Just a recap on the fairy tale: One of them said ‘I enjoy writing with the others but I feel I want to write the fairy tale alone. So I made him write his own and participate in another one with his peer.
Today’s session was an inspirational one!
I uploaded Al Pacino’s inspirational speech to his team but it was so huge so I had to put the link instead. I played it in class but the voice was dead so each one of them played in on his/her machine over and over again! They liked what he was saying and the spirit he created in them. I asked them to discuss the problems and solutions in an essay individually as some of them asked to write alone in the previous essay- the fairy tale.
I have noticed that most of them if not all type their essays in word and then copy-paste it in the wiki. I asked one of them for the reason of that and he said because I can check my spelling!
Another thing I have noticed is that they use google translate to translate their ideas from Arabic to English. They close the google window when I pass by!! Feeling guilty but can’t help it! I told them as a class that I would love to see the way they write without using google..just put your ideas down the way they come out. No need to translate! They didn’t listen but ket on doing that. I don’t blame them. They want to be perfect 
One of them is not as enthusiastic as the others all the time. She is the one who caused her peers to be late in 2 of the previous essays. She is looking into the comments in FACEBOOK! I had to say this aloud to draw her attention: You must write this now and finish it in 2 hours before you leave then you can change it from home! She then opened a word document and started writing after nagging that she wishes to do it at home.
Most of them prefer writing the essays from home but participating in the discussions in class. I noticed that when they just discuss in class, they start talking in English at first then they convert into Arabic! It is hard to stop them once they start so I would rather have them focused in a writing and add new discussions at home!
In the end of the first hour, I could see that they all stopped and started saying : we are stuck! No more ideas! One of them suggested discussing it in the same page so I added two discussions to talk about the problems and solutions for all.
I am giving them prizes for:
The best and most well- organised personal page
The most active wikiers in the discussions
The most active wikiers in the essays
The wikier whose writing has improved the most
the prizes are books!
I forgot my camera at home to record today’s session 
One of the students notified me that the Personal pages are gone from the list! I tried several things to bring it back to the list but failed, please help?
