Cabin Fever

With the Movement Control Order (MCO) being extended, I am starting to feel a little bit restless. Well, actually, not a little bit. More than a little. Although we teachers can still conduct lesson thanks to technology, I still prefer to teach my students face-to-face. For one thing, I can be assured that my students do complete their exercises. For another, the students will not have any excuses not to complete their exercises. There is no denying that the MCO has done a lot of good to us humans and also to the environment. Everything is cleaner; the sky; the rivers; the ocean. Even the hole in the ozone layer has repaired itself. But I do need to go out once in a while to release myself from boredom. With the police roadblocks though, it is kind of hard to do it. Lets hope that when 12th of May arrives, it will be the end of the MCO.

Google Classroom

I have known about Google Classroom (GC) since its inception but started to play around with it in January this year. And when I said "play around", I meant exactly that. But now, with the implementation of Movement Control Order (MCO), I had to seriously learn everything there is to know about GC. Creating a lesson session and uploading materials are quite easy. It's just I do not really know if I am supposed to grade my students' works online or offline. At this moment, I am still trying to learn every part of GC but sometimes, I had to go through the tutorials more than once. Plus, half of my students are still giving the same excuses; no internet connection or not compatible with their mobile phones. I am thinking if they can play online games often, doesn't that mean that they have internet connection?! They need to find a better excuse.

Teaching Online during MCO

With the Movement Control Order (MCO) being in effect, we educators had to rely fully on technology to conduct teaching. The problem with my class is that neither they have a laptop nor the apps needed in their mobile pbones. Or so they say... I expected my students to be far superior than me when it comes to technology but it turned out that I am the Geandmaster of techology when it comes to my class. It is a struggle to conduct a class online when the students are not familiar with the apps needed to enable them to learn what is taught. Besides that, some of the apps are not compatible with tbeir mobile phones as some of the students seem to have bought prehistoric ones... Hopefully, the next class will be smooth-sailing.