Monday, August 5, 2013

my last observation

                                                           my last observation in the writing center
I was exited that this was my last observation.My last observation was short, it was only for 30 minute.The student seems like she didn't wanted to be in the writing center but she had no other choice, The student was in a angry mood . even though the tutor introduce me to the student she didn't give me a smile like other students did during my other observation. Even the tutor was in a serious mood. He just checked the grammars and told the student that everything else is perfect. The tutor was kind of lazy he wanted the session to end early so he ended the session 30 minutes early I was just sitting there and didn't felt comfortable at all because the tutor wasn't feeling comfortable that i was there observing.At the end the tutor asked me if this was helpful I was like it was just alright.I asked the tutor does all the tutor just focus on the grammars, He was like it is based on the student what they are having problem with. If the paper has to many grammatical errors we help them to correct it. Most of the time the students come only for grammatical correction. Before leaving I said thanks for sharing some information with me.. Over all it was great experience observing different tutor..I learned different things from different tutor during the session.

Sunday, August 4, 2013

3rd observation

                                                                      Third observation
my third observation was different from the the last two observation I did in the writing center.The tutor introduce me to the student.The tutor and the student had good relationship with each other because they been working together lot of times.The  tutor correct the mistake the student had by himself and the tutor said " we don't usually do that but I know her for long " I was like okay. They were very formal with each other. The students problem was that she was repeating her self so many times over and over again. It was a research paper for the history class, The tutor shared very useful information with the student regarding to her topic. As the tutor was making correction he was also telling me why this is in correct. The tutor also asked me questions, if I didn't knew the answer he would tell me, which I believe was really helpful . I really learned some new vocabulary during this observation.During this observation i think its better to work with the same tutor every time coming to the writing center so they can know your weakness very well, And the tutor know whats your main problem is.At the end of the session the tutor and the student seemed very confident about getting a good grade on the paper because they have been working hard on this assignment for long time.The tutor give some good advice to the student. The tutor said before writing a paper about any topic we should research a little because its better to have some kind of idea about the topic we are writing about. I liked that idea and I think from now i will follow the tutor advice in the future. Sometime its better to follow other peoples advice it might be helpful for us.

Thursday, August 1, 2013

filming

                                                                     Filming 
   
         yesterday we had the chance to film about what we decided to perform. First we came up with an idea what we are going to perform. Then we decided who's going to act what part. After that he wrote the script. We contact each other by texting and meeting in the classroom. It was good that we didn't had to communicate with each other out of class. The time we had was enough to produce a film.
 There was three character in the scene we film. The characters were two students from english 101 class, and a tutor. Our task was to show the positive side effect of tutoring two student at one session who had different problem with there paper. Basically our scene was about two students going to the writing center and getting help from a tutor, The students were in the same classroom but had different problems. One student had problem with lower order concern, and the other one with high order of concern. We use a empty classroom as a writing center. We also use table in the front with 2 chairs. The students comes in the classroom and introduce themselves and tell whats we need help with. the tutor manage his time and worked with two student in one session of tutoring. Our scene ended by asking question to the tutor. The scene ended by asking question to the tutor . The tutor answered our question in detail and it was very helpful. I was one of the student who was in the scene. I was feeling so nervous because it was my first time acting and someone filming me. It was hard for the first time, but we practice over and over again I felt very comfortable and confidence in myself. It was very fun and i enjoyed being a student and going to the writing center. I was having fun while we are filming. It was a new experience for my self because i never got a chance acting out. i was shy at the beginning but at the end i wanted to act more scenes . By doing this assignment i developed more confidence in myself. i though i wouldn't able to do this at all, but it went really well. After finishing filming, when i sat the recording my voice was really low it was because i was shy and didn't wanted to do this at all. . We took our time to do filming. I though It was easy it will just take us 5 minutes , but I was wrong it seems easy but it wasn't. We had to do certain parts many times to get it perfectly. At the end I was glad that we finally got to the end and the video came out good as well. I am much satisfy with the video. I hope my group get a good grade on this assignment.