ABC....EASY AS 1-2-3!

5/12/2020

Shannon's ABC Photos

I was pleased to see 14 collages uploaded to our shared folder. If you have not yet done this, please take OWNERSHIP of your learning. The shared link is on this morning's message on TEAMS. Follow instructions please. I will be posting all collages later today. Be sure that you have uploaded your finished product to our shared folder, your photography channel, and to FreshGrade. If you do not do this, you will receive an INCOMPLETE and I will not chase you down!

IMPORTANT:
1.) Click here for the weekly newsletter. Please let me know if this link doesn't work for you.
2.) Update your weekly FG activities and your Teams channels!

SHAPE OF THE DAY
1.) LA/NOVEL APPROACH:

Make sure you have completed all your Novel Approach work.
Upload pictures of each page of your booklet that you have completed to your PR, GOW, and T&L activity on FreshGrade.

2.) MATH:

Ensure you have uploaded all your work from yesterday to the weekly FreshGrade math activities.
TEST will be released on TEAMS ASSIGNMENTS after the morning check-in

3.) PE:

Update your daily log/Google doc on FG.
Check out Cosmic Yoga on YouTube for a change in activity.

4.) LA/READING LOG:

Update your daily log/Google doc on FG.

5.) ART:

Make sure you have uploaded your collage to FG.
Upload your ABC collage photo to the folder posted in your photography channel on Teams.

6.) SOCIAL STUDIES:

To be updated

7.) POST A RESPONSE:

Today's PAR will be on OWNERSHIP.
Using the BIG 6 Learning Principles is not an easy task. Being able to do this on your own is what OWNERSHIP is all about!
This will also be another opportunity for you to give me feedback to help your learning.
LEARNING INTENTION: I can reflect on my remote learning experience with the Big 6 learning principles.
SUCCESS CRITERIA:
1.) In paragraph or essay format, write a reflection and include the following:
- What has worked well for you?
- What hasn't worked well for you.
- Have you been following learning intentions? Success Criteria? Asked/Responded to
questions, engaged in self/peer assessment, responded to feedback. Give examples.
- Have you found it challenging to collaborate and engage in discussions in your TEAMS
channels? Why or why not?
- How can Mr. Hong help your learning at this time? (Should I give you less work? More work?
Regularly scheduled one-one-one support? etc)
2.) Edit/revise your writing for the givens/conventions (spelling, grammar, sentence structure, capitals, etc)

VIDEO LINKS:
Cosmic Kids - Mindfulness

brieana

5/12/2020 09:04:10 am

1st!

5/12/2020 09:40:00 am

Max

5/12/2020 09:42:21 am

3rd

Ethel

5/12/2020 09:52:58 am

4th :)

Ethel

5/12/2020 11:23:22 am

Online classes are pretty fun for me and sometimes I feel like I'm doing much better in online classes then in actual class. But, I also had some challenges when doing work. Today, i'll be explaining how I'm doing in online class and If I've been following the big 6. First I'll be talking about my challenges. A challenge I faced was being way to tired in the morning. This was a challenge for me because, I couldn't listen to the class and I would just day dream. I've been trying to sleep earlier but It didn't really help me because I'm not really a morning person.
Secondly, I'll be talking about what was easy for me to do at home. The easiest subject for me to do at home was N.A and math. N.A was easy for me because all we had to do was read and write down in our booklet, and start discussions in our teams channels. For math it was easy because I was at home. If I didn't understand anything, I could ask family members to explain and I can do some research about the math subject on my computer.
Lastly, I'll be talking about how I followed the big 6 principles and how I've been participating on TEAMS. Personally, I've been talking, asking questions on teams and asked for feedback. I've been getting good feedback on teams and it really helped me improve my work. For the big 6 principles, I've been following it for our homework so I know I'm doing it right, like I've been asking questions, checked the criteria, asked for feedback from myself and from my peers, respond to questions and follow the learning intentions.
In conclusion, online classes is super fun. Some people might now agree but that's fine, I really wanna try my best to participate more and try to improve my work.

Ethel

5/12/2020 05:27:59 pm

Online classes are pretty fun for me and sometimes I feel like I'm doing much better in online classes then in actual class. But, I also had some challenges when doing work. Today, i'll be explaining how I'm doing in online class and If I've been following the big 6. First I'll be talking about my challenges. A challenge I faced was being way to tired in the morning. This was a challenge for me because, I couldn't listen to the class and I would just day dream. I've been trying to sleep earlier but It didn't really help me because I'm not really a morning person.
Secondly, I'll be talking about what was easy for me to do at home. The easiest subject for me to do at home was N.A and math. N.A was easy for me because all we had to do was read and write down in our booklet, and start discussions in our teams channels. For math it was easy because I was at home. If I didn't understand anything, I could ask family members to explain and I can do some research about the math subject on my computer.
Lastly, I'll be talking about how I followed the big 6 principles and how I've been participating on TEAMS. Personally, I've been talking, asking questions on teams and asked for feedback. I've been getting good feedback on teams and it really helped me improve my work. For the big 6 principles, I've been following it for our homework so I know I'm doing it right, like I've been asking questions, checked the criteria, asked for feedback from myself and from my peers, respond to questions and follow the learning intentions.
I don't really have any feedback to give to Mr.Hong other than maybe give me more feedback, because he doesn't really give me a lot of feedback but that's really it.
In conclusion, online classes is super fun. Some people might now agree but that's fine, I really wanna try my best to participate more and try to improve my work.

