Week 8 Reflection

Falling behind so much is not good at all. I am trying my best to cope with all things that I failed to manage last week. This Week 8, I notice that there are 4 tasks I have to work on; the Nicenet discussion, blog, task to create class site, handout or exercise, and project task.

The first thing I worked on this week was continue working on and trying to solve uploading problem on the padlet wall. As the result, I could manage to add links, which did not work the days before. I am a bit happy that at last something works on my padlet. I was half way to completing the third weekly assignment, the task.

I still do not feel satisfied though with padlet learning I have gone through . I could not uploaded images on the padlet wall, nor the Microsoft words, PDF, and PPT as well as smaller files. I am wondering whether 27 KB is too big for padlet uploading file.

The second assignment I have done was the peer feedback activities for the final project. I decided to focus working on peer feedback for Annusha's project. This is because I do not want to cause her problem as the effect of my failure to cope with the Week 7's expectation. Therefore, I have to postpone working on my own project. It is also better to do so in order to be focus on my own project plan.

I worked on my own draft after I completed the feedback. Both Annusha and I had missinterpretation of the feedback form. While working on the second feedback form and reading Annusha's draft, I realized that I only need to  do the project one because she made project with her class. I kept working on both feedback forms and uploaded both.

I work on something absolutely different from the planning that I have started in Week 4. I was not certain about which class I suppose to teach in the near future so that I made different planning for different classes for every week's assignment. Yet, for my final project, I choose to work on planning project for my classes in Electrical Engineering which will stat by March 2014.  It takes more time though. It does not only require simple things writing a planning. I have also work on creating materials, media and other related preparation. It is really time and energy consuming. Again, in order not to cause another problem for my peer, I decided to uploaded my unfinished draft for her to read and give feedback.

Since I am working on my draft for final project, I also need to provide all material preparation. I have tried to use all links provided by the course instructor, Sean McClelland. I have signed up for http://www.toolsforeducators.com/, http://bogglesworldesl.com/, http://www.easytestmaker.com/default.aspx, hot potatoes, http://www.crosswordpuzzlegames.com/create.html, Web Poster Wizard, and smile. Yet, I found most of them are more suitable for General English Teaching. I decided to create something more ESP related material on those links. Unfortunatelly, most of them required upgrading to plus or premium version in order to create things I need for my teaching context; a simple ESP materials for my low proficiency vocational college students.  I also tried to use ANVIL but I have problem registering myself as a teacher. It does not recognize the province I live in in Indonesia.