Friday, March 23, 2007
Sleepless in Seattle
It's 2:55am in Seattle, which is 6:55pm in Korea. I'm not asleep yet.
I have to wake up at 6am, for my next day at the TESOL Conference here. Yesterday I couldn't sleep well. After falling asleep at 6pm I woke up at 11:30 and couldn't fall back asleep until nearly 4am... then I overslept since I forgot to turn on my alarm!!!
But I'm so busy I hardly have time to look at my cyber class, which I really must do. I have so many student self-introduction texts I must review before the weekend...
Rob
I have to wake up at 6am, for my next day at the TESOL Conference here. Yesterday I couldn't sleep well. After falling asleep at 6pm I woke up at 11:30 and couldn't fall back asleep until nearly 4am... then I overslept since I forgot to turn on my alarm!!!
But I'm so busy I hardly have time to look at my cyber class, which I really must do. I have so many student self-introduction texts I must review before the weekend...
Rob
Monday, March 12, 2007
New Year, New (old) Problems
Oh My Gosh! Today is the first day following finalization of class registrations. (I think)
It looks like I have 97 students in the cyber class, and no co-teacher. My TA has not taken this class before -- assuming the application for TA is even approved.
I have a lot of work to do in this class.
Even more so because I'll be gone for two weeks.
It looks like I have 97 students in the cyber class, and no co-teacher. My TA has not taken this class before -- assuming the application for TA is even approved.
I have a lot of work to do in this class.
Even more so because I'll be gone for two weeks.
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Day 1 - the pre-beginning
This blog is to document how my Tourism English 1 Cyber class goes. And serve as a model for students.
I first starting dealing with this in late December, 2004. In consultation with campus systems administrator Ryu Ho-Youl, we chose moodle (something I'd heard of, and available in English) since WebCT and Blackboard were out of the price range of $0.00
We started by putting moodle on my notebook computer, with the thought that it would be uploaded when complete to the campus server. But my notebook has problems, crashing several times per day, and after one crash where all trial data was lost, we started over on the server. No real loss, since that was all tinkering, but as I said, "from now (then) I can't lose any data."
It's progressing well, though a bit slower than I had hoped. I haven't gotten the resources I'd hoped. Building activities isn't particularly difficult, though there is a learning curve. The teacher's manual (available from http://moodle.org) is particularly helpful. I'd started from printing out the help pages, which made things tough.
Enough for now, back to work! It's only 6:40pm, time to make some cup-ramyeon, use up my last rice from last night's dinner, and add a bit to moodle. Including screen captures of my set up of blogger!
I first starting dealing with this in late December, 2004. In consultation with campus systems administrator Ryu Ho-Youl, we chose moodle (something I'd heard of, and available in English) since WebCT and Blackboard were out of the price range of $0.00
We started by putting moodle on my notebook computer, with the thought that it would be uploaded when complete to the campus server. But my notebook has problems, crashing several times per day, and after one crash where all trial data was lost, we started over on the server. No real loss, since that was all tinkering, but as I said, "from now (then) I can't lose any data."
It's progressing well, though a bit slower than I had hoped. I haven't gotten the resources I'd hoped. Building activities isn't particularly difficult, though there is a learning curve. The teacher's manual (available from http://moodle.org) is particularly helpful. I'd started from printing out the help pages, which made things tough.
Enough for now, back to work! It's only 6:40pm, time to make some cup-ramyeon, use up my last rice from last night's dinner, and add a bit to moodle. Including screen captures of my set up of blogger!