Max

5/12/2020 11:42:23 am

When online classes started, some things went well for me and some things didn't. The things that have worked well for me was completing all on time. I have a schedule that I update everyday. Its a hand written schedule to help me keep up with things. The challenge is that balancing all the work. I have work from home that takes a quite some time. I also have Guitar and Taekwondo lessons. Its quite challenging for me to balance all of those and make something work. I hate waiting and I want to get something done as quick as possible. I have been trying my best to follow the success criteria but I some times slip and forget to check. I give feedback every two days. I usually wait for a wide variety of posts and then give feedback. When someone gives me feedback. I respond, but I close up when its after 3. Then I play without worry. I would like a lighter workload because its challenging to balance a lot of things at once, and I sometimes get stressed out.

brieana

5/12/2020 12:06:56 pm

For a long time now we have been doing school at home. I think that it has been going pretty well for me. For example, I I can get my work done because I can see what I need to do on my white board. I also like the work load because I think that it is suitable for me. But there is always usually a downside for things like this, right? not for me though I don't really have anything to complain about. sometimes the math can be challenging but my dad helps me if I need it.

Another thing we have been doing is collaborating. On teams, it is sometimes hard to collaborate with my peers because we are not on the same time as me. I have usually been responding to feedback and I have also given feed back too. I'm am trying to give more feed back on the website and I have set a reminder. but overall I am doing well (both in health and in school) and I hope that everyone is staying well too!

Mealea

5/12/2020 12:28:50 pm

It’s been a few weeks since we started online school, some things were easy and some things were a little difficult. First off, I think that the workload that we have been given is good. We shouldn't increase it, not decrease it. It's all very straightforward work that can probably last some people for 2-3 hours. At the start, uploading on Fresh Grade and TEAMS was hard at first because I didn’t really know how to submit hand written work onto teams but I eventually got used to it and found an easy way to submit it. Another challenge for me is that I sleep late and wake up late. Lately I’ve been waking up early because the people upstairs are so noisy with all the repairs, so I wake up around 8:00 but I know I will go back to waking up at 9:30 when it stops because i'm not a morning person. I also have some technical difficulties when it comes to accessing some stuff or submitting work. Things that have been going well for me are all the work in general and doing P.E, Reading, and Math is fairly easy so I usually finish them first. I think for a lot of work I meet the learning intentions, I participate in class meetings and ask questions on the TEAMS chat, I ask for feedback, and answer questions. For example, I ask questions on the N.A. chat and I answer ones that have been asked by my group. I’ve also received feedback on my Sway presentation before when I asked for it. It’s not difficult to log onto TEAMS for class meetings and it’s also part of my schedule so I can’t ignore it and my computer is pretty fast so I can probably log in like 1-2 minutes. In conclusion, online classes are good, criteria’s help, logging onto TEAMS is easy, and the feedback I’ve received have been very helpful.

Emily

5/13/2020 11:25:49 am

@Mealea - Try separating your PAR into different paragraphs to make it easier to the reader to follow. Also, in the third sentence, when you talk about increasing decreasing the workload, I would put "We shouldn't increase it, but not decrease it either." Furthermore, in the next sentence, I would reword it to "It's all straightforward work that probably takes most people 2-3 hours to complete." In one sentence, you put at the start twice, which is unnecessary. Finally, don't forget to capitalize the I's.

Amy

5/12/2020 01:39:06 pm

SUCCESS CRITERIA:
1.) In paragraph or essay format, write a reflection and include the following:
- What has worked well for you?
- What hasn't worked well for you.
- Have you been following learning intentions? Success Criteria? Asked/Responded to
questions, engaged in self/peer assessment, responded to feedback. Give examples.
- Have you found it challenging to collaborate and engage in discussions in your TEAMS
channels? Why or why not?
- How can Mr. Hong help your learning at this time? (Should I give you less work? More work?

Because of Covid-19, we now do online school. Things that have been going well for me are the work isn't too hard and not too much. Things that haven't worked well are that my eyes are very tired from using the computer all the time. I've been following the learning intentions and success criteria, although sometimes it's difficult to get feedback online instead of in person. I've also asked and responded to questions, engaged in self and peer assessment, and responded to feedback. Whenever I have a question, I ask my peers on Teams or on Hangouts and I answer any questions that I know the answer to. I also peer assessed my feedback buddy's PR and self assessed my own. Whenever I get feedback, I improve using it. I've found it slightly challenging to collaborate online because sometimes nobody replies to you. Mr. Hong can help my learning by doing exactly what he's doing right now.

