Over the past weeks my assigned teacher has been making unbelievable progress. I have never seen someone so eager to learn.
I want to say that I was very hesitant about this assignment before I actually started working on it. teaching my teacher has been an unforgettably pleasant and rewarding experience that I would do again on any given day without a doubt.
Before I started the program I actually had a set plan for what I was planning to do, I wanted to go through the major web sites on the internet and teach them to my assigned teacher to bring her to the same level of a college student today. I was plannig to go through twitter, blogging, stumble upon, youtube, gooogle, google docs, google wave, jing, delicious, picasa, and many other programs I had learned to use over the course of the semester. I soon changed my course however to tailor to what my teacher really WANTED and NEEDED to know. she wanted to know how to send links of videos, imaged, articles and slide shows that she found online to her husband over seas. she wanted to learn how to create a slide show, and how to download pictures from her camera onto her PC, and then how to edit those pictures and to send them via email as well.
I found teaching my assigned teacher these things more important because you need to know the basics before you are able to learn the more complicated things online.
she is so attentive and she asks a lot of questions which is very important since this was my first time teaching anyone anything, and I am sure I missed out on a lot of things I should have said. so her questions helped keep both her and I on the right track.
we have been keeping in touch via emails and phone calls since these are the two she is most proficient and comfortable with.
Another thing I would like to say is that my visits to my teacher's house (we did a lot of face to face) have become more of a family event. tomorrow for example I am taking my niece with me because she wants to hang out with my teacher/ mother in law's daughter while I give the lessons.
this was my update so far.
will be back soon for more info :D
peace
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