Monday, October 29, 2007

I noticed in the previous class that some of my students are not paying attention because they were not having proper basic information regarding the softwares they will be using during the making of their newsletter specially Ms. Word and the main reason for that was the negligence portray by themselves in the previous classes. But I again took these handful of kids in my and theirs extra timings and briefed them about the softwares that we will use during the making of our e-newsletter.

Surprisingly they remembered mostly every thing and wow what a fun they had. I mean in the first classes when they were given full permission of publishing each and every thing. Most of them even chat about their own activities and friends on net and the sites they browse, even were providing the links in their blog.

Still I feel that teachers should also visit this site and post their comments and all. Lets see I will talk to them and ask for their response.

Saturday, October 27, 2007

My Reflection on the first day of introducing the blog

The first time when I planned to introduce the idea of blog to my class. I was really worried that they will be able to do it or not. Surprisingly, though the idea was new to them but they got very excited and some of them were so anxious to get themselves publish on the net that they made a blog in the same class. To attract the girls I told them that they even can talk and gossip on blogs. They agreed to give it a try. Surprisingly, I noticed that because I took it for granted that they all know how to use atleast Ms-word ,came up with the problem of not even knowing the basics. I got worried that why is it so . Because last year only we have covered this topic. This was very frustrating. The reason for this ignorance was that they never bothered what ever is being taught to them because they think that they have to learn only when they are rewarded with marks. In this condition only those students take interest who are actually interested in computers.
I hope working on blogs will takes up their interest and will motivate them to learn and explore more.