Fawali- FBlin's Blog

I asked students prior to our wiki session this week for their preferences to be with certain people and they all refused to choose a favorite!!! I was shocked! I insisted that they choose who they wish to work with and they also insisted that I choose the people. One of them said it doesn’t matter who I work with we. I like the whole group and another said that if he chose someone, he might hurt another one for not choosing him or her! They are caring students and they look after each other all the time. They are 13 people who go to the same classes all over the week so they feel like a family now To sum this up, I had to choose the groups for them again and I am going to stick to these groups in lesson 7 for the coming lessons.

One of the students had swine flu and did not post anything so far. All he did was create the personal page. His peer in lesson 5 had to write the whole thing. I was not aware of the fact that he is not coming back. His peer in lesson 6 faced the same thing but asked me to shift him to another group and so I did.They created a presentation today with regard to the course book. They had to divide the tasks and then get back again and create the presentations. They will on their personal pages by tomorrow They are proud of what they are accomplishing

It is Eid time so missed the first three days of the week. We have two lab hours today. I checked the wiki during EID and I found that two students made a big delay in the addition of their parts to lesson 5. I wrote them a general disappointmet note in the wiki and will talk to them today. I hate it when this happens.

Other students have been discussing general topics in their personal pages which made me happy

Last week they asked if it is possible for you to comment on their posts. They want to know you I told you are reading what they are writing and that I will organise a skype meeting for them to meet you one day

Today’s session was stormy. I had to be hard on a couple to ensure they don’t delay others. They talked A LOT today. They just prefer speaking to each other (face-to-face) then they can write about it! They enjoyed the discussions of the movie going out but had several discussions ALOUD in class!!

I noticed that they are using the wiki to upload their course related projects

The students expressed their preference in writing about general life-related topics instead of ICT topics. They just said they limit our thinking and there isn’t much to talk about so I decided to let them write a fairy tale with once upon a time just for change then I will revert to the problem solution essays again as I have to maintain the outcomes of the course.

I didn’t enjoy today’s session…at lot of instruction had to be made for Sunday’s assessments, they are just back from a holiday, the delay thing ruined my mood and theirs, they had to present their presentations (course-related).

I will make sure we have more fun next week. I have prizes for the best personal pages and most active members so far so I guess it will boost some feelings in the air.

I had three hours today instead of tomorrow 24th as I will be involved in interviews with HR. They said 3 hours in a row are tiring.