Here is the entry from my blog in the online teaching course.
"Well I'm now at the point where I feel a bit behind. I'll try and spend sometime working on the posts tonight (I've using my parnters wireless laptop so I can watch television while I'm writing) hmm that will not do a lot for grammer.
Now I'm at stage where the first bit of exictement about the course is over and now just feels like part of my life and part of what I need to get done each week."
Here are some general notes on todays teaching experience.
hhm. This group work is interesting. I'm starting to see myself having to spend more time dealing with team conflicts and these conflicts seem to me to be partly created by people being a different levels and people feeling the course should be aimed at a different level. In hindsight I would have give then students a few simpler projects to start with. I can do this when we start using Flash.
On another note I think we might need to do another HTML web project before we move on to using Flash. I still don't feel like students are at the skill level I would like them to be at.
One thing that did seem to work was the session using the dreamweaver project handouts. Where I basically talked them thru how someone else approached and built a site. It felt an odd of thing to do and I think it worked for some students. It didn't make a good video session. I need to look getting a louder level in from the microphone.
In terms of team work. They worked better in their teams today partly because people sat in different spots and the fact that I (and other one of the students) talked about what was going right and wrong. I actually think in the future I will let teams make some these mistakes because I think it was a good learning experience. But I don't think they are enjoying it.
Posted by robin at May 11, 2004 08:09 PM