Mr. Hong

5/12/2020 04:00:00 pm

@ Amy - Are you sure there isn't anything else I can do to help you?

Amy

5/12/2020 10:49:32 pm

@Mr. Hong, not that I can think of.

5/13/2020 09:57:16 am

@ Amy- Maybe use more transition words? Overall your paragraph is nice!

Emma

5/12/2020 01:40:36 pm

We have had to do online school for more than a month and have had to get used to it but there have been some challenges and some things that I've found easier. I found that in the beginning online classes were confusing but now I have gotten used to it and I have a good system going and it has been going well. Another thing that has been good is Novel Approach I understand what to do and overall like the subject.
Some challenges for me are sometimes sleeping in for a little bit and it throws me off and it becomes a little harder to concentrate in the morning and my more productive time is the morning so it's usually harder

Next I have been following the learning intentions and looking at them before I start an assignment. I have also been asking and responding to questions on teams. I share my assignments with my friends and do self assessments before I finish an assignment, for example for digital photography I gave feedback and made changes to my feedback I got and responded. I have found it hard to participate in the beginning of all of this but slowly have found it easier to collaborate. I personally think that the workload is fine, it has just been more difficult since we're not in school.

In conclusion I think I have been doing pretty well with online school and been pretty much understanding everything.

Emma

5/13/2020 09:58:42 am

We have had to do online school for more than a month and have had to get used to it but there have been some challenges and some things that I've found easier. I found that in the beginning online classes were confusing but now I have gotten used to it and I have a good system going and it has been going well. Another thing that has been good is Novel Approach I understand what to do and overall like the subject.
Some challenges for me are sometimes sleeping in for a little bit and it throws me off and it becomes a little harder to concentrate in the morning and my more productive time is the morning so it's usually harder. Another challenge is getting distracted or being thrown off of my schedule.

Secondly I have been following the learning intentions and looking at them before I start an assignment so I know what to do and don't miss something. I have also been asking and responding to questions on teams. I share my assignments with my friends and do self assessments before I finish an assignment, for example for digital photography I gave feedback and made changes to my feedback I got and responded. I have found it hard to participate in the beginning of all of this but slowly have found it easier to collaborate. I personally think that the workload is fine, it has just been more difficult since we're not in school.

In conclusion I think I have been doing pretty well with online school and been pretty much understanding everything to do, although I have had some challenges I'm getting through the work.

Emily

5/13/2020 11:11:27 am

@Emma - Is there anything that could help your learning?

gabriel (._.)

5/12/2020 02:21:04 pm

for quite a long time now we have been doing online classes which in ways have been more frustrating and challenging than normal classes at school. today I will talk about whats challenging and easy about classes online. first, figuring out new apps we are using for online classes can be frustrating and challenging because when i don't know how to use that app when I've been trying to figure it out for a long time can be frustrating and figuring it out can be challenging because you don't know if you have been doing it the right way or wrong way. second, when being confused on something you can't get help on it as easily as you can do in class as in online class because you have to email the teacher and wait for the response which he might take a while to look at if he is busy with helping some one else or doing other stuff. last, I like being able to do my stuff at home because less distractions, i can grab food when ever i want and i can do other stuff when taking breaks but at school you only get to go outside. in conclusion i am doing really well on my work at home and won't complain to do it for longer.

5/12/2020 02:21:32 pm

Covid-19 has changed our lives. That includes school and work. I've been learning from for the past month and now I'm writing a reflection about how I'm feeling.

Something that has worked well for me is homework. Something that hasn't gone well for me is tidiness. Right now all my work is on my table. I think I've been following most success criteria. Sometimes I forget to do tiny parts of it. I been following the learning intentions because I have been learning things. I sometimes ask and respond to questions in my novel approach group. I also have been getting feedback from my parents and have responded to feedback. For example I responded to the feedback on my powerful response. I have not found it challenging to collaborate in Teams because people are online all the time. For me, the way Mr. Hong can help is to give longer due dates.

Overall I think I'm doing fine because working from home also helps me work on my positioning for my hands while typing.

Mr. Hong

5/12/2020 03:57:16 pm

@ Ty - Thank you for the feedback! I will take that into consideration! Thank you for letting me know!

5/12/2020 02:41:38 pm

We've done online school for a quite a while now! I would say the online learning has it's ups and downs. Today I'm going to be telling you want things haven't been going well for me, and what things have been going well for me. I will be also telling you if I have been following the big six.

