Dr. Rivera for your guidance and support in making this class a wonderful learning experience. I can definitely utilize the knowledge and experience that I have gained with using the Internet as a teaching tool in my work. I have the confidence to share the Internet tools with my colleagues at school so they could also benefit with the technology of the times! Farewell to you all, may God Bless You and Your Family during this holiday season and always!

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Merry Christmas

It has been a pleasure being classmates with all of you. Through this course, I was able to learn a great deal of things from you all. It was amazing to see how we all come up with creative and interesting things that we can incorporate in our classroom. I hope everyone has a safe and joyous holiday season and I hope to see you all in other graduate courses.

~GOODBYE & MERRY CHRISTMAS~

It was a pleasure taking this class and taking that opportunity of learning so much about what the internet has to offer to make learning more fun for our students. I had fun learning in and out of class whether through moodling, emailing, blogging and class presentations. Everyone did an awesome job. I truthfully regret not making in the last day of class due to a fever. But I didn't want any one to get sick nor feel sorry for me. So good thing I got plenty rest and got better today. Once again, thank you all for the great times and wonderful learning experience. Now we can in turn teach our students what we have learned and instill that learning through the internet is gaining useful knowledge that will be carried on throughout all the years of schooling.

Farewell everyone, keep in touch, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all and your families!

Farewell Message

Dear ED638 Students,

Happy Holidays, and thank you for all the wonderful educational technology presentations! Thank you also to those who wished me a belated happy birthday! I guess we can't stay young forever! In any event, it has been a pleasure having all of you as students this semester. I’m happy that you’ve gained much knowledge on teaching with the internet, applying technology to develop students' higher order thinking skills & creativity, and so much more! I encourage you to continue to apply what you’ve learned to empower your students to excel! Good luck in all your endeavors!

Warmest regards,
Dr. Rivera

This is the end, my friends.

I'm relieved that we all got through the semester unscathed, maybe a little weary, but still beaming with smiles. I enjoyed our last session last night and I especially enjoyed sharing my portfolio with everyone in class. Good luck with all your future endeavors. Happy Holidays!

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Great Class, Awesome Mates....put up the lights and let's celebrate!!-Mar