Studying and working at the same time.

Is not easy guyz, especially with us woman because the whole responsibility is on our shoulders. Each and everybody in the house want your attention, at work you are also expected to perform miracles but i cant complain because i have food on my plate.Vincent i really like to hear from your side if the pressure is the same or more.
During the week i can't do anyhing for my family but weekend i make sure that i cook decent meal for them to make up for the week,do washing and clean the house.I don't have specific tips but thats how I'm trying to survive or cope with my studies. At work i make sure that I do my work 101% so that my boss don't complain about my studies intefering with my work.

Sometimes i feel as if i'm ignoring my family,especially my kids with their school work because i don't get the chance to attend the school meetings any more, which are usually in the evening. There are other days when i get home my kids are fast asleep,no chance to say goodnight, but i think they do understand the situation. The main goal must be accomplished guyz others will follow later,and i think everybody will be happy about the results at the end thats all I can say.

Synchronous Chat Session

Whaoo!!! thats all i can say,technology is so amazing I never thought of something like this before, learn as if you are in class with your classmates and at the same time be in your lounge or bedroom. It was very well organized as we all got our chance to share our feeling and at the same time discuss some of the topics or issues that we were not clear about. Some of us complained that it was very distructive but to me it was a very good and useful experience. I can say face to face classroom discussion can also be distructive it needs desciplineand control and rules must be followed. I wish we can invite some of the learners from different universities who are in the same course as us to share their views and experience about the course.It is a very good environment to learn and at the same time socialize.you can have your group discussions there by setting time when you will all be on chat session, and get a chance to break and socialize for few minutes.

Claudette your sessions are very amazing, please introduce online teaching to all academic staff and admin they are really missing out.It is something that needs to be shared especially in an environment like this.

Automated Assessment

Assessment is a good thing that must be done by all teachers in schools,with assessment you  can determine weak learners in class and how you  can help them. With assessment you can determine which methods the student understand better. Automated assessment is a good method to be introduced in all the school,it gives learners feed back immediatly it can be verbal or written.The assessment can also help the teacher to improve or make changes. The software tool that I recommend is hot potato,it is a very effective and user friendly tool with lots of different options.

I like to share this experience with you, it was when i first went for my drivers test in 2006,the examiner that I was allocated to was drunk. I was already intimidated by the situation,i was not concentrating on what I was suppose to do I was so nervous and my car rolled back and Iend up failling my test.I regard this as negative assessment because I blame the examiner for my failling.I was thinking how can they allow somebody who is drug to assess people because his mind and concentration was totally distracted,that is why i blame the testing department for my failure. I'm over it guyz,but my concern is about those people who are assessed negatively and their lives end up being affected.
The positive assessment  that I experience was the last week one when we were doing presentation about one of the online tools that we have choosen. It was a very interesting experience whereby you have to be assessed by the whole class not the lecturer only. So we all deserve the marks that we received,which was derermind by our perfomance.

I'm posting this task for the second time I don't know what happened to the first one.

Negative and Positive Assessment

How are you finding automated assessment,easy or difficult? I know you  are too busy to respond to my question.
I just want to share with you the bad experience I encounter in 2006 at the testing station.The examiner that I was allocated to was so drunk to the extend that I even loose my concentration and end up failling my driving test. I was so angry with the management of that licence department because they could have seen that he was drunk when he report to work in the morning and send him home, but otherwise I'm over it you know how corrupt this department are.I think I was unfairly assessed because i think it was not my fault, that man did'nt know what he was doing.

The recent assessment is the one that I was doing powerpoint presentation which I think I was fairly assessed because I got the marks that I deserve and the other reason I was assessed by more than 5 people which I think I was very positively assessed. The other reason I love about our lecturer, she always give comment on your work so that you know where you have gone wrong and how to improve on that.

Accessing the course in an online environment.

Is interesting because i have learned lots of new thing e.g.blogger,communicating with my classmates online and get their different comments.
Challenging in the sense that you have to apply what you have learned and I keep forgetting the step that i follow to get what i want e.g Ignite how to access my course materials and to post my assignments or drop in a box.
Online can be a good tool to be used for teaching and learning,teachers can be shown the advantage of using online for their daily teaching like introducing PowerPoint in different learning areas e.g.maths teaching graphs to the learners,teaching different shapes and colours to the foundation phase,for bussiness you can also design wedding cards.With Microsoft you can also write your assignment and projects.

Please help with easy steps or some tricks to make my life easy.

Waiting to hear from all of you.

Good night now is time to go to sleep.