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numbers.
Today the attendance in Skype increased from
10% last tow week to 25% percent tonight. However, only half of the participant was
able to perform the task, the other half were not ready to perform speaking production
but were able to listen. The ones who didn´t completed the task, will connect
tomorrow or send it through a voice recording application to my e-mail. The
asked questions about the forum activity for this week, and tutoring was given through Skype calling
system. None of the students from this blended course has sent a recorded voice
task yet, interestingly, most of the students from week days have already sent their
voice recording, and have used the suggested web page to do so.
Today the attendance in Skype increased from
10% last tow week to 25% percent tonight. However, only half of the participant was
able to perform the task, the other half were not ready to perform speaking production
but were able to listen. The ones who didn´t completed the task, will connect
tomorrow or send it through a voice recording application to my e-mail. The
asked questions about the forum activity for this week, and tutoring was given through Skype calling
system. None of the students from this blended course has sent a recorded voice
task yet, interestingly, most of the students from week days have already sent their
voice recording, and have used the suggested web page to do so.
One more
thing I noticed during my last Saturday classes was the lack of vocabulary on the topic of seasons and vocabulary to
describe season – even in Spanish, from
my blended learning course compare to the
good performance on the same topic from my morning normal course. This might have to
do not with the kind of modality of each course, but rather with other issues
about cultural background or levels of exhaustion of students from the blended class.
Their participation was still poor even when I asked them to say the moths that
correspond to each season and the main characteristics of each season. All the
vocabulary for this topic was in the
platform, but only one student studied it during the week.
It's interesting that you have started to consider alternative factors which might be influencing the performance of your Saturday blended-learning course students... is there any way you could find out more about this?
ResponderEliminarI think I will have to interview them individualy, or at least in pairs, because when I have done it as a group, they do not particpate openly. This is the second Blended course I teach, and this group is extremely diferent to the first one.
ResponderEliminarOne JPA activity has been to put fluent and self-confident students to work with students who lack of confidence to participate. Shy students are finding a way to get motivated and be aided. Most confident students are being such wonderful partners helping their classmates.
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