Today I felt that I learnt a lot and I also enjoyed the experience. I liked the session on transparency as I believe that it is very important in learning. I felt more at ease about my foot which had improved somewhat due to the attentive care that Grete had given and the others in our various delegations! My foot also got special attention today having its own private chair and asserting its needs in the various venues.
I liked the transparencies and was interested in the skills and value taxonomy as it was new to me and I look forward to seeing the translation of the one slide.
I liked the more interactive mode of today as I thought that we were tapping more into our situated knowledges and being able to benefit from this from each other. I also liked engaging with the tasks and thought that it was a useful way of looking at feedback. There is so much that one could discuss in relation to feedback and learning and its a pity that we only have a limited time to do so.
What struck me about my own teaching is that we often try to rush students in demanding too many tasks of them at once. I felt a bit rushed today with the feedback but i realise that i may try to do too much. This is another realisation which perhaps I should act upon in future.
I also enjoyed the session on msn session and enjoy using these other tools. I am interested to see how I can integrate them with my current online teaching.
What was most enjoyable was the joking on msn and the immediacy of this medium which allows one to engage in an affective and intellectual mode at the same time. I also greatly enjoyed the chat session that I had with David and Klas-Goran which was much more serious than I thought it would be but I thought that we engaged well with each other and were able to have a fruitful conversation about an important part of our teaching practice.
The day was long but because I was more of an active and engaged participant, it seemed to go more quickly than the previous two days. I am a person who needs social engagement and to feel engaged in the learning process, so today was a positive experience for me, although always at the back of my mind is the pile of work that is awaiting me on my return to South Africa and even on my return to my hotel room tonight. I think I must learn to relax more
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