Firstly I'll be talking about challenges I've had. I don't think I'm really struggling that much. I would say the main thing would be that sometimes I procrastinate occasionally, but overall procrastination isn't a huge problem for me. Next I'll be talking about what has been going well for me. I woulds say art, math, PE, novel approach, and music, because they are pretty simple, and we are given clear instructions on what to do. Also I think I have been doing the big six. For the leashing intention and success criteria. I always look at them to help me in my learning. If I'm having trouble with something I ask questions in teams, and I also do self and peer assessments. For example I peer assessed Amy's powerful response from yesterday, and I have her feedback. Finally I have been responding to feedback. For instance I got feedback on my photos. Then I have re- took them to make them better! I think it's easy for me to participate in teams, but sometimes it's hard to keep the discussion going especially in book clubs.

Overall I think the workload is okay. And I think online learning has been going good for me.

5/12/2020 04:05:00 pm

We've done online school for a quite a while now! I would say the online learning has it's ups and downs. Today I'm going to be telling you want things haven't been going well for me, and what things have been going well for me. I will be also telling you if I have been following the big six.

Firstly I'll be talking about challenges I've had. I don't think I'm really struggling that much. I would say the main thing would be that sometimes I procrastinate occasionally, but overall procrastination isn't a huge problem for me. Next I'll be talking about what has been going well for me. I woulds say art, math, PE, novel approach, and music, because they are pretty simple, and we are given clear instructions on what to do. Also I think I have been doing the big six. For the leashing intention and success criteria. I always look at them to help me in my learning. If I'm having trouble with something I ask questions in teams, and I also do self and peer assessments. For example I peer assessed Amy's powerful response from yesterday, and I have her feedback. Finally I have been responding to feedback. For instance I got feedback on my photos. Then I have re- took them to make them better! I think it's easy for me to participate in teams, but sometimes it's hard to keep the discussion going especially in book clubs.

Overall I think the workload is okay. Also, I think online learning has been going good for me. If we would to change something I would say maybe less work?

Amy

5/13/2020 10:44:51 am

@Mi, your PAR is pretty good! In the second paragraph fourth line, you wrote woulds instead of would.

Emily

5/12/2020 02:47:56 pm

Is it just me, or is there a lot of work? I believe that it's the former, mainly because of my habit of doing everything last minute. In other words, something that's not going well is my time management. Recently, it's been improving a bit, but not much. On the other hand, something that's going well is that I've been finishing all the assigned work. It's good to stay consistent with my completion of work.

I believe that I've been following the Big 6 Learning Principles since I've been reading the learning intentions, following success criteria, asked questions, self/peer-assessed, responded/gave descriptive feedback, and lastly, taken ownership of my learning. For example, I followed the learning intention of this PAR by reflecting on my remote learning experience with the Big 6 learning principles. I've read the success criteria and ensured I included all the points mention, like something that's going well. In addition to this, I ask my friends, family, peers, and teacher questions whenever I don't understand something. Yesterday I asked my brother how to solve a question for math, which he helped me understand. Furthermore, I read through Emmas powerful response and gave her descriptive feedback on how she could improve it. That was how I peer-assessed and gave descriptive feedback. Finally, I took ownership of my learning by sharing my powerful response with others to show them what I've learned.

Collaborating with others hasn't been a problem for me, and it's pretty easy to use Microsoft Teams, but we aren't engaged in our conversations because people don't reply to the messages. In conclusion, I find that remote learning is easy enough when I stay on track.

Emily

5/12/2020 02:52:19 pm

Is it just me, or is there a lot of work? I believe that it's the former, mainly because of my habit of doing everything last minute. In other words, something that's not going well is my time management. Recently, it's been improving a bit, but not much. On the other hand, something that's going well is that I've been finishing all the assigned work. It's good to stay consistent with my completion of work.

I believe that I've been following the Big 6 Learning Principles since I've been reading the learning intentions, following success criteria, asked questions, self/peer-assessed, responded/gave descriptive feedback, and lastly, taken ownership of my learning. For example, I followed the learning intention of this PAR by reflecting on my remote learning experience with the Big 6 learning principles. I've read the success criteria and ensured I included all the points mention, like something that's going well. In addition to this, I ask my friends, family, peers, and teacher questions whenever I don't understand something. Yesterday I asked my brother how to solve a question for math, which he helped me understand. Furthermore, I read through Emma's powerful response and gave her descriptive feedback on how she could improve it. That was how I peer-assessed and gave descriptive feedback. Finally, I took ownership of my learning by sharing my powerful response with others to show them what I've learned.

Collaborating with others hasn't been a problem for me because it's pretty easy to use Microsoft Teams, but we aren't engaged in our conversations. This may be because people don't reply to messages. Though on a different note, I don't see a way Mr. Hong could help with my learning, I think it's fine as is. If I were to say something, I would vote for less work because I have more chances to work on my other assignments for VLN. In conclusion, I find that remote learning is easy enough when I stay on track.

Mr. Hong

5/12/2020 03:58:08 pm

@ Emily - Are you getting enough feedback from me? Could I give you more to help you at all?

