So far I have come accross a few stumbling blocks. This is OK as I am aware that my project is a complete experiment, and that is what experiments are for! Hopefully I will learn from them so that next time things will run a lot more smoothly.
1. Things are running a lot less quickly than I was expecting them to. I am still not entirely sure why this is. I am thinking that perhaps next time I need to give pupils some more support initially so that things don't keep going wrong for them!!
2. The German being produced is of a good standard (generally speaking) but a lot of the groups have chosen the same topic (meeting people) and tried to cram a bit too much in. Next time I think I will give each group their topics to avoid this.
3. I think that perhaps it would be good if I had a bit more of a solid structure with more definite ideas of what I would like them to do each lesson. This is hard at the moment, because we are in the experimental stages, and again this will be a lot easier to do next time when I will know exactly how long things will take and what issue might crop up!!
4. For some reason, depsite having added everyone's email addresses to their blog, they are unable to write!! I have enabled them to be authors and shown them how to do it... So there is nothing on the blog yet which is a real pain and they are getting a bit frustrated. Thing I will have to start again with that one! I destroyed the paper with their email addresses on it for confidentiality/child protection reasons so I shall have to ask them all again...
So apart fprm all the above things are running fine. Hectically, but fine.
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