Week 6

This week was much better for me, I wasn't as mixed up as the previous one.
I found some very useful ideas reading Discussion Boards that can be applied also to blog discussions. My students have started posting comments on their class blog, at last!
Some of them have had problems with the link to the blog, others have had problems creating their google accounts, so we dedicated one class to use the four computers to do these tasks while I went with the rest of the students to another room where there is a LCD TV to show them how to make comments and posts. It was all an adventure!!

This week I created the Interactive Power Point for this class with the idea of fostering short discussions during the presentation and after it to set a guided discussion in pairs. So in this way I will be addressing the objectives of promoting speaking skills, preparing them for the formal assessment: discussion, and showing them a different way of presenting a topic because when we discuss about presenting their work they only think about presenting folders.

I must recognise something that Mariah told me that made the difference to me. I was stuck with the topic of values and how to face it, and ask for help on the discussion and she advised me to ask my students what values rule their lives. As my students are young adults and adults I decided to ask them which 'area' of the topic Values they wanted to work on and they came up with Human Rights. So here I am, I finished my Interactive Power Point about it an hour ago.