Cursos

With a little bit of cooperative learning, use of rubrics, and how to clean the computers mixed into the instruction, our course on the use of the language laboratory software began today.  The positives:

1. The software expert knew something about effective teaching methods. 

2. We got lots of  time to become familiar with the two programs we use, TellMeMore and EduStar. 

3. The English department (all three of us) finally got together!!!

4. Maybe I worked on my blog entries.  

The negative:

1. All the time to work has a price. It was decided that the best way to educate us on the software was to pull us out of our English classes for 5 days,  (approximately 6-8 hours of instruction per student group). 

2. I now know it is possible to be told to read the manual over 10 times in one training. 

3. Surprise!  This curso goes until 6 pm every day.  (We managed to negotiate a slightly different time frame for the other days, and I politely excused myself at 3 today, explaining I had prior obligations, which I did!).