Tuesday, August 10, 2010

ICT in Education - Day 2

Puh today was a hard day as the heat and the humidity make it feel like training in a sauna. The group was much more open today and seemed to enjoy the course. Today was also more active than yesterday. However, some of the students have very poor computer skills which makes it sometimes more time consuming as I have to coach them much more than others and with 18 people in the course it can be very difficult to attend to all. Therefore, I am happy I have some helpers from my group in the course.

I also discovered today that the 19 PCs I have in the room have different set ups. So some of the application I teach them ar enot on all PCs. The magic word is IMPROVISATION! However, all these little difficulties make it so much more challenging and thus, more interesting. After 4.5 hours training today I feel quite exhausted. The hub here only scheduled 1 break from 10-10:15am. That means that the first part is 2 hours (8:00am-10:00am) and the second half is (10:15am - 12:15pm). I decided that I will add another break in for the rest of the week as it is not only draining for the students but also for me. Through all of the training, heat and talking I keep on forgetting taking pictures of my own class. I will do this tomorrow and upload some in the gallery.

Overall, I love training here and my passion sometimes lets me look like a crazy lady!

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Wencke

1 comment:

  1. Wencke,
    I had to laught so much. In SA the most used phrase is "make a plan" and I must say, I got quiet good in "making plans" ;-)
    I hope you enojoy your time and I really like what you do :-)
    Kathi

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