Grace in Small Things – 186

• Today’s Computer Assisted Language Learning workshop was FUN! I had been dreading it, expecting it to be five hours sitting in the computer lab being put through the paces on various software applications used to teach English in ESL classrooms across the country. It was nothing like that. The teacher’s method was very communicative and interactive, with lots of brainstorming and sharing of knowledge. We all got up to speed on the latest tools of the digital age and learned to use Moodle!
• Everyone but me learned how to create a blog. It felt pretty cool to be “hip” to this technology when even the digital natives did not know how to do it.
• I finished my take-home linguistics test this morning and emailed it in. Now I just have to write up the results of the survey you all helped me with and I’ll have time to see a movie!
• I saw that my friend R was looking nervous about one of the homework assignments from today’s workshop, which involves saving a file somewhere (like to Google docs) and posting a link to it in the comments area of the teacher’s blog. As we were putting on our coats, I told her that if she wanted, I could walk her through that process during a lunch period this week using the computer lab. She stared at me like she was trying to find the right words, then just threw her arms around my neck and gave me a hug.
• I am so glad I live in a world where children still go door to door on October 31st.

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