I like the way that Mandy made the thorough reflection, I think it is quite useful and reflective, and I want to borrow her way to make a conclusion.
1. Engagement and participation:
I am the only one whose student ID number starts with “911”, others start with “92”or “93”, most of them start with “93”, and I felt quite alone in this class. Therefore, I really have to thank Stacy, Ashley and Gina for generously helping me and welcoming me as team members. To tell the truth, this course is far from what I had expected; I thought the focus of the course was “English learning”, but indeed, the focus of this course is “Online learning”. As a technical idiot, I have never got to be “this close” to computer; I have never used BBS, seldom got alone with blog(though I have a Chinese blog), seldom surfed websites through internet, and never sat in front of a computer more than 7 hours, and this course breaks my limit. My friends are stunningly surprised to see me spend so many hours facing my notebook computer, and they think this course really improve my computer skill. At first, I kind of resist getting along with computer this often, but little by little, I get used to befriending with it through accomplishing each assigned task. Hard task took me a lot of time to get familiar with how to master every function, take schmooze as an example, I can not understand it at all though one of the classmates explain it to me. The most important thing for me in this course is that I broaden my ideas about online English learning seeing that it is very different from what I used to know, and this course gives me a chance to see there are so many people devote themselves in internet world, and people can thus get more resources and learning materials for free. Learning English is less limited by material condition, and this is revolutionary. Moreover, I have learned how to talk with people from other countries through internet like Tappedin. I can easily get culture shock through internet.
2. Learning(about blogs):
Of course, what I have spent the most time is blogging. Looking through many webpages a day makes surfing internet intimate to me although my eyes almost blurred after seeing these webpages, and my eyes seemed to stick to the computer screen. Blogging is to gather all computer and internet experiences together and to share one’s personality with other people, even further, to make friends with others. Why I say “share one’s personality” is because the most interesting blogs I have seen are those which the bloggers open themselves and willingly shared their inner self and make the blog as creative as possible. I felt the blogs to be very interesting when I have more clues to guess what kind of personality the blogger has, and this propels me to “know more” and pushes me to read more articles. The style and the decoration of the blog shows the blogger’s taste and personality, and I felt this to be attractive after I carefully reading their articles and the organization of the blog. Blogging definitely has many technical problems that I can not overcome, and here I again have to thank those friends who are constantly bothered by my scary cell-phone calls. Also, I really thank Mandy for encouraging me. As I have already mentioned that I felt alone in this course, reading the blogs of the classmates relieve me of this feeling for I felt that I get to know my classmates more than before and I think they are all girls with cool ideas and have a variety of tastes and styles. I learn a lot from them no matter in blogging, decorating or organizing.
3. Language learning:
I learn many ways to improve my English from those websites that I evaluated though this class did not put focus on English learning. I still improve a little through class presentation, writing many English articles, using talking writing to communicate with foreigners. But I think this is what this class is for: to guide me to another world with many resources so that I can learn and improve English as much as I want all by myself. And of course, what’s better is I can share all these stuff with my friends. My friend Shirley enjoys clicking every linkage in my webpages and has a lot of fun. I am glad about that.
1. Engagement and participation:
I am the only one whose student ID number starts with “911”, others start with “92”or “93”, most of them start with “93”, and I felt quite alone in this class. Therefore, I really have to thank Stacy, Ashley and Gina for generously helping me and welcoming me as team members. To tell the truth, this course is far from what I had expected; I thought the focus of the course was “English learning”, but indeed, the focus of this course is “Online learning”. As a technical idiot, I have never got to be “this close” to computer; I have never used BBS, seldom got alone with blog(though I have a Chinese blog), seldom surfed websites through internet, and never sat in front of a computer more than 7 hours, and this course breaks my limit. My friends are stunningly surprised to see me spend so many hours facing my notebook computer, and they think this course really improve my computer skill. At first, I kind of resist getting along with computer this often, but little by little, I get used to befriending with it through accomplishing each assigned task. Hard task took me a lot of time to get familiar with how to master every function, take schmooze as an example, I can not understand it at all though one of the classmates explain it to me. The most important thing for me in this course is that I broaden my ideas about online English learning seeing that it is very different from what I used to know, and this course gives me a chance to see there are so many people devote themselves in internet world, and people can thus get more resources and learning materials for free. Learning English is less limited by material condition, and this is revolutionary. Moreover, I have learned how to talk with people from other countries through internet like Tappedin. I can easily get culture shock through internet.
2. Learning(about blogs):
Of course, what I have spent the most time is blogging. Looking through many webpages a day makes surfing internet intimate to me although my eyes almost blurred after seeing these webpages, and my eyes seemed to stick to the computer screen. Blogging is to gather all computer and internet experiences together and to share one’s personality with other people, even further, to make friends with others. Why I say “share one’s personality” is because the most interesting blogs I have seen are those which the bloggers open themselves and willingly shared their inner self and make the blog as creative as possible. I felt the blogs to be very interesting when I have more clues to guess what kind of personality the blogger has, and this propels me to “know more” and pushes me to read more articles. The style and the decoration of the blog shows the blogger’s taste and personality, and I felt this to be attractive after I carefully reading their articles and the organization of the blog. Blogging definitely has many technical problems that I can not overcome, and here I again have to thank those friends who are constantly bothered by my scary cell-phone calls. Also, I really thank Mandy for encouraging me. As I have already mentioned that I felt alone in this course, reading the blogs of the classmates relieve me of this feeling for I felt that I get to know my classmates more than before and I think they are all girls with cool ideas and have a variety of tastes and styles. I learn a lot from them no matter in blogging, decorating or organizing.
3. Language learning:
I learn many ways to improve my English from those websites that I evaluated though this class did not put focus on English learning. I still improve a little through class presentation, writing many English articles, using talking writing to communicate with foreigners. But I think this is what this class is for: to guide me to another world with many resources so that I can learn and improve English as much as I want all by myself. And of course, what’s better is I can share all these stuff with my friends. My friend Shirley enjoys clicking every linkage in my webpages and has a lot of fun. I am glad about that.
