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Week 6: Too committed to quit and too tired that I'm nearly quitting

Well, I'm glad to say that I've made it to week 6, but at the same time I can say that I feel kind of tired and overwhelmed as I have a lot of work because my program is ending so I have tons to do. Anyways I always manage to squeeze in a little but of the course. This past week I learnt and read about how to make a powerpoint more interactive. There were several articles that gave us a lot of technique in ways to make a presentation more interesting. Indeed it was really cool while I read it.  Also I had to create mine. I must admit that I didnt invest a lot of time on it but I tried my best, I wished I had a little bit more time. Finally I started implementing my tool in class.  For this I took a laptop and connected it to wifi and showed my students different websites were they cab interact with native speakers. Also I recollected all their emails and sent them a document with step to step instructions of what to do. So far it hasn't been that great because most of t...

Getting the hang of it- Week 5

Hello I'm here again,  This time I came to share my reflection of week 5. This week in my opinion has been the best of all because I managed to plan myself better to do everything on time but not too rushed.   Throughout the week I learnt a lot and did a lot of work. To begin with I read different articles about rubric and project-based learning in which I learnt about a new way to assign projects to my students were they can fell like they are in control. Also, I read in more details about rubrics and why they are so useful. While reading the information about rubrics there was a lot of facts that I found interesting, as this helps the students to know what is expected from them and what the final result should look like.  Also, I got the chance to create my own rubric, which was really helpful because I have my own evaluation grid for my conversation class but it isn't as detailed as the rubric I made. As the one I made explains step by step why they would lo...