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Before the British Council Learning Technologies for the classroom course I could:
 * use different search engines for finding extra materials for my lessons
 * create blogs;
 * use a blog for my students: Learning English Online
 * use Power Point for lesson presentations and with my students for creating their projects.

During the British Council Learning Technologies for the classroom course I have:
 * improved my searching strategies;
 * learned how to evaluate and select websites;
 * practised critially evaluating web-based activities;
 * learned how to integrate web resources into lessons;
 * developed my own web-based lesson idea;
 * become aware of copyright issues;
 * learned about some copyright-friendly materials that teachers can use;
 * realized the potential risks of using the Internet with young learners and learned how to keep my learners safe on the Internet;
 * learned new interesting ways of using Microsoft Word and Power Point for whole-class teaching and in a computer room;
 * got ideas and tools for online school links projets;
 * got ideas and tools for online school links projets;

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 * Created and have been managing TLT Community wiki together with Nataly;
 * Started publishing TLT Community Weekly newspaper on Paper.li;
 * Started taking part in EVO 2012 sessions: Digital Storytelling For Kids and PLN&PLE for educators;
 * Got an account on Animoto and created videos with it: (The videos are 30 sec. because I didn't know about Animoto Plus for educators when I started)
 * Taken part in a project called 'My little word for 2012'. Here's more about this project. My video created with Animoto:
 * Used Movie Maker to create a video.
 * Taken part in the first step of '30 Goals Challenge 2012' project and created a Me-Manifesto with Movie Maker

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 * Registered on Twitter and started following some great ESL teachers. I also twit or retwit some interesting articles on the net for my online newspaper.
 * Got and account on Photopeach and created a video quiz together with my daughter.