Browsing Archive: December, 2013
Posted by Antonia on Friday, December 20, 2013,
All week I had been in the house working on individual progress reports. Here in Cameroon, students are usually just given their grade: pass or fail. They are not told their strengths or what they can work on and improve. I took the time to evaluate each student by looking at their attendance, grades on homework and finally my personal assessment of their participation and seriousness in class.
Wednesday morning I baked four cakes for the two classes.
For those of you who bake.. I would like ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Erin Wildermuth on Saturday, December 14, 2013,
Friday’s make up class for the Lycee club was held at a cyber cafe for the first time this year! I decided a cyber would be best for two reasons. 1) There are only 3-4 working computers with internet in the computer lab and 2) The lab wasnt even available because GCE registration was still going on.
Therefore, I got permission from the Principle to take the YAN club off campus to the cyber I had reserved just down the road. As we were leaving, there were 5 advanced students who showed...
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Posted by Antonia on Thursday, December 12, 2013,
Wednesday started just like
any other Wednesday. I prepared for the lessons in the morning and headed to
school shortly after noon. At Lycee, when I arrived, the director of the lab
informed me that the internet was not working. Usually, this isn’t a big deal
because there are other things they can work on, for example researching from
articles I have previously saved on my flash drive or writing a professional
email (and not sending it just saving it to my flash drive), but today was
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Posted by Antonia on Tuesday, December 10, 2013,
On Saturday the 7th, YAN held one class in Buea Town and one
at Lycee: 10am-1pm and 1pm to 4pm respectively. Both classes had the same
purposes 1) conducting research; 2) preparing to create their website and if
time permits; 3) creating a website for those group that are ready.
In Buea Town, the students
use a cyber café that YAN rents out. By the time it was open for class, it was
10:30am. It’s good that we started a bit late though because most students
didn’t show up until close...
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Posted by Antonia on Thursday, December 5, 2013,
Today was the Advanced YAN
class form 3-5pm at Lycee. I went early to get the start loading the research
from my flash drive onto the computers. When I arrived, only one computer was
open because teachers were using them all. Soon 3pm (when class starts) was
approaching. I kindly reminded the teachers that I had a class starting at 3pm.
They explained to me that class today wouldn’t be possible because all the
teachers were doing their grades. I asked them what time they would finish,
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Posted by Antonia on Wednesday, December 4, 2013,
Because of the GCE registration at Lycee, the YAN club spends the first half of their class period in the 'old computer room'. This makes things especially challenging for not only the children but also for me as the teacher. The children are learning computer skills while I am re-learning how to use the computers provided in that lab which are, to say the least, very old. To avoid any wasting of time, I went to Lycee an hour
early to get the ancient computers all set up and ready to g...
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