Term 1 Week 4

Dear A

I am disappointed.... after waiting from Wed 27/1 to today 29/1, I decided I could not wait any more. I have spoken to Jingrong and Sam on Monday 25/1, telling them that due to the off day on Wed 27/1, the team has to arrange a time on your own to meet up and discuss lesson 3, then post your worksheet and personal reflection by 27/1 8pm. However, I waited 3 days, and I still see nothing.

Team, the project is 15 weeks long and we have 15 lessons to cover, however, it does not mean that just because a public holiday or school holiday fall on our lesson day, the project is going to extend to 16 or more weeks. Instead, for every holiday that fall on our lesson day, it means that we have 1 week less to meet, but we still need to complete the 15 lessons by hook or by crook!

So when I see you guys on Tuesday 2/2, I'd expect you to have at least
1) selected a project title and
2) listed down some guiding questions
If not, we'd have to do 2 lessons on Tue 2/2 and you know how short that 1 period is..... you'd still need to do homework after Tue to complete the tasks on Lesson 3 and 4. Either way it means working extra on your own, either before or after Tuesday 2/2.

One more thing, till now, your personal reflections have been quite trivial, I could not see from your personal reflections, what you have discussed during the lesson. Did you watch Avatar? Did you see how the lead character, Jake Sully, record his videologue? Note the difference between the content of his videologue and your personal reflection. Our personal reflection serves as a means to document down our discussion of the week, so that we can look back after 15 weeks and recall what you discussed during the lesson. This is especially useful when you start writing your project report. Understand? So I hope to see an improvement in this area too.

Lastly but not the least, Keng Heem, how about a shoutbox so that we can leave messages for each other?

OK that's all, see you guys on Tuesday!

Mrs Dhar

2nd Lesson Reflection by Jingrong

On the second lesson,we discussed even deeper on our topic.All of us had shared a bit but it was quite confusing as everybody wanted to speak at the same time.This is one point we can improve on.I hope during the next lesson we will be able to progress further.

Term 1 Week 3

Dear A,

Good job. You have shown some improvement today in terms of working together. Sitting together as a group surely improve your teamwork. But you still came unprepared for today's lesson :-( I hope you'd do better in this next week. Do download the lessons (zip file)in advance and come prepared in the future lessons ok?

Now I must commend Keng Heem for the wonderful blog. I like your use of the labels. Makes the blog very neat. Good job.

Discipline master Sam and Leader Jingrong, where are your personal reflections?

I hope the team has decided on a project title.... you need to select one fast and start working on it. It is already week 3 and time and tide waits for no man. The tasks that follow in the next few lessons will not allow you to go back and change topic so make a firm decision now. If the team has not decided on a project title, then please use the rest of this week to meet up and discuss. By next Tue, the team should have made a decision.

Mrs Dhar

2nd Lesson Worksheet

2nd Lesson Reflection By Keng Heem

We have all decided on exactly what we want to do (a board game) and have a rough idea of what it will be like.

UPDATE:
All of us had many ideas on what kind of game we wanted to do, but after comparing pros and cons of the different types of games, we decided to do a board game.

2nd Lesson Refection (Linus)

Today, we continued what we did last week, we had more ideas and we are now better prepared for our project

1st Lesson Reflection by Jingrong

I feel that the first lesson was quite interesting.We decided on the group's name and also our topic.We had some moments where there was tension but this can be dealt with by bonding more.I believe we can do better for the rest of the lessons.

Term 1 week 2

Dear A

Welcome to Grace 2010. Today we met for the first time. I think the lesson went well. There are areas of improvement of course, which I hope to see in the weeks that follow:

1) All members should download and go through the presentation and worksheet for the week BEFORE the lesson every week.
2) During 1 period of lesson time, members jump straight into discussing the tasks to be done and complete the tasks within the lesson.
3) All worksheet and personal reflections should be posted by 8pm of the same day.
4) All posts should be traceable to each member, so as long as you specify your name in each post that you made, I do not mind usernames like samlord, pyromaniac and ZVN-3NG.


Nonetheless, this being the first lesson and you guys being unprepared, you have followed my instructions in class and were able to start off and begin the lesson without further ado. Well done. Keep striving to be the best group and you will be the one. Go for it!

Mrs Dhar

PS:
1) Still awaiting for your worksheet for today. Please take a screen shot of your worksheet and post by 14/1/2010 11am
2) Still awaiting for personal reflections by Jingrong. Please post it by 12/11/2010 11am
3) I suggest you post your personal reflections using the personal reflection template. As with the worksheet for each week, take a screenshot of the personal reflection template and post it up as your personal reflection after editing it. To understand what I mean, look at http://2010-2e-29-32.blogspot.com/

1st Lesson Reflection By Keng Heem

We did not do a lot but we did decided on our topic. It's a good beginning but we could improve on teamwork. I hope that we can achieve something great.

UPDATE:
We were not working very well probably because it was the first time that we were working together. But it was not had to try and give in to each other.

1st Lesson Reflection (Linus)

In the first lesson, we discussed about our group name and roles, we also did our very first assignment. I enjoyed todays lesson and got to know my classmates better as i hardly work together with them. Today was a good start, i hope we can continue like this.