Reflections: Week 7

Every week comes with new ideas and new significance. Last week was obviously an important one as the week's discussion and reading materials helped me to be illuminated with the ideas of engaging my students in a large classroom situation. In fact, handling a large classroom is a very usual picture in our country. Creating slides using power point was also a nice experience but not new. Furthermore, we were also instructed to ponder over our final projects. Donna's plan to lead us to prepare our final project gradually appears scientific. In fact, she has encouraged and guided us bit by bit  to our final project.

But what's about the present week. It seems that this week is a logical continuation of the last one. Last week we talked about how to engage students in the large class context. This week we are talking about the autonomy of the students. Donna's timely interventions in the discussion board were also very effective and idea generating. In fact, Donna's later two posts had a lot to think , to talk and to write about the issue of autonomy.

The discussion about one computer classroom has also been a very much enlightening and contextual. In fact, it is a harsh reality of the majority of the classroom in my country that we can afford more than one computer. In many of the cases there is no computer at all. Though I did not post in this discussion, I enjoyed reading the posts of other participants.

We were also guided to find out a partner for sharing the project draft. This is obviously a good idea as because of this we have got a chance to detect the short comings and lacking of our projects before final submission. I did not have to face much trouble to find out my partners as both Pam and Shindu immediately agreed.

My experience about WalLwisher is horrific. I haven't yet been able to work with it. As usual I sought help to Donna. But she informed me that my computer might not be supportive to open it. Not only that but Donna also exempted  me from the assignment about on Wallwisher. Otherwise I had really been in a big trouble.
 On the top of everything the project which is to be submitted very soon kept me busy all the time. I was indeed preoccupied with it. Though I have been  able to complete the draft yet, I did some ground work and started writing. Hope to complete it by the assigned time.

With Best Wishes

Khayrul