Class Notes #2 - 4-30-08
April 30th, 2008 Posted in Class NotesThese are the class notes for week three of my the pilot classes for virtual language learning at Mukogawa Women’s University. We have been working in Facebook this week. The students are taking to it well. They haven’t made friends outside of class but they seem to be enjoying the process of setting up their profiles. We will be working on making friends next week. The average student has only one or two friends. I hope they will at least add each other by the end of the next class (next week is Golden Week so we won’t be meeting).
The first year student may not be able to use Skype, at least not this semester anyway. I’m not sure if any of the students will be using Second Life yet. I’ve started a cub after school but virtually no one is showing up. This makes me think how honestly motivated students are to learn English. “I really want to learn English” might be true, but are they willing to actually work at learning? I want to be rich, but am I willing and able to do what it takes?
