Bit of a frustrating time today.
I think that the film review activities went well, and students enjoyed and benefitted from the activities. We'll see how many have their reviews on Monday.
On the other hand, while ss are still enjoying the Picture of Dorian Gray as a release from more heavy-duty activities on Friday, I do need to rethink the vocab pre-reading activities. It's too hard for ss to help each other when their descriptions of the vocab are at best odd and at worst bewildering. Maybe switch it for a multiple choice activity where ss have a limited and clear number of options?
Photocopies are also becoming an issue. Although it made sense for me to leave different copies for each class in Milcopias, it appears that the copy shop and the students are getting confused over which copy is for when. Still, perhaps unavoidable when I'm working on a lot of this course on the fly. For the future, better to have packs - one for all Dorian Gray activities, one for all cinema activities, etc.
If that weren't enough, ss continue to have problems accessing Canvas. Need to look into this and see how it could be avoided on Canvas, or Moodle or other platform.
Still, overall I think things are going in the right direction and I think the change of pace next week with the task-based video activities will do us all good.
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