604

This is going to be a log of AcWr group 604 (2011-2012): to record the students' progress and problems both in mastering writing and ICT skills

15.10.2011 604 Students confused about the blog's features such as its dashboard, how to find things in the wiki: did not try to find the answers themselves - waited for the class to ask me.

Problems with login: registered in such a way that own page is the same as the page of the course Problems with the account: individual page link stays inactive

22.10.2011

28.10 Commented on the students' essays in their blogs with the focus on the essay's content and organizarion. Also picked out some of their typical errors in language and grammar use. This is also was something I discussed with them during my one-on-one sessions with them in the classroom. For the most part they agreed with my comments and asked some clarifyinf questions about how to improve their essay drafts from the point of view of grammar and vocabulary use. Introduced them to the citing machine and one of the students used it o add a reference to her work. Another student took quite a bit of my time by making me explain to her from the very beginning what she should do to improve her essay. There was a lack of understanding on her part, but am not sure why. Maybe my explanation was too difficult.Need to work on making them more simple. With still one more student I tried to come up with a topic for his essay different from his which was devoted to comparing technical characteristics of Android phone and iPhone (Too many technical details). But in the end I did not come up with a new topic for his essay. **Need to work on it!** I asked the students to revise their essay drafts at home and post the new ones in the blog as a new entry to keep the first draft copy for the future.


 * Did I make the right decision to start with the blog, not with the wiki from the very beginning? **