During Thanksgiving

This posting is just a self-thinking process. You might not be able to understand what I mean. But if you want, go ahead and read, please.

Happy Thanksgiving to people who are working on assignments during Thanksgiving!! Me? Yes, as you may have already guessed, I am one of them. Well, my Thanksgiving is basically spent on APP, but now it seems that I have to consider about Activity 5 since the library will be open on Sunday; there I can use Dreamweaver. I am thinking about writing activity for the final assignment, and now working on Hotpotato to make genre-based quizzes, such as claim and support matching, vocabulary exercise, and grammar based on the target genre. In order to make the grammar quiz, I have to conduct a small genre analysis. I anticipate that it will take a while, so I had better start now.

The most difficult part of my product will be Audacity part, since my activity is writing. It is not very difficult to integrate listening activity in a writing lesson; however, I am afraid that it will extremely difficult to justify that it has to be in the form of listening. If I use a video, perhaps the visualized information would help them to construct their argumentative essay, but if it is only listening itself (for the sake of using Audacity)… hmm, I am having a hard time. Maybe I should make up some conversation related to a writing prompt for them to listen to or should provide students with a simple and short model argumentative essay in the form of audio file so that they can recognize the rhetorical structure? I guess the latter must be too difficult for students and there must be better way…

Anyway, if you read this, I appreciate that you went through my chaotic thinking. I wish you luck on your assignment!