Week #8: Connecting the dots.

I am on holiday with my family in Da Lat city when the deadline for the project draft is calling.

Surprisingly, the draft writing of the project flows smoothly. It still needs lots of improvement (thanks God it's still a draft), but let's just celebrate the submission  moment first!

(Family Trip to Da Lat City November 2016. Son jumping for joy. Staying at a mountain room)

 I think there are two contributing factors that make project draft writing much less daunting: the weekly project tasks and the project template. In retrospect, the first one is so useful: the big project is broken into more manageable chunks in which we have to fulfill on a weekly basis. Therefore, the final project writing can be utterly easy if we stick to the original plan. Otherwise, the workload can be overwhelming if we make substantial changes, say, the class or the tools implemented, at the last minute. In this sense the adjective final in the collocation final project should lose its meaning. If we wait until the very end to carry out the project, it'll be too late. We shouldn't expect any finals! Instead, the better approach is to connect the dots. 

In addition, the project template provides practical guidelines that clearly help shape our general project implementation. I'm not a huge fan of action research, but the questions in the template definitely revisit my thinking of doing action research as well as incorporating project-based learning.

These are important lessons learned when it comes to course design, and I feel grateful to the Webskills' course developers!

Here comes the last week. 

Just a little more patience to polish a better version.

Tien

Vietnam