We talked about ARCS (Attention, Relevance, Confidence, and Satisfaction) this week. My challenge as a teacher is often to teach relevance. Gaining attention can be a fun and creative experience. YouTube videos are great; humor often works; telling a story captivates the students. But showing students how certain topics are relevant is difficult, for instance, the dreaded cursive handwriting. I have met few fourth graders who are interested in practicing cursive handwriting, especially as studen… Continue

In class we only discussed our final projects and several people did a presentation. It is interesting to see everybody’s final project. I’m really excited about my final project, which is focused on Social Learning for second language learners. I just started with the website that is part of my presentation!

Tonight was an interesting class as we had a guest from Korea. She's a student in ITEC program too in Korea. Really cool to see her using a mini computer (dictionary).. amazing gadget, right? I never saw anything like this in America.. Are we behind in the gadgets?

We were talking about the motivational theory. I read the wrong chapter as I didn't see the title on the iLearn. I read the chapter 9 social learning views. Sigh! I better catch up reading the correct chapter 9 on the Motivational th… Continue

Looks like I forgot to put a blog from last week!! oopsie...

Last week was an interesting class because we got an opportunity to see what our classmates have researched so far!! It was so cool to see different topics...It was so cool to see different styles of presentations. I enjoyed learning their different ways of presenting their topics.

I think we have a few presenters who haven't presented their topics because our class ended so late so they were postponed for tonight. I don't know what… Continue