End of Week 6... still sick!!!

Hope you won't mind the pun!It has certainly been a very long week for me. Nonetheless, life still goes on and things still have to be done. I have yet to start much... I think the best way to help my weak class read is using PBL. I will start getting students to talk about what are the types or kind of reading materials they would like to read. I think by doing (discussing) so I know students will at least show some interest in wanted to read. I think when they get to decide what they want to read, they would show better interest. Like when I gave them the choice to borrow any books from my reading box fr their reading activity, though it took 30 minutes for them to decide which book they wanted to read nonetheless all of them took 1 book from the box and started reading. 

I hope that by using a computer, it will attract them to participate more in reading. as they are all IT savvy and they definitely react well to a computer-assisted lesson. I do hope I will be able to make my weak students read and at the end of the day would have a list of at least 100 new words which they will be able to use in their writing. 

 Week 6 offer even more things for me to learn. I find the most useful of all is learning about Blackboard. It is similar to Nicenet but I personally think that Blackboard offers more. Reading most of the articles, I realised that I not only have a lot to learn but a lot more to master before I can 'take off'. I hope to be doing more with my project and will be able to record some if not any changes with my students.