Showing posts with label Week 15. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Week 15. Show all posts

Monday, May 1, 2017

Class Improvements!

First of all, thank you for taking the time out to try to update and improve your class frequently. I enjoyed taking this class and learning the things I did whether it was about Indian epics or growth mindsets. I found everything interesting, and I felt like I learned a lot. Anyway! Here are my improvement suggestions/opinions:

Change Review Weeks to Planning Weeks
I thought this was a great idea, especially the idea that Week 2 would become a planning week as well to allow students to become more accustomed to a schedule. It was definitely very confusing at first to navigate through and figure out how or when I wanted to do homework.

Expand the Story Planning Option
I was one of the people who took your idea to use that extra week during spring break to actually plan out what I wanted to do for my storybook. Because I didn't have a specific direction I wanted to go, and the extra week really helped me figure that out. I really think this idea was great and should continue on for future semesters.

Create More Audio Recording
I like the idea of audio recordings! I actually listened to your audio recordings of the PDE Ramayana for most of the episodes, and I liked listening to how words and names were pronounced. This is a useful tool for people who learn better with audio, so you should definitely create more if you get the chance.

Create Writing Tutorial Videos
I, personally, don't think I would use these videos. However, judging by some of my classmate's introductions, I think some people have some problems with writing, and they may find these videos helpful!

Create Thematic Reading Units
I really love this idea, and it was something I was actually wanting to suggest too! As much as I liked the fact that there were weeks where we could choose whatever we wanted, but I thought it would be a cool idea to have free choice weeks with themes. This way, everyone would have similarly themed stories but still have their preference of stories to read each week.