Ok, I said I would only spend around an hour doing TAFE related work today and I have nearly used that hour of time and I maybe haven't done what is most important thing yet.
This week overall has been interesting.
Tuesday notes
- Group work is not easy for both the students and teacher. They finally seem to have realized that webCT could be useful to use in the process.
- We need to do another web project, I'm going to use learning plans this time. We might do the bush foods brief and I'm going to suggest a few people do the negotiated brief. Also I'm going to use learning plans with these guys to support this project.
- It was really great to be able hand one student a disc with the screen recording on them so they can watch them at home. Flexibility at work !!!!!
- I'm going to attempt to use the mailing list to try to build a bit more of a community feel, and to expand the class time beyond Tuesday.
Thursday
- things are humming along. It's nice to have a change from doing web design.
- The negotiable projects seem to have created a lot of excitement !!!!!
- The software demo situation of. Short demo and then task is working really well. I had people join in that wouldn't have normally be interested in doing a monkey see monkey do situation !!!!!!
- I don't like doing the projects where someone 'wins' I'm not going to do that again if I can.
- this group thought SMS news messages could be OK, I did beam some of them vCAL events for the video project. They thought this was sort of fun.