Showing posts with label Self learning courses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Self learning courses. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

formative work 2 : Due october 24- course 3&4

#3-Grammar skills for writing 1: Punctuation in sentences.

General interest:4\10
I wasn't interested in the lesson at first because I though that I would not learn anything , its just punctuation, easy right ?

Time: i lost count!
It took me a really long time! It was so full of multiple questions and texts to analyze, ouf!

Score:78%, not bad!
I was surprise, but at the same time not, at first I was doing very well the first few sections of questions where easy, at the end I just got really tired of all the questions and started getting lazy with my answers. Also the farther I got into this course the harder it got!

Comments:
I actually learned a lot more then I expected, there is more then just simple punctuation; capitalization lessons are present and more words take them then you think . Didn't really enjoy it but appreciated its contents.

#4-Grammar skills for writing 3:Subjects/verbs/pronouns.
General interest: 3\ 5
Gesse Louise! That was one heck of a boring course...and really hard to , well I guess grammar cant always be fun , I meen it is grammar after all!

Time: Darn it!
Almost as long as the last one ....But even more boring to be honest!

Score: 61% >_<
I am really not impressed with my self but I already knew that I needed to work on my grammar skills.

Comments:

Not very captivating in my opinion but I learned a few things. I guess practice makes perfect!


Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Formative work-1:course 1 & 2


#1-Grammar practice exercice 1-2,

General intrest: 4/10
I'm not very interested in the course but I have to do it. Personnaly I don't appreciate the cours, but I find it hard to find a online cours that I do enjoy. Maybe I should explore more next time before just choosing a cours at random.

Time:
The time given was unlimited but I finished it in an hour or a little more , there was only fourty questions per exercice .I'm not sure how difficult it is suppose to be, but it is a good way to improve the way I correct my own texts.

Score: 62% :(
I got a pretty low score in it only 62 %, in punctuation and capitalisation I was bad. But in the adverbs,verbs,and pronouns and verb selection, I did very well. I don't think I learned much but my score is proof that I do need a lot more practice in my grammar more exercices will surely help!

Comments:
I was a little disapointed with the cours because they don't give you any explaination of why your anwser is wrong. When i revised my exercice they simply show the anwser I gave and then the correct one. It seems like i'm missing out on a big part of the cours, getting better by learning from my mistakes.


#2-Essay writing pratice:Informative

General interest:6/10
I found the fact that i could pratice my essay writing interesting, but not as fun as the essay suject that we are presented with in class or in writing journal.

Time
The time given was about an hour and a half but it took me maybe thirty minutes, because they did not give a minimum or maximum of words to write.

Score:3/6
I think a did fine, considering that the subject of the text was "Writing can be taught". But I wrote what I though was good information. Witch was , apperently, not enough.

Comments
Over all, I think it was a good evaluation for an informative writing essay, but they probably could have found a more inspiring subject for the texte.