Once again, when I have to conduct a blog, Mr. Rivers was absent. We missed you! Due to his absence, today's class and assignment was directed towards a more independent route. This was today's actual assignment: "Listen to a peer's podcast and comment below the slide page. Please use the comment form from the last round of podcasts. Listen to your own and comment in the same way here. Use the rest of today for podcast reading." So, immediately everyone grabbed their laptop and headphones and listened to each other's and their own podcasts, with the exception of some people who did not have headphones. So, there were a lot of teenage voices playing aloud in class. I, like my peers listened to my group's podcast first, and then conducted a paragraph response of what we can improve on. Then, I listened to a group from period two. It is really cool to hear how much everyone is improving. The inflections are better and louder, evidence is being utilized effectively to strengthen the arguments and questions, and people are simply sounding more confident and comfortable. We still all have room for improvement, for example we can sound even more excited and interested and try to avoid the excessive amounts of "like" and "ums." That appears to be a trend among the groups, everyone has a tendency to say those sentence fillers, and they really ruin the podcast. But overall, today's class was laid back and filled with listening to a lot of peer's voices.
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