Things were flowing very well until this week, when all of a sudden I felt my students' total lack of interest in carrying out and determining the final tasks of writing comics. The visit to the computer lab felt so heavy that I felt I chose the wrong class, or all the more the wrong career. Students reaction for any assigned tasks were rather abrupt. They felt every task given time consuming and 'pointless'. It is frustrating facing such circumstances. I pondered with the idea of changing the level of class I was initially and basically working with, since younger classes (grades 7 and 8) seemed more eager to fulfill this new type of writing tasks.
Enough of 'nags' and 'what ifs'. Upon writing my rough draft I've realized some good criteria and some missing criteria. I'll leave it to my partner, Shakhnoza, the general evaluation of the rough-draft of my project. However, I found that I should have provided a rubric to my students during/prior assigning the task.
Other topics discussed and tackled this week were the 'world' of ANVILL, where though it is a breakthrough in teaching listening and speaking skills, it does need a "high performing" internet connection, and some willing learners/students that are eager to acquire language autonomously. I searched and borrowed and created some exercises and posted them where necessary. I found most of the links thought-provoking, and engaging, since each had something genuine to present us with.
We are almost there, and us being autonomous to a certain extent, our paths are being conjoined to end up in the fork of our final destination. See you all there real soon.
Eugenie
