2019/2020 LE blogs

   I'm relieved that the presentation was postponed to next week because I wasn’t ready to do a presentation. Only four people uploaded their presentation practice videos, so I was somehow assumed that uploading the video on Flipgrid was an optional assignment. Therefore I uploaded the video on Flipgrid on Tuesday night. Then I realized that I wasn't prepared for the presentation at all. Specifically I talk too slowly, my time was nearly ten minutes, I used up my time mostly on explaining the story and my gestures were boring. I've practiced my presentation about 4 times without taking the video, and I was fine, but with the camera on, I became a little nervous and couldn't focus as much as the practices before. Watching other classmates' presentation practices, I found out that some people have really analyzed the book deeply than I did. I was amazed by these people and I thought I want to explain more about the author and the themes in “The Hobbit” too. However if...

    Coronavirus changed our way of living drastically so at the beginning of the semester, we had to do our lessons at home using our computers. I think the online lessons were OK. This is because firstly, I was able to do the assignments like normal lessons. Also, I didn't have any issues with Microsoft Teams. Secondly, I could concentrate better on live online video lessons.  Other subjects only had recorded video lessons or lessons without videos so I tended to do the assignments for these subjects slowly. Thirdly, live online video lessons gave me an incentive to wake up early.      From June, school started but with only half of the class. I think this was inefficient because we could do the same work at home using computers, but we had to go to school to do it. Two weeks later, everyone came back to school. At first, teachers were wearing face shields and students were cautious about social distance. However, soon people didn't really care about socia...