Dafne's Feedback
| Dear Aiden and Webheads, I have just finished the session with Aiden's students. Yesterday, as I have reported here, I went to the Alado virtual room to chek it out again (I had used it in previous events), I realized that I could not play back the recording because I got a "corrupted file" message from Media Player (9.0), so I let Aiden know that through this list. Well, today,I said hello to Vance in YM, and went to my room where I waited for my 7 students. Happily, I saw how they, one by one, incorportated to the session. So far so good. I tried to communicate with the students using the voice feature, and did not get any response. Then I used the text-chat applet and it seems they were not paying attention to the litte window. They tried to speak but I could not hear them. I could not communicate with Aiden because in order to have a better connection she did not open Yahoo Messenger. Well, to make this long story short, I decided to start the class using text-chat only. We were supposed to share stories about relationships. Fortunately, I had prepared a web page with my story in the form of a fill-in-the-blanks exercise using the vocabulary they were supposed to have learned for the unit. I showed the url, and they started to work. That's when Andy, from Alado came and told me everybody was having the same problem. I could hear Andy fine, he could hear me, and Fernanda who was there with me was able to use the voice feature too. Well, once it was decided that the only way to carry on was through text chat everything went fine, and all the students had the opportunity to share their stories, ask questions to each other, make comments and one or two hilarious remarks, too. This shows us we should always have a card under our sleeve when technology is concerned. Students' motivation was great, and if they were disappointed it did not show, they interacted with each other, were attentive to the stories and, in sum, it was a another learning experience for me!! Thanks Aiden for this opportunity once again. Hugs, Daf http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evonline2002_webheads/message/4798 Go back to Chat Session
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