I have to confess that I had been stressed out to finish all the assignments for this day. It took me 4 days to finish the readings, answer the questions from the articles, write a letter, and make comments for group members. Another thing that I have to confess is that I had already forgotten most things I obtained from the readings when we had the class. This is why I had no "up" to share with my classmates. The HD of my brain was overloaded.
It was a bit hard to have a conversation through Skype with 2 people on one laptop because the speakers in my laptop are not loud enough. I thought that it is important to have a good set of hardware.
During the group discussion for the articles, the only thing I could remember was case study #3. However, this is the idea which I am really fond of. Giving students the model of oral presentation is excellent idea because showing the goal / what their product should look like matches my teaching style. I found this case applicable to my teaching context.
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Sorry that you felt down.Cheer up!
Yosuke if it cheers you up...
YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE!
I was also very overwhelmed with all the assignments (not only in this class) and having forgotten what the articles were about - was not helping it at all!
However, that's what the discussions are for, to "catch up" with whatever you have missed, not understood, or misunderstood;)
I feel sorry now because it was my idea to talk about "ups and downs" and as you noticed I had only downs and directly related to what you mentioned here. As Karina said, you are not the only one feeling that way, and we are not even in the middle of the semester. Cheer up, we can do it.
As I commented in Diana's blog, thanks for sharing your workload experience. I will monitor your course workload.
It would be best to blog about your reflections about the readings BEFORE the class sessions. This will compell you to think about how your readings relate to your own experience as a CALL teacher, and will help you to remember what you had read, which will in turn help you with the class session itself.
Even though you were overwhelmed, you remembered case study #3!!!!!
Good for you;)
Wow,thank you all for cheering me up!! I really appreciate it.
I feel so bad when I cannot do my best, so I was too stressed. I hope nobody took it as my complaint.
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