VLE Day
Started actual teaching from the book this morning, which went well. And then this afternoon setting up links to the Wiki, blogs, etc. We tried to do it with all the students in one room, which was a mistake - it would have been better managed in smaller groups, and taught stage by stage. And there was a problem with their laptops sending cookies or wtf to blogspot and googlemail to say the users were Chinese, and they had to manually adjust the language.
It was a bit raggy around the edges, and it took far longer than expected. But it did work. The lesson was, leave nothing to chance, do a carefully staged lesson plan, and factor in the need to change the host sites' language settings.
It was a bit raggy around the edges, and it took far longer than expected. But it did work. The lesson was, leave nothing to chance, do a carefully staged lesson plan, and factor in the need to change the host sites' language settings.
When you think how badly these things could go wrong sounds like this was a roaring success. I hope you're going to get some proper thanks for it.
ReplyDeleteSpent two hours in a testing review today and didn't even get tea and biccies (it's not in MY job description). Somehow managed to wangle myself the job of presenting a potential new system of end of year testing.
Never open your gob at the end of a meeting.
I hope you're going to get some proper thanks for it.
ReplyDeleteHave you been on the vodka this morning?
;-/
Haha. I suspected as much.
ReplyDeleteKnowing TEFL, they'll probably manage to lose everything you've done and then make someone else do the same work from scratch next year.