Tuesday 19th June.
Today we created new blogs for this communication course, N101. We filled in our personal details and I read & corrected them where necessary..
Wednesday 20th June
I introduced the students to the vocabulary quizzes in WebCTVista. I did quiz 1 in class.
Thursday 21st June
Omar has completed all 10 quizzes in double-quick time.
Sunday 24th June
The 4 students held their meeting
activity this afternoon. The personnel, venue, agenda, minutes &
recommendations are above.
Monday 25th June
The meeting was about traffic
congestion. The students worked together to produce a clear & coherent
agenda.
Mohd Shams opened the meeting, read
out the items on the agenda, and guided the discussion from one item to the
next; he did this quite well but occasionally the discussion flipped from one
item to another. Mohd was aware of this and pointed out that, to some extent,
it was inevitable as several points in the discussion were inter-connected.
Hasan took notes throughout the
meeting and afterwards the four students divided up the task of typing up the
notes for posting in their blogs.
Omar and Ahmed Saleh were active
participants. I thought beforehand Omar might prove rather reticent but, nicely
encouraged by Mohd, he made his opinions known clearly and often quite
forcefully.
The discussion was quite wide-ranging
with Ahmed making observations about the traffic system in Seattle and Hasan
about Los Angeles.
When it came to recommendations, Mohd
invited each student to say which of the possible solutions they had discuseed
was the most viable and why. Mohd & Omar went for road improvements, Hasa for
an integrated, co-ordinated traffic light system and Ahmed, while agreeing with
the importance of road improvements was very keen on an educational programme
aimed at young drivers. Mohd suggested that a combination of all solutions
might be best and the others all agreed, so the meeting ended harmoniously.
It was an interesting and informative
meeting and a pleasure to attend & listen to; very worthwhile &
enjoyable.
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