Music to my ears

We have Sticky Content!

"I was telling someone about this" - the video I showed them last week & embedded in the Nile site. "There's the one I was looking at - it's good" - the Nile site content.

At last, a tiny hint that my tricky 3rd year top ups are actively engaging with the content.

Virtual Seminar

Mostly out of necessity - everyone keeps telling me it's not a requirement to 'stand and deliver' every hour on the timetable - I have set up a virtual seminar. Over the next 2 weeks I will be delivering an extra 6 hours a week...taking me to 22, so I need to buy some hours.

So I have had a go at setting up groups on Nile, giving each a discussion board. I have started 4 threads on each discussion board. I embedded a tv ad in the first post of each thread, and have asked them to discuss the advert in the context of this week's reading of Jobber. I have also scanned the Jobber chapter and put it on line. This group have been rubbish at reading so far so I really hope this will help them to engage. They have 5 days to blog and if I don't see a post from each of them I'll mark them as absent from the seminar.

I really hope this works - could be fun & a regular. I told the 4.00 class that the more they engage in the activity, the more likely I am to repeat it. They hate staying to 4pm so that's a real incentive!

Bills Eggs

I thought it might be a non-event - but actually, the introduction of a box of eggs really had an impact in the room. First, they were intrigued when I put the box of eggs at the table at the front.... I left them there until 3/4 of the way through. I think keying the code into the website live introduced a little risk that it might not work, and we got into a debate about the value of being able to see Bill's farm. I referred to the box of eggs for the remainder - the impact of the website on my relationship with 'the egg'. Happy with how that went - will use with the first years next week I think.