Week1: Serbia, my home country

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Following Sharmilla's proposal...it's my pleasure to introduce you all to my country.

Serbia is a country in the Balkans, famous for its rich history, cultural heritage, lovely nature, undiscovered tourist destinations, traditional cuisine and warm-hearted people.

I'll try and introduce at least one different trait of Serbia every week. I hope you will like it.

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Week1: thoughts on blogging

I have created my own blog! I pride myself on that! It took some time but it was worth it. Ideas keep rushing to me how this can be used in my classes. I am sure students would like it at least as much as I do.

I look at the blog now and really wish that my day was at least 48h so I could spend some more time personalizing the blog, adding some photos or videos etc. Anyway, I hope I 'll have time for that once that blogging becomes a routine.

Week1: learning as you prepare to learn

It has all started with the E-Teacher Scholarship provided by the USA Embassy in Belgrade for which I am extremely thankful! I have been chosen to take an online course named "Building Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web" (Webskills) with the University of Oregon, American English Institute, Department for Linguistics. I am thrilled and a little bit anxious to see what's awaiting me...or even better - to experience the whole course!

It is a 10-week course but my learning has started in the week prior to Week1. A few days before the official opening of the course I received an e-mail with some basic information on the course and the instructions on how to set my browser to work properly. Hmmmm....I ended up with both Internet Explorer and Firefox installed on my laptop, neither of which is completely properly set, but I keep my fingers crossed! Anyway, I have learnt how to use some of the Tools in both browsers and got aware of the Control Panel :)