Emily

5/12/2020 06:19:57 pm

@Mr. Hong, Yep, I think I've gotten enough feedback.

Emma

5/13/2020 09:51:39 am

@Emily
Maybe try to put transition word in the begging of either your second or third paragraph.

Emily

5/13/2020 11:13:47 am

Is it just me, or is there a lot of work? I believe that it's the former, mainly because of my habit of doing everything last minute. In other words, something that's not going well is my time management. Recently, it's been improving a bit, but not much. On the other hand, something that's going well is that I've been finishing all the assigned work. It's good to stay consistent with my completion of work.

On a different note, I believe that I've been following the Big 6 Learning Principles since I've been reading the learning intentions, following success criteria, asked questions, self/peer-assessed, responded/gave descriptive feedback, and lastly, taken ownership of my learning. For example, I followed the learning intention of this PAR by reflecting on my remote learning experience with the Big 6 learning principles. I've read the success criteria and ensured I included all the points mention, like something that's going well. In addition to this, I ask my friends, family, peers, and teacher questions whenever I don't understand something. Yesterday I asked my brother how to solve a question for math, which he helped me understand. Furthermore, I read through Emma's powerful response and gave her descriptive feedback on how she could improve it. That was how I peer-assessed and gave descriptive feedback. Finally, I took ownership of my learning by sharing my powerful response with others to show them what I've learned.

Last but not least, collaborating with others hasn't been a problem for me because it's pretty easy to use Microsoft Teams, but we aren't engaged in our conversations. This may be because people don't reply to messages. Though on a different note, I don't see a way Mr. Hong could help with my learning, I think it's fine as is. If I were to say something, I would vote for less work because I have more chances to work on my other assignments for VLN. In conclusion, I find that remote learning is easy enough when I stay on track.

5/12/2020 02:56:05 pm

We have been traped inside our homes because of the virus, and things have changed so much. So now i'm writing a reflection about how i'm feeling right now.

Firstly, something that is working well for me is finishing my work, I would say it's a good amount of work and it's pretty reasonable. However something that is not going well for me is starting to do my homework, it's like something I really don't want to do, so it's hard to start. However, for some reason when I do really start, I get addicted. Nothing will stop me from doing it, I won't eat, take a break, ect. This is the reason I always get my work done. I have been following learning intentions because that's how you reach success. I have also been following criteria because that is the only thing that will tell me how exacly to meet the requirements. And I have been asking questions when i'm unsure of something to make sure i'm not messing anything up. I have been giving feedback and editing my own work based on feedback, I think that is important because it helps us improve. I found using teams very easy since everything is neatly organized and always in that same spot when you need it. I think Mr.Hong is doing a great job at teaching us and should continue what he's doing.

In other words, I'm doing great and just hope everything returns to normal soon.

Mr. Hong

5/12/2020 04:00:50 pm

@ Raymond - Thank you! However, good feedback is always feedback that helps people learn! Are you sure I can't do anything else?

Catherine

5/13/2020 11:35:49 am

@RZ capitalize your I's, don't start with and, give examples of how you have been using the big six learning principle, say if it has been hard or easy to collaborate and engage in topics on teams and try to start your sentences with something else other than I. Overall, it's pretty good.

Kyungsun

5/12/2020 03:00:36 pm

Due to the coronavirus, we all have to do online school. Online school is painfully boring and exhausting. Here are some things that are going well and not going well
Some things that are going well are staying relatively social as my friends and I call very often as well as text. Some things that are not going well are actually enjoying existing, motivation and also organization. Getting my homework done flip flops between the two. Asking and responding to questions usually happens when I call or text friends and things like peer assessments as well as self-assessments also work like this. If for some reason I have to use teams I use teams as well. Success criteria are usually followed and I find it difficult to collaborate over teams as if I have to give or receive feedback it could take forever for them to respond unlike over text or call. What makes things worse is if their parents just don’t let them have social media for some reason. Unless they are under 6 I see no point. Helicopter parents just raise kids unexposed to the outside world. Mr hong should also try to minimize the amount of irrelevant work as pretty much everyone I talked to says its way to much work.
In conclusion online school is scary and not good and comes with many challenges.

Mr. Hong

5/12/2020 03:59:15 pm

@ KS - Thanks for the feedback. However, I haven't given you any irrelevant work. Can you let me know what work you are referring to? Everything we do is carefully planned for your learning goals. I am very curious....

brieana

5/13/2020 08:52:33 am

@Kyungsun
it's a pretty good paragraph but you should probably put some more things about school.

