First Class Meeting

As I said during our first live class (and said during the Orientation) all of us must keep a diary or journal. You can decide which you do (watch the first VOD, for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to learn a little about the differences between a diary and a journal).

I'm going to put mine on this blog, so that you can see what I write. Yours can be secret, I won't look at it unless you invite me. You can keep it in a book instead of online if you want, you can use any online system if you choose. You should write a short entry (50 words) or as long as you want in your diary or journal after each of our class meetings.

Also, you should write in your diary or journal at least twice a week about the classes you teach. (If you don't teach classes, talk to me about this.)

We also must do "Reactionnaires" sometimes (by assignment). I assigned your first Reactionnaire for the first class. A reactionnaire is 250 or more words that talks about your 'reaction' -- your feelings, your impressions, whatever you want to "talk about". I will collect your reactionnaires after the first one. The first one is for you, so we have notes for our discussion in the second class meeting.

You can write your diary/journal in Korean if you want, but Rreactionnaires are in English. Don't have to be perfekt Englisr, spelling and grammar errors and not perfect vocabulary are ok, but I need to read them.

My Reactionnaire from after the first class.

Wow, what a great group of people! I think I'm going to like this class.
Wow, what a pain in the tech! We all need to learn the new technology.

Sigh... almost none of the VOD for the first three weeks are ready yet, and two students have not yet received the books. (I KNEW I should delay starting the class one week from Orientation Day!!!)

Of course someone would have technology problems for the virtual class... unfortunately that was Kelly. It's normal (sigh). Hope she stays positive.

I spoke a lot, maybe sometimes too fast? Three of them seemed to follow pretty well, but I'm less sure about the fourth.

It seems that students could switch the view panels (browser/whiteboard/other... I'm not sure I like that. Will have to talk to Dr. Hong about that.

My headset was uncomfortable, I gotta get a new one.

My kids did a good job of staying out of the study while I did this class. Wonder if that will continue. Ms Oh's boy spoke really good English when he popped in just before class!

I saved the video/audio for the class but was surprised to see that it didn's also save the "chat" -- I guess that makes sense, actually. So have to save the chat separately, had to go back and askf olks to send me their email again so I could open their moodle accounts. But the chat is saved in the video-- as video, you can't copy-paste, but you can see it. The video requres a special player... no problem on my Hangeul-Vista system, but I wonder about elsewhere.

Oh well, time to prepare for my other classes!