Edited by Jonathan Turner, Tuesday, 28 Jan 2014, 10:14
This is my first entry for the new course and I will start by positng my getting to know you blurb and photo. My laptop has died and I'm using a borrowed machine, so I will keep my posts and such like here as well as it's a safe place to keep stuff
so on with the introductions...
Hi,
My name is Jon and I’m faculty at a tertiary level institution in the UAE. I’ve been teaching English and Spanish these last few semesters to Emirati students. I also teach on the Cambridge CELTA and Delta programmes, which are teacher training programmes, but I’ve taken this semester off to complete this module. Online and distance education is gaining more currency in the UAE and I’ve already managed to incorporate some of what I have learnt on previous OU modules in my professional context.
This is my final module on the MA and programme and most of what I want to achieve is to get the MA I have an MSc in TESOL so this MA has been more about professional development, but it has still been hard work I also hope to be able to apply what I learn on this module in a very practical context, hopefully as part of teacher training project I’m working on.
Outside work I have a young family so there is not a lot for time for me, but I love traveling, reading, cooking all the usual suspects , and I ‘m watching Shameless from season 1 when the kids have gone to bed
H817 - Week 00
This is my first entry for the new course and I will start by positng my getting to know you blurb and photo. My laptop has died and I'm using a borrowed machine, so I will keep my posts and such like here as well as it's a safe place to keep stuff
so on with the introductions...
Hi,
My name is Jon and I’m faculty at a tertiary level institution in the UAE. I’ve been teaching English and Spanish these last few semesters to Emirati students. I also teach on the Cambridge CELTA and Delta programmes, which are teacher training programmes, but I’ve taken this semester off to complete this module. Online and distance education is gaining more currency in the UAE and I’ve already managed to incorporate some of what I have learnt on previous OU modules in my professional context.
This is my final module on the MA and programme and most of what I want to achieve is to get the MA
I have an MSc in TESOL so this MA has been more about professional development, but it has still been hard work 
I also hope to be able to apply what I learn on this module in a very practical context, hopefully as part of teacher training project I’m working on.
Outside work I have a young family so there is not a lot for time for me, but I love traveling, reading, cooking all the usual suspects , and I ‘m watching Shameless from season 1 when the kids have gone to bed