Brendan

5/12/2020 06:05:51 pm

During this Covid-19 pandemic, most of the things have been shut down, including schools, which now leads us to online teaching! During this time learning at home, I am having a lot of fun, but still has thins to improve on.
The thing that worked well for me was my homemade timetable. I can relate to my own timetable, and have a better and clearer schedule of doing my work. For example, most of the time, I would have finished my homework by the end of 12:00pm. Therefore after lunch, I could do my own stuff, such as playing the piano, going to the park, reading, playing video games, etc. However, there are a lot of distractions here compared to at school, such as my devices (ringing noises), my cat, and a lot more. So, I am improving by putting away all distraction, and concentrate as much as possible.
Moreover, I have been following the criteria, such as the learning intentions, reflecting, giving peers feedback, and many more. Such as marking and asking feedback for the ABC photos I took, about the Powerful Response, etc.
Lastly, one thing that Mr. Hong can help me during learning is to let us communicate on other social medias, for instant, Instagram. This is mainly because when I want to communicate, the members in Teams are barely online. It would be a lot more convenient if we have permission to contact our schoolmates on other platforms.
Therefore, online school is kind of fun, which is not what I expected, since it might be a lot harder to communicate. But other than that, it is pretty good!

Shannon

5/12/2020 07:05:47 pm

I’m not sure if it’s just me, but ever since online school has started, I’ve felt like school was optional. I know that it’s not, but school is always in the back of my mind. it has never been my first priority.

The online school gives me a lot of freedom and lets me be flexible with my schedule. Even though this sounds like a good thing, it really isn’t. This is because I’ve found it challenging to find the motivation to complete my work. My daily schedule lately is basically wake up, exercise, eat, k drama, eat, exercise, and sleep. I basically just do school work whenever I feel like it.
So far, I have been doing a fair job in completing my work, even though I always leave it last minute. I don’t think I’ve even completed an assignment early.

Following the big 6 learning principles isn’t easy in my opinion. Lately, I haven’t been completing the whole routine. I usually do the bare minimum. I only participate if it’s necessary. For example, the novel approach. It was necessary to ask and respond to a question. Another example would be the feedback for the PR. I would not do that if it was not asked.
I’ve found it hard to communicate with my peers on teams because it’s just, not the same as speaking in person. I find it a lot more awkward. I try to avoid unnecessary communication on teams. I do keep in contact with friends through other platforms because I feel like its safer since everyone cant sees what I’m saying.
Some feedback for Mr.hong would give less work. I honestly don’t find it too hard but I just don’t enjoy working at home. I think it’s distracting and just not fun. instead of boring work like writing, math, etc. , I think you should assign fun work. for example, cooking, baking, gardening etc.
I find those activities more exciting and engaging.

Overall, I don’t find the workload too overwhelming, but I find it boring. I think that you should assign more engaging projects. For myself, I will try my best to stay on top of my school work and to stop procrastinating.

5/13/2020 09:06:25 am

@Shannon Your can't doesn't have a comma and your sees should be see.

Kayd

5/12/2020 07:18:48 pm

Online school is our new regular.
The things that have gone well for me so far are My orginization I have set up my own work station on my floor, and working at my own pace is another one I get my work done with sometime for brakes inbetween and the social aspect of this is going great. The things that aren't going so well are staying motivated and not getting distracted. With the whole peer/self assessments part I done pretty well because I call pretty musch everyday with my friends and I have been following the LI's and Success Criteria. I have found it not that challenging to talk in the teams chats but I just zoom by it most of the time. I think Mr.Hong should give us more time if we request it or just have the due dates a bit longer than they are.

In conclusion Everything has been well since all this COVID-19 stuff started. I really do want this stuff to end.

Ethel

5/13/2020 09:48:45 am

@Kayd In the 3rd sentence instead of writing "another one" maybe write "another way" and on the 6th sentence you spelled much wrong. Also, maybe add more periods to your sentences. (if that makes sense) Overall, I really like your paragraph.

Sara

5/12/2020 07:22:13 pm

COVID-19 has brought terror across the world. Many people are staying home, practicing social distancing, and washing their hands very often. I have been staying home for almost two months now (5 more days ). It's been bored lately so why not make some fun out of it and continue my record of staying at home. Other than keeping track on how long I have been staying at home, Mr. Hong has been giving us homework to keep us company. Since it's been over a month now, he wanted to check up on what we are doing and wants us to give him feedback on our workload/teacher feedback.

Everything is going well for me but I am having trouble tracking things on my reading/PE calendar. I keep forgetting to track things and once in a while like about 4 days, that is when I go back to track. I'm trying to keep up though and I'm starting to remember to track everything more. For the workload, I think it's a little too much if we were to do a project but if it was just daily work and stuff, it's good because I can keep up but for projects, I forget them and then I get a reminder... yeah a lot of pressure for me but I end up completing it anyways which is good. I think Mr. Hong can do is give more feedback because I haven't gotten much feedback except for my PR.

Other than giving feedback, I think Mr. Hong is doing a great job during this time. I'm having fun doing stuff you normally do on your computer during some free time.

