I had several exams during the past few weeks. This is the reason why I have not contributed here for a while. I tried to participate in group activities, so I don’t think that the group suffered because of my lower activity. I'll try to catch up.
I have received several comments to my writings and I'll try to write some answers. Writing an answer to the comment is also reflection.
1. What was the most important thing you learned this week?
Planning isn't everything. You can plan your time, but life can make some unexpected changes.
I believed that theory can explain everything. I had very interesting course during the past three weeks. From theoretical view this course was a disaster: monotonous lectures and professor, but the material was so intriguing that this course still changed my understanding of art, history, learning and life. I am very demanding when it comes to teaching and I had a lesson that: even if everything doesn’t follow the "right way", it still may be very interesting and useful.
2. What was particularly interesting/boring in this week?
Struggles: with my English. I have never learned how to talk or write in English and sometimes this annoys me, because everything takes more time than I wanted.
It was interesting to see, that communication motivates people. We had with our group nice meetings via skype, but surprisingly: when it comes to private contribution some members somehow disappear.
3. Was there something you didn’t quite understand and want to know more
about it?
About theoretical part I probably will have some questions, but first I have to read course materials. :)
4. What kind of questions/ideas/experiences this week’s activities raised for you?
First question remain the same: whether students still suffer with the overload of information and assignments? Is it too much to read, reflect your learning, reflect theoretical material and participate activley in group activities?
And one idea: we should have (in our group) some structure in our skype-meetings. If we discuss everything then nothing gets done :). Last time everybody talked about something (everybody had some questions and ideas) and it was kind of difficult to follow the discussion.
5. Which tools did you use this week, explain what was the purpose of using these tools (eg. social talk, to regulate my team activities, to work on documents)?
Skype, MSN, MS Word, blog, Moodle, wiki deki, google docs, e-mail.
6. With whom did you communicate during this week, how many times, with which tools, and for what purposes?
I communicated with my group.
2 comments:
Hey,
interesting comments here :)
I wonder is it my task to come up with the structure of Skype meetings? I have started to ask from students what is the optimal number of pages for reading material that they should/are able to read every week for one course. As I have heard so many complaints about the overload of material, I am curious about this...
I'm not sure whether it can be measured using page numbers. It depends on how difficult these materials are. I find reading materials very interesting to me but they are in quite difficult level and i'm not sure whether these materials are not too hard to read and understand to others. I don't understand everything also. Perhaps one chapter from a book and 2 articles will do and some articles can be in Moodle as 'electives'. I just had a thought that you have not used the possibility of 'electives' very much, but if you give to students possibility to choose then this can support also intrinsic motivation (2 themes to write reading reflections about; 5 articles and student must read 2 of them: one of them is compulsory, other students can choose).
About skype meetings - at the moment it is not important anymore.
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