Final Blog

I have learned many things from this class. I hope I will retain those information in my long term memory forever. I love this experience because not only did I learn things, but also I enjoyed sharing the experience with the classmates. Thank you for the teacher's hard work and patience with us. I think I will be able to use blog in my teaching.

Class Survey

Here is the class survey:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dG9JUkhITzRmblcwenhEd1JBUENZOVE6MA

How does the students react to the blog assignment?

Once I announced the blog assignement to the students. My students have two main reactions. Some of the students said:" not again, this is my third blog homework. Why do we have the blog assignment?... ". Some of the girls said: "Wow, Ms. Fan knows how to blog, ...." Today it is Monday, I check my blog and find there are two comments. I think their comments are interesting. Actually, the due day for the assignment is this Thursday. I will see if I will have more comments by then..........
I have received 42 blogs on the due day. I am supposed to receive 55 students' blogs. When I read their comments, I find that they talk about their true feelings. Compared to the weekly journal, I feel blogs really tell you something real about the students themselves. Just one problem, some of them do not use their real names. I have to ask them for clarification. I hope I can do the spreadsheet and I will know who did or who did not. Overall speaking, I like this experience.

What will I do for my students in the Mandarin class?

I feel I have learned a lot during these meetings. If I want to teach something I have learned from this class, it has to be something I really understand. Google search lesson is good. But I think I am not very good at. Google Doc and presentation is a little hard, I probably need to learn second time. I think compared to other lessons, I really like Blogger. I will set up a new Blog which is only dedicated to my Mandarin class. For my fourth year students, I usually assign them to write a weeking journal. Now I will post some reading assignments on my blog, they will read and write a short response to it. I am really looking forward to seeing how it works. I hope I can make it.