Megan

5/12/2020 07:37:20 pm

Due to the current pandemic, we’ve resorted to virtual learning. For the past month or so, our class has learned virtually to compensate for school closing. However, like everything, there are pros and cons.
Personally, I felt like remote learning was relaxing and stressful simultaneously. On one hand, my schedule was very flexible and I could start work practically at any time of the day. With that, I also didn’t have to worry about missing class or being late because I could simply wake up and join the morning check-in. On the other hand, my schedule might be too open to the point where I would finish work very late at night. Time management has been a big issue for me. On top of that, I feel like the workload has been higher compared to in-person school (it has been slowed down though). However, I believe that is mostly due to me procrastinating often. Following learning intentions/success criteria/collaborating hasn’t been too big of an issue, although it is slightly more difficult. Since I can’t interact with said person face to face, it has been harder to collaborate. Especially since a few peers have had internet issues or aren’t active often, collaborating is more difficult. Following criteria has also been slightly more challenging, since I would occasionally skip a part of the criteria which would affect my evaluation later on. For instance, I did yesterday’s par however I forgot to post a comment indicating that I finished it. When collaborating on teams channels, it isn’t difficult other than the fact I can’t get a response immediately. I would have to wait a few minutes - hours to get a response. However, there are ways to resolve or improve these issues. I suggest that Mr Hong would try to give feedback more often. It is understandably hard to give feedback to 30 students, however I think feedback should be more encouraged.
Overall, remote learning hasn’t been too difficult however there are a few issues that affect my learning.

Megan

5/12/2020 07:39:30 pm

Due to the current pandemic, we’ve resorted to virtual learning. For the past month or so, our class has learned virtually to compensate for school closing. However, like everything, there are pros and cons.

Personally, I felt like remote learning was relaxing and stressful simultaneously. On one hand, my schedule was very flexible and I could start work practically at any time of the day. With that, I also didn’t have to worry about missing class or being late because I could simply wake up and join the morning check-in. On the other hand, my schedule might be too open to the point where I would finish work very late at night. Time management has been a big issue for me. On top of that, I feel like the workload has been higher compared to in-person school (it has been slowed down though). However, I believe that is mostly due to me procrastinating often.
Following learning intentions/success criteria/collaborating hasn’t been too big of an issue, although it is slightly more difficult. Since I can’t interact with said person face to face, it has been harder to collaborate. Especially since a few peers have had internet issues or aren’t active often, collaborating is more difficult. Following criteria has also been slightly more challenging, since I would occasionally skip a part of the criteria which would affect my evaluation later on. For instance, I did yesterday’s par however I forgot to post a comment indicating that I finished it.
When collaborating on teams channels, it isn’t difficult other than the fact I can’t get a response immediately. I would have to wait a few minutes - hours to get a response. However, there are ways to resolve or improve these issues. I suggest that Mr Hong would try to give feedback more often. It is understandably hard to give feedback to 30 students, however I think feedback should be more encouraged.

Overall, remote learning hasn’t been too difficult however there are a few issues that affect my learning.

Spencer

5/12/2020 08:37:13 pm

Online school has been a huge change to our regular lifestyle. One thing that has been working out for me is that I get to spend a lot more time with my family, which is exciting! Although some things can be harder, like not have if professional supervision from mr. Hong. I believe that I have followed learning intentions because I am doing my work well. I don’t think it’s been very hard to collaborate in discussions. I don’t think mr. Hong should do anything, he’s doing great!

Max

5/13/2020 09:49:04 am

@Spencer-Can you give a example of what a downside of not having the supervision of Mr. Hong?

Boswell

5/12/2020 10:03:07 pm

Ever since school closed and online classes happened some things have been different. For example I can't meet my friends in real life, I can't go to some places ,etc. In class we would have lots of time to do our homework and stuff and we couldn't procrastinate since we were in class, but ever since online classes have started I have been procrastinating more than I used to. But I still get my work done, something thats going well for me is that I get to call with my friends via social media and that helps motivate me. Something that I'm struggling with is probably managing my time since I always procrastinate and sometimes I forget to do something so I have to rush it and it won't be as good. But I've been trying to manage my time better and so far it's kind of working. But overall I think i can manage everything and I'm not really struggling with anything.

Adrian

5/12/2020 11:19:01 pm

Since the new contagious disease is here, we have remote learning. Adapting to this new version of school can be difficult, which is why we all need to cooperate. Something that it doing pretty good for me is the time we have our meetings because we start at 10:00am and I don't feel rushed when I wake up in the morning. Plus I don't really have to get ready and I can just sit in my comfy clothes. I think the worse thing for me about remote learning is, is that we don't really have a scheduled time to do our homework, and we can basically do it anytime of the day which usually ends up with me procrastinating. Procrastination keeps me from doing my homework, and making me doing it at the end of the day, which isn't the best thing to do. It is important to do your homework, so I follow the success criteria and learning intentions (or at least try to) to complete my work at my full potential. Discussions on teams to me is simple to follow, but chatting in a channel for example our book clubs, obviously everybody in your group is not going to be online at the same time, so you wouldn't get the answer to a question right away like you usually would at school. I think Mr. Hong should give us a little less homework because it is getting pretty overwhelming to do it all, and also find out new coming projects every week.

