REFLECTION ON EIGHT WEEK

ISN’T IT THE TIME FOR CLASS?

By the end of this week I have got some pragmatic answers regarding effective use of online resource primarily, to enhance students’ motivation and make the classes more participatory. That must the reason why, from the very beginning  I was  wondering when we will have our own class wiki, nicenet, class blog and other online resource to make these classes a real learning Laboratory, and we got these task this week.  So fun and excitement instilled my effort, when I started creating my own class wiki this week. I am pretty sure that it can be really helpful for all of us to regulate and harmonize our overall academic activities and bridge the chasm between teacher and students. This week we are supposed to create either classwiki, nicenet or class blog, I am thrilled to go clas wiki because already I had created nicenet, and feel confidence regarding class blog that I am also working with.

This week, I had seen a very exciting participation of my students in wallwisher, and it has been really popular among them. Wallwisher has been a fantastic tool also for me for facilitating the class discussion. When we have class discussion theses days, instead of writing some major arguments in the whiteboard, we, then and there, post it in the padlet.com as a result students can see it instantly through the help of overhead projector and contribute more on discussion. At first, it has been a complete new idea for them, second as they find the ownership of their ideas students seem encouraged to participate in the discussion, and third they feel important to deliver good ideas as it’s visible to everybody. As a result class participation has been tremendously increased. Still a possible drawback of padlet is anybody can delete or damage other’s ideas so we need to be cautious about it.

To be very honest the preparation and submission of the first draft of the final project this week by Wednesday was a very challenging job for me. A very hectic schedule of this week has halted me to get focused and work on preparing the final draft. Eventually, working relentlessly on day and night I submitted it on time, albeit I still feel some ideas and plants to be improvised.

All in all, days are turning really exciting, fruitful and resourceful these days. Whenever I am out of the class or some minutes before the class time, I frequently ask this question myself these days:

ISN’T IT THE TIME FOR CLASS?