Dear online
friends on the other side of the screen,
all I have
to say is ...
Create a class site or make online exercises
I felt so
ambitious about this task! I wanted to use all of the tools, and actually I
could only afford to create one activity using the HOT POTATO tool. It was
amusing, but I must say that when the moment to upload the activity came, I got
really confused with the file extension…I also spent some time adding nice
images to the task, and in the end, all I could see was the “html” for every
image (that was frustrating) sadly, I did not have any more time to figure out
what was going on L almost a catastrophe, but no fear, in the end,
it worked out and I could upload it! I created an activity for a beginner’s
class in the Language Centre I work for in the afternoons, a crossword. At Uni
it is kind of impossible to integrate these game-like activities, given time
restrictions.
This is a
tool that I certainly must take some more time to go through… This is an online
lab and the activities I checked are based on “real” recordings. I really like
this fact, and I let it know to Jeff Magoto, director of the language center at the University of Oregon. We were very
lucky to have him for an interesting class discussion and introduction to the
use of ANVILL.
First draft
and peer review
And we did
it! In my group we had Kunwu, who happens to be the fastest reader ever! and, as
I had announced, Valeria. We worked perfectly as a team, we sent and reviewed drafts,
and more importantly, we sent the feedbacks.
I had some problems in this task,
and I think this is what complicated my week! I used the wrong format and had
to redo everything in 2 hours in order to get an appropriate feedback done.
That little mishap stressed me so much (it was on Thursday that Valeria called
my attention on that fact) and well, the project was due on Wed… etc….Good
thing is that I got it done, and I went through, but that fact totally consumed
the time I was going to use for checking ANVILL and preparing the online tool. 
Well, two
more weeks to go! Keep in tune and see you here next week!
Blessings!
Mariale
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