Remote learning has gave me some struggles, but overall I think it's doing just fine!

Harry

5/13/2020 03:43:28 am

In this time, we have online school. Online school is good for me because the meeting start at 10:00am so I can sleep more. The things that hasn't worked well for me is sometimes it is very slow to join the meeting so I need to wake up early. After the meeting we will do homework and for every homework I follow the learning intentions and the success criteria and if I didn’t understand I will ask Mr. Hong or my friend for help. In the TEAMS channel sometimes I will ask for teacher for help but I have to wait a long time because it is not the right time that I send the message. I think Mr. Hong can help my learning by give me feedback.

Harry

5/13/2020 09:01:58 pm

Following the Big 6 principle is difficult at home because it is not like in school that you can ask the teacher right away. There is one thing that work well for me is at home is more comfortable to do the work. The things is not work well for me is when I do my work I need some help but when I ask the teacher is already very late in their time because I am in a different time zone. Another difficult thing is I can’t open the class website on my computer. I did much of the self assessment but I didn’t really do the peer assessment. I did the responded feedback like the open letter Mr. Hong tell me that I should write (some people have not been listen to doctors) you tell me to change it to Dr. Henry. When I was in Canada I can join the meeting but is very difficult right now. I think Mr. Hong can give me instruction with easier words.

Dennis

5/13/2020 10:02:49 am

During this difficult time, we are learning from home, or in other words we are remotely learning. As for from home school, I feel the first few weeks had some rough bumps and it was sort of hard to imagine how this would work, so I was kind of in a way confused. But that changed in late April things started to go smoother and projects were coming at a steady pace, but as of right now I feel this is too much for it being this late in the school year as we are about to graduate I feel we need to be relaxed, but right now I can’t be relaxed since we have so much still left to finish, which is why I think it still is hard to remotely learning. I don’t see why, at the end of the year we feel the most pressure, not because of COVID19 but from homework. I don’t think I was hard to work on teams but it had its ups and downs. I feel it was easy to work teams as it is just like any other social media Platform were you can chat. And I feel I have done the best I can for everything as a student as much as I physically can do a day. And that may just break some people. But I am still holding on. Nothing was to hard everything is working well. But the workload is too much for late in the school year. This should have been clear to everyone. We should have started in early 2020 instead it is now May. I think everyone will have a easier and much more relaxed from home learning experience, I know I would.

Charlie

5/13/2020 10:21:42 am

At the moment, school has been closed, but that doesn't mean we can't learn. Today and the past few months, we have been learning digitally. Although learning through technology seems easier, it really isn't. It requires a lot of ownership to check the website, freshgrade and teams everyday, submitting everything on time. Something I think has worked well for me is the learning, although I thought it would be the most difficult part of digital learning, it really seems to be the easiest. I think this because sometimes, when learning we forget what was just taught. With digital learning we can go back on the lesson or go back to the piece of work we need to do without having to be embarrassed about asking the teacher to repeat themselves. Something I think I need to work on, is remembering to submit my work, I've picked up the habit of submitting things at the last minute and I need to change that soon. I tend to follow the learning intention because it's much more accessible to me, because I'm very messy and I sometimes lose my criteria sheets. With digital learning I can just come back to reacess it. Something else I have had trouble with is participating in class discussions, because I find it very dull talking about school work or learning reflections through texts.

Dennis

5/13/2020 09:14:07 pm

@Charlie to be accurate it is actually 1 month and a half ago was around the time we started remote learning. Add some examples to help the reader(s) better understand what you are trying to describe or talk about. Also when you talk about uploading to Freshgrade and talking on teams please provide some detail and provide and example as well, to further elaborate on your work.

Catherine

5/13/2020 11:23:01 am

Do you know that ownership is so crucial particularly in these special conditions? I believe that I haven’t done a promising job of using the big six principles lately and I think I have a good amount of space to improve on. However, Math is going great for me mostly because I don’t have to write reflections and try to get much feedback which is where I’m struggling. I got used to handing work in person and hearing feedback in person that I’m not relatively used to responding to feedback online which I want to improve on. Nonetheless, I think that I followed most of the learning intentions and success criteria in my opinion, and asked quite a lot of questions. For instance, I would ask about anything I don’t understand, like how long we had for a quiz. I still need to work on responding to feedback and self/peer assessment since I forget about the work after I completed it and I don’t really go back to see if I got any feedback. Collaborating in teams was pretty successful for me especially in the novel approach channel mostly because I remember I have to collaborate. I don’t think my problem can be helped by anyone except for myself since I’m not struggling with the work, I’m just really bad at time management and not getting distracted by everything around me.

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