Implementing my Action Plan.

Redesigning    the Project  

It has been already more than three weeks  since the beginning of the implementation of my action plan and modifications  have already started to begin  gaining immediate attention. So far, it he participation in the Moodle platform increased but not enough, it keeps being bellow 30%. Students  argue that they do not have time because of work.  So “ If the mountain  will not come to Muhammad…”  Well, in this case I had to bring  “the mountain”  to the classroom. Last Saturday I started using some of the  short precious time  from the class for students to access the platform and navigate a little. I couldn’t open a video because the internet         connection kept on failing. I think I need to plan better activities to make student actually perform producing something that can be shared in front of the class while they are in Moodle .

A stone in my shoe.

Skype participations  dropped from  60% to  10% last week.  I have interviewed them  several times about their lack of n-line work, and they went  from giving argument on  that  they had problems accessing, to say they didn´t have time to participate during the week.  They keep on attending  their in-classroom session despite the fact that many of them have almost no participation on-line work , and despite the fact they did Terrible! Terrible! during their oral midterm exam.  However, most did ok in the written exam.

I am happy that they continue to show interest in coming to class for whatever reason it, and these kind of attitude that have been  happening  give me a motive to think about changing a little the dynamic and teaching methodology for the blended  learning course.